susie_flo | Things that make you go "Heuuurgh"

Good evening fiends. Rather tragically, it appears to be Sunday night again. And furthermore, I am knackeroood.

G and I have been RE-redecorating our kitchen... (as in re-doing exactly what we did last weekend). Unfortunately the results last Sunday night were disappointing... so we bit the bullet and went back to Homebase for a different colour and started all over again.

I don't have any decent pics of the previous colour, but it was a sort of custardy yellow. What I really wanted was a sludgey grey/green... like a dark, muted sage. However nobody in the universe appears to make the colour I had in mind... or at least not in a paint that is easily available and suitable for kitchens. So having dithered briefly over a colour called Overtly Olive, we went for a colour called Sage Leaf that is very green indeed. A little too green, imo (a bit like being in the middle of a forest). But what the hell - I think the end result looks rather nice nevertheless.

One reason it took so flipping long was because we did a fair bit of reorganising alongside the painting. This included sorting out our collection of weird lesser-used alcoholic beverages... the sort that come in bright colours and sweet flavours and are only used on those random summer evenings when you get home from work and have the bright (and later regretted) idea of drinking cocktails all evening...

A few pics on Flickr... www.flickr.com/photos/susanflockhart/sets/72157623495191461/

Well... that's about all I have the energy to write, apart from adding a warm thank you to those of you who texted, emailed or FB'd me about Jess. I appreciate that most of you are pet lovers and know exactly how it feels to lose one. It has been necessary for me to keep busy this weekend, but god, I need another weekend to recover. Boo hiss for it being work tomorrow...