its time....
to return my house to the post-holiday blah. and i'm not happy in the least. i'm going to let you in on my newest mantra:
I NEED A HOUSE
i tell this to dc about.....oh....say.....5 times a day. right, sweetie??
i need one. i need to be able to creatively express myself through my interior decorating. at my old house (i am still so bitchin pissed i let him keep....grrrrrrrrr...but in order to preserve ones sanity....) i had complete free reign.
every color that is on the wall is there by my choosing. every curtain, all the wallpaper, the W2W carpeting, the tile work, the wood work, every tree, shrub, flower & paver. and most of it was done by my own hand (you now know precisely WHY i have such a rotten back.....::SIGH::)
i miss my house. well, i miss my old house. henry has not been kind or attentive to all the hard 6+ years of work i put into it. the place now looks like a tornado ripped through it. nothing is clean like i had it, it all needs to be repainted, the paper is peeling, the grout is dirty, the carpet needs cleaning & THE LINEN CLOSET IS A DISASTER AREA!!! sorry.....i digress....back to topic.
i have done some decorating here (notice the italicized "some"....which roughly translates into not NEAR the amount that i really want.....):
my bedroom got a fresh coat of flat latex (if you paint your walls with semi-gloss in other than the bath, kitchen, floorboards, doorframes & entry doors, you are EVIL!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrr) over the much used semi-gloss, plain-ass white they use in every single apartment complex known to man. its a lovely shade of taupey-kind-of-lavenderish, with a cute little hand stenciled ivy border winding throughout the middle of the wall throughout the whole room.
my bathroom is done in americana w/ a festive RW&B wallpapered border & several cute americana accents all over the walls.
the kids room is a flat latex cote d'azure blue with hand painted underwater flora & fauna....some from our own creation....some we "borrowed" from nickelodeon.
the kids bath is a cute blue/white/yellow combo for their ducky's taking a bath bathroom theme. (which of course, if you visited me during the holiday season, this whole theme was removed only to be replaced by red/green/white holiday decor with holly sprigs & festive woodland creatures.......YES I DECORATE THEMED FOR THE HOLIDAYS IN THE MAIN BATH....which happens to be the kids bath.....lol!)
other than that, nothing. nada. i had fixed up the backyard. put in grass, painted the wooden fences to make them look like redwood. added woodchips to the area by cinnamon's cage. placed lovely potted flowers & such all over the place. but now it looks like a disaster area back there (its currently being used as our storage depot ....::SIGH::) i didn't do any kind of window treatments, nothing special in the kitchen, nothing extraordinary in the livingroom or dining room. nothing. its all just there. and now my holiday decorations (that had given life to things that were once lifeless...) have to come down. well, i could keep them up year-round....but people will talk....more than they already do.
i'm sad here people. i know that i get to do something WAY fun in the near future....house-hunt! but in the mean time, i'm miserable in my little cramped existence. i know that in a few short months, i get to choose what & how many rooms, bathrooms, basement (yes or no), backyard, kitchen, diningroom, bonus rooms, car garages, deck, porches, etc.... and then it will be my blank canvas to use at my disposal. i can burst with creative juices & let my explosion create a cavalcade of color throughout my house.
but i hate waiting. and this weekend, my only source of decorative expressiveness.....is coming down.
i need a house.
posted by jeni at 9:21 AM
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