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Twitter? I can barely keep up with everyone on Flickr, let alone the "discussion board" which is really just one long thread of comments and is even more difficult to keep up with!

Weeee! I haven't done anything yet. Oops! Was planning to do lots of cleaning and Week 1-ing yesterday morning, but the boyfriend bought me Lego Batman and so I've just been playing video games whenever I don't have somewhere to be. Guess that means lots of week 1-ing tonight!

I'm curious why there was the switch from boards for each city to doing an entire region - I had a hard time just keeping up when it was just us Boston folks on the string last time. Or even: why not using an actual discussion board format instead of just a blank post to comment on?!?

Moving on, I was hoping to get a bit of a jump on the start to my Cure and do a good amount of cleaning this weekend, but instead I'm miserable with a cold and blowing my way through a box of tissues faster than you can say "bless you". Awesome way to spend a long weekend! :(

Looks great - way nicer than the bathrooms at my office. I would have changed out the faucet to match the silver/brushed metal going on with the new paper holders.

I think this is the first small, cool that I can see myself living in - well done! Love the fireplace as headboard, love the wall color and the not too cluttered white Expedit. Great job!

Hi guys!

I think I may have hit a wall with my curing. I haven't done much cure-related anything since the weekend - unless my laundry counts. A friend took me to goodwill to drop off stuff and she took home the bookshelf I decided to get rid of (that I had gotten from her last time she moved anyway, funny enough). I got a bit ahead on the living room last week when I attached the coffee table, so I'm feeling okay about it. Need to pull all my old VHS tapes out of the media cabinet and put into the yard sale pile tonight, as well as declutter the coat closet I didn't do last week.

I haven't painted the kitchen wall yet - am going to try and squeeze that in this weekend, but have a good friend from Australia in town so will be trying to spend as much time with her as possible. I haven't seen her since she moved back there a year ago and am not sure when I'll see her again. :(

SassySar and I are working on putting together a yard sale for the stuff we're outboxing to raise money for the Breast Cancer 3 Day we're walking. I'm working on funding a yard to use right now, but we're also taking donations if you guys want to give us your outbox stuff instead of goodwill/salvos. ;) Let me know if you have stuff and we can make arrangements to take it off your hands! Or if you want to join us for our yardsale and keep the money, that's cool, too! I think we're aiming for late May/early June timewise. That may also depend on whose yard we end up using, too! :)

sparkle, I can totally relate! I'm not quite as busy as you, but I'm often kicking myself for having made plans that will now keep me from getting as much Curing done as I would like!! Last weekend I managed to spend some time with a friend and tie in some Cure shopping and this week a friend is taking me to Goodwill to empty my outbox (I don't have a car, so it's Zipcar or friends if I want to get this stuff done!) and I'll buy her dinner after. At least that's tying in productivity and fun, right?!

I'm definitely a weekend Curer though, and have been trying to keep one day of each weekend commitment free so I can spend it working on the Cure, but it's tough! This weekend a friend from Australia is in town. Haven't seen her in a year, won't see her again for at least another, so want to spend as much time as possible with her.

Meredith I have a lot of those "no one but me would know" things, too, but they make me so happy every time I see them! I'm deep curing, but throwing in a few larger projects in each room as I go through them so there are certainly some more noticeable things happening as well, but often it's the ones only I realize that make me the happiest!

Hi guys, poppet is having trouble posting, so I'm playing messenger! Here's what she sent me...

poppet says:
hi all!

i do have 'before' pix now, but i need to get them online. yes, it
will be a slow process.

i did cook at home! made dinner for my realtor (who honestly at this
point is family, not a business acquaintance) - marinated roast
chicken, sauteed veggies, and pears poached in wine. YUMMM.

trilobyte - how about having not made it to the kitchen yet? yup. slow.

i need some ideas re: bathroom lighting. i have a medicine
cabinet fluorescent fixture - blech. i need MUCH more lighting. maybe
hanging a pendant, running from the outlet to hang in the center of
the ceiling. i'm not swapping out the fixture at this time.

