Yay, msbelle!
 
I am so sorry about where you are, ita. I kept thinking about you during my three day (very minor) sinus headache. I have had migraine headaches although not on the scale of you and BHP. I don`t know how I`d handle it if I were in your shoes.

Hmm. My phone lied to me and made me double post. GO Slovakia! (Well I had to say something!) Hee.

Happy Birthday, Jon! Hope your day is a great one, with a great year to follow.

I got my hair cut and coloured this afternoon. It looks fab. To celebrate, I am having ice cream for supper.

It looks fab.

Take pictures. Share them.

I am sticking blue painter's tape everywhere I am not happy with the paint. It's basically every corner and wall edge plus anywhere he patched. I also think he missed all the trim on mac's door.

I may rival sara in new house talk, fair warning. I consider it good company. I am already looking at paint colors and am thinking a warm lightish tan for the living room off the kitchen and maybe the hall, a peacock/turqouise deep blue for the front living room, yellow for mac's room, a medium sage green or magenta for my bedroom, and possibly a deep red for the guest.

Maybe my littlest niece got to pick the colors for her bedroom, maybe she can help you: [link]

wow, that is green! mac would like something similar, he said he like 2 walls bright yello and the other two bright red. I talked him down to one wall bright yellow, the other three paler yellow and new bedding in red.

I may rival sara in new house talk, fair warning.

Built.in.bookshelves. IJS.

I haven't prattled much lately because we haven't made a lot of progress till now. But once the shelves are up and the breakfront's assembled, we really will FINALLY be unpacked. We like the wall color, so no painting, except the doors and trim in the hall (walnut to white) to brighten the dark space.

We got the last posters (that we've had stored in their portfolio for *decades* because there was nowhere to hang them) framed and hung and they look fabulous. We're living with the things we've hung and the furniture placement until we see how it all looks and works and how it might be better. There will be more pictures once it's done.

...and then we may tackle the kitchen. Floor and cabinets. I'd like to strip the room back to the studs and start over, but I don't think we can afford it. The appliances are all fine--LOVE the cooktop and wall oven, though I want to paint black enamel over the harvest gold oven door--except the dishwasher and disposal, which we don't use anyway. The dishwasher will go, and a useful stack of drawers will go in its place. I hope we can save the cabinet carcasses and counters and just replace the fronts, with new doors and hardware. And a quick and dirty peel and press vinyl tile floor is more than adequate.

So, no worries about new house burbling. It's sort of inevitable.

in such good company.

so yeah. we will close 3/30 if inspection is clear. holy moley.