victory is mine

[verbicide]

So. Tired. But. Triumphant.

The trim on the west wall of the living room is done. Taping, a coat of primer, two coats of paint, and de-taping. It's not perfect. I need to touch up the edges in a few places and there's paint where there shouldn't be on some parts of the sliding glass door metal framework. But, it looks pretty good! It was even kind of fun. I mean, I wish the rest of it was all done, too, but it's not a bad start! I also completely unpacked the rest of the kitchen. Three huge boxes and one small one. Everything is put away and even the dishwasher's loaded with the few dirty things left. I've a load of laundry folded and a load drying now. I got outlet plates screwed onto the west living room wall and all along the hallway. I love the white trim and brushed silver plates. It's so pretty. I did realize that I got the wrong plates from Restoration Hardware. Two are polished nickel, not brushed so they have to go back, and one of them is the wrong type of outlet and wrong metal, and I forgot to buy the two cable plates. So that's another trip out there. Maybe I can swing by at lunch one of these days, I'd really like to get those out of the way.

My reward for unpacking the kitchen was that I finally let myself open the Kitchen-Aid mixer. It's so beautiful... And now it's unpacked and sitting on my kitchen counter, beckoning me to play.

But I am about to pass out here. Tomorrow's a full work day and I should probably be conscious for it.

I also can't figure out where to put my linens. I have a giant hall closet, half of which I'm using as a coat closet and the other half as a place for tools, paint, equipment. I could store it in one of three places:

- hall closet, and move tools, paints, etc to cabinetry above laundry in hall bathroom
- hall bathroom cabinetry
- master bathroom cabinetry (which is bizarrely capacious)

Hrm, now that I think about it, the hall bathroom closet is perfect for this stuff. What else would I keep in there? Whew, one decision down, 200000000 to go. That means I can unpack the box of linens now that I know where I'm going to put them! Maybe tomorrow I can put up the curtains; I was relieved to get home and measure the length and find that my guess was correct and the 84'' panels will work just fine.

Okay, sleep now.

Comments

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Jeez. What are you doing up so late? That's just crazy. (Hey, wait...)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

It was crazy, I was soooo not wanting to get out of bed this morning. But I made it to work on time, 5-minutes early even! I'd like to keep that trend up for a change!

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I've managed to keep up the trend of not wanting to get out of bed in the morning for a long time now!

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I think it's going to last throughout the winter/spring for me. The only negative in my place is that the master bedroom looks out onto an the sloped, asphalt driveway of the condos next door, and I miss being able to leave my blinds open and have the sun (or whatever passes for the sun in the PNW) wake me up.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Yes! People give me heck for leaving my blinds down, but I loves my privacy. Maybe I should install something that allows for privacy and light.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Strike that errant 'an' from my response up there.

And yeah, privacy is key. But maybe you could get some nice sheers or something. Light bright rooms are so wonderful :)

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous of your mixer. Brian keeps talking about getting one, but I have this silly reason for not wanting to buy one: I know that my parents will give me one if/when I get married. I guess I wonder why I'd spend the money if I know I could get it as a gift - plus, then they'd have to figure out what else to get me! But that seems silly. What color is yours?

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I had the same problem--I wanted it, I just didn't want to shell out the exorbitant fee. My friend Jeanne organized it, because she said, "You just bought a home, if you were getting married, this would so be on your registry list!"

Mine is white, it's a step up from the base model and it only comes in white. Which is more than fine with me!

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

My mom has a white one and I think that's the color she got for my sister, but I sort of like the grey and silver ones.

I guess my other problem is that I'm really running out of counter space and storage space. I got these plates from Pottery Barn with a graduation gift certificate, and they're so big that they don't even fit in my cupboards! (I may just return them and get four more of the salad plates - the salad plates are normal dinner-plate-size.) That's another reason I sort of need to get a buffet soon.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I really love the chrome ones, but I'm just so excited to have one that's not just the base model.

My kitchen used to be a postage-stamp sized corner/pocket kitchen. My new place is like Land of Cabinetry, though now that I think of it--they're not especially deep. Some of those Pottery Barn dishes are huge.

Buffets are so nice, though I don't have enough stuff at this stage to require one.

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my kitchen isn't tiny, but it isn't large, either. I didn't realize just how big the dishes were when I bought them (although they were called "Great White," so maybe I should have realized) because most of the other plates there were pretty big, too. I'll probably move to a bigger place in four or five years, though, so hopefully I'll get some more cabinet space.

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

(Also - I'm so amused by the ads that gmail puts in the sidebar. One of the ads in this e-mail is for "how to leave a marriage"!)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yeah, the gmail ads are always a riot.