Weekend Warrior (Day 2)

I woke up bright and early @ 9:30am...okay, it's early for me on a weekend. I picked up our 2 cans of light lavender to return back to Home Depot. As I was on my way, I took a sharp right turn...and "plop" goes the paint and the paint cap and out comes the paint onto my backseat. WAH! .... finally reaching to Home Depot and quickly absorbing all the paint with paper towels.

I walked in with my 2 paint cans and asked the guy to turn light lavender into a light green ("water spout" is the color). He looked at the cans....looked at me...and said "No." So I said fine, give me one gallon in light green. After 15 minutes, I was on my way home....to clean out the rest of the paint from my car with my wet vacuum cleaner.

By 10:30am, Chhimi bounced downstairs and I was just getting ready to paint. We set everything up ...and half-gallon of paint later we painted one wall. "oh my goodness, why is the paint all blotchy?" was the 1st comment that came out from Chhimi's mouth....then we started doubting ourselves and our painting "techniques". I finally told ourselves to take a "break" and run to Home Depot 2nd time around for another gallon of paint. Upon returning, we found ourselves bewildered at the amazement of color and how well it looked...and how different.

After staring at that ONE wall for over 5 minutes, Chhimi and I decided to get quickly to finish everything up. By 4:30pm, we finished everything ...and our guest bedroom / home office is now a green....kinda key-lime green with an eggshell finish! It was amazing...with all the masking tape and drop cloths and all...it was still amazing for us!

We found out that both of us are "Type A" people and are very competitive with each other ;-). But our room turned out great...it just took a couple days worth of hard work to turn a plain white room into an inviting green color. ...now we're going to go shopping for a Bedroom Makeover :-D hahaha.

Labor Day Weekend Warriors (Day 1)

I blame this on all those HGTV shows that I've been watching for the past 2 weeks and also on my friends, Connie and Edward, for painting away at their home. So I got the bright idea of also painting but didn't want to risk my bedroom so instead, I opted to paint the downstairs bedroom. Another reason was I read an article that said, to help clear "clutter" in a room, paint the walls because clutter tends to blend with white. Who knew? Messiness likes white?! ;-)

Of course, my dear hubby, was not thrilled about painting. It's not because he doesn't want to be creative...it's because he dislike all the work and prepping that went with it. On Friday, after work, I moved all the small furniture into closet to get it out of the way. Chhimi helped me moved the bed to the middle. Right after Chhimi's work, we went to Home Depot to "pick" a color. I wanted a light green but Chhimi opted a very light "purple/lavender".

We went home and painted a small patch. We let it dried...and found it was way too light and bright. Looked a lot more white instead of purple. So we quickly called Chhimi's mum (since the downstairs is really for Chhimi's parents / Tabitha's office)....mum opted for a light green also (without any influence from me hehehe). ....so early morning...I'm heading back to Home Depot while tonight is all about taping things away. WEEEE!

Wheatgrass Buttwash

Yes, you read the title correct. This post is about "Wheatgrass Buttwash". Chhimi and I were out at Loew's the other night and decided to stop by at Jamba Juice before heading back home. We ordered our usual "Peach Pleasure" for Chhimi and "Berry Blitz" for myself.

As we waited for our smoothies to be done, we saw a book on the table on wheatgrass. The first page I flipped to had a illustration of a woman laying down on her back with an enema bag and nozzle up her butt. I totally laughed out loud and quickly look at the 2nd illustration for the man. This 2nd illustration had the man in a fetal position with body laying on its side and knees bent together up to the chest. The familiar enema bag and nozzle up his butt.

I couldn't believe what I was reading so I showed this to Chhimi. His eyes went from "what are you showing me now?"....to "what the F$@! is this?"....to..."oh my goodness, is this for real?" Then he whipped out his cell phone to take pictures of the illustrations.

The little blurb that I read goes like this (paraphrased)
...because of American's poor diet habits with lack of fiber, the colon builds up of yucky stuff causing lots of illness and even leading to death. So instead of eating fiber into your diet...you can stick it up your arse.

Below is a little Wheatgrass Buttwash (aka enema) Recipe for all who are adventurous and would like to give it a try:

• Ingredients: 1-2 oz. fresh wheat grass juice
• 2 quarts water
• Can substitute green juice or chlorophyll for wheat grass

Directions:

1. Fill enema bag Hook about 4 feet above floor (on towel rack)
2. Knee-chest position with chest against floor and rectum higher than head
3. Insert nozzle tip into rectum, using lubricant (olive oil) if needed
4. Empty water into rectum, and hold inside rectum as much as possible
5. Massage abdomen in counter-clockwise direction
6. When bag is empty or no more fluid can be held, remove tip
7. Lie on each side for 5 minutes, while massaging abdomen
8. Discard contents of rectum into toilet
9. Repeat until bag is empty

Sadness Comes But Does It Ever Go

Not sure what's going on with my mind...but I am surrounded by a dark cloud of sadness since Friday. I thought I could overcome this empty feeling by Sunday but as I woke up this early Monday morning, I was overwhelmed with sadness all over again. The feeling is so intense that I do not even want to get up. My mind keeps questioning, "what's the point?" this cycle never ends. "what's the point?". I wonder how long this "depression" will be with me.