mindless drivel...

[sublimatedangel]

Tricky day today. Lots of shopping done earlier (for my brother's bday and for father's day, and for me with no justification). Haven't shopped in a long time. Also picked up a skillion pretty paint chips for deciding on the perfect shades for the exterior paint & the new bathroom color. I saw a pretty faux finish (I am a faux finish fiendie) of venetian plaster though... so while I'm almost positive I still want to paint the bathroom a dusky lavendar, part of me is toying with doing a pretty venetian plaster look in something neutralish... cream or white or something. Would still have touches of the lavendar in there of course, just not on the walls. Oh, decisions, decisions. I have awhile to think it over.
Resisted buying new plants even though we went to several garden centers in stores. Resisted the adorable small (but blooming) orchids at Home Depot for $7, resisted landscaping plants for around the pond, resisted asiatic lillies and variegated hostas that I want in my front yard. It's a good thing since I haven't been good with willpower this week. I have been a bad-ish weight watcher, although I do show steady improvement throughout the week! Still, I do not have hope for a loss this week.

Cleared out some of the especially vigorous pond growth. Found the MIA oranda (haven't seen him at feeding time) and disposed of the body. Speaking of, I have had to deal with two too many bird bodies this week and still have bloodstains that don't want to come out of the hall carpet. (This brings the tally up to: many captured and brought inside but unharmed, 1 caught & eaten outside, 1 dead but unmolested outside, and one killed and brought inside for playtime/snacks.) The last two were the two this week, so we're definitely in a downward trend.
The kitties have been restricted to inside the house only, at least for now. I do think it's healthy and happy for them to romp in the fresh air, but their cold black little bird-killing hearts make me sad. They also got baths (which went a little easier than normal) and so appear to be soft fluffy little darlings. Ha!

Going down to Karl's tomorrow for some Dad's Day goodness. Really should have more for him but he's very tricky to shop for at the moment.

Heard back from the appraisal... We're worth $305k. Not a bad increase although we had hoped for a bit more. Nadim is working the numbers and soon we'll be deciding how much we want to borrow and what we want to pay off/pay for. Making big financial decisions always makes me a bit crazy, but I worked through alot of it earlier today. Anyhow... mostly a good day today, but I'm a bit worn out. I did watch The Ring yesterday and accordingly took too long to fall asleep last night (because I'm silly and way too imaginative for my own good, plus the house settling likes to mess with the doors) but I think I'm mostly just a bit stressed out lately and needed to deal with alot of emotions today. Anyhow, I should wrap this up, hope I didn't come across as insanely depressed... just a little temporary period of blueness.

Comments

[moon-heart.livejournal.com]

Nope, not insanely depressed at all. Sounds like just a normal, normal day :) Glad to hear all about it! Now if a certain someone could just emulate your good, thorough writing about events in HIS life....hmmmm...? ;) I'll get there....

[mrnova.livejournal.com]

$305k! I just told your hubby - sell the house and move to the DC area! Hugh and I would love it.