I certainly remember where I was 20 years ago.  The summer and early fall of 1989 were pretty tense in Europe - there seemed to be a domino effect going on amongst the governments of Eastern European countries.  It seemed like every day people were finding new ways to escape East Germany.  Embargoes and the like no longer matter when your contiguous allies open their borders with "the enemy" - or become "the enemy". 

Berlin seemed to be the center of everything and it felt like it would explode.  But no one, NO ONE, imagined what happened would happen.  Which is why, on that day, a whole bunch of American and British civilian and military intelligence analysts, sitting atop an artificial hill called Teufelsberg in the middle of the Grunewald in the British sector, were gathering the latest in military intelligence by watching CNN.

No s&^%, there I was......



 

After putting in a full day at the office, I had a half hour break before I logged on at home and remained on until after 10, when I was falling asleep and decided to just go to bed.  A tech project I am managing is scheduled to be implemented Thursday, and we are conducting testing.  Unfortunately, the testing is being done in India.  I say unfortunately because of the time difference.  We send the sample file and then, before the batch jobs refresh at 10:30 PM EST, there is a narrow window of opportunity for our resource to sign in (at butt crack o’dawn her time) to check these on the test server before it all turns into a pumpkin.  That’s a very long explanation for “I’m working a lot this week and I’m tired.”

I know I didn’t really write much about my weekend.  Saturday Saunooke drove to Raleigh to retrieve our dining room furniture from Gregor’s garage.  Our house is a bit crowded right now (we are still making decisions about some old stuff), but I’m glad to have the dining set – I love it!

While he was away, I got a good bit of housework done, including cleaning up in the guest room and emptying out a couple of drawers so Tim could store a few clothes.  I also pulled out a piece on linen I bought at Pennsic.  It was a very bright red – as in, if red could be fluorescent, it would probably look like this.  I dyed it and it came out a very nice subdued, darker red color. 

I am so equivocating on my paint selections.  For one, I think I don’t like the blue in the kitchen.  I like the blue, but I had originally selected it for a bathroom.  I think it would look good there, but the kitchen feels a little too cold to me.  I’m thinking a version of my original plan: green.  Only I may do a dark taupe under the chair rail in the breakfast nook.  This is no big deal – it’s $20 worth of paint.

I’m still set on green for the bathroom (which I intend to paint this weekend).  If I’m feeling froggy I’d like to paint the bedroom on the 14^th, but yet again I’m undecided about the colors.

Originally, my plan for the bedroom was a dark taupe type color.  But I have a set of Drexel Heritage bedroom furniture that includes a dresser with 2 massive mirrors, a chest of drawers, and a queen sized 4 poster bed.  The finish and general style are much like this china cabinet (above) from the same line.

I’m thinking taupe walls plus massive brown furniture = giant dog turd.  I have some painted furniture in the room (2 book cases and 2 small chests of drawers) – I could paint those brown.  But what color for the walls?  Blue?  I dunno…. Would that feel restful????  Any ideas????

ps Yes, we have too much furniture in our house!  I need to get rid of some, but I am loathe to give up storage when in all likelihood I will have a teenager moving in come April.