I got alot of little things done last week, but the biggest was the electrical work. Which I did, all by myself (okay, there was a book with drawings that I kinda followed)! I wired in two electrical outlets, a light switch, and the light that goes with the switch! It took me about three hours or so to do, most of which I was terrified that I would make a mistake and somehow burn my house down. When I finally hooked my new wiring into the existing wiring (that me and dad did two years ago to run the air conditioner) I was just crossing my fingers that nothing would explode. And then, when nothing did, i crossed my toes that the light would turn on, and the plugs work. And they did. Electricity is an amazing thing.
So after I finished that my loft really felt finished. There weren’t any more extension cords snaking through the door to the attic, in fact, i was so energized about that that I finished off the door to the attic, which pretty much means i hung the door in the doorway, rather than letting it just sit there propped up. I also put on these cute little vintage cabinet door pulls, a lime green one in the loft, a metal one in the attic side. And a magnetic closer to hold it shut (and it worked! picture me giddy, cause I was).
I’ve got art up, including the most fantastic cross-stitch my mother made for me years, ago. It is about one and a half by two feet in size, and it is a picture of a curio cabinet full of “calico” cat figurines. They are covered in “calico” prints, not spots, but little flowers and stripes. This thing is amazing, and it took her five years to finish. She started it when I was little and would have LOVED to have it in my room. She finished it when i was in middle school, and well, you know how middleschoolers are. But she framed it anyway (Cause damn, she spent five years on it, and she doesn’t even like cats) and it got hung in my bedroom after I moved out. Well, as i was building my loft I thought about that picture and I thought it would be great up there, the colors would work, and its just weird enough to match. Its perfect. I’d been wanting it for a few years now (she didn’t know that though), I just didn’t have a place for it, and this is perfect. Its hanging right over the left side of the futon, where it can be looked at all the time. And it really should be viewed close up, because all the cats are doing something, and there is like 50 of them, so there is alot to look at.
I’ve also gotten the curtains up, they are cut down from some longer ones my friend Laurie gave me, they are vintage yellow curtains with large magnolia blossoms printed on them. I lined them to block out the light and they work pretty well. So if you stay over some night, don’t worry, the sun won’t wake you early. And I just put up the christmas lights this morning, so there is proper party lighting. I’ve also collected a variety of weird books to poke through so that people up there won’t get bored!
When it cools down a little bit we can turn our attention to the outside of the dormer, which is still just covered in tar paper. We really need to get the roof on, but its just been to hot to try to work with metal roofing in the sun! Hopefully it will happen in a week or so.
And I’m turning 29 on Monday! My last year as a twenty something. I don’t really think I mind. It might be really nice to be thirty. Most of my friends that have tried it say its better than being in your twenties, so I guess I’ll give it a shot. Ya know, in a year. Or so.
