"The difference in winning and losing is most often . . . not quitting." -- Walt Disney

I just got on here for the first time in forever and found this partially finished blog post.  It seems to really go with my life now, so I'm publishing it as is -- unfinished.  FYI, I did get the curtains and they are lovely.

Walt Disney said, "The difference in winning and losing is most often . . . not quitting."  Today I'm losing.  All I want to do today is sit.  I want to read.  I want to write.  I want to nap.  I want to play on my computer.  I do not want to work!!  But I am in the middle of  so  many projects that really need to be finished.  I want them to get done and I want to be the one who does them (so they are done the way I want them done), I just really don't want to finish them right now.  So instead I am going to write about them.

Project number one:  The living room.

Last fall I finally (after years of trying to decide) figured out what I wanted to do to redecorate our living room.  I slowly accumulated all the things I needed to be able to complete the project and finally at the end of November I was actually ready to start on it.  With the help of The Man of My Dreams, (he actually did most of the work.)  We repainted the living room.  We went from white walls and trim with one wall of dark paneling to a very light purple ceiling (it looks almost white in contrast with the walls) and deep earthy purple walls and creamy white trim and doors.  I love it!  Almost everyone who comes in loves it and asks, "How did you talk your husband into letting you paint the living room purple?"  He didn't tell me how nervous he was about the color, he just let me have my way.  (That is one of the reasons he is the man of my dreams.)  Even when he was painting it on, he was skeptical, but now he says he really likes it.  We also installed new curtain rods, but when we hung up the curtains I had bought, they did not look like the pretty pale ivory color they were in the store.  Next to the purple walls, they looked yellow.  Not a bright, sunny, cheerful yellow, but nasty, old people yellow like my grandmother's Tupperware.  So they went back to the store and I began my search for curtains.  We also installed a new pretty light fixture instead of that nasty lightless ceiling fan.  (I hate ceiling fans.  They are just dust collectors.  I'd rather be hot!)  Sounds like this project is pretty much done except for the curtains, right?  Well, sort of.  I still have not hung the pictures back on the wall.  I'm having a hard time deciding which pictures I want to put where.  I did finally hang one yesterday, but I'm not sure that I like it.  The problem is until I get the curtains -- curtains are so expensive, I want to be sure they are the right ones before I buy them -- it's hard to know how much wall the curtains will cover, so it's hard to know where to hang things near the windows