Gordon and home improvement

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

After a good five years of constant freelance for toy companies and our travels abroad, it feels good to start sprucing up the home front, which we have been meaning to get around to...

So while Lisa continues her race to the finish line with her Master's degree, I am targeting the Dining Room and Kitchen for remodels and freshening up. After that, the front room!

I am also catching up on photographing all of my recent model work, so while I had everything set up, I took a couple photos of Gordon!

He did not want to cooperate, but I tricked him into posing for a few.

Of course, the power cords were much more exciting.

He wanted to bite them SO HARD.

So, back to the house. The first and most important item to change in the kitchen was the old refrigerator that came with the house. It had seen better days, and I could have sworn it was yellow/beige, but it turns out it was just old old old white. I was excited to have generated enough moolah with my model work to fund a new swanky fridge outright - the kind with a freezer on the bottom!! Even fully stocked, it has tons of room left inside.

It even has an icemaker, which I will hook up when we run a line for water (when I redo the kitchen a little more in-depth, this Fall).

The first room to get the most of my attention is the Dining Room. We decided to paint it a pumpkin color, but ended up with a warmer and brighter hue!

Tape tape tape.

Exhausted. I forgot how much painting can sap your energy!

I used that new Behr paint with the built-in primer, and in two coats the walls were DONE.

We are taking the plunge and I will be adding chair rail, crown molding, and replacing the foot molding that was removed (I suppose) when they installed wall to wall carpet some time in the horrible past.

I don't relish painting the trim, but ehhh, it needs to be done.

More of the same, bahah.

Monday, June 14th, 2010

So Gordie got his big operation on Friday, and while he was under they also jammed a microchip in between his shoulder blades. That'll teach him to be such a brat, eh? The funny thing is that after we got him home, he was hyper like crazy, but still feeling loopy from the anesthesia. His muzzle was perpetually wet with drool, and he had a 1.5 second attention span for anything...

Except when he went batshit crazy and dug into the new cat food bags, even though we had just filled the bowls in the kitchen.

He also sports a new reverse-mohawk on his arm, from the IV.

Dumb high cat, trying to act all cool, with food all over the place.

Later that night we went with Tom and Jane to Bombay Nights, the best Indian restaurant in Baltimore, evarz!!!

I got the Lamb Seekh Kabobs!

For breakfast on Saturday I made some greasy-ass potatoes and eggs with some of the fresh cut basil from the back porch - yummah.

We had a whirlwind weekend of great food with family on both sides, and it went by so fast!

I prepped some pickle chicken that we had yesterday, and will continue to enjoy tonight!