Unintentional Drifting


I’m finally done! Reference THIS

Do you see the shoe rack incomplete? All it needs now are boards placed on top of the rails. It can be expanded to six levels but it has only four right now.

I added a lot of support brackets because I don’t want the shelves to fall down. It has before but that was in another post. The directions recommend 24″ spacing between each support bracket but I find it useless because the lack of support is evident.

UPDATE: 02/17/2007 DONE. I have the shoe racks in and also extra racks for towels and the likes. I can’t wait to see cloths hanging from them. Shoes stacked sky high! That’s just HOT!

Shoe Rack: Shoe Shelf: Painted Wall

I lightly mudded the wall after I sanded it down. Then I textured it (orange peel texture) lightly. I made the mix a little thick which also was another mistake. To do the orange peel texture, you want a liquid consistency mud batch so that it would be more easily blown onto the wall. It’s a walk-in closet so the owner will be the only person taking notice. Besides, once the cloths are in place, you wont even notice it at all! Reference This: Day 1

The ceiling was in need of a light. I was going to go cheap and buy one of those utility light fixtures but my gut said “ugly” so I purchased a nice one for 75USD! It lit up the room nicely too! Plus I like it because it’s stylish and it adds a little pazazz to the environment.

Ceiling light fixture install: orange peel texture: mud: mudding

I’m breaking ground on a walk-in closet I planned months ago. It’s official and the walls have been marred! Click HERE for reference of my plans. I changed it a little because I was a little fussy drawing on the walls this afternoon: the darn window was an eye sore so I covered it up nicely! It’s funny because when you step outside, you see a piece of wallboard inside the window perimeter. I purchased this type of drywall at Lowes that resists mildew and humidity and it turned out the darn thing was impregnated with fiberglass- I was itching like crazy on the way home. I used a pair of gloves to handle once I got home.

Here is the window untouched. The room measured roughly 8’x10’x8′ and that stupid window was installed in the wrong spot.

So I fixed it good! I made it so that the room would be one full cube so that it would be easier for me to manipulate! It’s much easier to make a walk-in closet when you start off with a cube in my opinion.

So I tore off the window ceil and started to frame it so that it will fit the piece of drywall I will be preparing. The framing was easy. I didn’t want to add any extra frames than necessary because this isn’t structural additions yet more cosmetics. What i’m trying to sway is, it’s not to code but do I care? Of course not silly! Notice how the frames are set back .5″ to accommodate the piece of drywall.

O my, I think I have made a mistake! Look at the open area! No support! Now when the support s from the shelves push against that open space and there are no supports behind them, OMG <squeeze> & <crunch>. Dammit I hate these mistakes! I guess I’ll find out once it caves in:)

I nailed up the piece of drywall and mud it. tomorrow I’m going to sand it down.

Continue Tomorrow!

Drywall mudding: Drywall Repair: Drywall Texture

YUM-O. Kelly’s Birthday! She’s tender yet LEGAL! When we having a pot luck day eh? I had so much fun that night! I hate Thao’s shrimp scampi- I mean all of it! I saved her from being fat. I’m a good friend, I know! I took one for the team huray!

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This must be the coolest gift ever! I like it a lot that everyone envies them. They are blue pens wrapped in green tape (the kind that florists use for their own creations). It’s so snazzy. When you place them in an accessory holder, people mistaken them for ornaments and instead, try to find another pen in favor of the pretty flowers that are blocking their view of any usable pens. Little do they know that the ‘ornaments of beauty’ are actually functional. Tricksy isn’t it? Could add a dash of excitement to anyone’s office. It certainly brings some life unto mine most definitely!

Honestly, I do like these little gifts more than I do with the other kinds of gifts you can purchase. These types of gifts are reserved only for friends of non-regrettable caliber. I happen to be such a special friend to her- makes me smile when I come to think of it. I’m assuming I’m special because she fed me good! Nothing was spared of less accommodations.

I was over Mimi’s place turn morning? We had moved a computer desk from her old residence into her new one. It wasn’t very sound and safe because it had sharp edges and was very flimsy. I made a date, fixed the problem with a nice piece of melamine board. It was a success! Took me 32min because of my awesome handyman skills! I got to go see her again because I forgot my sweater at her place. Kudos!

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There are a lot of reasons why I’m still without company. I just spoked to my girlfriend and expressed another reason why I’m still solo. It is accommodations or the act of being accommodating to someone you have interest in. I will not accommodate anyone that I have interest in. Without the knowledge of knowing that the relationship will bloom from a grain of sand to pathway made for two, I simply won’t lower myself into such an act of foolishness.

I have seen amany done so and have failed miserably- embarrassed, hurt, and someone’s fool. Why? Why must I lower myself to something I consider shameful? I believe it’s shameful and degrading to follow a woman around and be her lab dog just for formal acceptance- if any were to be considered. There are a few that have been successful in courting their mate using this process. Kudos to them, no?

