Aaron's Fucking Freckles

you know, i went to LA recently. it was cool. i spent time with awesome people and i took pictures. i should write about that.

i should also knit.

so i just wanted to make a few points in this BRIEF entry that do not have to do with LA but have to do with the fourth trip i just took to the fucking hardware store to buy MORE PAINT that i DO NOT LIKE.

but before i explain that, i wanted to say:

A. i will try the pine cat litter stuff because anything is better than smelly clay. well, "better" assuming my cats like it.

B. i added that caveat ("assuming my cats like it") because i bought the Booda Dome on all ya'll's suggestions and i loved it! however, i discovered -- to my chagrin -- that the dome was the reason Monster started peeing in the hallway. i removed the dome, the hallway peeing stopped. alas.

C. the bin for my yarn is stuffed to the gills, and not small. i have used my non-small cat for perspective. (please remember that i have no viewfinder on my camera, so pictures tend to be a bit off-center.)

thus.

part of No Joy In '06 is overhauling my apartment. by which i mean lifestyle. i do not feel like elaborating on all the steps i'm taking to do this (just yet), but painting my hallway is one such step.

[so is buying a bed, which i did! and then i put it together! and took pictures of the process! omg are you SO EXCITED FOR THAT POST? is that not the very epitome of what we would hope the Information Age would bring us? high-speed access to some crazy woman's illustrated narrative of her Assembling A Bed? yes, yes i think it is. do you hear me, Al Gore?]

actually, i'm just painting the half of my hallway that falls below the chair rail. the part above the chair rail is a very, very pale pink. i wanted the half below the chair rail to be...gray? green? khaki? taupe? some sort of darker, complementary color.

i picked "Aaron's Freckles." i brought it home and painted a tiny bit of the hallway and decided that when i said i wanted a "gray, green, khaki, taupe" color i probably meant it and should not have, on a whim, gone with "rust."

but you can't return custom paint colors. so the next night i returned to the hardware store and selected a beautiful dark, green-gray color called "Huntington."

i painted an entire half of a wall in it before deciding to pour more wine because it was just too damn dark. fuckitall.

so right. i returned, then, to the hardware store TODAY, for the third time in three days, during my lunch hour to get a color similar to "Huntington" but a couple shades lighter.

turns out, when you put it on the wall, "Miami" looks a lot like "the color you already have on your wall." because you overcompensated and went way, way too light.

so you return. for a fourth time. to the hardware store to get the color you'd originally wanted anyway, and it's called "London Haze." and even though it's not really the right color because it's not dark enough, not green enough, not gray enough, not...well...it is still better than a fifth trip.

right?