But is is Creative?
Aug. 30th, 2003 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolphins_logSome of you know that Juli loves those "Home Make Over" shows, shows like "Trading Spaces" and "While You Were Out". "While You Were Out" is where a spouse or relative is tricked into leaving for two days and while they are gone one room is completely made over.
Well I'm sort of pulling a "While You Were Out" on Juli this weekend. The problem is that she's not really "Out". She's just working these two days. So instead of having two days I have about 9 hours a day to pull this off.
I'm completely cleaning out and setting up the garage. Ever since we moved in it's simply been a catch all, and not a very good one. Future garage sale crap has been piled in the middle. Cardboard for recycle has been piled near the roller doors. Christmas Decorations have been piled against the back wall. Simply to walk through takes a great deal of balance and coordination.
Today I took about 2800 comics to St. Vincent de Paul's. That was something![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kehf and David did some years ago, and I've always had it there in back of my mind. Broken chairs and empty 3 year old paint cans, along with various other sundry objects went to the dump transfer station. I found one close by only two months ago.
Then I drove down to Home Depot to find shelving. Pitiful stuff to choose from. I'm sure the metal shelves would have been fine, but that wasn't the look I was going for. So off to Ikea. 4 hours later I have some shelving stacked behind the fence waiting for tomorrow. I've taken what clutter is left and scattered it about the garage, just in case she looks in for some reason, though I doubt she will. I've given the house a cursory vacuuming to make it look like I haven't been sitting on my butt all day.
Now I'm going to shower and plop down in front of the TV, ...to make it look like I "have" been sitting on my butt all day. I just need to get her through the evening as if nothing is going on.
Well I'm sort of pulling a "While You Were Out" on Juli this weekend. The problem is that she's not really "Out". She's just working these two days. So instead of having two days I have about 9 hours a day to pull this off.
I'm completely cleaning out and setting up the garage. Ever since we moved in it's simply been a catch all, and not a very good one. Future garage sale crap has been piled in the middle. Cardboard for recycle has been piled near the roller doors. Christmas Decorations have been piled against the back wall. Simply to walk through takes a great deal of balance and coordination.
Today I took about 2800 comics to St. Vincent de Paul's. That was something
kehf and David did some years ago, and I've always had it there in back of my mind. Broken chairs and empty 3 year old paint cans, along with various other sundry objects went to the dump transfer station. I found one close by only two months ago.Then I drove down to Home Depot to find shelving. Pitiful stuff to choose from. I'm sure the metal shelves would have been fine, but that wasn't the look I was going for. So off to Ikea. 4 hours later I have some shelving stacked behind the fence waiting for tomorrow. I've taken what clutter is left and scattered it about the garage, just in case she looks in for some reason, though I doubt she will. I've given the house a cursory vacuuming to make it look like I haven't been sitting on my butt all day.
Now I'm going to shower and plop down in front of the TV, ...to make it look like I "have" been sitting on my butt all day. I just need to get her through the evening as if nothing is going on.
