A little progress!

First off, let me say that your comments on the topic of home unimprovements have cheered me right up. Where are you people? Why don’t you live on my street so we could all host potlucks and get drunk and commiserate in person?

My excellent friend Sarah came over yesterday to help me. She is even better than seventeen Shaker handymen. Everyone should have a Sarah! While our girls played Yodeling Princesses, Sarah and I primed nearly half of the kitchen’s old beadboard and trim. Okay, she primed faster (and way more expertly) so it would be more accurate to say that she primed nearly half of my kitchen. But she says I can take credit for it too. I know it’s just primer, but I am so excited I keep sneaking into the kitchen to stroke the beadboard. Would you like to see? Would you would you?

Here are two BEFORE photos:

And the AFTER:

HA! HA HA! Now you know what the inside of my brain looks like! No gray matter! My brain is made out of cheerful red Provence tablecloth fibers!

The actual delusion-free AFTER:

So clean! So white! So full of promise and possibility! It makes me want to learn how to bake cookies and figure out what a roux is before I die. I will make you all cookies with roux on top! Roux cookies for all!

45 comments March 24th, 2006