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threadwalker) wrote2008-05-26 03:25 pm
threadwalker) wrote2008-05-26 03:25 pm
Super Girl and Ariel and their Underwater Super Base Tree Fort
What a surprisingly great weekend.
I was going to power sew, pull weeds, take a bubble bath, and meddle in the garage. None of which happened.
F and Super N got home around 1 pm. What they got to see? Mommy dabbed in paint. The kitchen thoroughly trashed and clearly the remains of party/good time all over the place. (empty wine and rum bottles, steak carcasses, etc). Miss E still in her jammies. The upstairs landing, hall bathroom, and Super N's room overtaken by the contents of Miss E's room.
None of which was expected. Mighty Mommy ran amuck when the men folk left. LOL. I have just 3 things to say:
1. When he leaves town, he knows I get lonely and I "do things" to take my mind off it. In fact, I painted my room at my mom's house when he went to Japan for a week many many years ago. Yeah... leave me unattended and who knows what I'll do.
2. I was swayed by the power of the Dimples.
3. I made the potato salad knowing he'd want some and there was plenty left over for a week of lunches. Left over steak, too.
He's napping now. I don't think he was able to take it all in. I was handed 4 bags full of Super N's stuff. Supposedly the contents came into contact with poison oak. I may throw the sneakers away. Any thoughts about how to deal with sneakers and poison oak?
Painting the Underwater Super Base Tree Fort
I did not go to bed after my last post. I stuck my head in Miss E's room and did an experimental tug on the jungle-print trim near the ceiling just to see what would happen. I was shocked at how easily it came off and decided to see how much I could get off. Yay! I'm Obsessive! I worked most of it off by 2 am. Yay! And then I went to bed. Unfortunately, that addage about 20 % of the work takes 80% of your time... A huge swath left it's backing behind and I had to scrape, peel and sponge it off Sunday morning. And then I had to sand over the seam in the paint from where it met the trim. And then wash the walls down to remove the dust.
There sure are a lot of extra tasks when it comes to painting.
Painting did not start until 4pm Sunday. We decided to go shop for her big girl bedding so that her room would not clash with her bedding. We found a Disney Ariel bedding set in pink and purple, which seemed like shear luck! Except when we got to the paint store, I was informed by she-who-wields-deadly-dimples that we should be painting the room to look like it's underwater and not in pink/purple. D'oh! I was not immediately on board. I was concerned she'd outgrow it, AND just the previous night it was all about super heroes, not Ariel or any other Disney Princess.
She was so freakingly irresistabley cute when she clasped her hands and gazed at me in complete seriousness to explain to Mighty Mommy that Super Girl and Ariel would be having tea parties in the Underwater Super Base Tree Fort. Then she zowied me with her super-hero power, Deadly Dimples. (maybe it's a super VILLIAN power. I'm not sure)
I was enthralled or something. I definitely failed my Saving Throw against Cute Little Girl. All I could say was, "Oh. Well of course. Why didn't I think of that?" And then I selected the paint and started brainstorming the project.
1 large gallon of sea foam green paint later plus 4 individual quarts in various shades of greens and blues, and several hours of taping and sanding and washing and painting, we have an underwater retreat for Super Girl, Ariel and all their friends. We even have plans to turn one corner of the room into a fort area with the use of a shower rod and curtains.
I won't be done today, I'm still working on the trim, but I'll get the wall that her bed goes against and most of the seaweed done today. She also asked me if I could add coral to the walls. She didn't even need zowie dimple power because I was trying to figure out how to talk her into it.
Hot Tubbing, Grill, and Movies, oh my!
I had guests last night. It's so weird to entertain when F is not home. I really wasn't into it at first because I wanted to be painting, not entertaining. However, I'm glad I took a break from painting to see friends who took the time to drive 90 minutes to get to my place. So I must be special right? Because it's not the cooking (I burned the steaks).
It was fun-fun-fun. And I did not insanely clean the house before they got there. Although I did burn 18 eggs (again) because I forgot about them, just like last time. I assumed I'd be on the ball and not need my nifty egg-boiling gadget that was purchased to help prevent egg-xactly what happened. Sigh. Good thing I had another package of 18 eggs - hey, it was buy one, get one free.
We grilled meat, we inspected the hot tub and decided it looked safe after adding some bromine tablets, and two of us consumed a bottle of wine and half a bottle of rum. It was loverly. If you got a text message from me about joining us in the hot tub, I blame the Roman Cokes. If you did not get a text message it's because the hot tub was calling and I have a low-tech cell phone - I ran out of text-patience. Although the side gate really was unlocked and you really would have been welcome. And we watched Last Action Hero afterwards. So fun to watch our Governor be a bad-ass.
I think I was still drunk when I woke up this morning because I wasn't walking too good and my brain felt giddy and silly. But I made my saving throw against hang-overs, donned my Mighty Mom Cape, handed Miss E a baggie of cereal, and dove into the painting task. I really REALLY wanted it done before the men got home since I'd come up with the project after they left. I wanted to spring it on them done and not looking half-assed. I didn't get it all the way done, but close enough. It does not look half-assed.
