There’s been quite an interest in how my dresser was put together, so I thought I’d post a bit of a tutorial here, particularly about distressed wood techniques.

First off, we found the thing in the trash, it was this pinkish yucky fake wood color with cheezy ornaments all over the place, including fake Victorian brass handles.

1- We ripped out most ornaments.

2- We stripped the upper fake wood plastic cover from the entire dresser, that was about a whole day’s work. We used a planer, the textured kind seem to work the best, as it created a texture not unlike real wood. By the way, the material underneath the plastic was that corky wood stuff.

3- With the dresser finally naked we purchased: a brownish earth interior paint, an earthy brown interior paint, polyurethane. All water based (this is important)

4- 1 coat of brown, not very carefully, as we were going to for a distressed look. let dry for 5-6hrs

5- 1 coat of polyurethane let dry for 1hr

6-  1 coat of green let dry for 8-10hrs

7- used sand paper to take off the green and reveal the brown underneath, especially in corners, and areas that look like it would be abused.

8- crated stencils with drawer sheets (the kind that has the adhesive backing, you can get them at any home improvement store)

9- spray painted the stencils after placing them on dresser (make sure to use just tape first until you get the placement right), being very careful to cover any part that was exposed (spray paint gets everywhere!)

10- removed stencils

11- used sharpie to draw in electrical lines

12- one coat of polyurethane over everything

Done!

Woohoo! After a week of hard work, our dresser is finally done! It turned out really well, and we are very very happy. Yay for creative power and weekend projects!

Ms. Kitty Cat pooh-ed today

She missed the target

Brownies all over the floor

Hmmm… my school loans didn’t come through the way I expected them to, and now I’m short $500 for this semester. Dammit. I wish a pile of money would just appear at my doorstep. The kind of pile that is legal… that I can actually use and not be chased by coke dealers.

Congratulations Michelle Obama for a touching and wonderful speech. The Democrats sure needed an energy boost. And we can still love this country because yes, a person from humble beginnings can make it all the way to the presidency. It’s about time we are ready for a change, it’s about time we are able to look past our own back yard. Go Obama! Bring us new hope! Love you Michelle!

So… the cat woke up today really really pissed that we put her through all this pain. She has a huge bandage on her tail that just hangs straight down, like a limp, well… you know. Maggie continued on her tireless quest to reach for it and bite whoever was making her hurt, but she found nothing but walls, chairs and other inanimate objects that she happened to hit as she ran around in pain. She bit and scratched them anyway.

I missed half of my work hours taking care of the amputated cat… trying to guess what was wrong with her, and getting scratched here and there every time she hurt herself near me. The silver lining is that she actually likes her medicine, and doens’t put up a fuss taking it, what a miracle.

Later on in the day, I went out to buy her some new toys, a scratch post, and a new litter box with new litter. Which I hope she appreciates when she gets a little better. For now, she likes to stay in her corner by herself contemplating on how to kill us for all the unjustice. Oh, cats…

Our roommate’s cat got attacked today in broad daylight. She came in running looking frazzled, and I luckily spotted her panting. When she came in, half her tail had been ripped off with only the cartilage showing through, yuck! Poor thing.

With the said roomate gone to the UK, we were all panicky and running around, we finally found an emergency vet close by and took her there. She ended up having to have part of her tail amputated, giving us a grand bill of $1,078. Thanfully I had an emergency credit card in hand to cover the expenses temporarily, but I feel bad for my roomate that’s been wanting to buy a computer… I guess that’s not gonna happen anymore…

Meanwhile, we sit and wait for the operation to be over, and contemplate on what could have attacked the little cat, Maggie.

I came up with the theory that the lizards around our house hired an iguana to get even. As Maggie had been terrorizing and ripping their tails off for months now.

So… after a whole year of waiting, we finally got a sander, and we are gonna fix the ugly dresser that we’ve had. We found this ol’ thing in the trash of our old apartment, and decided to take it in, but it was/is soooo ugly. Our plan now is to sand it down, give an edgy stain, and put on a black stencil of electric poles and shoe strings.

I’m just testing to see if I’m allowed to swear: fuck

Well, the Icelandic handball team didn’t quite make it to the gold, however, they won the silver in a most honorable way. France was just that good, with an amazing goalie that would not let anything through. Very impressive. I think this just means they have to work harder for the next Olympics, since they’ve proven to themselves that they are more than capable of achieving the ultimate goal! Good job Iceland!