Paint the Town Red or at Least My Living Room - 3/8/07

I'm sitting here this evening with the laptop in my lap, and my new Loreena McKennitt CD playing on the aforementioned laptop. I think I have to agree with Cat, my favorite so far is also "Kecharitomene" (Greek for full of grace), and it's an instrumental! The whole tone of this CD is more somber than I anticipated. It gives me a feeling of peace. She has the most beautiful voice. I swear if I don't have a fine singing voice in my next lifetime, I ain't coming down here!

This afternoon we took a trip to the Home Depot. Warren was looking for wood drilling drill bits and I wanted to look at paint chips. We both wanted to look at flooring. You wouldn't think that we'd need to be thinking about that after only 3 years here, but I had a little mishap with the vacuum cleaner in the kitchen. Somehow or another something in the vac peeled two small white holes in our dark vinyl floor. They look like vampire bite marks. My brother said I must have done it on purpose to get a new floor, but I swear I did no such thing. I was perfectly happy with the one I had. I brought home quite a few paint chips; several deep saturated reds (my favorite color), some golds, oranges (yes orange) and some deep blues. I am always, always attracted to dark colors. I know this about myself and so when we were picking out the finishes for this place I purposefully chose beige and cream finishes except in the kitchen where I got black Corian counter tops (with ivory cabinets). I didn't want to be re-creating all my other homes in this place; I wanted to create something new and different; and now I want to paint. Women! The current flooring in the kitchen looks like a dark walnut wood floor but its vinyl. I may go for a laminate with a new one because I like the look of the wood in that room. I want my home to feel magical when you come in the front door, but I'm not sure what that looks like.

We also stopped in BJ's (like Costco - sells in bulk) so that I could look around. My husband has a membership but I'd never gotten over there when I was working. I didn't buy anything but we did look at large screen TV's (yet again).

It was good to get out in the sunshine and I got a little exercise by walking around the two big stores. All in all a good day. I hope your night is peaceful and quiet and that your internet connection is flawless.