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Thursday, June 10, 2004

I'm not nesting, dammit!

So I've got this baby shower coming up this weekend and a few weeks ago I had a great idea. I've been holding on to this decorating magazine for ages--about five years, if I'm not mistaken--and have wanted to try this really cool wallpaper/anti-wallpaper treatment that's in it. Problem is, I'm remarkably lazy and not very motivated. Also, I had to paint paper that would eventually be used to wallpaper the room, and, well, as already stated, I'm remarkably lazy.

So during the last few weeks of the school year, I got my students to paint it for me. Offered them extra credit or some such bribe that I'm sure I never came through on. Whatever.

I knew that I'd need to get it done in the first month of summer since Harrison will be here in the second month and I wouldn't have time or inclination after he arrived. Here's where my great idea comes in: to up the ante, I decided I wanted to get the guest room papered and decorated before the shower so that everyone could "oooh" and "aaaaah" over it and praise me for my keen decorating skills.

So here I am, two days before my shower date when lots of people will be coming into my house and looking around and I've got two wallpapered walls and two semi-painted walls in my guest room (we ran out of wallpaper--don't ask). I've got the bookcase from that room on its side in my hallway and all the books from it in my living room. The bed frame that I conned the home ec class into repainting for me (it started out life looking like a refuge from a garage sale at a Mexican whorehouse--I had to do something) is leaning up against the couch in my living room. The bed that goes on the frame, along with all decorations, art, etc. now resides in my son's future bedroom. I am almost unable to open the baby's room because of how much crap I have crammed in there.

I haven't cleaned house--vaccuuming, sweeping, mopping, dishes, laundry, etc.--in two weeks because I've been so consumed with getting this room finished.

It's going to be a long two days getting the rest of the house ready.

I think I need a nap.

.: posted by amy 8:14 AM