Well, an odd but interesting night so far - and mostly a good one, so YAY for that! Went shopping after work to look for stuff for my room - not necessarily buy yet, just get ideas.
I was pretty far from home and the furniture people finally call back - to tell me they are AT MY HOUSE and wondering where I am. I swear, what is it with me lately and dealing with the most unprofessional possible people? I told the guy "Well no one ever called to tell me if or when you were even coming so no, I'm not there." (meanwhile I'm freaking out that H may show up while the guy is trying to deliver furniture that H knows nothing about). The guy said "Ok bye" and I said "WAIT! Can I schedule a time or something?" He said no that I had to call "the store" and hung up on me. uuugh!! I have no idea who this guy is, how he's related to "the store", or what the deal is. Will call the place I bought it from tomorrow and see if I can figure it out.
So after that I continued to wander the home decor store and was getting kind of frustrated because I saw stuff I felt like I 'should' like but nothing was really jumping out at me. Then out of nowhere, I saw this placemat that I really liked. How can a $5 placemat suddenly inspire a room? I dunno, but it did. I went "This is it!! Island breeze, that's my room." So I am embracing the carpet and calling it lush tropical green , and going with a sort of subdued tropical kind of theme. Greens, blues, all really natural colors. Maybe a yellow (sun type color) for the walls... or a beige, but the more I think about it a yellow may work. Still unsure on that. I didn't buy much yet but got a ton of ideas. I don't want to make it cheesy (easy to do with "tropical" things), but just tranquil.
I could even do the bathroom kinda over the top bright/tropical if I wanted to... I've always thought that'd be kinda fun, but still thinking about that. I'm trying to be practical, realizing that whatever I put in there may be in the only bathroom wherever I end up... so not sure yet. I'll share pics of the two bathroom "styles" I'm looking at - feedback is welcome!
When I got home H was here with a couple of his guy friends and was just leaving. Apparently going away overnight w/them. I told him/them to have fun (and secretly thought WOO HOO house to myself!). Just then his cell phone started going nuts w/text messages. I'm not sure if this was good, bad, or what, but I just said "Seriously??? GROW UP!" and walked away. From the other room I could hear his two friends bust up laughing and harassing the heck out of him.. get the feeling maybe they had already been teasing him about it. These are the only "older" (as in known more than 3 years) friends he's hung out with in ages so I think it was probably a bit of a wake up call, to be around people his age as opposed to all the early 20's people he works with.
After that H followed me to give me a hug and kiss before leaving, that surprised me. He also said in a funny tone "I won't do anything bad" - his friend shot back with "Oh, don't worry, I will!" (this friend has kinda the "bad boy" image so it totally made sense and was funny). Then the same guy says to me "Oh and don't worry, we'll bring him back in one piece" [pause for about 5 seconds] "well, if you want us to." That cracked me up.
After they left I set up my fountain and looked around my new room more. Realized the carpet was NASTY - we never clean it even when we do the rest of the house, so I did a really thorough steam clean. It looks and smells really nice now!! Still dark green but as I mentioned, trying to embrace the color.
I tried to fix the shower but it is really a mess. I got all the right parts, I think, but I can't for the life of me fix the pipe that comes from the wall out into the shower. I understand what's wrong and I can see that it needs to be moved about 1/4 turn, but it will not budge AT ALL (it's basically pointing out from the shower into the bathroom, and won't move either direction). I may bring it up to H the same time as I mention the room and just ask if he's willing to help - he's the one who got it all screwy like that so I'm hoping he knows how to fix it. I really wanted to do it myself but I honestly can't, and don't want to pay a plumber to come fix it when H can probably do it very quickly. I can figure out some kind of "trade" I think to make it fair and more of a "friends" or even "room mates" type of thing.
So anyway... here are a few pics of my "sanctuary in the making" - any suggestions are great!!
Close up of my fountain and candle: http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/DeltaDog2/Sanctuary/?action=view¤t=DSC03237.jpg The fountain is especially cool because my dad and I made these together in a class many years ago, and I just dug it out of storage.. I also added a stone inside the "pool" part of it that says "Believe" that I picked up on my Sonoma trip. The white glare from the nightstand top is just from the camera - it's a mostly clear table cover, just to protect the wood. The brown part is the bamboo placemat I mentioned earlier.
And last but not least.. the two bathroom motifs I was looking at.
Thanks again all for your support. Feeling pretty peaceful tonight and it feels darn good.
(in case this locks.. I'll probably finish out my new thread in MLC, but probably move to Separated after that).
Me 35, H 38; Together 13.5 yrs, M 7 Bomb 1 10/07/06 Sep'd 1/14/07 - 4/15 Piecing: 4/07 - 9/07 Bomb 3 10/11/07: Never loved you, let's separate 2/08 slowly improving 7/08 Piecing (7/25/08 rings back on!!) Current thread
, and going with a sort of subdued tropical kind of theme. Greens, blues, all really natural colors. Maybe a yellow (sun type color) for the walls... or a beige, but the more I think about it a yellow may work. Still unsure on that. I didn't buy much yet but got a ton of ideas. I don't want to make it cheesy (easy to do with "tropical" things), but just tranquil. 
But I really do think it's cute, just afraid it might be TOO 'cute.' 
