Calling a suicide hotline is definitely the right call. Any update?

Just so you know, shrift, you and Consuela have me on a cleaning/sorting/purging/want real furniture kick.

I admire the work you put into your home, sarameg. I clearly have been letting stuff accumulate and not dealing with things for years. Necessity is a good motivator.

I made another donation run today, so I think just about everything is out that's going out except for stuff that I'm still using, like the shower curtain. I say that, and yet I'm confident that I can fill another garbage bag or two before everything's done.

I need to start separating kitchen items and figuring out what's going with me on the plane.

I'm still waffling on a kitchen table and chairs:

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I love that table.

Any update?

I think Anna's with her now, so we're ok for the moment. Hopefully Anna can persuade her to get treatment.

I think I need to go back to Room and Board tomorrow and sit on all their dining room chairs. Kinda like Goldilocks.

Best of luck to Anna. Rough times.

I got to hold a week-old baby for a couple hours (and conveniently handed her back to her mom juuuust before she had a blowout on both ends! Timing!). And then lunch with my friend's husband, but drama with some work stuff he's here for meant I dropped him off right after.

My lats/shoulders are killing me, between the pole class and the baby-holding! You would not think those two things have much in common.

OK, I am just stuck. Really being indecisive about colors.

My old kitchen had white cabinets and floor, hideous brown counters, and paneling that I had painted a nice soft yellow, very cheerful but not too bright. The long wall of the kitchen is southwest-facing, and there are two windows, so it gets a lot of light.

The new kitchen will have a stained fir floor, probably medium-dark, blue lower cabinets, and probably white upper cabinets, with white/gray/beige quartz counters. But I cannot figure out what to do about the walls.

Do I go straight blue and white? Can I do yellow walls? Will the blue be too cold with just white, or would it be too busy with blue, white, and yellow all together? Should I go for cream instead?

Argh! This is SO HARD.

Was Temecula unbearably hot, Pix?

K left for Chicago this morning and I have spent the rest of my day doing things both ridiculous and productive. In the ridiculous column, I have put chair socks on our new table and chairs (well, technically just the chairs) because I'm tired of scratching the hell out of the floor. Productive? I have made the dough for the fig newton cookies as well as a lunch of cucumber salad, sticky rice and hoisin chicken. Nom.

My lats/shoulders are killing me, between the pole class and the baby-holding! You would not think those two things have much in common.

Yet it makes sense.

Consuela, I really love the blue and white, but it might be a pain to keep clean. Maybe grey instead of yellow? (But I like cool colors in general).

I would do yellow walls.