I was going to power sew, pull weeds, take a bubble bath, and meddle in the garage. None of which happened.
F and Super N got home around 1 pm. What they got to see? Mommy dabbed in paint. The kitchen thoroughly trashed and clearly the remains of party/good time all over the place. (empty wine and rum bottles, steak carcasses, etc). Miss E still in her jammies. The upstairs landing, hall bathroom, and Super N's room overtaken by the contents of Miss E's room.
None of which was expected. Mighty Mommy ran amuck when the men folk left. LOL. I have just 3 things to say:
1. When he leaves town, he knows I get lonely and I "do things" to take my mind off it. In fact, I painted my room at my mom's house when he went to Japan for a week many many years ago. Yeah... leave me unattended and who knows what I'll do.
2. I was swayed by the power of the Dimples.
3. I made the potato salad knowing he'd want some and there was plenty left over for a week of lunches. Left over steak, too.
He's napping now. I don't think he was able to take it all in. I was handed 4 bags full of Super N's stuff. Supposedly the contents came into contact with poison oak. I may throw the sneakers away. Any thoughts about how to deal with sneakers and poison oak?
Painting the Underwater Super Base Tree Fort
I did not go to bed after my last post. I stuck my head in Miss E's room and did an experimental tug on the jungle-print trim near the ceiling just to see what would happen. I was shocked at how easily it came off and decided to see how much I could get off. Yay! I'm Obsessive! I worked most of it off by 2 am. Yay! And then I went to bed. Unfortunately, that addage about 20 % of the work takes 80% of your time... A huge swath left it's backing behind and I had to scrape, peel and sponge it off Sunday morning. And then I had to sand over the seam in the paint from where it met the trim. And then wash the walls down to remove the dust.
There sure are a lot of extra tasks when it comes to painting.
Painting did not start until 4pm Sunday. We decided to go shop for her big girl bedding so that her room would not clash with her bedding. We found a Disney Ariel bedding set in pink and purple, which seemed like shear luck! Except when we got to the paint store, I was informed by she-who-wields-deadly-dimples that we should be painting the room to look like it's underwater and not in pink/purple. D'oh! I was not immediately on board. I was concerned she'd outgrow it, AND just the previous night it was all about super heroes, not Ariel or any other Disney Princess.
She was so freakingly irresistabley cute when she clasped her hands and gazed at me in complete seriousness to explain to Mighty Mommy that Super Girl and Ariel would be having tea parties in the Underwater Super Base Tree Fort. Then she zowied me with her super-hero power, Deadly Dimples. (maybe it's a super VILLIAN power. I'm not sure)
I was enthralled or something. I definitely failed my Saving Throw against Cute Little Girl. All I could say was, "Oh. Well of course. Why didn't I think of that?" And then I selected the paint and started brainstorming the project.
1 large gallon of sea foam green paint later plus 4 individual quarts in various shades of greens and blues, and several hours of taping and sanding and washing and painting, we have an underwater retreat for Super Girl, Ariel and all their friends. We even have plans to turn one corner of the room into a fort area with the use of a shower rod and curtains.
I won't be done today, I'm still working on the trim, but I'll get the wall that her bed goes against and most of the seaweed done today. She also asked me if I could add coral to the walls. She didn't even need zowie dimple power because I was trying to figure out how to talk her into it.
Hot Tubbing, Grill, and Movies, oh my!
I had guests last night. It's so weird to entertain when F is not home. I really wasn't into it at first because I wanted to be painting, not entertaining. However, I'm glad I took a break from painting to see friends who took the time to drive 90 minutes to get to my place. So I must be special right? Because it's not the cooking (I burned the steaks).
It was fun-fun-fun. And I did not insanely clean the house before they got there. Although I did burn 18 eggs (again) because I forgot about them, just like last time. I assumed I'd be on the ball and not need my nifty egg-boiling gadget that was purchased to help prevent egg-xactly what happened. Sigh. Good thing I had another package of 18 eggs - hey, it was buy one, get one free.
We grilled meat, we inspected the hot tub and decided it looked safe after adding some bromine tablets, and two of us consumed a bottle of wine and half a bottle of rum. It was loverly. If you got a text message from me about joining us in the hot tub, I blame the Roman Cokes. If you did not get a text message it's because the hot tub was calling and I have a low-tech cell phone - I ran out of text-patience. Although the side gate really was unlocked and you really would have been welcome. And we watched Last Action Hero afterwards. So fun to watch our Governor be a bad-ass.
I think I was still drunk when I woke up this morning because I wasn't walking too good and my brain felt giddy and silly. But I made my saving throw against hang-overs, donned my Mighty Mom Cape, handed Miss E a baggie of cereal, and dove into the painting task. I really REALLY wanted it done before the men got home since I'd come up with the project after they left. I wanted to spring it on them done and not looking half-assed. I didn't get it all the way done, but close enough. It does not look half-assed.
Glad Miss E is feeling better and that you had asuperb weekend...