Oh Facade! I just googled 'Mothman'. Now I have got the heebie jeebies. :gonk:

Where you be at? You all are all over the place! Can't ever keep track of you.

It's because he's pretty, isn't it? :stare: JEALOUS!?

I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. :insane:

Jen - I'm painting it a light, cool gray. The secondary color for my furniture and trim will be black. The stark moderness of all that will be broken up by lots of very un-modern knick knacks displayed on a wall covered in black cube shelves. :lol:
And of course I'll take pictures! I'll be sure to show you, too!
Oh, no, help would be loved. :lol: Prepping the walls for painting has taken me two weeks, so far, because I'm by myself in it. It just gets overwhelming and I'll just give up for days at a time. ><

Right, you're living with your dad for a bit, right? Bah. Sorry your step-mom has bad taste. :gonk: Luckily, my mom doesn't have bad taste. It's blander than something I'd do, but it doesn't offend. It looks nice enough.
The one exception being the neon yellow walls in the kitchen with green trim. WHY A JOHN DEERE KITCHEN?! WHY?! :headdesk:
Hopefully things aren't too bad on the homefront? Do you at least get to get out soon?

Oh yes, quiet jealous. Alright, Dr. Seuss!

Cherry - Oh right! Slate! :D Are you using frog tape and whatnot, so you don't get paint where it is not wanted? When I painted my room long ago, my father insisted that he had fine precision when painting. He ended up getting paint on the door frame, ceiling, floor...ugh. I am a perfectionist most of the time. I don't like seeing paint where it doesn't need to be. It needs to be clean and straight.

I keep moving around. And yeah, it's bothered people quite a bit. Especially my oldest sister, my mother and my grandmother. They all ask me the same thing, "Why do you keep moving back there?" It's just too complicated though for them to understand. Stuff goes on here that I feel I need to be around for. To protect my siblings, being the oldest child (excluding my oldest half sisters). I don't want to talk about it too much anymore, but I've got good reasons. There is a logical purpose. And while things will continue to be bad here, they're cooling down. So I'm thinking September or January I'm going to head to college.

My mother isn't too bad. She has old furniture, as she's rather poor and cannot afford anything more decent. But at least she organizes it well. My stepmother is so bad at it though. And she claims she took classes in college for design. I found out she's never gone to college! And I'm thinking that if she did take classes, it was one of those that are open to the public. :lol:

JOHN DEERE! OH DEERE! :lol: And you have to look at that everyday basically, huh? Poor you. :XD My mommas kitchen is all appley, haha.

Yeah, I'll be taping off! I mostly definitely am not confident in my ability to be precise. I know I'll end up being sloppy. Honestly, I fear the tape isn't wide enough and I'll end getting paint not only on the tape, but beyond it. :lol:
"Oh yes, I meant to do that... It's, um, a stripe."

I understand. :hug: Good luck, and I hope things will be alright.

Eh, nothing inherently wrong with old furniture. It can go one of two ways, though. Either really cool, or really hideous. :lol: But yeah, if one can't afford better, one can't really be blamed. Then it's a matter of necessity, not of taste. So kudos to her on making what she's got work!
Oh wow. :lol: Any examples of her terrible designing skills? I'm oh-so curious.
Though I don't know if it can be as bad as my boyfriend's mother's sense of design. It's the epitome of cheap trashy design. Ceramic ducks everywhere, Thomas Kinkade imitator paintings, ugly DARK wood paneling on the living room walls, ugly sixties furniture, and I think an old ugly shag rug, if I remember correctly. He should feel so lucky that he'll eventually get to live with me - someone with taste. :lol:
I mean, in theory some of the things I mentioned could be made to work in the right setting, but the things his mother has just... can't. They're the ugliest possible things that can fit those descriptions. :lol:
Oh, and I think there's also the compulsory glass display case for ugly, cheap figurines. And the smattering of family pictures in mismatched frames that have nothing to do with the rest of the room. Bluh. The only nice thing she's ever bought is that gnome that was in my signature for a while. And it's terrifying. :lol:

Invite your boyfriend over and have a paint fight! But get lots of colors. So when it's all done, your room will be tie-dye! 8D

That is his mothers home, not his grandmother or great-grandmothers home? :rofl: Sounds like my grandmothers home back in the 80s and 90s. Old people and their ceramics! Are they placed on doilies or non-slip mats? :lol: I hate that ugly fake wood paneling some people still have. Unfortunately, about six years ago my bedroom had that sort of paneling. I hated looking at my walls. I also didn't like the fact that I couldn't really nail pictures frames up. And I couldn't paint over it, otherwise it would just chip away.

It looked like this: http://www.wavepacket.net/tomva/Images/web02138.jpg

I want a little gnome! D: HAHA

Ahh, I wish I could! :lol: Unfortunately, he lives ten hours from me.

Yep, it's his mom's. :lol: But in all fairness, his mom is pretty old. His sister is in her mid-to-late thirties with a son that's only a few years younger than him. :lol:

Oh, bleh, that sucks. I had walls that looked like that when I was little. But I was little, so it didn't really bother me too much. :lol: Luckily, we moved into this house before I got old enough for the wood paneling to drive me insane.

I want the gnome too! I think I've convinced my boyfriend that one day he's going to have to steal it for me. It's so creepy looking, I love it. :lol:

I'd have to give the gnome a cool name! Then travel and take pictures of it everywhere I go. :XD That'd be so dorky, but so much fun, haha.

Well, yeah, the travelling gnome!

I think Reginald is a good gnome name. Or perhaps Dwight.

... That was not even intentional... :lol: Reginald Dwight is Elton John's real name. :lol:

Sir Elton does have his gnomish moments. :shock:

Well... he is a bit short, right? :lol:

When I think of the name Dwight, I think of Dwight Schrute "The Office". BEARS EAT BEETS!

Yeah, me too. :lol: I can't break the association.
Ahh, Dwight.

Wow, you lemons have bad taste in avocados. :roll:

YOU TAKE THAT BACK! :illgetu:

I can't! :gonk:
I'M A REAL BOY! :cry:

ARE NOT! *tugs on your strings*

Hey, I LOVE The Office so much, I have a Dwight Schrute tshirt. :lol: I love comedies, it cannot be helped!

Ooh, what's on your shirt?
I loved the Office. But the most recent season was kind of disappointing for me. :(

This one.
http://www.collegeflavor.com/productimages/DSC02472.JPG

I love the earlier seasons of The Office myself. The latest seaons have been such a bit of a disappointment to me that I haven't been keeping up with them in time.

Nice. :lol:

Oh, good, someone who understands. I haven't had anyone to talk to about this because everyone I know either doesn't watch the Office, or they do, but they haven't been watching recently.
The earlier seasons are really great, though. Especially the scene with just Dwight and Michael. You can tell Rainn and Steve have a lot of fun together doing those scenes. :lol:

Harlots. :stare: The lot of you! :illgetu:

You're just jealous because we have excellent taste in programming, while you're watching The X-Files. :roll:

Yeah, mhm, and you're just jealous of my boogie. :talk2hand:

Oh god, again?