I [heart] Davids It helps me to say these things aloud, I think.

November 11, 2007

Chocolate vs. Soil vs. Coffee

Filed under: Decorating — JeniQ @ 11:46 am

We had two colors of brown on the walls in the kitchen as test swatches. After careful consideration of the two, I decided that a third color ought to be in the running. Friday night we picked up a quart of Roasted Coffee and added it in between the original swatches, Soul Chocolate and Gardener’s Soil.

Three Swatches

The Roast Coffee swatch won. It didn’t have the reddish tint of the Soul Chocolate, it’s a nice, straight-forward brown. But it has more richness and robust feeling than the Gardner’s Soil. Perfect!

November 9, 2007

Trillian

Filed under: Stumble Upon — JeniQ @ 5:10 pm

Random Blog

For Cristin

Filed under: Cristin,David Bowie — JeniQ @ 2:33 pm

DB Snaggleteeth

Lord Royal Highness

Filed under: David Bowie,Media — JeniQ @ 12:29 pm

Don’t forget to set your DVR to catch David Bowie on SpongeBob this weekend!
David Bowie as Lord Royal Highness

From BowieNet (October 5th):

Above is the very handsome and really rather important Lord Royal Highness, special guest star of upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants episode: SpongeBob’s Atlantis SquarePantis.

Apparently, when David Bowie was first shown preliminary sketches of LRH, he exclaimed: “That’s great, I wish I had dreamt up that look back in 1974!”.

One nod Lord Royal Highness makes to the real life Bowie is the subtle touch of one green eye and one blue, though, as David has been at pains to point out in the past, his are not actually different colours.

Anyway, we’ve been telling you about this episode since David Bowie first expressed his excitement in his online journal, (exactly a year ago) at being given the opportunity to voice the part of LRH. (10.05.2006 NEWS: SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IN NEW BOWIE JOURNAL)

As you know, (05.21.2007 NEWS: ATLANTIS SQUARE PANTS TO AIR IN NOVEMBER) SpongeBob’s Atlantis SquarePantis airs on the eleventh of next month, (more detail of broadcast schedule nearer the time) with the DVD of this episode being made available, in North America at least, just two day later on the 13th.

Aside from the DVD there are already a couple of books available relating to this episode, (that’s one on the right, above) not to mention a plethora of games for pretty much every gaming platform, on sale from the end of the month.

As the man himself said in aforementioned journal: “Watch out. Or at least watch.”

Brrrrrrr

Filed under: Household — JeniQ @ 9:54 am

While Dave was in Taiwan last week, the weather turned cold. I was doing so much work around the house that I didn’t feel the need to turn on the heat. However, when our guests arrived last weekend I decided it was time to kick on the heat, just to be decent hosts. That’s when we discovered the furnace isn’t working.

Dave called WeatherMaster on Monday but couldn’t get an appointment until today. This week, we’ve kept the gas fireplace on to keep it warm overnight, and we’re using a space heater in the bathroom for getting ready in the mornings. And thank goodness we have an electric mattress warmer!!

I hope the furnace guy can fix the problem today!

Working Dogs

Filed under: Decorating,Dogs — JeniQ @ 9:44 am

Yesterday, when I left for work, this fun license plate was parked at my house.
Working Dog

Andy, from Working Dog Construction, was there to install our long-awaited tile backsplash in the kitchen. I am delighted! Look how good it turned out.

Tile Backsplash Stove

Tile Backsplash Door

Tile Backsplash Sink

I love how industrial it looks. I’m hoping it will give us more cachet in the kitchen. 🙂 I especially love the way he brought the tile down to the floor alongside of both cabinets. Makes me want to tile the entire kitchen down to the floor!! but I’ll restrain myself.

I would highly recommend Andy for all your tile needs. He’s very easy to work with and loves cats and dogs. Check out his website, or get one of his cards from me.

November 6, 2007

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

Filed under: Kerri,Movies — JeniQ @ 8:56 am

Yay!! Thanks to Kerri for accompanying me to the annual V for Vendetta showing at the Colony.

Now Showing: V for Vendetta

V Sign with Mask

And then I saw this. Imagine my delight!
VCostume

So of course, I got a picture!
Jeni With V

There were three people in full costume and a few people just in masks. How come I didn’t know this was an annual event?!?!? Hello! Next year, same place, same time!

After the show, there was a short presentation by a few political activists: Ron Paul supporters, “9/11 is an inside job” folks, and some people who want to impeach the president. It was a cute tie-in to the movie, though I’m sure “cute” was not what they were going for.

November 5, 2007

Nursery painted

Filed under: Amy,Babies,Decorating — JeniQ @ 12:47 pm

Sunday Amy and I finished the second coat on the nursery walls. Here’s us, proud of our work.
Painted nursery

And here’s a shot from this morning in bright sunlight. It’s not really this yellow. Honest.
Bright Yellow

November 4, 2007

V for Vendetta on Guy Fawkes Day!

Filed under: Movies — JeniQ @ 12:06 pm

If you want to join me, I’ll be watching V for Vendetta at 8 PM at the Colony in Raleigh. This movie is one of my faves and stars the sexy Hugo Weaving.
If you don’t like this movie, if you’re interested in criticizing or poking fun, do me a favor and don’t sit near me. This will be my fourth time seeing it in the theatre and I love it and don’t spoil it for me, ‘kay?

V GIF

Painting the Nursery

Filed under: Ali,Amy,Babies,Decorating — JeniQ @ 10:40 am

Our crew chief:
Ali Arty

With much patience on the part of Amy and Ali, we figured out an approach to decorating the nursery. Dave and I had already picked out the Magic Garden crib set from Litto Kids, so all the colors the girls and I choose are designed around it.

For the walls we went with a pale yellow with brown undertones that is kin to the yellow in the print. It looked like cake batter and we all had to remind ourselves it wasn’t so that we wouldn’t lick our fingers.

Cake Batter

I was so thankful they were here to help, and we got the first coat on the walls Saturday night!

Dave Paints

Amy Paints

Introducing the baby to the paint.
Baby meets paint

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