6/24/09

Well, I thought I could wean myself off of Face Book but John joined last night. Somehow I got led to a quiz and discovered that I am 0% white. This revelation sparked a very long discussion in the comments section. Of course once I take a quiz I cannot stop. I spent the rest of the evening taking dumb quizzes to find out things like (in no particular order): how “Goth” am I (I'm a little bit Goth, whereas Marie Osmond is a little bit country), am I a vampire (I'm a little bit vampire while Donny Osmond is a little bit rock and roll), when will I die (September 9th 2011, I think it was), how will I die, (eating bad shrimp), what will be my last words (“Bicycle helmets are for losers!” I'll need to remember that every time I eat shrimp in 2011), when will I get married (in nineteen years, after I'm dead Juan would assume), my mental age (ironically, it is my actual age: 43), why am I still single (I'm too picky, duh), what kind of girlfriend am I (laid back, apparently), what was I in a previous life (a romantic poet), what decade do I belong in (the 90s? WTF), and I remember taking one to see how girlie I am but I either didn’t finish or just forgot the results. Oh well. Whatever. So, what can I talk about now? Hmm, yeah, I got nothin’. I've been looking at my drawings for the shop next to the house and I think I am going to go ahead with the plan to make a pavestone driveway around to the back patio. I looked at where the sprinklers are the other day and I'm fairly certain I can make a suitable width drive between the big “Zone 9” sprinklers and the house. I don’t think there are any “Zone 8” sprinkler heads away from the south wall of the house except maybe in the very back yard. I'll have to get the sprinkler folks out to shut off the ones right next to the patio and any out away from the slab. If I take John up on his offer to help build this thing, having the sprinklers deactivated might be my biggest expense. Shyeah, as if those paving stones are going to be cheap! You know, a deck out from the south side of the house would also make a neat car port thingy. Hmm, interesting. Shading the A/C compressor would sure make that more efficient too. I like this idea. Yes, I like this idea quite a lot. Mom would have to relocate her computer because we’d want to put a door there where her window is. I also have an idea for the east end of the deck. What I'd like to do is remove the closet in the room I'm living in now and turn that into a hall out to the deck. Then I'd convert that now closet-less bedroom into the Home Theater! We could also move that wall between the two rooms south to make the theater smaller and the bedroom bigger, if need be. Ok, as long as I'm remodeling the house, I want to make the formal dining room, the one just to the east of the kitchen, into a wet bar. Of course the front room, what is now the seldom used “living room,” will get a pool table and dart board. Yes, the front of my house will become a pub. Downstairs, I want to make a “Victorian Gentlemen’s Club” with dark paneled walls, bookcases, and leather wing back chairs. I'd like a spiral stair up to the master bedroom from the VGC, but we’ll see what the budget allows. I'm torn about the spiral stair, actually. Part of me wants it because it would be so friggin’ cool. Another part doesn’t want it because if the VGC were to be used for smoking cigars and pipes and such, a spiral stair would funnel smoke right up into the master bedroom. In theory a dam of sorts could be built around the opening and an industrial “smoke eater” installed, but those really don’t work all that well. Well, there’s always the deck and patios for smoking, I suppose. It’s kind of funny; me, a self confessed manic-depressive, semi-misogynistic, quasi-sociopath wanting to build what is, in essence, a “Party House.” Well, we’ll see I guess. We’ll see.