I want a new life
Oct. 31st, 2005 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drscott...or at least a vacation from house chores, breakdowns, disrupted routines, and the general lack of fun.
The "temporary" red dye in my hair is not washing out as the label said it would. Meanwhile, my car is back with a new battery and new starter/solenoid. The bloom is off the rose of this relationship, though, so I'm ready to turn it in for something newer. The Prius looks good, but I can also have a zippy little Scion xA at a bit over half the cost of the Prius. Still thinking it over.
The painters thought they would be done by noon. Alas, I had to point out two sides of the house needed another coat (the first coat did not fill in the fine cracks in the old paint) and certain things remaining to be done would take more time than they thought. Painting the Eichler house numbers, for example, which are carved wood numerals with the faces painted the body color while the background piece and sides of the numerals are painted the trim color.
The house color is not quite what I wanted it to be (it's too light), but the trim is exactly right (perfect match for inside). There was no way to precisely duplicate in paint the color of the eave overhangs, which has a streaky redwood underlying a blue-gray semitransparent stain, but the color we picked comes close.
I am stressed out.
The "temporary" red dye in my hair is not washing out as the label said it would. Meanwhile, my car is back with a new battery and new starter/solenoid. The bloom is off the rose of this relationship, though, so I'm ready to turn it in for something newer. The Prius looks good, but I can also have a zippy little Scion xA at a bit over half the cost of the Prius. Still thinking it over.The painters thought they would be done by noon. Alas, I had to point out two sides of the house needed another coat (the first coat did not fill in the fine cracks in the old paint) and certain things remaining to be done would take more time than they thought. Painting the Eichler house numbers, for example, which are carved wood numerals with the faces painted the body color while the background piece and sides of the numerals are painted the trim color.
The house color is not quite what I wanted it to be (it's too light), but the trim is exactly right (perfect match for inside). There was no way to precisely duplicate in paint the color of the eave overhangs, which has a streaky redwood underlying a blue-gray semitransparent stain, but the color we picked comes close.
I am stressed out.
