What do you need to do?
Can’t it be put off until tomorrow?
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I need to shampoo my hair and I wish I could put it off to tomorrow. I’m afraid that if I do, even the dog won’t talk to me
@SEKA -Ha ha! I put some stuff in mine last night and this morning I woke up with “snakes” on my head.
Yep, Medusa.
Two loads laundry.
Drop rug off at daughter’s house.
Run dishawasher.
Today, Sunday, I have to wash one of the doggies, help my daughter with homework, install a couple air conditioners, help my wife put away groceries, stater brainstorming ideas for an online talk I’m giving at the end of the week.
A few weeks ago I painted my dining room. I need to paint a decorative shelf so I can hang it up and put some decorative stuff on it. I need to open the boxes that the stuff is in so I can unpack it to put it on the shelf.
I also need to do laundry. That’s a constant.
It can all be put off. That’s the problem.
@Tropical_Willie -My sister in law mowed her lawn last week while it was sunny and snowing. XD
No snow coming but have a tropical storm coming up the coast.
@jca2 -Is it a problem or a solution?
You don’t have to answer this right away…
@jca did you do your ceiling. You had talked about removing the popcorn ceiling.
@chyna: I did portions of the ceiling. It was such a dusty, popcorn-chippy disaster that I realized that to do the whole ceiling would not only be a ton of work, but a ton of dusty mess and cleanup. As it was, to do the spots meant a dusty messy mess each time. When I painted it, more would come off around the spots, which meant more scraping. Ugh. I still have two spots that are bare of popcorn and I have some popcorn plaster patch stuff which I am going to put on there but not yet. I’m still getting over the trauma of the dusty mess LOL.
I don’t know if I told you at the time (a month ago) but I saw a home DIY site where they put beadboard paneling on the ceiling, which looked like a quick and easy solution but they used a small, simple rectangular bathroom as an example. In my large kitchen/dining room with various cut out corners, it would be more of a job requiring trim on the seams and cuts on the corners and so that idea was out.
If I find the video of the beadboard ceiling, I’ll post it. I don’t have any small rooms that it would work in.
@lucillelucillelucille: Putting it all off is both a problem and a solution lol.
@chyna: Here’s the link: https://www.thekimsixfix.com/2014/08/how-to-install-beadboard-paneled-ceiling.html
I should add, in my house, the previous homeowner (stepfather’s parents), the mom was a big smoker, so under the popcorn ceiling was this amber, parchment looking type coating on the ceiling which I am sure is nicotine from her constant cigarettes. I was thinking I didn’t want to disturb that nasty stuff. That may be why the ceiling is coming down in spots, too. It’s been up there around 20 years, since I moved in. I have the same ceiling in my bedroom and in the living room and it was fine. I am wondering if it was coming down due to the dining room being very sunny. Not sure what the sun’s damage does to popcorn.
In the link I posted, you see the paneling ceiling looks very neat and tidy. It’s a good option for the future, with the right person to install it.
@jca2 I really like that beadboard ceiling. It gives it a unique look.
I was hoping you would get your popcorn done yourself and tell me how easy it was. I wasn’t even thinking about the dust.
@jca2 -“I am going to hang some beadboard in that small office room that has a popcorn ceiling” lucillelucillelucille 1865
I have yet to do this. I dreaded the idea of scraping it off and the mess. It almost sounds worse than removing plaster/lath.
How are you removing the popcorn?
https://www.hobbylobby.com/Yarn-Needle-Art/Cross-Stitch/Counted-Cross-Stitch/Woodland-Castle-Counted-Cross-Stitch-Kit/p/80936465
Ordered this and just received this kit to work on, but now need a bigger Frame to work it on.
I thought that my 16 inch frame would do, but it will not.
Ordered an adjustable frame and await that delivery in anticipation.
Have to fight the urge to start it without using a frame, but it could destroy the alignment as it has to be stretched onto the new frame anyways….so best to wait.
I might adapt the image to take out the castle scene and add an image of my Town Entrance instead..contemplating this with trepidation..will decide when I get to that part.
