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What I am up to today

Today was one of those days that flew by in about 3.5 minutes. I got up, started working at 6am, took a break about 10:00 for coffee with a friend, then got back to work about 11:30. I worked pretty steadily till about 2:30 or so then I took another break and this is where the story starts to get good.

I went to OSH to look at a patio furniture set I've been fantasizing about since Saturday. I visited it a couple of times over the weekend and couldn't get it out of my head so I took the plunge and got it today. It comes Some Assembly Required, and it is still in the car-sized box, awaiting Some Assembly or else I would take a picture. My goal is to have my currently very messy patio put into having-people-over-for-a-BBQ shape by the end of the weekend. Right now it is a bomb blast site of plants being re-potted/un-potted/rehabilitated, random bits of gardening equipment, and some other patio furniture. Realistically, it will take me 3 or 4 more weekends to get this place ship shape, but a girl can dream can't she?

There are three fairly distinct patio seating areas in the back, and the new furniture will take up one of them. The pre-existing furniture will take up the other two. Some of the old furniture needs help, lots of help. And while I was at OSH I got some of the help that is needed, namely 8 cans of primer and spray paint. I am going to prime and re-paint a green metal table and two chairs that are starting to show signs of rust. I am also going to try out this new spray paint that Krylon makes called Fusion that is designed for painting plastics, with no sanding or priming required. Somehow it melts to the plastic and won't peel off. Between the new paint and some new cushions, my back yard is going to be a spiffier place to be very shortly.

I also got some groovy glass-balls-on-a-stick to put into some flower pots. And a Diet Coke with Lime (but not the Splenda kind. I am not sure I like the Splenda kind, it isn't as sweet as Nutra Sweet and I really like the super-saccharine-sweet aspartame-laced Diet Coke. I guess I will have to get used to the Splenda stuff though. But I digress).

The last thing I got was the final selection of paint colors for the playhouse in the back yard. The current playhouse (aka the dollhouse) will be scraped, sanded, primed, and converted into a garden shed/ backyard bar over the next few weeks. I've got pics of all the before crap and I will be thrilling you with the those and the after pics as I get all this done. All in the name of a better place to knit and drink cocktails. In fact, I think I will have the mother of all Stitch n' Bitches sometime this summer. You are all invited, and I will post the relevant details up here when they are known.

Ok, so all that took me up to about 3:15 or so and then I went back to work for another couple of hours. Tonight I watched Alien vs. Predator with my roommate and I had to ask a million questions all during the movie because I am such a girl that I couldn't keep up with all the stuff I was seeing. I was hoping that the predator and the chick would somehow hook up at the end, or that she'd ride off into the sunset with the predator's body and the rest of the predator crew as the heir to the dead predator's estate, but the movie was clearly not written by or intended for the chick flick demographic.

I didn't knit a thing today, but I did hold Turbo's sweater UFO in my lap while watching the movie. I thought I could finsh the last few rows of the back but the drama on-screen was so compelling (and I am so easily confused by lasers and other-worldly martial arts weaponry) that I was unable to pick up anything other than a few handfuls of M&Ms. Oh, speaking of M&Ms, did you know that you can customize your M&M's?

Time for beddy-by. All the excitement of the furniture and the aliens and predators battling has worn me out. G'night ya'll!

posted by KackieC @ 10:11 PM