You put things in the trash. By putting them in the garbage can. And then taking out the trash. Which is picked up by the garbage truck.

Heh. I am Brenda.

Allyson, the walls in my new apartment are many color--living room is pumpkin and yellow-orange, bedroom is a blue (that I don't actually like, but am too lazy to repaint now that there's furniture and stuff) and the office has only one wall painted bright lime green.

Jilli, I bought a Nightmare Before Christmas onesie for Noah at the sale today

Yay! Put him in it and take photos now now now.

I can't because it hasn't been washed yet! And he finally went down for a nap!

I can't because it hasn't been washed yet! And he finally went down for a nap!

Okay, good points. I am not one to disturb napping munchkins. Envy them, yes. Disturb them, nuh-uh.

Some of us want to paint wide black & white stripes, but have been repeatedly told "NO. THE HOUSE DOES NOT HAVE TO LOOK LIKE TIM BURTON ART-DIRECTED IT".

Certain People just don't want to have to deal with painting. We'd ALL pitch in and do it. I mean, you own the place, so PAINT, for the love of mike!

Ahem.

Yes, I know. Not my walls. BUT I AM ITCHING TO DO SOMETHING TO DEBLANDIFY THEM, OH YES.

Happy Noah and Grace day!

Yes, I know. Not my walls. BUT I AM ITCHING TO DO SOMETHING TO DEBLANDIFY THEM, OH YES.

I know! I keep telling him this! We'd only have to move one bookcase and lock the cats in the basement for a day!

I'm going to try and talk him into this again, after the soul-sucking deadline is over.

"garbage" has a food waste connotation

In my mind garbage is wet and trash is dry. The combination is rubbish.

I tend to call it a 'rubbish bin'.

I tend to use garbage can to refer to the ones that live outside. I put something in the trash can. I take the garbage out to put in the garbage can (or, in my case, the dumpster.)

I don't really get why I do this. Except maybe garbage sounds grosser than trash, so garbage needs to be OUTSIDE.

Allyson, that sounds faaabulous!

I had the stupidest feeling-like-a-loser moment every today. You'll see why it was so stupid. I had plans to go to the movies with a friend on Sunday. Today she emails and says she has to work Sunday, so how about Saturday night? I literally almost said I couldn't do it, because it felt too lame to say I had no Saturday night plans. But she didn't either! So we're going Saturday night. The end.

Kristen and I are painting one of the walls with satin black and cream thick stripes, then doing a chair rail with cream on top. I'm keeping to the red velvet/wrought iron furniture and accessories.

Love.