Painting...

I have finally put myself into the mode of painting. Right now the hall has one coat of paint and I am now in the process of putting on the first coat of paint in the living room.  It would be better if I weren't painting over panelling because rollers do not get down in the little groove. I have figured out that you go down each of those grooves with a paint brush first and do the top and bottom while you've got the brush and then roll the in between places.

I didn't take any before pictures mainly because I do not know the present location of my camera. I have however been able to empty a few boxes of books but that is slooow going right now. I've been spending quite a bit of time stalking some human resource pages for several different school districts and that is slooow going as well.

There have been so many things going through my mind that I don't even know where to start writing about. I havn't been the best at doing a lot these last few weeks but I am trying to make more of an effort at a lot of things. Been watching a lot of Star Trek Next Generation. It does keep me from watching one of the many mind numbing reality shows that plague the airwaves now. That has been one of the many topics of conversation at work and with family. I do want to admit that I'm not completely against reality shows I do partake in Hell's Kitchen and Master Chef and I have watched a little on the Big Brother front. I have given up on the Bachelor/Bachelorette, The Amazing Race and Survivor.

I am running into a problem with finding places to put things. Hopefully I can get one wall completely painted and get some shelving on the wall to put my knick knacks on. There are a lot of things that I have planned for the next weeks or so. I'm ready for fall so that I can work in the yard. In the morning I'm going to start cleaning out the front flowerbed so that I can put in some plants that my mom bought on the clearance rack at Lowe's. They are plants that need full shade and I think the front flowerbed is the only place that they will get that. There are a few paint cans that have to be moved that are from painting the outside of the house. We still have paint the trim and paint a few more places in the eaves and behind some hedges that need to be trimmed up as well. I am going to have to start moving some furniture to finish the painting. The biggest challenge will be painting behind the tv so that we can put up a shelf that my in-laws are giving us.

love ya!

Tasting...

My sense of taste has been all over the map the last couple of years and I don't like it or maybe I do.

When I was a child you couldn't get me to touch a casserole just because of the cream of mushroom soup in it. It didn't matter how much my mom tried to hide them in there I wouldn't eat it and well my little brothers are the same way. If a recipe calls for cream of mushroom soup my mom has to pick a different cream of soup to take the place. I though have taken to mushrooms lately to the point where I've actually ordered mushroom chicken at a restaurant.

It is to the point that there are very few places that I like to eat. I personally hate ordering something at a restaurant and then having to ask for it with out a whole bunch of things, the only exception being onions on hamburgers that just doesn't happen.

Lately it has been the smell of sauteed onions that has been getting my nose in a pinch. I really want to just buy an onion and saute it just for the smell and then maybe scramble an egg or two in the pan after I remove the onions.

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