WALLPAPER MAY LOOK PRETTY, BUT IT IS ....EVIL

You know it starts with one little rip and the rest is history. Wallpaper folks....I'm talking about Wallpaper...W...A...double ll  PAPER! Wallpaper. That dreaded "W" Word.

So, as you can tell....I am stripping wallpaper from my....some time in the near future...renovated bathroom. Fingers crossed.

I started to strip the paper....oh...a few months back and I knew then it was going to be a pain...in...the...ass. Took me half a day to do an area two feet wide by about three feet tall. So, I Googled and researched and asked people how the heck do you get this stuff off?

Now, backing up a few years, this was put on by a "professional" as in, I PAID someone to put it up. You would have thought that it would be a cinch to remove - BUT NO!!!

I tried scoring the paper as it is kind of a vinyl kind of finish....then used a spray bottle of wallpaper remover....no, nothing. Next more scoring and hot water with fabric softener....no, nothing. OKAY - rented a steamer from HomeDepot.

I was almost in TEARS - really....so frustrated. Ever tried to take off wallpaper one inch at a time while holding a steamer in the other hand????  Steam and water dripping, drywall buckling, paper on your fingers.....aaarrrrggghhhh!!!

Dear husband to the rescue - he came in, stripped off to his boxer shorts with little elves on them (don't ask) and got all steamy and sweaty (but not in a sexy way) and got off ALL of the paper! By this time we were knee deep in bits and pieces of gluey strips and there are still some left clinging to the wall in places but the majority it gone.  Even, I think, one entire wall where the first layer of drywall is missing now - dear husband says that is supposed to look like that,,,,,but I have my doubts.

So, next question - who gets to paint this puppy?? I think I will do some of the walls that are in better shape than the aforementioned missing top layer one....but I believe I will have to have a professional come in and do some patching and painting....oh....no...not another 'professional'!!!!

As my husband says "Dry strippable my ass!"

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While doing the stripping.....I decided to put a pizza in the oven, because, let's face it, I wasn't in any shape to actually prepare a proper meal.

Now, I haven't replaced my somewhat possessed convection oven yet. It still makes odd noises and turns all by itself! So, I tossed the pizza in the oven and went back to help with the friggin' wallpaper. A few minutes later I walk into the kitchen and smell.....is that GARLIC or ELECTRICAL burning smell??? Really, it was hard to tell. I open the oven door and it SEEMS to be cooking the pizza just fine and I stand and watch it for a moment...turn, turn, turn. No smoke, crackling sound of wires melting somewhere...so okay...perhaps it IS GARLIC! Wow!  that's a lot of garlic!

We ate the pizza, which was really quite good, and I think...I am REALLY going to have to go on the hunt for a new oven soon.......


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I read a newspaper headline: Kanye West slams Barack Obama

And my question was....how can you tell? I mean, this guy can barely put a coherent sentence together at the best of times. So, in this article he is quoted as saying "You can't effect change from inside the White House...You gotta have the money."  Huh?? This is the slam?

Next he says "Good ideas usually aren't connected to money as much...Creativity and extreme genius are extremely cheap."  Double Huh??

Kanye apparently says that Obama likes to criticize 'pop icons' just so he can be DOWN with young people. Okay - I really don't get that at all.

And on an on it went....never getting any clearer as to WHY this article was written in the first place and it ends with this wonderful quote from Kanye.

"We're moving to the future.And I'm gonna be the anchor."

Honestly, I would be happy if he was wearing cement shoes when he does this.


Things I've learned this week:

You don't have to be a great, strapping, young man to work for Brinks...as in the people who move copious amounts of money around from place to place. I was walking out of a store and there was a white haired man, about many 5 foot five inches, struggling with a box of coin. Really! I could have taken him down if I was the corrupt, hold up kind of person who would do such a thing. Either that, or I could have just walked up behind him and said BOO - he probably would have keeled over from a heart attack!

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As soon as you buy paint to do an exterior door it will rain for the next week. Honest - the entire friggin' week!!

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Jo Shears, 31, spends her spare time stuffing rabbits, mice and birds - and turning them into hats and handbags. She has made headpieces for brides from birds and buttonholes from furs. One bride has asked her to make a handbag for the day of her wedding from a cat. NO NO NO!!

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If you Google "stripping wallpaper" you can actually get to look at something like this:

What ......can....I...possibly....say????