{"id":1466,"date":"2007-04-22T09:29:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/home-improvement\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T19:06:56","slug":"home-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/home-improvement","title":{"rendered":"Home Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not much blogging this weekend, dear readers, between the NBA playoffs (I only watched two full games, and bits of two others) and our repainting of the guest bedroom. It’ll look awfully nice when complete (Amy gets to blog about it and post the pix), so any of you who come to visit and get completely trashed will have a nice room to crash in! Yay!<\/p>\n

Room-painting soundtrack thus far (I’m treading on Mad Mix<\/a> territory here, but hey):<\/p>\n

Night and Day<\/a> – Joe Jackson<\/p>\n

Simple Things<\/a> – Zero 7<\/p>\n

Lexicon of Love<\/a> – ABC<\/p>\n

Mind How You Go<\/a> – Skye<\/p>\n

Ray of Light<\/a> – Madonna<\/p>\n

Ta-Dah<\/a> – Scissor Sisters<\/p>\n

Greatest Love Songs<\/a> – Tom Jones<\/p>\n

The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle<\/a> – Bruce Springsteen<\/p>\n

Amazingly, we’re not painting the room in glitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not much blogging this weekend, dear readers, between the NBA playoffs (I only watched two full games, and bits of two others) and our repainting of the guest bedroom. It’ll look awfully nice when complete (Amy gets to blog about it and post the pix), so any of you who come to visit and get … <\/p>\n

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