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Fall has officially arrived.
Oct. 5th, 2009 12:49 pmThe leaves aren't turning yet, but the last hot days of summer have passed. Saturday was a beautiful sunny day, up until about 5pm when the event ended and a storm rolled in, and we packed up in the rain. Yesterday was a little gloomy. We spent half the day cleaning up the dining room, which is our business room. There's still a bit of work left to do, but most everything is organized and neat.
We also helped our mother take down the curtains in the dining room. They were sheer light blue, and in any other house they'd have let in plenty of light. But our house is so dark we need as much light as we can get. We tossed them in the wash, and we'll probably just fold them up and put them away somewhere. Instead, we put some white butcher paper over the bottom part of the window, and a little over the top half. So about three quarters of the window is just white paper. It sounds trashier than it looks. We need to tape the paper down a little better in a few places, but overall it turned out pretty nice, and it certainly brightens the room considerably. Plus, it looks very simple, which is an improvement from the ornate and cluttered drapes.
Other than that, our cold is on the upswing, and I bruised our hip pretty badly yesterday because I'm a clumsy fuck. Needless to say, we slept like shit last night. It was a little colder than we've gotten used to, damp, and our entire left leg hurt like a bitch.
I took the dogs outside for a few minutes and played with Grace. Chaplin, our dog, doesn't like to play with us much. But Grace is a huge sweetie and really playful. We have several large trees in our yard that constantly shed branches, and today there was a five foot tree-limb, about two inches in diameter, in the yard. Grace always goes for the largest sticks possible, so it was pretty funny to see her running around trying to keep the branch up. Then, she decided she'd come get me from the back steps, but we have a metal dolly by the back path for hauling our retail stuff around, and the branch caught on the dolly and tipped it over. For some reason she's terrified of any and every kind of dolly, so it took me a few minutes to coax her back into the backyard.
I've been having a blast with Sim City 4. I've started quite a few smaller cities. Mostly I was working on building super ritzy communities, but with my latest project I'm trying to build slowly and keep the budget perfectly balanced. It's a farming community, but i think I'm going to have to move it more towards manufacturing, because otherwise I'll run out of land area! :D
Hopefully Legend of Mana will arrive today. I don't know how eager I am to play it right now, but I don't want it getting lost in the mail or something.
I put a new scent in our Scentsy thing for fall. Maple Butter Pecan or something. And I baked some Banana Spice cookies yesterday. They were so moist that it's more like banana spice crumb goms, but they're delicious anyway.
Also, thinking of you, love.
-Seph
X-posted from DW to LJ and IJ
We also helped our mother take down the curtains in the dining room. They were sheer light blue, and in any other house they'd have let in plenty of light. But our house is so dark we need as much light as we can get. We tossed them in the wash, and we'll probably just fold them up and put them away somewhere. Instead, we put some white butcher paper over the bottom part of the window, and a little over the top half. So about three quarters of the window is just white paper. It sounds trashier than it looks. We need to tape the paper down a little better in a few places, but overall it turned out pretty nice, and it certainly brightens the room considerably. Plus, it looks very simple, which is an improvement from the ornate and cluttered drapes.
Other than that, our cold is on the upswing, and I bruised our hip pretty badly yesterday because I'm a clumsy fuck. Needless to say, we slept like shit last night. It was a little colder than we've gotten used to, damp, and our entire left leg hurt like a bitch.
I took the dogs outside for a few minutes and played with Grace. Chaplin, our dog, doesn't like to play with us much. But Grace is a huge sweetie and really playful. We have several large trees in our yard that constantly shed branches, and today there was a five foot tree-limb, about two inches in diameter, in the yard. Grace always goes for the largest sticks possible, so it was pretty funny to see her running around trying to keep the branch up. Then, she decided she'd come get me from the back steps, but we have a metal dolly by the back path for hauling our retail stuff around, and the branch caught on the dolly and tipped it over. For some reason she's terrified of any and every kind of dolly, so it took me a few minutes to coax her back into the backyard.
I've been having a blast with Sim City 4. I've started quite a few smaller cities. Mostly I was working on building super ritzy communities, but with my latest project I'm trying to build slowly and keep the budget perfectly balanced. It's a farming community, but i think I'm going to have to move it more towards manufacturing, because otherwise I'll run out of land area! :D
Hopefully Legend of Mana will arrive today. I don't know how eager I am to play it right now, but I don't want it getting lost in the mail or something.
I put a new scent in our Scentsy thing for fall. Maple Butter Pecan or something. And I baked some Banana Spice cookies yesterday. They were so moist that it's more like banana spice crumb goms, but they're delicious anyway.
Also, thinking of you, love.
-Seph
X-posted from DW to LJ and IJ
