Have you ever had a power outage and walked into your kitchen and realized that your fridge has an annoying nonstop subaudible metallic buzz you can only hear because it's stopped nowIn my brain. It's like that. My brain does love a linguistic puzzle
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy. --poet Louise Bogen
The countertops were re-installed on June 30. Sink is hooked back up. Dishwasher dish-washes. The only two things left to do are buy and install knobs and pulls on the cabinet doors, and put the baseboard, window, and door moulding back up
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I'm absolutely charmed by the gamut of Atomic Ranch colors my kitchen was painted. As near as I can tell as I strip down the woodwork and peel the plaster, the original palettes were:
Medium split-pea yellow walls with cream trim; then aqua walls with butter yellow trim; then mint green walls with jadite trim
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My friend graciously offered me first dibs, but if I don't hang drywall this weekend (and scrape paint, and hang windows, and unpack) I will not have a kitchen for another month
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