Boring warning. Just writin’ about my life.

I read the paper and showered in lukewarm water. OK. What is this thing with cold water showers? First at work and now at home? Am I not getting a message somewhere?

I took a paintbrush back to the hobby store — when I got it home earlier this week, it looked as if it had been used for oil painting. It was supposed to be new, so the bristles should have been dry, right? Nope. Oily. You may recall I’m taking up watercolor — incompatible, so I took it back and got a refund. Then I wandered down to Home Depot to pick up some 2″ brushes, but the only one they had with short enough bristles was one called a “chip brush,” and it was poorly constructed. I bought a couple better quality ones, but they are longer bristles than I’m looking for — I’ll try them (I could trim ’em, right?). The chip brush probably won’t work — too poor quality even for a wash brush.

I picked up a few things from the grocery store and coffee and a spinach and artichoke souffle from Panera. Then I zipped home.

I dragged myself into the sweltering heat of the attic (probably the reason why my shower was lukewarm instead of ice cold), and re-lit the pilot on the water heater. As I recall, it went out last year about this time, too. Note to Self: Next July 1, expect the water heater pilot light to go out, and be prepared. Note to Builders: I don’t care if it DOES give you more room inside the house, putting the heating/cooling plant and water heater in the attic is just plain STUPID. I will not buy a home constructed in this manner.

I pulled out the large tube of ultramarine blue paint, some newsprint, and all my stiff new brushes. I assembled the water and the plate to be used for such things, mixed a bit of blue paint, and tried each of my brushes to see how they worked. (I think I may have potential for wheat fields.)

I’m still rating about 1200 unrated music clips (down from more than 2000 last week). Hubby found an iPod nano on the ground last Thanksgiving and gave it to me. I downloaded the songs on it just in case I ever need to write about a young male and want to know what music he’s likely to listen to. There were a few 50 Cent songs. As long as I don’t think about kids listening to them, they weren’t so bad — definite “R” rating. Last I checked, I was of legal age, though, so it’s ok.

Hmmm. What else? Oh, yeah. Writing. I’ve been doing a very little bit of that. T&T just rolled over 58k words.

Want something more interesting? Go get some discipline from Tambo! I’m going back to writing.