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Remember the Ribbon Dance we used to paint the computer room? I think I've mentioned a couple of times that it turned out to be too BLUE!, which probably comes as a surprise to those who know how much I love blue.

Sidenote: When Gordon came to celebrate the Blue Moon, he brought cookies painted with BLUE! frosting. Tasty. But then, I noticed that my, um, byproducts the next day were green. And I'm not talking regular poo-color with a greenish cast, I mean green like this journal. Hmmm... noted and filed for future reference.

So after some discussion and debate, we bought a can of Majestic (in the same link above) and some glaze. We mixed the glaze and paint, rolled it on, and sponged it off. Oh, by the gods, it is the most beautiful mottled cobalt blue in there now... there are a few 'seams' where we hadn't got the hang of sponging the borders at first, but it smoothed out later and is not very noticeable. I'll probably just hang pictures over where they are if they can still be seen when I get all the furniture back in anyway. But it looks gorgeous; like the night sky looks in my head; and with the sandy-tawny floor in there... *mwaah*! So very wonderful; I only wish I could paint the whole outside of the house that way!

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Hub's been trying to finish up the website, been working at Nerdz, and doing all this house stuff- and he's exhausted. We spent a lot of yesterday just doing low-key things, and went out for dinner. It was nice; I hope the stupid website gets done soon, and I've told him we can wait on a lot of the home improvement crap (now that I have my computer room!) since the most pressing stuff is done. We've both been kinda stressed the last few days.

We did play another game of 1000 Blank White Cards with Bob the other night, getting many hysterical cards as usual. If I have some time I'll scan some of them in soon.

For whatever reason I didn't go to bed until midnight last night, which is not really all that late. But when I got up this morning, I felt like I'd been on a 3-day bender. I guess it's all catching up with me or something (maybe I have head cancer!) but I couldn't call in sick; I've already used too much leave. So I've been slogging through. The afternoon hasn't been as bad as it was this morning. I know at least 1% of it is that I have these gumballs, see... someone gave them to me as a Yule present and I've been carrying them around ever since. They're supposedly aromatherapy gumballs and are labeled 'Peace of Mind' which implies relaxation, right? Oh, no. They are gumball shaped Altoids, basically, and biting into one of them is like getting hit on the back of the head with a menthol brick. They sure wake me right up, at least for a little bit.