Tagged With: The House
A very merry unbirthday
One good thing yesterday: I finally got the teacups I’ve been crushing on for a solid year. They are silly, yes, but you know I am fascinated by novelty items. Look what they do when you pour liquid into them! I’m hoping our landscaper will include a secret garden-type area in her design for our … Continue reading
Strange hat
We have this weird little bathroom downstairs: As you can see, it’s just a toilet in a room. Well, in fact it’s a literal water closet, a closet of water. And it’s the only bathroom downstairs. Now, this would be a totally acceptable bathroom if it had a sink, but as you can see it’s … Continue reading
Mighty Worker
There’s a lot of work to be done here in the home. Gene has a lot of work-doing skills, but no free time. I have a lot of free time, but few skills. I’ve been trying to shift the balance in favor of Gene having more time, but it is gradually dawning on me that … Continue reading
Home
Because I know it so well, the Montgomery Street BART station feels more like home than certain parts of my house. I’m lookin’ at you, kitchen. Luckily there are plenty of parts of the house that feel completely like home now, because I know them every bit as well as I ever knew the weird … Continue reading
Man Not On A Wire
I’ve been getting quotes from a few different companies to see how much it would cost to chop down the two acacia trees in our backyard. These trees are easily six stories tall; great looming sun-eating monsters that have forced all the other plants in the yard to grow completely sideways in a desperate attempt … Continue reading
If you like it then you shoulda put a bird on it.
With all the boxes of cutlery, flowers, tablecloths and so on to be taken to the wedding site, somehow we mislaid a roll of tulle intended to decorate our little altar. The moms, desperately wishing for at least one part of this hippie-ass wedding to be floaty and white, dashed out to a fabric store … Continue reading
Back to the studio
I am at last beginning to get my act together in the house. For the first several months I was kind of walking around in a daze, waiting for someone to come and say it had all been a mistake and that we’d need to move back to our 750 square foot apartment, but now … Continue reading
Lost and Found
Our house is so big that this morning I wandered around for a good five minutes looking for Gene and failing to find him. I’d forgotten too look in one part of the house, which is where he was. Yeah, that’s how big this place is (/stupid I am) — I actually forgot part of … Continue reading
Success!
About five hours of cleaning (with some time out for laundry) and I have a few pictures to show. You may remember how my workspace looked before… And now: I still want to paint and stencil the desk and file cabinet and put my shelves up over my desk, plus of course the room is … Continue reading
Pillow
In the middle of many (many, many) pending projects, I have at last managed to finish something. Behold, my Pride and Prejudice throw pillows: These began life as tea towels, part of a wedding gift from the great Maggie and her lovely husband Justin. I couldn’t keep them as towels because I couldn’t bear to … Continue reading