Yesterday morning I had to take the stay wag to the Volvo dealership to figure out my blinker/tail light situation. And P also pointed out that the speaker on the driver’s side door was out. I can guarantee that I could have driven my car for the next 864 years and never noticed that.
So I dropped Caroline off at school and drove to the dealership. Honestly, I was glad to have something to get me up and out of the house first thing in the morning. I’m not sure what happened but I think the process of writing the book turned me into more of an introvert than I was before. In fact, I told a friend yesterday that I’m one step away from being a hermit. That step being growing a long beard.
(Fortunately, I am being proactive about the long beard. I used my Sally Hansen hair removal on my upper lip last night and, judging by the way it burned like a fire in the Sahara desert, I believe I am now mustache-free.)
The problem is that my hermit-like ways combined with a week of having a sick child have made me lethargic. On Monday I even contemplated going to see the doctor to get checked for mono. But then I realized I don’t think I have mono so much as I’m just ready for Spring Break and a little break from the routine.
Anyway, after I dropped my car off and got the loaner car, I thought I’d stop by Joann’s Fabrics to check out the prices on white duck fabric. You’ll be relieved to know this isn’t fabric printed with ducks as I once thought, but just a sturdy white fabric that you use to make slipcovers. Because I’ve decided I want to get white slipcovers made for our couch.
I’ve also decided that I want to paint the living room, dining room, and kitchen a soft shade of gray. I realize that this will make the third time I’ve painted my kitchen in the last two years, but I really think this could be the one. Which explains a lot about how I dated back in my single days.
It really is Pinterest’s fault. All this obsessing about how I want to redecorate the house. And the fact that we have a T.V. sitting on my antique church pew because it doesn’t fit anywhere else. My whole plan started with just wanting some built-in cabinetry but has extended to the couch and the walls and new throw pillows and pictures for the walls.
Of course all I’ve done so far is spend more time on Pinterest pinning a bunch of rooms that appeal to me. Because that is SO MUCH EASIER than actually buying several gallons of paint and hiring a carpenter and having the upholsterer come out and pick up my couch cushions.
Here are a few of my favorite idea rooms. Because I would like you to join me in my obsession.
Source: crushculdesac.tumblr.com via Melanie on Pinterest
Source: elementsofstyleblog.com via Melanie on Pinterest
Source: houseandhome.com via Melanie on Pinterest
Yes. I would like some combination of all those rooms in my living room and dining room that currently look nothing like any of these photos. Well, except for the antlers. The antelope of the Lord ensures that we have the antlers covered.
And P has already nixed the tufted leather ottoman as a replacement for our current coffee table because he thinks it’s a dumb idea and we’ll just end up with a bunch of food and stuff spilled in all those tufts. To which I proposed a tray to set upon the ottoman. But he would rather continue to place one of my decorative pillows on our wooden coffee table every night and use it as a makeshift ottoman.
This thrills me to no end.
All this to say that Joann’s Fabrics wasn’t open yet so I went to Target instead and looked at their decorative housewares and felt overwhelmed and just went home. Actually, I stopped by Old Navy first and bought a cute skirt. Then I went home. To be a hermit and contemplate growing a long beard.
Then I went to lunch with Gulley and vowed to get out of my hermit-like rut. I am ready to re-enter the real world. And to buy paint. And see about getting some built-ins made.
Although I’m still overwhelmed because what comes first? Should I paint first? Which means that none of my furniture will really match the paint until I get slipcovers made? Or do we do the built-ins first? Which means that I’ll have to try to paint around them?
It kind of makes my head hurt.
And so I maybe I’ll do what I’ve done for the last two months.
I’ll just think about it some more.
Which, in the end, probably makes P happy because it’s free. And means he still has a few more months of putting his feet on my decorative throw pillows.