You Are Red

You are a very warm and passionate person. You are never at a loss for words when talking about how much you love something or someone.

You feel strongly, and luckily, most of your strong feelings are positive ones. You love many things in this world.

It's very important that you are able to follow your passions. It would drive you crazy to be stuck in a job or place you found boring.

You have twice as much energy as most people. And it's a good thing too, because you have twice as many things you want to do in your life!

I better hurry up then.

You Are Orange

• You are a creative, interesting person who's always looking to spice things up. You are a little wild!
  You love new endeavors and adventures. You are fearless, and you love the thrill of doing something completely foreign to you.
• You are spontaneous, and you sometimes end up doing the strangest things. If you have a gut feeling, you just go with it.
• You may be a bit eccentric, but your enthusiasm is catching. People want to live as freely as you do.

Okay, as a personality that sounds fun. But orange is probably my least favorite color (except on pumpkins).

I have a couple of quasi family members who roll their eyes and look at me with disdain whenever I talk about the projects I'm working on. They think I never finish anything and just start another one. They don't seem to get it into their thick skulls that I don't pay anyone to do these things for me. Neither of them mow their own lawn or trim their own trees, things I have to do in between projects. Of course, it IS preposterous that I've been working on my kitchen cabinets for a year and a half but then these two people have never stripped, sanded, primed and painted their own either. They actually asked me last time I saw them if my miserable life was getting any better. I just smiled and said my life was fine. Eh, nevermind....just venting.

I only get frustrated when I hit a roadblock, something I can't do, or I have to do over because the advice given at the hardware store wasn't right. I found out that no matter how old the varnish is on wooden cabinets, in this case 50 yrs., that you need to sand first. This guy said, oh just give it a couple coats of primer, then paint it. I did that on three drawers and three doors. Luckily it was only half the kitchen. A few months later, that old varnish started bleeding through and bubbling the paint. I had to strip two coats of primer and two coats of paint plus the old varnish and start all over. This manual labor stuff wears me out so a couple of months go by before I go back to it.

Yes, going to the bare wood is the best by far.

I've been working lately on this small side table I found by the side of the road. It looked pretty old but was very sturdy. It also had uneven and thick coats of white paint on it. I discovered some great paint stripper called Jasco Green that is supposed to be good for the environment. It's been tedious because of all the little nooks and crannies on the table. After some sanding, it will be stained with 'ebony' then varnished. I chose the dark stain because there are some scratches on the top I can't sand away because the top layer (veneer?) is already too thin. I've already taken the 'before' picture and will take another one when finished and do a post on it.

I like pink,purple and blue
Pink is combination of red and white make me lovely,caring and acceptance. Purple is symbolize spiritual magic and mystery....
Blue is color of the sky...ocean....i love blue...!!
and blue is symbol virgin "mary"

Originally posted by PainterWoman:

They think I never finish anything and just start another one.

There is a radio I was assembling from 1975 that is still half done in the original box.

Originally posted by slackwrdave:

from 1975

Now my relatives would have something to say about that but I haven't visited them on purpose for a year and a half, so I don't have to listen to them.

It's just too hard to throw stuff out that you paid good money for. Who knows, next year you might finish that radio Dave.

Originally posted by PainterWoman:

It's just too hard to throw stuff out that you paid good money for.

Because of all the junk in my basement, my family is actually afraid to go down there. It's rumoured that the ghost of misguided consumerism flits amongst the ancient kitchen appliances and old computers.

I only had one old computer. I took it completely apart, threw out the plastic parts, then saved all the innards just to look at. They're kind of interesting. I'll make an art installation piece one of these days.

Unfortunately, there aren't too many basements in Arizona. Too much rock to blast.

I used to live in Texas, and basements were extremely rare there as well. I'm not sure whether the "Too much rock to blast" explanation applies to Texas. There is a bedrock of caliche just a few inches below the soil. However when you were approaching the Austin airport from the sky, you could see a lot of swimming pools. If you can blast out rock for a swimming pool, you could do the same for a basement. Many Texans coped with the lack of basement by parking their cars on the street and storing their junk in their garages.

Actually from a safety point of view, I was very surprised at the lack of basements. Both Texas and Ohio (where I currently live) are troubled by tornadoes. When there is a tornado warning in Ohio, everyone is supposed to take refuge in the basement. In Texas, I didn't feel there was an equally safe place to go.

They are extremely popular here. We had a huge one in my old house. A ton of work. I'm still cleaning it but now I get paid. Frankly, I'd much rather have a basement than a pool.

Ah, but water attracts these giant 3 inch roaches! There'd be even more of them in a dark place.

Originally posted by daxonmacs:

If need be you can fill the basement with water.

Actually most people in my area have sump pumps in the basement to prevent this from happening. If our basement were to flood, what would happen to all my antiquated computers!


On a perhaps stranger note, our basement like many others in the area, has been rigged to vent radioactive radon gas...

Originally posted by daxonmacs:

If need be you can fill the basement with water.

BODIES! Let's get this right. You fill a basement with *bodies*.

Originally posted by slackwrdave:

BODIES! Let's get this right. You fill a basement with *bodies*.

Have you seen the movie, Arsenic and Old Lace? I am a big fan.

@PainterWoman: We had those giant cockroaches in Texas, too. Now that I stop to think about it, since they were Texan cockroaches, they have to be bigger than your measly Arizonan cockroaches.


@Danny: the radon gas problem around here has nothing to do with acts of war (cold or otherwise). Apparently trace amounts of radon gas are being released by the ground here and have been for years. However now our homes are so well-sealed and insulated to cut down on fuel costs (and save the world from global warming!) that what normally would have harmlessly entered the atmosphere accumulates to the point that it can cause health problems, especially if you spend a lot of time in the basement (not that we would, what with all the scary junk down there ).