by L. Shell Madden

Created on: June 04, 2008

Stream of consciousness/don't decorate when you have a fever.

Truth is a friend in Arizona was the one to originate this line... I just liked it so much that I adopted it as my own... "Warning, my mind is like a bad neighbourhood... no one should go into it alone." That said, grab an emergency Zoloft and come on in....Did I mention that a friend of mine called just the other day, she has one of those two for one deals at a local ladies' gym and wants to know how I feel about being her exercise buddy She's got a yen for the Stairmaster Yeah right she wants me to drive half an hour, to keep her company in a place I'd rather not ever set foot into doing exercises that make my eyeballs sweat just thinking about on a machine that reproduces the efforts I get running up and down the basement stairs Nah I told her "I'm not up for that much exercise".It wasn't supposed to be a tough thing. Not really. Shadow striping I call it Jacquard stripe in my portfolio And I was all ready to do it. One wide, one narrow, one wide, three narrow, one wide, check for plumb. One narrow, one wide, three narrow, one wide, one narrow, one wide, three narrow, one wide, check for plumb So I got all my supplies in one place and Step up on chair. Place a 4 inch strip of masking tape horizontally at ceiling in approximate centre of wall. Oh my head! Step down from chair. Measure entire width of wall. Where did I put that water? Calculate exactly half of wall measurement. Should I ache like this? Step up on chair. Measure to centre and mark a vertical blue line on the tape at the ceiling. Step down from chair. Place a second 4 inch strip of masking tape horizontally on wall approximately half way between the two wall mounted light fixtures. Ian said his kids have that flu. Measure distance from centre of left wall fixture to centre of right wall fixture. Calculate exactly half of this measurement. I could use another aspirin. Measure to half way mark between the fixtures and mark a vertical blue line on tape. One narrow, one wide, three narrow, one wide, one narrow, one wide, three narrow, one wide, check for plumb... Step up on chair with a nail, tack hammer and plumb bob. Wooo! That was fun. Hammer nail into wall on the blue line on the tape. Hang plumb bob from nail. Climb down It's not that far up onto that chair! Why does it seem so scary looking down?and ascertain if the plumb line is exact with the line on the second piece of tape. No couldn't be that easy Is it warm in here or is it

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