This afternoon we went to 3 different craft stores trying to find something very specific (I’ll post pics of it after tomorrow). We wandered around these stores trying to find this very small, inexpensive bit, hunting through every section and asking for help, and do you think anyone had one of these things? Hell no. Naturally, we’re walking all through these places and Eddie is saying “This is just your way of getting to go into craft places, amiright?”

And naturally, my response was “HELL YEAH I WANNA STICK AROUND HERE IN THE SCRAPBOOK AISLE WITH THE SOCCER MOMS AND OLD LADIES NOW GO FIND ME 10 POUNDS OF BABY BLUE STOCKING WEIGHT YARN MOFO”. Then I bitchslapped him and called him a filthy whore.

We started the major painting in the new place this afternoon, with Eddie putting a coat of yellow on the kitchen walls and me putting blue in the bedroom. I pulled down cabinet doors and took off hinges while Eddie primed the cabinet areas and the drawers, then I took all the doors out to the driveway and primed them because not only were they all a dirty off-white color but they were filthy as all hell with stuff that just would not have come off (just really worn looking discoloration) and would not have looked good with just white paint on them. Tomorrow Eddie’s going to put a 2nd coat of yellow on the walls and prime a few spots that really need it while I put a 2nd coat of blue up and do the windowed wall blue as well. Then I’ll bring all the kitchen doors back out to the driveway and paint them white while Eddie does some trim and things inside.

I was pulling down the cabinet and drawer fixtures and wondering whether or not they’ll look good once everything is painted. At one point they were chrome, but now they’re that old chrome/slightly rusted out style - think old car bumper - and while you didn’t notice it too much with the grungy cabinet doors, I’m wondering if it will become glaringly obvious that we’re using nasty fixtures on pretty cabinets. Getting new wooden knobs rather than full door handles is no problem, that will just mean getting some wood putty and closing up the 2nd holes on the cabinet face, but new hinges will add up. There’s easily 15 doors in that kitchen, and 8 drawers, so you can imagine what the cost is going to be. The whole place will be much easier to work on once the zillion and two Rubbermaid storage containers are moved out of the way.

In much cooler news, my cousin Effie Ethel got engaged last night, so congrats to her. The ring looks gorgeous, and Dave fits in with the family so well it’s scary.

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