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Fairytales for a Practical Princess - 2008-11-30
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12:57 p.m. - 2003-06-06
I'm so used to the MS headaches that I forgot I might get OTHER kinds of headaches. According to my nurse friend, JB, what I've got is a migraine. I'm on day three of this puppy. It broke briefly last night, but was back full force this morning. The skin on my scalp is so tender that brushing my hair is agony. I've drawn the blind here in my office, but the light squeezing in around the slats makes me flinch. And the smells! My nose is suddenly keener than a bloodhound's. I've heard that caffeine is supposed to help with migraines so I let my morning tea steep until it was mud in a mug, but it doesn't seem to be helping. And now I have the caffeine jitters and a sour stomach from overly acidic tea to go along with my hideous headache. I cannot tell you how sick I am of being sick. It's like I climb out of the pit of one pain and immediately slide down into another one. Other people dream of Lotto winnings, I dream of an entire week without pain. 7 whole days of waking up feeling great. No spaz attacks. No thumping head. No pukes. No shakes. No stuttering, slurring, or drooling. No plotting my day around what I can or cannot do. No praying when I go out that I can get home again. Wouldn't that be loverly? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In other news: The grey wall paint I bought for the living and dining rooms has turned out PURPLE. No lie. Not a hint of purple in the paint chip, just a nice soft Quaker grey. On the wall the paint bloomed into something that's a cross between lilac and amethyst. A nice enough color, I guess, but not for my living room! I don't know what to do about it. I'd like to color wash the walls with something which will counteract the purple. But I'm leery of the technique and am especially leery of making an even worse mess than plain purple. And I'm pissed as hell at the guy who botched the mix. I'd gotten smart and started demanding they do a color test right on the chip, but this time when I got back to the paint counter no one was there. Just the cans of paint with my name written on the lid. A cashier paged the paint guy, but he still hadn't shown up after he'd been paged several times and I'd waited 10 minutes. I couldn't stand around all day and sort of figured, "How badly can anyone screw up GREY?" and lugged the paint up to the check-out. Well HA HA on me. And I'll bet the guy who mucked up my paint was out in the garden dept sniggering while he changed all the tags on the plants. Many a garden neophyte toted home what they believed to be hosta seedlings which in actuality were saguaro cacti. Or pumpkins. My tiered garden is a success so far. (Meaning nothing has curled up and died yet.) The geraniums I planted first are even getting bushy and putting out lots of blooms. I saved part of one tier for a couple veggie plants; peppers, tomatoes, and radishes. I wanted to try cucumbers, but was afraid that for once I’d grow something prolific and would be inundated by cukes. That happened once with a zucchini plant. After foisting 2 dozen bushels of them on friends, my nearest and dearest started screaming, “GAAAAH! It’s HER! The crazy zucchini woman!” and running away in terror. While I may be afraid of excessive cucumbers and fancy paint techniques, I’ve decided to be bold and make a tile mosaic as the backsplash behind the stove. The very first thing we did at the Hobbit House was tear out the dopey (and barely working) Jetson stove. Installed in the early 50’s this weird stove had a slide out cook top and a teeny oven and an even teenier broiler mounted above the burners. It was cool in a retro sort of way, but waiting 4 hours for the kettle to boil and trying to make Thanksgiving dinner with an oven that MIGHT be large enough for a turkey potpie, I decided a new stove was in order...pronto. I’ve got a terrific new stove with an oven large enough to roast a St. Bernard in, but was left with a whole lot of blank unprotected wall behind it. I knew I wanted a tile backsplash, but I’ve been getting my panties in a bunch about what color to do the tile work. Then I saw a seriously cool mosaic in a decorating magazine. It’s easy to do and best of all by using a mix of colored tiles and some found objects like rocks, bits of stained glass, and marbles, I never have to worry about matching colors with the rest of the kitchen. Just about EVERY color will be in the mosaic somewhere. We’re planning to enlarge and remodel the kitchen in the not too distant future anyhow, so why not try something fun? Sigh...time to get a new ice pack for my ouchie, ouchie head. ~LA PS: Nightdragon? Go shit in your hat.
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