Our house has been going through DIY lately.

The study is ongoing. It's been painted and now hand-built bookshelves are going up to accommodate our many books. Angus and I had the bright idea to build bookshelves on either side of the massive brick fireplace, so we went to a reclamation yard and bought 100 year-old floorboards to use as bookshelves.

It has taken more work than I thought it would.

We had to cut them to size (Angus did that with a big scary saw-I won't use the thing. I totally admit that men and women can use this big scary saw, I'm just saying that this woman refuses to use the thing. That fucker has "spread peanut butter on the pb&j sandwich using a prosthetic hand" written all over it.) Then the wood had to be planed. And planed again. And sanded-3 times. Then waxed.

We are nearly at the waxing stage, then we can hang them up this weekend.

Angus thoughtfully took pictures of me planing the wood.

As you can see, work clothes for me are diaphonous T-shirts and boxer shorts.

We all did take some time now and then to chill out and avoid the heat.

The kitchen has been re-painted. Again, we're only keeping the kitchen another few months before it all gets ripped out and the extension goes in, so we can afford to be a little wacky with the color, since we don't have to live with it forever. We are pleased that the whole kitchen is coming out-the work surface is tiled-TILED-with dark beige tiles that somehow always look unclean to me, no matter how much I clean.

The green in the pictures doesn't reflect it 100%-it's a bit darker than it's showing up here. As I painted it, I went from calling it to "Motherfucking Green" to "Frog in a Blender" to "Carmen Miranda Called and Wants Her Color Back".

(Seriously, I have no idea where those boxers came from. They were in one of my boxes from Sweden, and as my work wear at home consists of boxers and a T-shirt, they seemed to fit.)

I now call the kitchen color "Kermit the Frog Ejaculation".

I think it fits.

-H.

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 10:00 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 Hmmm. If the color is Kermit the Frog Ejaculate, does your kitchen smell like Miss Piggy? Just curious.

Posted by: Victor at July 27, 2006 12:42 PM (L3qPK)

2 If that's what it is, then Kermit could ejaculate on my kitchen walls at any time. I love that color (albeit any color green is good for me).

Posted by: kenju at July 27, 2006 12:56 PM (2+7OT)

3 In the trend of Kermit: it's not easy being green!

Posted by: Hannah at July 27, 2006 01:03 PM (5w+E2)

4 Should you two really be wearing flip flops around a saw? I'm just sayin.

Posted by: statia at July 27, 2006 01:59 PM (NsnoE)

5 I was thinking kermit the frog.... more like kermit in a blender though. But I do like the color.

Posted by: caltechgirl at July 27, 2006 04:03 PM (bM7x1)

6 oh, what fun! i can't wait to delve into home ownership and the freedom to color my walls in whatever animal ejaculation i choose! the picture of angus and your pup chillin in the shade is too cute for words.

Posted by: kat at July 27, 2006 06:26 PM (xJGrF)

7 Reminds me of a joke, H. What do you have when you have two small green balls in the palm of your hand? Kermit the forg's undivided attention. Haven't thought of that one in about 20 years. Thanks for the reminder.

Posted by: RP at July 27, 2006 08:02 PM (LlPKh)

8 D'oh. Kermit the FROG, of course. I have no idea what a forg is.

Posted by: RP at July 27, 2006 08:03 PM (LlPKh)

9 lmao @ Victor's comment.

Posted by: Dana at July 28, 2006 11:28 PM (uXuyq)

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