Mammamel
12-10-2007, 09:06 AM
I was reading some of my friend’s blogs today, as you all know I read several daily. I noticed how much they blog about their home life what they cook, cool thrift finds and decorating stuff.
I wondered why I didn’t blog on those things. Then I got to thinking.
I cook with no real kitchen, so it doesn’t feel like real cooking. I haven’t really decorated my home, it’s just a mismatch of odds and ends, and I am sort of putting everything on hold until we DO get the new kitchen done. I think I have decided that I like the current sink (it is an under mount one, where the counter is over it) enough to salvage it and re-enamel it in red. It will take 7 days for the process to cure, that should give us time to get the rest of the kitchen done.
I guess this whole year I have been holding my breath waiting for one thing or another. In January I was waiting to regain my energy, and we found out in February why it wasn’t happening. Then it was wait a week for surgery. In March I was waiting for the 4 week check to be certain all the cancer was gone. In April I was waiting for the ok to go back to work, and then we began the waiting for Drew’s ex to file divorce (STILL not done!).
Then the washer took out the kitchen and so we are waiting for the new year, which is when we had planned to redo it anyway, so we can fix it.
As far as cool thrift finds, my favorite so far was a set of books, called The American Literature Survey. You see I have a young friend at work, he reminds me of myself at his age, eons ago. He is an English major and loves old books. So I decided the best Christmas/going away gift would be an old book.
I wanted a for real old book though, not a new reprint of an old story, make sense? So I began thrift shopping. I found many old books, but which one would be right? What writer did he prefer? Then this set caught my eye, it had writers from the Colonial and Federal periods in the first book and writers from 1850 on in the second. It was published in 1962, not terribly old, but older than me!
It turned out to be an excellent choice; the young man loves it and comments often about how cool it is.
Well it is time to get ready for work; we are under a freezing rain advisory today, though so far I see no rain. It is however freezing!
Hugs y’all!
I wondered why I didn’t blog on those things. Then I got to thinking.
I cook with no real kitchen, so it doesn’t feel like real cooking. I haven’t really decorated my home, it’s just a mismatch of odds and ends, and I am sort of putting everything on hold until we DO get the new kitchen done. I think I have decided that I like the current sink (it is an under mount one, where the counter is over it) enough to salvage it and re-enamel it in red. It will take 7 days for the process to cure, that should give us time to get the rest of the kitchen done.
I guess this whole year I have been holding my breath waiting for one thing or another. In January I was waiting to regain my energy, and we found out in February why it wasn’t happening. Then it was wait a week for surgery. In March I was waiting for the 4 week check to be certain all the cancer was gone. In April I was waiting for the ok to go back to work, and then we began the waiting for Drew’s ex to file divorce (STILL not done!).
Then the washer took out the kitchen and so we are waiting for the new year, which is when we had planned to redo it anyway, so we can fix it.
As far as cool thrift finds, my favorite so far was a set of books, called The American Literature Survey. You see I have a young friend at work, he reminds me of myself at his age, eons ago. He is an English major and loves old books. So I decided the best Christmas/going away gift would be an old book.
I wanted a for real old book though, not a new reprint of an old story, make sense? So I began thrift shopping. I found many old books, but which one would be right? What writer did he prefer? Then this set caught my eye, it had writers from the Colonial and Federal periods in the first book and writers from 1850 on in the second. It was published in 1962, not terribly old, but older than me!
It turned out to be an excellent choice; the young man loves it and comments often about how cool it is.
Well it is time to get ready for work; we are under a freezing rain advisory today, though so far I see no rain. It is however freezing!
Hugs y’all!