cimorene

i gorged myself on chips and salsa (maybe a quarter of a bag? i think my stomach is shrinking) and helped my mom edge the bottom of the wood paneling in the new living room. when we moved in, the bottom half of the room was white and the top was barf pink. when i was eight or so, we painted it teal blue and bluish turquoise. now it's the aforementioned gold and magenta. at any rate, this is bead board, a real pain to paint over: one board an inch wide or so, then one little narrow ridge, which means grooves in between.

so now i'm sitting here in the computer chair, picking flakes and chips of the old paint, white and aqua (the middle trim) off of my legs with the point of a retractable pen since my fingernails won't work.

does anyone know offhand if any of the big computer companies is having one of those deals right now on desktops? it's my job to search, otherwise, in between uploading photos and wading through the morass of airline reservation websites.