29 July 2006
By L.R.
In Life With LR
It’s difficult to put into words just what the situation with the Burt Guest Bathroom is. It’s also rather difficult to put into pictures. But I post pictures anyway, so you can at least see that the blue apples are gone. That, at least, is improvement.
The bathroom before DIY With LR. Well — as you [...]
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canasta, DIY, greg, wallpaper
27 July 2006
By L.R.
In Life With LR
I planned to fix teriyaki chicken for supper tonight – you know, actually cook real food while my brother’s here, instead of something lame like hot dogs. So I thawed three chicken breasts in the microwave, then set the dish in the sink so as not to spread bacteria whilst I rinsed and removed the [...]
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desperate housewife, kitchen catastrophes, salmonella, soap
25 July 2006
By L.R.
In Life With LR
Everything that could have gone wrong did.
I speak of painting over the pink floral and blue appled wallpaper in the guest bathroom.
Sunday I primed. A quart of prime was supposed to cover a 10×10 room. Our bathroom is much smaller than 10×10. Even though I only applied a very thin coat of primer, I ran [...]
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desperate housewife, DIY, on writing, publishing, wallpaper
22 July 2006
By L.R.
In Life With LR
When a university requires its BAs to take four semesters of PE (or HP — Human Performance — as Baylor calls them) the majority of the students choose courses that require as little performance as possible. After all, who wants to go to a class hot and sweaty? (Not that trudging across the massive campus [...]
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bowling, ouch, pratfall, public humiliation
20 July 2006
By L.R.
In Life With LR
When I posted my last batch of pictures, we hadn’t moved the piano from my parents’ house. Now we’ve got it, and we bought that lovely red art print to fill the blank spot between the piano and TV cabinet. You’d think from the art over the piano that we’re cat lovers, but we don’t [...]
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DIY, haircut, our new house, the not-so-secret garden