Trading Spaces
 

Lessons learned from the weekend.

1.) All home improvement projects take at least twice as long as anticipated.

2.) Wallpaper that was glued on in the 60s is a bitch to take off.

3.) The guys at Home Depot really do offer useful suggestions.

4.) Hydrochloric acid will eat through the mop in no time, but has difficulty with carpet clue on a concrete floor. Paint drops will be eaten, but a mark will be left.

5.) Safety goggles will inevitably fog up.

6.) It takes about an hour to get a noise complaint (from two floors down) when you're using a concrete grinder on a floor.

7.) Carpet pads installed in the 60s begin to disentegrate upon removal in the 00s.

8.) The Chevrolet Suburban is one of the more useful vehicles on the planet for home improvement projects.

9.) You'll never have to pay for food for a month if you help out a friend with their home improvement project.

10.) Things begin to look like the vision about two days into the project.

11.) I'm the nicest sister in the world. And he's in my debt big time.

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

Because, while she appears to have a nice rack, a woman's body should never never never be defiled by using it as an advertisement for gambling. Illinois is not Vegas.

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...2148474985.jpg

Trading Spaces
 

12. A man with a tool in his hand becomes a screaming tyrant to the "helper" person.
13. Never do the upstairs shower AFTER the kitchen because when the shower leaks, you WILL have to re-do the kitchen.
14. Home Improvement ALWAYS costs twice as much as you thought it would.
15. Get a health club membership so that at least you can take a shower when the (electricity/water) is turned off.
16. Don't listen when people tell you something is "easy" to do.

DVD Recommendation
 

Only film that I can recall to use the "yar" at least 3 times.

not7y(horrid)S

Trading Spaces
 

17. Hire a professional. Use the money you would otherwise spend on couple's counseling or gifts intended to compensate for home-improvement related cantankerousness. Use the time you save to do something that is actually enjoyable.

What?
 

Tokyo crowned most expensive city.
LONDON, June 16 — Living in Tokyo isn’t cheap. In fact, it’s more expensive than anywhere else in the world.
A COST-OF-LIVING survey of 144 urban areas around the world showed Tokyo has overtaken Hong Kong as the most expensive city. Tokyo is followed by Moscow and Osaka, Japan.
Bogota, Colombia, meanwhile, is the cheapest.
The surging euro currency pushed European cities up in the rankings, while a weaker dollar sent American cities down. New York was the only American city in the top of the survey, coming it at No. 10. The next most expensive U.S. cities were White Plains, New York (No. 20), Los Angeles (No. 22 ) and Chicago (No. 25).
Full story here

How in the hell does LA and Chicago get more expensive than SF?

DVD Recommendation
 

I assume you mean the word "yare," and that you said "3 times" to exclude "The Philadelphia Story," which (as I recall) only used it twice.

(spree: sound, but nothing offensive)

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60 minutes
 

I watched the Dole vs. Clinton, Clinton vs. Dole segment on that show for the first time last night and I was appalled at how trite and rehearsed the whole thing is. Are there really people in this country who get some value from this? They are just caricatures at this point anyway.

n(Bob Dole's face job looks like someone stretched a balloon really tightly over his skin)cs

60 minutes
 

All I can guess is that Bill is such a shameless publicity whore he'd appear on "Celebrity Blind Date" if he had to, and the 60 Minutes gig would piss off Hillary somewhat less, and perhaps Bob is feeling eclipsed by Elizabeth and the invites from "Meet the Press" are down so he's taking whatever he can get.

DVD Recommendation
 

I assume you mean the word "yare,"[/quote]

Yeah, no Scripps Howard finalist I

That was the point, yes. Twice was bad enough. But Three? F that.

not7yS

Talk about a horror movie not based in reality
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/op...d%2fColumnists

spree: they are remaking Stepford Wives, set in New Canaan and Norwalk (!). I thought successful men who dumped their wives and married trophys gave wife number one the CT manor and moved to the city with the trophy?

Fightin' Words
 

My ex-boyfriend used to play in a league that always played at midnight because ice time was at such a premium (there was a league that played when his games ended). It's fairly common in places where people play a lot of ice sports - hockey, figure skating etc. But I did not realize that Lexington KY was one of those places.

DVD Recommendation
 

Not a word I use much, either, but I had a part in a stage version once, so I knew how it looked in the script.

60 minutes
 

Speaking of Blind Date (love that show), this weekend they aired the Date From Hell where the guy yelled at some girl in a bar during his date and then told his date that she was average looking and uninteresting while they were riding home in the cab. Made me long for the single days gone by...

I also saw the While You Were Out show from Memphis when the husband busted to camera person who was following him and they had to turn it around into a surprise on the wife.

Brothel stuff for sale on ebay
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Unfortunately it is just run of the mill stuff, the article informs us.

No more fun nude stuff.