i'm very excited about making a shower curtain in some funky fabric.
and i have a friend who's offered to help! but i must be able to SEE
the damned pink and gray tiles to be able to determine which fabric
will really work.

found tons of lovely fabrics on sale at equilter.com. yes, they're
mostly cottons, but they'll hang and look SMASHING, which is what i
need.

best wishes for productive happy curing to all!
poppet

joymich That's funny you mention tubtrugs...I really love them and have wanted to buy one for a while, but didn't really have a use. I emailed them to get dimensions (couldn't find them on the site) and need to see if they'll fit where I want them, because that would be awesome for laundry! I did find a knockoff of the Umbra hamper I like for $25 on Amazon, but I think I'd prefer the tubtrugs if I can make them work!

trulijules I love that we're all listening to WBUR while we Cure...I've got it on now and have been planning out placement of frames for my gallery wall in the living room while I'm waiting for a friend to come over and walk...and I'm sure it will be my painting and shelf hanging soundtrack as well!

poppet I know you've got a camera, so no excuses for not sharing your pictures and progress with us now! How's the curing doing? How was the visit with your realtor?

Chloe I don't know how you help with the dogs at the shelter without bringing them all home, I could never do it. We'd have ten cats and ten dogs if I did that!

Went to Ikea to return hooks and buy a light fixture for the kitchen and Home Depot to buy paint & supplies yesterday...today installing shelf for landing strip and kitchen light fixture (hopefully...I'm pretty handy, but never done electric/lighting stuff so a little nervous about that). Maybe first coat of orange on the kitchen wall, but we'll see if I run out of steam first. The folks at Home Depot in Stoughton/Avon were so helpful I wanted to hug them, seriously! They were teasing my about the orange for my wall - it's Fiesta Orange from Glidden, but they kept telling me it was Home Depot orange...and it's pretty darn close!

chloe when I read "muscle through it!" my first thought was "or drink through it!" which is an old college quote from a good friend of mine. Don't feel well? DTI! Hung over? DTI! Tired? DTI! I think maybe I should stick with muscling instead of drinking for the cure though...may end up with holes all over the walls and bad design choices. But what about my other friend's fall back - "if I'm going to work any harder than this, I'm gonna need a beer!" (while trying to fix a paddle boat we broke on vacation in NH - then he put down the tools, walked over to the beer fridge, grabbed a beer, and started work again).

Am I telling stories, or discussing the cure?! ANYWAY, I have to do the remove-a-cat-from-the-vacuum and then vacuum thing this weekend as well, I totally know what you mean. We have one of those see through bagless, so it's kind of satisfying to vacuum and see exactly how much cat fur you're picking up...and yet there always seems to be more!

poppet great to meet you (even quickly!) and glad the camera is working out...taking/seeing the pictures is sure motivation...my befores were pretty eye opening even though I look at my apartment every day! I actually found a very similar hamper to the one I linked on Amazon for $25, so I need to measure the bedroom and see if they'll fit where I want them, and then I'm ordering (or hunting for a different), woohoo!

casapinka I think there are a lot of people that echo your husband's thoughts on "landing strip". They need to do an update of the book (which was my first thought when they recommended Hold Everything as a resource somewhere in the first few chapters!) and find a better name for it! Also, look at you superstar, on D*S today with your Orla fridge! I feel like I know a celebrity! ;)

I've been chipping away at cleaning and decluttering to get ready to put together my landing strip this weekend. I had decided to pick up the hooks at Urban that I was thinking about because they were the only ones I could buy in store instead of ordering online, and having something on hand makes it much more likely that I'll get the project finished instead of letting it languish for months. The hooks were almost DOUBLE the price in the store as they were online!! I asked them to match the price and they said they would if it was the same product, so they looked and then told me they were different because they come in a two pack online...yet they're really exactly the same. I didn't have any fight in me, so I just left them since they weren't my first choice anyway. Ordering this guy in orange instead, with a 25% discount from Daily Candy, and will order a magnetic strip at the same time to go above BFs desk at the bottom of a gallery wall I'm putting together.

Could I write any more here?!?