If the person had actual interest in you then I would say go for it! Be each other’s fools and love it! Enjoy it! Embrace it! However, I do accommodate my family and friends unless something were to go awry but that doesn’t apparently occur in any sense- fashionable or not; I like to see people smile. When you put someone on the pedestal, you are taken advantage of, misused and reused, and finally, taken for granted. When you give someone power over you, they become pushy.

I’m a wall. Pushy and bossy women meet the wall when they get a chance to know me=) That doesn’t increase my chances of courting any ‘one’ thing none-the-less, I’m very content and am my own floating island of infinite happiness. By all means, it should be mutual. I am like so because I don’t like the fact that women or men should get the upper hand against each other. That’s no way to treat one another.

I’ve seen my girlfriends whom were so very much committed and submissive to their mate’s every whims and needs that they forgot themselves. They too, were once beautiful swans but that all changed… for a short period of time that was…, until the ‘big bang’ occurred, or so what I call it. So now the tides turned and you have the guy melting in on the palms of the once submissive girlfriend. What is with this? Is this an Olympic event passing on the reigns of power and control?

That is why I like to start any kind of relationship on an equal plane. equal for both parties and I would like it to stay that way. Why can’t we have equality amongst male and females? Because this is the real world and not the box I live in!

I had a lot of fun going to a piano recital. This was a little different though because it was a duet. Husband and wife duet that is of Chinese descent. Overall, the experience was a good one. I’ve heard of better performances but than again, perhaps my taste for music is a little too demanding. I usually like classical music with a “thump” and a “bang”. I couldn’t remember for the life of me the recital I’ve been to that had me enthralled. The piece I liked best was Swan Lake.

You can some what make out the background. We were trying to take a photo with the piano being in the back but it didn’t work quite well. It was Miss Mimi’s fault. She had shaky hands and didn’t have her daily dose of caffeine. What’s up with my hair?

This was a little dangerous. Again, with Mimi holding the camera. I was driving at the very moment. She took a whole bunch of shots but this one turned out the greatest!

Stradivarius’ Violin. Over 300yrs old. Worth over 3million dollars. My professor has one worth 1million but it’s not a Stradivarius made. It only took him three years to attain it?

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The very next day, I’m at my buddy’s house getting bit up by mosquitoes and working on his transmission. The first time we did his transmission, I did all the work but this time around I made him do all the work. He knows how to do all of them now. Let me show you the creatures that bit him and I up….

We had a bit of fun too! I had Hoang pose for me. He decided to spread his legs to show off his hairy inner thighs=)

Of course I didn’t forget miscellaneous mug shots of the car itself.

I’m thrilled I have my last Wisdom tooth pulled out today. Five shots of the good stuff knocked me out (my whole face that is). I would imagine I will feel the pain once the good stuff subsides. I got cut up badly too! My Wisdom tooth was so nicely rooted the doctor was practically hanging from it during the whole extraction ordeal. I have a hole and some cuts- wonderful!

I’m a “gangsta” (lol). I was texting during the very moments of extraction=) It was funny looking at the doctors facial expression. There was a moment of bliss when I heard a crackling sound and all was done with the tooth encapsulated in the jaws of the doctor’s implement. Just wonderful!

He wrote a prescription for some YUM-O meds but I highly doubt I’ll fill them. I’m alright without them. I’m going to lose a pound or two because of this extraction. Good for me because I can fit in my groin contouring pant(s). Too bad I’ll have the pleasure of doing monkey work under an s2000 tomorrow. My friend pulled out the transmission after I helped him align it. He is a dork. On to braces. I hate my crooked smile. It’s only one tooth out of alignment but dammit, it annoys the heck out of me. Plus yellow isn’t my favorite color either!

If I remembered correctly, this book is about an American born of Persian/Iran descent. She had the love for Arabic history and was so captivated she had an arrange marriage back in the middle-east. It’s strange for a westerner to attempt to understand such a decision and even more strange to know that Iran was once happy with her decision.

Though born over in the US, she speaks fluent Arabic. Her husband despised her for the strength she had; emotionally and physically as an American woman in an Arabic world. Her marriage was on the fritz and during one of her broadcasting episodes, her manager asked to speak to her and told her she was too attractive for show biz. It couldn’t have came at a better time because she couldn’t take it anymore. Everything fell apart.

That’s all that I could gather during a live interview on talk radio. To further induce my pain, her book had to be ordered. Pity, I’d have to wait for 7 days till Borders can get their hands on my copy. They still will honor my 25% discount=) That definitely made me happy. I picked up “Gallows Theif by Bernard Cornwell“. I read a few of his books and I absolutely loved it. I have been meaning to purchase this book long while now. Used my 25% coupon + Borders’ savings and got it for $4.87. Score! This will have to satisfy me till “My Name Is Iran” arrives shortly.

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