What a weekend!
Keeper and I began our weekend by watching the first Johnny English movie on Friday night, because I had never seen it, and we were due to screen the new Johnny English movie on Saturday morning. Overall, they were both pretty funny, but I honestly liked the first one better. The first one was more of a hysterical movie with funny parts, and the second was more of a funny movie, with funny parts. I think that's the best way I can describe that. Johnny English Returns on Saturday morning was easy money.
Saturday afternoon, after we stopped to grab a bite to eat at McDonald's, we came home and began work on some of our home-improvement projects. While I added another layer of buildings to the bathroom walls, Keeper dug into the cubbyhole project... literally!
One of the things we are doing to improve our home is make a little bit more storage space. Our window sills are going to be just that! In our apartment, we have window ledges that are about 28 inches long, from the window to the room, and approx. 18 in. from the ledge to the carpet. The bedroom window is about 28 inches wide, and the living room window is about 54(?) inches wide. As we weren't entirely sure what was underneath the sill, we decided to begin our project in the bedroom, and see if what we wanted to do was even plausible. When Keeper first dug into the window ledge, he was reluctant to even go any further than just taking the top particle board off, as the innards of the window ledge looked pretty labor-intensive. The wall's make-up was primarily aesthetic brick, with quite a bit of air space and some fiberglass insulation, all behind some dry wall and under a large particleboard ledge. After taking a further look, Keeper began slowly (and carefully) taking out the loose bricks and all of the dust and dry cement that had been used LONG ago to make up the walls of the original building, and eventually uncovered a wooden base sub-flooring. This sub-flooring substance gave us much hope! While we're only planning on making a discreet cubbyhole for storage in the bedroom, we're going to be making the living room window ledge into an area for a table and chairs (potentially booth-style chairs made from parts of the ledge).
Keeper made a LOT of progress on the cubbyhole, although he had to wear a mask to keep most of the dust out of his system. Even though I was about 15 feet away in the bathroom, I also opted to wear a mask, as I personally do not tend to enjoy breathing in dust. If it had been any less windy outside, we definitely would've had the windows open wide.
In the bathroom, I made some painting progress on the cityscape walls. I am proud to say that I have only the black layer left, and then I can do simple touch-up work on the windows and outlines! The design is looking pretty awesome, and even the Esoteric Hellion has commented that he likes how I have included some architecture from almost every time period.
AND! After the bathroom, Keeper has said that he would like to paint the bedroom next! That makes me SUPER happy! Although we're doing the cityscape in the bathroom, we're painting each of the other rooms in the house our three colors. The bedroom is going to be a lovely, lush purple; The foyers (bathroom foyer and main entrance foyer) are going a gorgeous green; and the living room is going to be a beautiful blue! The kitchen is yet to be decided, but I'm potentially thinking a bright red, orange, yellow combo? I was inspired to do those colors in there, after Keeper had strung some colorful sweet peppers and hung them from the ceiling for a get-together we had last month.
Sunday was much more of a chill day, where Keeper mostly played video games all day, and I did my homework. Keeper and E. both helped me out with my homework when I needed it (as I was doing usability testing). In the early evening, my Twin stopped by with her husband, and they bought the red couch that we had been trying to sell for about 3 months now. Keeper had been quite used to living with a single futon-couch before I had moved in... and then I moved in, and we had three couches total! It was quite fun at first, having three couches, as it meant that we never ran out of space to sit, even with company. But after a few months, it just became cramped. Especially as we began to accumulate cats! Last month, we sold the smallest couch, and we tried repeatedly to sell the other couch, to no avail. Finally, when Twin visited for dinner one night, she and her husband mentioned that they were looking for a couch, and BAM! We had a buyer! Twin and Husband finally came to get the couch last night, as I said, and they even brought us some homemade applesauce (made by Momma J. and her mother) with the moneys! Talk about a deal! :)
After Twin and Husband took the couch, Keeper and I decided to get out of the house, so we went to a place called Ma Fisher's for some dinner. It was the second time that I've been to this restaurant, and I have to say, it's nothing truly special. It's kind of one of those late-night diners where you're willing to go for some food when you're hungover, or nowhere else is open. :\ It wasn't great, but it wasn't really horrible, either.
Although Sunday wasn't that busy, the weekend as a whole seemed pretty busy. Keeper and I made a lot of headway on our projects, and the weekend was a pretty good one, all things said and done. :)
