Everything I showed up early for today made me late.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Sep 22, 2014 3:09:17 pm PDT #6770 of 30000
Atropa - Sep 22, 2014 3:24:36 pm PDT #6771 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Someone tell me that I do not have the resources, patience, or free time to learn how to do DIY reupholstering of furniture. Because I end up seeing things like this, and then I want to have all of our furniture reupholstered. Which is expensive.
quester - Sep 22, 2014 3:28:21 pm PDT #6772 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
So sorry, Lee.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2014 4:35:53 pm PDT #6773 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jilli, I'm pretty sure you could do some reupholstering, but that looks like a Huge Undertaking.
Man, I really hope I'm back in my apartment tomorrow night as promised. I need some alone time on my own couch!
Calli - Sep 22, 2014 4:41:00 pm PDT #6774 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Do you have a cat-free space in which to reupholster, Jilli? Or are they largely uninterested in moving cloth and such?
-t - Sep 22, 2014 4:41:07 pm PDT #6775 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jilli, I'm pretty sure you could do some reupholstering, but that looks like a Huge Undertaking.
On the other hand, it looks Awesome. You already can sew, how hard can it be? Maybe start with stripey slipcovers and gradually build up?
Atropa - Sep 22, 2014 5:02:22 pm PDT #6776 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Do you have a cat-free space in which to reupholster, Jilli?
The basement. Where the Jillifonts live. So, no, not really.
Or are they largely uninterested in moving cloth and such?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. Vlad, the younger, enormous boycat, will launch himself at the kitchen chairs and wrestle them to the ground because he's bored and everything is a toy to him. I can imagine the unholy glee that would greet fabric being laid out.
You already can sew, how hard can it be? Maybe start with stripey slipcovers and gradually build up?
It would involve patternmaking and geometry, which are things that have traditionally thwarted me. But damn, if anyone should have b&w stripy furniture, IT IS ME.
sarameg - Sep 22, 2014 5:07:49 pm PDT #6777 of 30000
Reminds me I have to plant my bulbs in the next month or so. Involves hauling up the bark, barrier, planting, new weed/squirrel barrier, put down bark again.
And the squirrels still had a pretty high success rate. New type of barrier this year.
So today, work early, no power,park half mile away at garage with power. Luckily the ups worked this time and no fallout.
Arrive 5 minutes earlier than usual to pool, change, and discover door locked. Kid barfed while I was showering. Waited for reopen, swam. Home just before 8.
Tomorrow, I try being late.
-t - Sep 22, 2014 5:07:51 pm PDT #6778 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But damn, if anyone should have b&w stripy furniture, IT IS ME.
Maybe it will eventually realize it belongs with you and just come home.
DebetEsse - Sep 22, 2014 5:45:52 pm PDT #6779 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Jilli, that is advanced upholstering. I say keep it on the wishlist until you can find someone to barter skills with.
My current password system is to use three nouns, and then have (my crappy) drawings of the three things on a page in a drawing app on my iPad. It is far more likely that I will remember which synonym that was than some random person (who has broken into my iPad) figuring it out for all three.