@lucillelucillelucille: On the spots where the popcorn was coming loose, I got a wide paint scraper type thing (about 8 inches wide) and would get up on the ladder, put the thing under the hanging popcorn, and scrape. Sheets of it came down, sometimes sheets the size of a hand, sometimes little chips, which would spray all over the place, and lots of dust spraying. The tops of the door moldings had dust, anything nearby had dust and chips of popcorn ceiling, and then it all had to be washed (or covered first and then still there would be little chips that snuck in under the plastic). All over the floor was dust and chips. Then it had to be swept up and then wiped with either a wet rag or wet paper towels, since even with sweeping with a broom, it was still leaving a dusty film on the floor. Then take a shower because now I’m dusty.
Part of what made me not want to even attempt the whole ceiling was that with this amount of work and mess from the small spots, I could not imagine the work and mess from the whole expanse. The spots, there were maybe 5 spots, the largest about 3 feet by 3 feet. The room is like 20×30 so to do the whole thing would have been rough.
@chyna: Some parts of my ceiling, the popcorn was adhering well, so those I left alone. When I tried scraping portions just to see how it went, it was the spraying dust and chips-mess=disaster. When I painted the ceiling, some parts that I thought had the popcorn adhering well had more coming down, from the wet paint. Really frustrating and time consuming.
@lucillelucillelucille
Its an easy pastime. Its the set up that takes awhile to get it right.
If you wish to start , start on smaller kits ( like ornaments 3’’ X 4”) once you get the hang of it its easy.
I chose this larger project to work on during isolation and because of the image of Natures Animals…since I live in a National Park system..that is why I have to photograph the Entrance and downsize the image , then convert to cross stitch ( there are free image converters online that do this effortlessly).
I’m desperate for a haircut. I fixate on the likelihood of creatures roaming the “jungle” above my shoulders.
@jca2 -I wonder if taping a Shop Vac hose to the scraper would help? I will never find this out. :D
@Inspired_2write -I was hired by a woman while in high school to draw cross stitch patterns which was strange as I never once did cross stitch.
This was years ago and I still have not tried it. I have seen some very nice work by others though.. I try to save my dexterity for the painting and clay stuff.
Have fun with your project!
@stanleybmanly I need one too.I woke up with snakes on my head this morning.
It’s a look…
Change the bed.
Do the laundry.
Finish the purge of the kitchen silverware drawer.
Get a few groceries.
Pick up prescriptions.
Fix supper.
Take out the trash.
OR
Read a novel.
Watch a movie.
Do a crossword puzzle.
Take a walk.
Fiddle around with stuff on the computer.
Write a novel.
Invent a game.
Conquer addiction.
Cure a disease.
Revamp education.
Clean up politics.
Paint a ceiling fresco in a capital rotunda.
Secure world peace.
@Jeruba- #4 on the second list sounds good.
@lucillelucillelucille, it does. Maybe that’s next. I’ve now done two on the first list and two on the second. Not necessarily in order, though.
I guess “OR” was wrong. I should have said “AND.” Because of course I can do everything, especially at once.
@Jeruba -You’re getting more done than I am. Once my husband goes back to work (tomorrow) I will not goof off. Yes,that’s it
@lucillelucillelucille, well, the trick is to put some stuff on the list that you’ve already done. You might notice, for instance, that politics haven’t been cleaned up yet; but I did fiddle around on the computer. So.
@josie I will! just not tomorrow
I need to go to sleep. I need to go to work in 9 hours.
I need to walk for almost three hours so I can exercise the dogs (and myself). I need to study developmental psychology. I need to savour a piece of chocolate, be kind, and take care of myself. I need to send flowers to my grandma, clean the bathroom, tidy the bedroom, and vacuum. I need to do some dishes and listen to interesting podcasts. I need to meditate, drink enough, feed myself and the dogs, bake some waffles, make a potato salad, be true to myself, stay healthy, and go to bed on time.
Life is a full-time job.
Today I need to write some checks, mail them out and go buy potting soil for some lilac plants I bought.
@jca2 -Mine has the flower buds but hasn’t bloomed yet. Seems late this year.
@lucillelucillelucille I woke up this morning and mine looked so bad that even I wouldn’t talk to me. I gave up and gave it a good scrubbing. I feel pretty, oh so pretty
@lucillelucillelucille: I have two boxes with two plants in each box. The plants are about 2 feet high, just like a bundle of twigs with the root ball wrapped up. I have to put them in the ground eventually, but since that’s not happening any time soon, I really have to get the plants out of the box and into some soil. I got two big bags of potting soil today and am going to plant the plants into pots on the deck, until I decide where they’re going to go in the ground.
@jca2 -Mine grew surprisingly fast so….
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