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Good people, may I give you some advice?
Do not paint your ceiling brown. Not even a "light" brown.
Kicky's ceiling is brown. I knew it was off-white, but I usually see it in the evenings, with lighting dim...and, frankly, I don't usually look at my friends' ceilings unless there's some special reason for me to do so, in which case they point it out. You know: Ooh, Sistine Chapel!
It's so far off white it might as well be black. And I'm painting it white. Stark, fluorescent, chalky, glaring white. I've got roughly 2-1/2 coats on it, and it looks likely to take as many as four.
Also, if you ask me to choose colors for you? Don't change them. The dull golden-orange curry color I picked out and we agreed upon and picked everything else to go with has been switched out for SAFETY ORANGE. The trim was supposed to be a white that didn't know it was apricot because it was so-so-so pale, but apparently they decided stark, fluorescent, chalky, glaring GLOSS white is better.
If you know anything major about Tennessee, it will occur to you that SAFETY ORANGE and STARK WHITE equal University of Tennessee Sports Fanaticism. Go Vols! I am going to call Kicky and interrupt her vacation and tell her (not ask, TELL) that I'm getting the color remixed because it's bad enough she might tell someone I "helped" with the colors with just the glaring white, but the safety orange on top of it is just not going to happen...
And she's in Florida and can't do anything about it anyway.
To distract myself from the painting hell in which I am trapped, I am begging you to humor me and answer this meme, which I have swiped from seemingly half the people on my friends list. I will admit I have not read my FL, merely skimmed, and am aware of this meme mostly as a repeating shape on my screen. It repeated so often that I thought it might be important. It's not important, of course, but it is interesting.
1. Does my username suit me?
2. Is my journal's title cryptic or descriptive? What do you think it means?
3. Does my journal expand your knowledge of me?
4. Do you think my bio describes me well? If there were no names given would you be able to guess who it was describing?
5. Which of my interests surprises you the least?
6. Which of my interests surprises you the most?
7. Which of my interests needs explaining?
8. How many of my friends' journals do you read on a regular basis?
9. How many of my friends are strangers to you?
10. Which of my userpics suits me best?
And my own jed-specific questions:
11. Do I seem like a good candidate to paint a house?
12. Are some oranges better than others?
~~~
Also, watched the rest of S5 Buffy tonight and even though I knew what was going to happen, I bawled. And then we watched the featurettes, and I bawled some more.
~~~
BTW, Happy Sadie Hawkins Day. I know that this is when women are supposed to ask men out (oh, social turn-about!) and apparently the men are required to say yes, but does anyone know where this "tradition" comes from?
Do not paint your ceiling brown. Not even a "light" brown.
Kicky's ceiling is brown. I knew it was off-white, but I usually see it in the evenings, with lighting dim...and, frankly, I don't usually look at my friends' ceilings unless there's some special reason for me to do so, in which case they point it out. You know: Ooh, Sistine Chapel!
It's so far off white it might as well be black. And I'm painting it white. Stark, fluorescent, chalky, glaring white. I've got roughly 2-1/2 coats on it, and it looks likely to take as many as four.
Also, if you ask me to choose colors for you? Don't change them. The dull golden-orange curry color I picked out and we agreed upon and picked everything else to go with has been switched out for SAFETY ORANGE. The trim was supposed to be a white that didn't know it was apricot because it was so-so-so pale, but apparently they decided stark, fluorescent, chalky, glaring GLOSS white is better.
If you know anything major about Tennessee, it will occur to you that SAFETY ORANGE and STARK WHITE equal University of Tennessee Sports Fanaticism. Go Vols! I am going to call Kicky and interrupt her vacation and tell her (not ask, TELL) that I'm getting the color remixed because it's bad enough she might tell someone I "helped" with the colors with just the glaring white, but the safety orange on top of it is just not going to happen...
And she's in Florida and can't do anything about it anyway.
To distract myself from the painting hell in which I am trapped, I am begging you to humor me and answer this meme, which I have swiped from seemingly half the people on my friends list. I will admit I have not read my FL, merely skimmed, and am aware of this meme mostly as a repeating shape on my screen. It repeated so often that I thought it might be important. It's not important, of course, but it is interesting.
1. Does my username suit me?
2. Is my journal's title cryptic or descriptive? What do you think it means?
3. Does my journal expand your knowledge of me?
4. Do you think my bio describes me well? If there were no names given would you be able to guess who it was describing?
5. Which of my interests surprises you the least?
6. Which of my interests surprises you the most?
7. Which of my interests needs explaining?
8. How many of my friends' journals do you read on a regular basis?
9. How many of my friends are strangers to you?
10. Which of my userpics suits me best?
And my own jed-specific questions:
11. Do I seem like a good candidate to paint a house?
12. Are some oranges better than others?
~~~
Also, watched the rest of S5 Buffy tonight and even though I knew what was going to happen, I bawled. And then we watched the featurettes, and I bawled some more.
~~~
BTW, Happy Sadie Hawkins Day. I know that this is when women are supposed to ask men out (oh, social turn-about!) and apparently the men are required to say yes, but does anyone know where this "tradition" comes from?
