I started a project. I mean, I resurrected a project that has lain dormant for four and one half years. This is obviously a giant sized project for me. So big, I can't get over it. See the wallpaper glue on this bathroom wall? What is the best way to remove it anyway? I can visualize me painting this wall, but getting it prepped to paint....whoowee!
I did get this curriculum organization project somewhat under control, but not completely finished. Do public/private school teachers ever wait until the 11th hour to make out the first week/month of lesson plans or decide exactly how they are going to teach a subject? Probably not.
This is an ongoing project. I like the way sheets smell after hanging on the clothesline and flapping in the breeze. I don't hang jeans out though, makes them too crunchy.
Reminds me of a nursery rhyme I like: The king was in his counting house counting all his money, the Queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey, the maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes.....I guess you know what part I am playing here.When Fash was 8 years old, she was sitting in church doodling and she wrote this (see below) in her notebook. There must have been a play going on in church that day. The days of Fash not being in the play that's going on, are gone. Fash landed the part of Lily St. Regis in the musical, Annie, that will be performed by a local theater in March. (In the musical, Lily and her boyfriend, Rooster, Ms. Hannigan's brother, try to trick Daddy Warbucks into thinking Annie is their long lost little girl in order to get the monetary reward) Congratulations Fashionista!
Believe it or not, trying to align both of these ziplocker strips, in order to get this bag closed, became a real project that caused me to yank open my kitchen drawer, remove every bag that has a double zip strip and shove them all into the trash can. Don't buy these kind, it's like trying to get the stars and planets to line up just right so the craters in the moon are more visible. The veggies begin to wilt just thinking about having to wait in these bags while someone tries to get them sealed into freshness.
This is how I usually handle fix-it projects around our house. It seems to work fine.
Here's my Thanksgiving project. See. I got a head start on this one.
(Is it "has lain"? Is that correct or not? Someone please tell me.)
14 comments:
Has lain? Depends on an object or a person. Which are you referring to???
What do you plan on doing with the turkey, you are planning on giving him a justified pardon this Thanksgiving right and inviting him to dinner and not as dinner???
Love and Hugs ~ Kat
seriously? you have turkeys?
When I was in JH, someone gave my dad a live turkey as a joke. He decided to keep it till Thanksgiving and then have it butchered. Well, I am sure you know how that turned out....we all got so attached to the turkey we couldn't eat it. he gave it away.
I think I know some teachers that have waited to the last minute to prepare their lesson plans!!! You'll get it done!
"a project that has lain dormant..." let's see, thinking out loud here... "has lain" is past perfect (or something like that) of laid, which is past tense of lay. but lay is a transitive verb and needs a direct object (eg: he lay the book down). a project can't lay something, so a project must *lie* dormant. past tense of lie is lay, and past-perfect-or-whatever would then be... um, "has laid"? or maybe it too is "has lain".
huh. look it up somewhere.
anyway, i'm glad i'm not the only one with dormant projects. my current one (not the only one) is in my bedroom, where the temptation is always to just *lay* the project aside and *lie* down on the bed.
(present tense i do know. :-)
ps- congrats to fash! your statement on fb the other day went right over my head- didn't catch it.
wow! no more comment approval? i get to see my words published immediately? very cool.
love all your pics :)
I cannot tell a lie. The turkeys were gobbling around in my father-in-law's backyard. I'll probably never see them again, so they are safe from our T-giving table- probably.
40winkzzz- that was a marvelous answer to the grammar question, though I still do not know THEE answer. I fully understand laying the project aside and lying down on the bed for a snooze.
Bets- yeah, I guess I'm really "out there" now. I'm gonna need a bullet proof vest here pretty soon.
wow, what a post!
have fun with all those projects ;)
BG
Now I understand your FB comment yesterday. The sheets picture helps a lot!
I think "has lain" is right, Heidi!
Choices are "lie, lay, has lain" for the "action" verb, which is this case is more of an inactive state.
It's commonly confused with "lay, laid and have laid" which is used with a direct object.
As in...
I have laid my keys somewhere and can't find them AGAIN!
Always good to do a bit of archaelogy on those little grammar facts buried in the depths of our brains.
Time to work!
Has lain sounds right to me!
Yay to Fash for her upcoming play! I love the little note from her notebook. Whenever I come across something my kids wrote when they were little I love to stop and read it and see what their little selves were thinking at the time.
LOL at the ziplocker bags ( they would drive ME crazy too!) and the turkey! Congratulations to Fash for the play! And thanks for the grammar lesson I get in the comment box!
Heidi, good deals on ziplock at Meijer this week if you need some new plastic : ) Did you try TSP on the walls. Sister Mary 7 swears by Downy Fabric softner to help get paper down (watered down of course). So maybe it would help dissolve your glue.
I was going to say, "Woo-hoo: 'has lain!'" but you pointed it out yourself. You are indeed correct.
I have taken off a lot of wallpaper paste in my day, so much that I have pretty much sworn it off except for one wall I recently did. That's it, though, no mas!
The rest of that nursery rhyme is "along came a blackbird and snipped off her nose." I trust yours is still intact and functional.
Congrats to Fash! I know this character well. She will have a ball playing this to the hilt, I hope.
Also, I leave notes around my house all the time.
Loved all the pictures. I'm not a fan of hanging laundry...invariably I bring in a bee. No more! The dryer works fine, and they have "fresh air" fabric sheets. LOL!
surely fash should have Annie memorized from all those christmas party performances. I heard that happens every year. haha
-AEG
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