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The internets say that the average lifespan of wallpaper paste is ten years.

My question is who is the contractor that sold his freaking soul to the devil to get the wallpaper paste on my bathroom wall??? This crap is like rhino snot! Seriously, I can tell that it's been on the wall for at least 20 years and it's still stuck on there like a nun's panties.

Painting

Would it have killed the builder to spend an extra $5k to make smooth walls as opposed to these stupid knock-down textured walls? I mean seriously, it would be an extra $5 per mortgage payment for whoever initially bought the house. But for me to fix these stupid bumpy-ish walls? Out of pocket, baby. Poopheads.

And bumpy ceilings, too? What else are they going to throw at me? Suckerfish.

In my best Barbie voice; Painting texture is harrrrrd!

Busy week

Our moving checklist is getting smaller and smaller. We took off the HUGE storm windows for the family room and kitchen today and washed them. What a pain in the butt! Thank god for Neighbors-on-Call to help get the glass back in place! Hey Tanya, you should start a business and call it that!

I painted our bedroom yesterday.

I painted the fireplace last week.

Cleaned out our closet and donated a bunch of clothes and shoes.

Things left on the Skye To-Do List:

• Screens to replace on some of the windows
• Remove the two front picture window glass, wash, and replace.
  
• Stuff to put on the wood floors make them shine
• Paint the upstairs hall
• Clean out the rest of the closets
• Paint the kitchen
  

Alan has his own list, but he can keep up with his stuff all by himself. He's good that way.

By the way, does everyone know we're moving back to Dallas? Kind of pertinent info for this post to make sense. heh.

Painting

The yellow room is painted! So am I, but that's par for the course. I always seem to get my hands covered and my ponytail against a wall. When we did Alan's office I had blue hair for weeks.

ETA: Just finished the dining room, too!

Shopping Finds

I rearranged the furniture in the living room so Cortland will have more room to play. Every time I turned around he would have scooch onto the hardwood floor. I thought he was going to break a heel he kicks so hard.


There's now room for his new train set. I got everything for just $10.00 at a consignment sale today. He put it together all by himself.


I also got a baby version of wack-a-mole, a couple Dr. Seuss books and a wooden puzzle.


I have to tell ya, I love the wack-a-mole game. That one might have to be mine.

It's sad to think that it's time to take down the baby swing. He's so big now that it sort-of creaks when he's in it, like it's pleading for mercy. I'm not ready for him to be too big for his swing. We are having so much fun and it's going by too fast.

Done!

Our yard is finally done! And someday we'll have big strong bushes to fill up the space. heh. It's so naked in the beginning.

I was born in Kansas, I was bred in Kansas...

I sent the following email to Gene - the man who came up with an ingenious marketing ad in the 80's to sell the ambiance of Kansas. Ahhhhhh, Kansas!

Dear Gene,

Thank you so much for creating the Ah, Kansas! ad campaign. It was brilliant. I am still singing the song 20-something years later.

I hope you can help me with a little dilemma. I am searching for the Ah, Kansas! ad song so I can let my husband hear the whole song and can't find it anywhere.

This song filters into my head and, apparently, out my mouth on a regular basis. The problem is that the song coming out of my mouth is:

Dun dun duh duh dun duh dun dun dah AHHH KAN-SAS!
(repeat this line over and over and over)

The issue now is that this same version of the song is now coming out of my TX-born husband's mouth, too. I guess I sing it a whole lot more than I thought.

I found the lyrics online, but my singing just can't do the song justice. Do you know where I can get a copy of the original ad with the lady singing the Ah - Kansas song?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Skye

I hope I hear from Gene soon.

ETA: The link to Gene's reply

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Here are some pictures of the new bushes. The landscaping is about 1/2 finished.

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If any of the planting crew are reading this -
BRING ME BACK MY GARDEN HOSE YOU POOP HEADS!

Someone stole the bushes!

We used to be the haunted house on the block. Now we're the NAKED house!

I am so excited. The landscapers came today and took the bushes away.

Embarrassingly enough, I didn't notice the missing bushes when I pulled up from work. I noticed that I could suddenly see the dining room table. And I noticed how the house was suddenly soooo dirty. Oh, and I noticed that there were mysterious orange lines spray painted on the lawn. But yeah, completely missed the lack of green leafy things.



This picture was taken when we bought our home. We had to remove the Maple because ants had made a home in the trunk.







This picture was taken yesterday after Tanya saved the hydrangeas that were along the wall with the little window that has shutters. They are now in a shady spot in her side yard.




And this is what I saw tonight when I got home from work. How cool is that?! We have a naked house!