Kitchen Blues

Woke up twenty minutes ago with a world-class headache. I wonder if headaches like this are a sign of diabetes? Maybe my blood sugar is low or something. Since both of my parents have diabetes, and since I'm obese, I'll get it eventually. Guess I should at least bone up on the symptoms. Eating something just in case.

Spent most of the evening painting, cutting in all the little detail areas in the kitchen. It's such an ugy room. And I think maybe I found a serious problem tonight.

I have a HUGE backsplash on the stove. It's a sheet of fomica that starts at the base of the stove and ends at the vent hood. Who needs a five-foot backsplash? The more I think about it the more suspicious I am. I bet there was a cut-out between the living room and kitchen originally, and the backsplash is concealing the hole. The living room side has a bookcase now. The house's age and architecture would support a cut-out.

Anyway, the backsplash is the ugliest tan color known to mankind. Please remember I'm trying to re-vamp the kitchen in gray and turquoise. The tan backsplash is going to have to be neutralized somehow. It's bad enough that the countertop on that side is the same awful shade!