Month: August 2003

Hi Everybody, I have sun on my face, BBQ sauce on my nose, and Champagne and BBQ oysters in mah tummy.

(Last Sunday)

Here is the first wall of the living room (with me in it for scale) before painting:

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/07arnold_a1empirea.html

2nd wall is purple, only green walls and ecru / offwhite / egshell / cream trim to do.

Tonight we are supposed to help our neighbor paint her bathroom, we’ll see how prepped she is. My guess = not very.

Damn, we really need to get those pics up as well.

Ok, so after two weeks, here is my standing:

5 out of 6 correctly guessed.

I really though (wished?) Paul was gay. So I think I had my twink glasses on and wishfully misguessed. I was so sad to see him go! waaa.
Still the other 2 were guessed correctly – Jim was the most straight to me, so I was also happy to see him go.

Anyone else watching? (I know you are,

Busy Weekend!

Saturday:

Went with to get her hair coloured in the Haight, then metup with , & her beau, and and her fiancee, Clint at the Oakland Museum of California.

and Clint we met for the first time, and were fabulous. I look forward to a more intimate setting where we can chit-chat, but the shared gathering was just great.

They had one of my absolutely favorite artists, Alb(i)ert Bierstadt (seen here) and other California artists of the Arts and Crafts movement. One artist, the favourite of I had not heard of (though I recognized her stuff) named Lucia Mathews (her husband Arthur also worked in art, stained glass, furniture.) Very keen indeed. I adore the Minimalist aspects of the A&C movement, and the resulting influence on the minimalist/modern movements of the following decades.

Sunday:

We got it together and started on our own Modern style for our front living room. We purshased supplies and painted one of the four walls. Our colour scheme will be faded moss green and dusty egplant, with Cool blue accents (with a base of off-white, cream, black). There were pictures taken, (some of me with my bitch ass scrubbing the hardwood floors), you may see some.

Then when the wall was painted, we ran off to a local neighbourhood pool party and swam, drank champagne, ate watermellon and BBQ oysters. Collapse back at home.

Today is just too soon.

Tomorrow I’ll be meeting after years of online chatter on a listserv and LJ, and I’m really looking forward to it!

Hooray!