Now that I am approaching home-ownership (rather than renting) I am worried about this. I have no sense for color/decoration.

Having just had a wee F2F with Perkins and juliana at juliana and her Canadian's new place, my best suggestion would be to bribe juliana to visit so she can do a walkthrough and advise you. Her place is *amazing*. I just wanted to move in forever and lick all the walls, they were so gorgeous.

Ooh. I would totally love to have Juliana come up and decorate my house! Though that would probably involve spending bunches of money that I don't especially want to spend right now. I am kinda sad I didn't bother to paint before moving in, because now painting seems like such a huge hassle. But I loved my last apartment's bright colors (at least until I had to paint over them to move out!)

I went with lots of bright colors for the house after so many years of apartment living, where I couldn't paint. I worry sometimes that it is too much, but it does make me happy.

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I moved into my place as a rental and then bought it, and have always wished I'd had the chance to paint and put in new carpet before I got all my heavy antique furniture in here. It's too much hassle now. I still haven't decided what color I want, anyway, or whether I want carpet or hardwood floors.

Juliana has a great aesthetic, I'm not surprised!

Phoebe can definitely fly, at least a little! She is now sitting on top of my deck table. I wish it weren't so windy. The wind is making me crazy and is going to continue for five days. But I need to get out on the deck and clean it up a bit. I don't want something tipping over on her, but I also don't want to scare her again. A dilemma. She and mama are doing call and answer to each other. It is super cute.

In other bird news, I had an oriole at my sugar water feeder, finally! Every year I see the oriole, rush out with the feeder, but it's too late. It has been back three times today, so I'm hoping it'll be a regular guest. I also need to refill the feeders, but again, extreme windiness.

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I'm back from spending six hours doing something that should have taken three. Kaiser would be a lot easier to deal with if I was well. The good news, I guess, is that I'm full of bone-strengthening drugs, and they managed to schedule the type and cross and the transfusion on the same day. There's a couple hours between them, but at least I only have to brave one trip instead of two, and it will be done before the Memorial Day weekend so I can consider attempting the Decatur Arts Festival.

My only decorating suggestion is to find pillows or window treatments in a print or stripe you like, and then match everything to the colors in the fabric. That way, the fabric designer has done the work for you.

Ginger, I continue to regret you have to go though this, am glad at least one small aspect of your schedule went right, and respect your continuing strength in this battle.

Ginger, it's good to see you haven't lost the snark.

He could have a lot going on. God knows I've let things slip in the last two months. And you wouldn't know it from the outside because I haven't wanted to let anyone in on the painful parts until recently and still not publicly.

Ugh, yes. I still have yet to find the strength to write the thank you notes from the funeral. There are also FB messages that I have yet to respond to. Sometimes it's just all overwhelming. sj, I wouldn't read too much into it.

man. juliana doesn't have a job, right? she can just fly around the country and help the hapless?