Movers Tomorrow

Major procrastination the past few days, in form of family duties and R . This is my last day to work before the movers come. I need to get some sleep, then work on the floor tiles.

Painting has been going VERY slowly. I finally took out a brush tonight and did a little, but not I’ve run out of paint. Today I’ll order another quart of Stepping Stone at Home Depot and finish up the trouble spots, the bathroom, and the French doors. Then all I’ll have left is the green trim, which I can do on Friday or Saturday.

In a few minutes I’m putting the first coat of primer on the floor tiles. My fingers are crossed. This is certainly the most controversial part of my design plan, and I hope I can get it to work.

The dumpster arrived this afternoon. It’s a mammoth 12x10x10 foot monster. The guy positioned it as best he could, but we might have trouble moving around it. I honestly don’t foresee much trouble – most of R’s furniture is pretty small – but the possibility of trouble does exist.

(much, much later)

The tiles are wonderful. I’ve put primer on about six tiles, and actually painted a design in acrylic on one. Very nice. I like the way the slight metallic on the floor is reinforcing the aluminum wall. And the red and black checkerboard is fantastic with the green paint. I love it when the designs start to come together. I feel somehow vindicated, which is silly. I know I know how to design. Why is proof-of-concept so important to me?

No way I’ll be done with the room by Monday. I’m settling for getting all the painting finished at this point. Maybe in a few weeks I can have a tile-painting party or something.

I didn’t get much of anything done today, mainly because I have so much difficulty working during the day. Now that I finally feel awake and functional I can’t do much, because R is sleeping in the next room. She’s spending the night so she can wake up early and get some work one before our friends the movers arrive.

R. was very complimentary about the floor and the Bertioa bench. I also asked her for a “find” I made when cleaning her house. She had a print in the bathroom that I leaned against my bedroom wall for a second, and when I took a step back I realized it looked like I had painted the room around the print! It’s of a vase of red lilies. The vase has water in it (colored the same green as my walls), and is embellished with fish. The red/green colors are a perfect match for what I’m doing to the room. R and I couldn’t believe it. Of course she said I could have it.

It’s been very difficult to move R out. I keep finding things I like. It would be very easy to furnish my entire house from R’s castoffs, but then I wouldn’t have the fun of finding my own things.

Charlotte and Mom, bless them, have volunteered to come over and clean the house next week while I’m at school. They know how stressful the next three weeks will be, and how I won’t have time to breath let alone do anything with my house. Need to grocery shop this weekend, and possibly wash laundry for the next two weeks.

I think the thing that would most help me now would be to clean off my desk and the table behind it so I can FIND things instead of drifting through piles of crap. I think that’s what I’ll try to do tonight before going to sleep. I’ll at least do a little of it, since procrastinating yet again isn’t helping at all.