This NaBloPoMo has got me crazy! I posted my sermon recap late last night…seriously, I stayed up till 1am. UGH. So, all day today, I was thinking, “Aaahhh, yeah. I got my post in today.” Now, I’m sitting down at my computer a mere ten minutes before my hubby gets home and demands I pay attention to him and I notice THAT IT POSTED YESTERDAY. So, I haven’t posted today. *sigh* I can’t win.
In an effort to be a good nablopomoer I’ll let you know what I’ve been doing the last few days. It’s really exciting. Are you ready? Cleaning. My house. We’re trying to make it guest-worthy because one of our great friends, Yancy is coming to stay with us for a week. She’s a singer/songwriter and has gigs the next two weekends in Atlanta. And we get her during the week! How fun!
We’ve lived in this house about 10 months and it still gives me the willies to clean it sometimes. I don’t know if you remember, but the previous owners (Boris & Valentina) were very…uhm…dirty. They had dogs and smoked and refused to clean. Plus they were from the Ukraine (hence the names) and they thought the house should look like a Ukrainian house. We have gold trim in several places, ghastly marble in our bathrooms and lots of strange pillars and treys (in the ceilings and the walls).
My favorite room is affectionately called, “The Pink Room”. Basically because well, it’s pink. It had pink and mauve walls, pink ceiling and my personal favorite, pink carpet. The crowning touch is some very narrow shelves built into the walls with columns of gold on the side. It’s hideous. My hubby painted it gray when we moved in but it’s still a little scary.
But the pièce de résistance is in our guest bathroom. Just walking in is an experience–all peach marble and mirrors everywhere. But when you look down, that’s when you gasp (with pleasure confusion wonder) because Boris made our very own…wait for it…trash can holder. That’s right, a marble trash can holder. I doubt any of you have this priceless addition to your bathroom. And as soon as you look at the picture, you’re going to wonder why this isn’t in every bathroom in America. (Probably because they are all in the Ukraine.)
(And here’s a front view. I just couldn’t bear to put TWO pictures of a toilet on my blog!)
There it is. Something you never wanted to know about me. And it’s all NaBloPoMo’s fault!
I think it is the most unique thing ever! Oh…by the way, have I told you I have a Boris in my class?!?! Seriously! And he’s asian!
That picture totally doesn’t do the “throne” justice. Seriously.
Oh my goodness… I’m sorry, I just had to laugh! When we moved into our house, we had some similiar issues – namely, original shag carpeting in 4 different colors – blur for the main part of the house, red for the master bedroom, and purple and green for the other 2 rooms. No lie. And in the 2 smaller bedrooms, the closets were painted to match the carpetting. So we had purple and green closets. Inside. The closets. Not sure why… maybe for the same reason you need a marble trash can holder.
That’s awesome. It scream character… at you. 🙂
Wow, I must say that is, uhm, very interesting. ROFL. Looks like he really cared about that room. lol.
So if you’re sitting there and you get kind of tired, you can always prop up an elbow!
Sheer genius, Boris!
Look at it this way; at least a trash can is something useful – it could have been a bidet (which isn’t not useful, but I’m not going there…)
For the record, I thought a bidet was a foot-washer when I was 14 and in a little Parisian hotel.
*sigh*
My family has *never* let me live that one down.
You forgot to mention the shrine/altar in your hallway!
Oh my. Um, interesting. I remember seeing something similar on TV recently. A show called What’s With That House? Interesting show, that’s for sure.
It amazes me that someone would spend probably a lot of money for a trashcan holder. I would love to see pics of the pink room, sounds very interesting.
Well, I think it looks beautiful anyway!
Well, I for one think that the trash can KICKS ASS! Seriously, how many people can say they have a marble trash can?
It definitely has “character.”
I’m kind of stalled on the pink carpet…shudder. I do have to say, as ahem, interesting as that marble trash can holder is, it’s quite unique : ) When I first looked at the picture I was thinking, “interesting, two toilets in one bathroom…oh wait, that’s not a toilet.”
Yes, interesting. Veeeeeeery in-ter-esting. You could always make it into something else, right? How about a rather large vase? Just kidding!
OMG!!! LOL!! That is priceless!!!
oh my…that’s…well, that is something, isn’t it?
This NaBloPoMo is kicking my butt! Everyone’s doing – so many blogs to read and I have a hard time staying on top of things anyways 😉 You’re such a good blogger, Amanda. I hope you win it (can you win it? I know nothing about it)
Well, not to rub it in, but I feel a little better about how my house looked when we bought it. Had to repaint the entire inside because they had painted each room VERY differently. The big living room was worst of all with diarrhea yellow walls and puke green trim (not kidding)
You bathroom takes the cake though – thank you for sharing 🙂
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