AHHHHH, FRIDAY

Good morning!

It's going to be a lovely day.

Mostly because I don't have to cook dinner tonight.

We have been given a Dinner Voucher from Stew's sister, Khady.  A belated birthday present for Stew.  So tonight we are going to Lone Star for dinner.   I love their meals.  I almost always have their Loaded Hog, which is roast pork with stuffing, and a delicious side salad and chunky fries.  I'm drooling just thinking about it to be honest.

As for what I'm getting up to for the day?  Don't know.  I was thinking of taking a couple of days off doing jig saws and pulling some paper off walls.  

DAWN P:  In answer to your question about the painting on my wall... it was used in our home by a staging company, when we were selling our Auckland home.  I fell in love with it, so the lady sold it to me.   I just looked on the back of the painting, and it has a small sticker that says 'me&my trend', which is a company that used to be in Auckland selling homewares.  It's no longer operating under that name.  Bearing in mind I've had the painting for about 5 years, I doubt it's still available.

ABOVE: I enjoy leaning out of the lounge window to watch our fish.  The new 4 seem to have settled in well... the three little ones are certainly frisky little buggers.

ABOVE: On my windowsill.  So very pretty.  The amazing blue, shiny rock is a Labradorite.  I don't remember the names of the other two.  I like things arranged in three's.  

So.  If I can get one large wall stripped of paper, I might go down and get a couple of test pots of paint.  It would be nice to actually settle on a colour, instead of staring at samples pinned to the wall forever.

THEN I might be more motivated to actually get the walls stripped and ready for painting, instead of procrastinating.  Shit I procrastinate A LOT. 

I hope I'm not the only one!

Right, off to start the day.

Catch ya later.

9.15 am:  Lacy has come over to give me a hand with stripping paper.

I've taken paintings and so on off the walls in part of the family room, and the hallway.  It looks naked.

ABOVE:  The first strip coming off.  It WOULD have all come off in one go ... except there was a little nail in the wall, so it broke near the top.  

Lacy INSISTED I tell you that.   I might add, the next strip is coming off in multiple pieces.  lol

11.38 am: Well it's such a good day!  Lacy and I are powering through the wallpaper stripping.

I don't think we will get the entire hallway done today, I'm starting to flag a bit.

The paper in the hallway is different from in the family room, it was not coming off well at all.

It's a vinyl paper, so even though I thought it wouldn't work, I tried wetting it to help get it off.

And dang!  It worked!  Weird, vinyl paper doesn't usually absorb water?  But I'll take it.  It's still harder to get off than the other stuff, but it IS coming off.

The sun is shining, so all the washing is getting dry.  

I've done all the swimming towels, like over a dozen of them!

Lacy has gone out to get us some lunch.  Yummy club sandwich for me.

ABOVE:  Making steady progress.  I'm knackered already!  Lacy is still going...

AND hey you fullas!  I was working my guts out stripping wallpaper too.  It wasn't just Lacy.  Pfffft.

It's now time I stopped pulling MORE PAPER OFF on my own, and get ready to go out to dinner. 

ABOVE:  Cheers.  We had a wonderful dinner!  My 'Loaded Hog' was perfect. Stew had a steak which he declared delicious too.

ABOVE:  Lone Star, Rototuna.  We highly recommend the place.

ABOVE:  Our dinners.  Stew had a side of mushrooms with his steak. 

Definitely one of our favourite restaurants, and it's just down the road from our home.

Time to sign off for the day, and just chill out in me lazy boy chair.