rainbow fish, wood stain and dr. who

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there.

As I've mentioned before, we've been doing a lot of House Stuff lately in preparation for house renovations; we get possession of the house in 19 days (!). Yesterday, for example, Jeff and I went looking at doors and stains and sinks.

At this point, I need to point out that despite my enthusiasm for our new house, I don't tend to be the type of person that gets excited about doors and stains and sinks. In fact, as long as they all work and don't explode on me, I don't care a great deal about what they look like.

This isn't necessarily a desirable trait. If I lived alone, I'm sure my home would be an interior designer's horror nightmare. My focus has always been on practicality rather than design, though I've always preferred bright and cheerful colours rather than elegant pale pastels or the broodingly dark and dramatic.

Trilliums in Luisa's garden.

If I moved into the World's Ugliest Apartment, I would likely notice its ugliness for a few days in a sort of irritated "where did that bruise come from" sort of way. But then it would fade into the background and I'd go on happily living my life, only remember my ugly surroundings by the shocked and horrified looks of friends when they came to visit.

If any of you come visit our new house, you will likely notice that my basement office does not match the rest of the house in style, colours or pretty much any other aspect other than the coincidence of location. Jeff and I have a deal that I can "design" my office pretty much any way I'd like without worrying about how it fits with the rest of the house. It's one of the reasons I opted for the basement office rather than a much prettier and sunnier upstairs office.

I'm SO looking forward to being able to go down into my little cave and closing the door, shutting out the rest of the world while I work on my secret plans to take over the universe. (insert maniacal cackle here)

In addition to doing housestuff, yesterday involved seeing friends we haven't had a chance to hang out with in a while. Jeff and I had brunch with our friends Alison and Jeff at Chai, a wonderful little Asian restaurant in what will be our new neighbourhood, and afterward we went across the street to browse the Sleuth of Baker Street (mystery book store) and get some Mate-Chino (my current tea fave) from the Tea Emporium.

Reid and his stepson Michael.

After a visit to Home Depot, we went to visit Reid and Luisa in Scarborough. I lusted over Luisa's garden while Jeff tested different stain colours of one of the kitchen cupboard doors from our new house; the owner was kind enough to let Jeff take one even though the house isn't officially ours yet.

In the evening at Reid's and Luisa's, we watched a recorded penultimate episode of Enterprise as well an episode of the new Dr. Who series everyone's been talking about. I had never watched the old series, and hadn't seen any of the new series; I quite liked the episode I saw, which was called "Daleks." I had to ask Reid what the Daleks were as well as what the deal was with the telephone booth. Really liked Christopher Eccleston as Dr. Who, whom I recognized as the deliciously evil Duke of Norfolk in Elizabeth. A pity he's not staying with the show.

Thanks for the advice on how to check out the IP address of an anonymous poster! (n particular: 209.60.102.107) I'm going to summarize all the useful info into an upcoming Blathering entry. If you have additional ideas, please feel free to post them in LJ or Blatherchat.

I'm very happy with Backpack so far (see my review in Blatherings) and have started using my main page as my "Today's Tasks and Projects" list. Any longer term items get spun off into satellite pages. Here's a Backpack Forum message I posted about how I currently organize my Pages, for those interested.

I'm starting to post some of my favourite photos in Inkygirl in addition to cartoons and doodles, by the way. I figure the top-right section is basically going to be my image playground, with the image being linked to its source in my Flickr photo collection. Cool to see Inkygirl visits quadrupling since I began updating again in March.

Hope you're all having a great weekend! I'm doing some more writing today but plan to take off part of the afternoon to go for a walk along the lake, or perhaps up in our new neighbourhood.

Jeff testing different wood stains yesterday on Reid's and Luisa's back deck.

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