Is anyone else watching The Starter Wife? I taped the first three hours and just finished watching it. So far, much more enjoyable that I expected it to be.

(I also watched a repeat of Army Wives and strangely, there is some similarlity between the two shows.)

It's almost 6am and I haven't slept. This doesn't bode well for my mighty cleaning-the-house plans for the day.

Francis Bacon the painter?

Yes. He's played by Sir Derek Jacobi.

Thanks for the good wishes, y'all. I have a feeling I'm going to need a lot of headpats and confidence building in the next month or so. I posted some more details and pics to my lj here: [link]

If it's any consolation, I can't imagine something as life-important as home acquisition being any less than stressful, if you're doing it right. If you're going into this with a Paris Hiltonian-la-dee-dah attitude, that would be a problem!

:: pauses to hughughug her little house ::

Yesterday I planted some lavender and jasmine. I hope they live. So far, I brought the roses back to life and my impatiens are like, superradioactive monstrosities, but I've managed to kill everything else.

Trying to figure out what thrives in a part sun, dry climate.

Allyson, you should totally xeriscape.

Timelies all!

I'm so tired of being tired, it's not funny.

There are dozens of things on my list and yet I am watching tennis. I would ask why, but the answer is obvious.

brenda - good luck. And the bathroom is sort of what we want to do to our bathroom.

Allyson I have a book put out by East Bay MUD ( municipal utilities district) which is obviously for here - but I'll look through it and see if there are good suggestions.

eta: mexican sage is a good one - but it tends to take over . But birds bees and butterflies like it. There are some colorful grasses out there - If you need them to stay small there are some that grow in mounds and don't grow very big.