I do feel awful. But I find the movie comforting. And making my friends smile helps me try and smile as well. If only for a moment.

I know what you mean. I've never been to Belize.

Now that I am approaching home-ownership (rather than renting) I am worried about this. I have no sense for color/decoration.

Having just had a wee F2F with Perkins and juliana at juliana and her Canadian's new place, my best suggestion would be to bribe juliana to visit so she can do a walkthrough and advise you. Her place is *amazing*. I just wanted to move in forever and lick all the walls, they were so gorgeous.

Ooh. I would totally love to have Juliana come up and decorate my house! Though that would probably involve spending bunches of money that I don't especially want to spend right now. I am kinda sad I didn't bother to paint before moving in, because now painting seems like such a huge hassle. But I loved my last apartment's bright colors (at least until I had to paint over them to move out!)

I went with lots of bright colors for the house after so many years of apartment living, where I couldn't paint. I worry sometimes that it is too much, but it does make me happy.

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I moved into my place as a rental and then bought it, and have always wished I'd had the chance to paint and put in new carpet before I got all my heavy antique furniture in here. It's too much hassle now. I still haven't decided what color I want, anyway, or whether I want carpet or hardwood floors.

Juliana has a great aesthetic, I'm not surprised!

Phoebe can definitely fly, at least a little! She is now sitting on top of my deck table. I wish it weren't so windy. The wind is making me crazy and is going to continue for five days. But I need to get out on the deck and clean it up a bit. I don't want something tipping over on her, but I also don't want to scare her again. A dilemma. She and mama are doing call and answer to each other. It is super cute.

In other bird news, I had an oriole at my sugar water feeder, finally! Every year I see the oriole, rush out with the feeder, but it's too late. It has been back three times today, so I'm hoping it'll be a regular guest. I also need to refill the feeders, but again, extreme windiness.

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I'm back from spending six hours doing something that should have taken three. Kaiser would be a lot easier to deal with if I was well. The good news, I guess, is that I'm full of bone-strengthening drugs, and they managed to schedule the type and cross and the transfusion on the same day. There's a couple hours between them, but at least I only have to brave one trip instead of two, and it will be done before the Memorial Day weekend so I can consider attempting the Decatur Arts Festival.

My only decorating suggestion is to find pillows or window treatments in a print or stripe you like, and then match everything to the colors in the fabric. That way, the fabric designer has done the work for you.

Ginger, I continue to regret you have to go though this, am glad at least one small aspect of your schedule went right, and respect your continuing strength in this battle.