Above: Summer 2010 Shire Family Portrait
Last night, our apartment threw a going away party for our roommate Anna, who is apparently too cool for domestic school and will instead be pursuing her studies in various parts of the world through UChicago's study abroad program. I cannot pretend that I am not jealous - after Bangalore, I have definitely been bitten by the travel bug (and a million other bugs, as the scars on my leg would prove).
We went all out for the festivities, dressing up, makin' food, and drinking white russians:
As if all that wasn't exhausting enough, today we got up, hauled ass to Ace Hardware, picked out a paint color, and got to working on our long-neglected and relatively-tragic living room. Here's the before:
We (rather spontaneously) picked a lovely marigold color with the very strange name, "Golden Bounty".
Painting took the four of us three hours. It was thoroughly exhausting - all the moving of furniture, spreading of dropcloth, taping of edges (and boy, we had a lot of those), and of course, applying of paint definitely wore us out. But I think the end result was worth it - I love our new living room:
It's amazing what a touch of color and a bit of rearranging can do to a room. Tonight we had some friends stop by and some of them even asked if we'd gotten new light fixtures because they looked so different (in a different light, perhaps? groan) with the new wall color.
It's late, and I am tired and making bad puns. Time to sleep.
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