I fixed a table & chair today. I had to use an adjustable wrench and everything. Yup, that's right. I'm handy. I'm a handy woman.
I then cleaned up my entry area, edited my planters for the past-their-season plants, transplanted an indoor plant for my office, and swept all of the dirt and leaves that all of that activity created.
Then I watched Mad Men. Do you know what Mad Men has in spades? (Don't worry, no spoilers ahead.) Awesome lamps. Including two in Peggy's living room. Apparently fun, city girls like good lighting.
Showing posts with label lamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lamps. Show all posts
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
lamps!
I'm in the lamp market. I have a lighting problem in my living room. I just bought two new lamps for my bedside tables. So, I've been thinking about lamps and lighting a lot lately. I'm seeing lamps everywhere. I'm basically haunted by lamps.
Total side story here...there was a bed-wetting incident a few years ago. I swear, it wasn't me, but that's not really the point of this tangent. So, anyway after dealing with urine cleanup I smelled urine everywhere. I lived in DC at the time, so probably some of that was actual urine that was on the street. But, I really think that mostly I was haunted by the smell of urine. It just stayed in my nose.
So that's what I keep thinking about when I notice lamps in everything. I watched Revolutionary Road the other night. Yeah, yeah, yeah...great acting, amazing adaptation, etc. You know what else was great about it...incredible lamps. In every room. Even the kitchen. I was like 'oh, this is so sad...that lamp is incredible.' 'Oh, my god it's so upsetting...look at that I'd never think to put a lamp in the kitchen.' Other movies/TV shows with good lighting options: Doubt (there were like four great lamps in Sister Aloysius's office alone), Wilhelmina Slater has an awesome tall white floor lamp with a black drum shade, I even liked one in Meredith's bedroom in the last episode of Grey's Anatomy. They're everywhere.
It's a sickness. I guess the first step is admitting you have a problem. And, I do, I have a lighting problem. At some point I'll seek help. From the lighting department of many, many stores.
Total side story here...there was a bed-wetting incident a few years ago. I swear, it wasn't me, but that's not really the point of this tangent. So, anyway after dealing with urine cleanup I smelled urine everywhere. I lived in DC at the time, so probably some of that was actual urine that was on the street. But, I really think that mostly I was haunted by the smell of urine. It just stayed in my nose.
So that's what I keep thinking about when I notice lamps in everything. I watched Revolutionary Road the other night. Yeah, yeah, yeah...great acting, amazing adaptation, etc. You know what else was great about it...incredible lamps. In every room. Even the kitchen. I was like 'oh, this is so sad...that lamp is incredible.' 'Oh, my god it's so upsetting...look at that I'd never think to put a lamp in the kitchen.' Other movies/TV shows with good lighting options: Doubt (there were like four great lamps in Sister Aloysius's office alone), Wilhelmina Slater has an awesome tall white floor lamp with a black drum shade, I even liked one in Meredith's bedroom in the last episode of Grey's Anatomy. They're everywhere.
It's a sickness. I guess the first step is admitting you have a problem. And, I do, I have a lighting problem. At some point I'll seek help. From the lighting department of many, many stores.
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