Paint to a New You

It's painting day!!!!!

I am so very excited because today is the first day real progress will be made on my room. It's going to receive it's first proper paint job ever (from what I can tell).

Yesterday I moved all my belongings out of the room: boxes, books, hangers, clothes, shoes, junk, etc. Thank goodness there are 2 empty rooms upstairs for me to stash my stuff in, otherwise I have no idea where everything would go! After that, Kevin came in and taped off the room. My goodness was that time consuming. I had been fantasizing about how easy it would be to paint my room, but there were so many edges and nooks and crannies; the amount of work seemed endless!

But the work didn't end there. No-no. We scrapped off the large paint globs that had been left, swept the floors, vacuumed, and then scrubbed the walls.

Yes, we scrubbed the walls. I didn't even know that one would do such a thing unless you had children and crayons or markers! But the walls were filthy and it had ot be done. The walls were still a depressing shade of baby blue, but much less dingy now.

Fast-forward to today. I got into some grungy clothes and Kevin got into his painter-suit and we busted out our new painter toys. We had rollers, extenders, sponge brushes, bristled brushed, primer and Ivory paint in an eggshell finish. I was put on edges while Kev got to use the roller. Honestly, I was a little jealous because I wanted to roll around the room with the big roller and make the major changes; instead, I was down in a crouch position dealing with molding. Sigh. But it needed to get done, and I wanted to do it.

As music blared, we hummed along, wiggled a bit, and made some serious headway with the primer. However, after hour 4 rolled around, we needed to take a break. I was feeling overly anal-retentive doing so much detail work, but I KNOW it had to get done. Man! All those edges, nooks, and crannies were really doing a number on my psyche. I was tired of looking at cracks and edges, but there were soooooooooooo many of them that were vying for my attention. Finally I had to say enough.

We took a break to eat and watched a little TV before returning to my space. Kev helped me finish up with the details and then we called it a night. Tomorrow we'll switch over to the Ivory paint and start the real transformation.

Yeah!!!!!

Sword Fighting

Kevin and Jeff

Superbow Sunday

What an awesome game that was!! OMG, I had so much fun watching my first Superbowl, I could hardly believe it. (Note: I have seen bits and pieces of past games, but haven't watched a whole game). However, the part-time show was not up to par according to my standards. I understand that having Janet's tatas hang out the other year didn't go over so well, but really, Tom Petty? I am not denying that he is a great singer/performer, but for a half time show? And did you see when the "arrow" entered into the "heart" to kick off the show?! How phallic-looking was that?

Anyways.

The commercials were stellar. I am planning on visiting their myspace page to watch the superbowl ads in the next few days (if you missed them, check them out). My top favorites: Budlight - Will Ferrell pretending to be Jackie Moon, Budwiser- the draft horse and the dalmatian, Vitamin Water - Shaq being a jockey, Bridgestone - Richard Simmons, and Budlight - I can fly. Every time I figured I could get up, grab a snack, check on something, whatever... I couldn't out of fear I'd miss a brilliant commercial. Well done ad-creators, well done.

And the fourth quarter - my god was that good! On one side we had the New England Patriots (NE) who went undefeated the entire season, and if they won this game, they'd go down in history for a perfect season. On the other hand, if the New York Giants (NYG) won, they'd get to say the stopped an almost unstoppable team as well as the quarterback's family would have 2 sons that won Superbowls. For me, it was a win-win situation; both outcomes seemed great. But moving along...
I stood up for the last 10 minutes of the game. Right when I figured that NE had one, the NYG started making some serious yards. As they inched towards the goal line, the clock ran down. The three minute mark rolled around and it felt like it was over, but the NYG held on. Finally, after 3 time-outs and a lot of running, a pass was made and then the NYG were up!!! OMG, they've won! BUT WAIT - not quite. There was still a minute to go and Brady and Moss were an killer duo.
Brady threw his first pass and they moved down the field. Time-out. Brady threw his second pass and Moss missed. Time-out. Brady threw his third pass and Moss couldn't hold onto it. Time-out. And now there was 0:01 seconds remaining. The NE coach knew the NYG had won and congratulated their coach and then left the field, but the game appeared to not be over. What was going on?
Finally it was announced that the New York Giants won.

What an incredible game. I don't know all the rules, but it was quite the spectacular.

Reuniting Forces

Tonight is the first night Batman (me) and Robin (Kevo) reunite!

Last month we both decided to vacation in warmer climates: Kev went to Perth, Australia and I went to Buenos Aires, Argentina. While being jostled around on the 28X bus, we exchanged stories and just grinned at each other. It was so wonderful to get to see my dance partner again and to catch up with him and the adventures of his life!

Our goals for February:

• Get www.iLindy.com up and running
• Make a curtain
• Film dance clips
• Book more gigs
• Find music for a competition pieces
• Choreograph something for class

And that's the news for now. More later!!!