Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Projects for Abbey

First of all, I should say that most "Lindsay" projects inevitably become "Lindsay and Jay" projects. Second of all, Jay did not nearly capture the horribleness that was the "painting the inside of the cabinets" project...by far the worst project I've ever subjected us to. I kid you not - there were tears.

The inside of the cabinets had never been painted, so they were GROSS and took three coats of paint. We did it section by section spread out over a few weeks. Typically, Jay would clean them out while I was at work and sometimes do the first coat and I would do the next coats after work. He would take over when I was near tears. But look how pretty and clean it looks now:

With this pic and the two collages, I feel you can mentally capture the full awesomeness of the kitchen:


And then last night I decided to steal most of the stuff out of our guest bedroom and swap it with our bedroom. You can't tell that the bedspread which my mother and I got about a month ago has a pattern in it that perfectly reflects the square-ish squiggles in the paintings that Kath designed for us a few years ago - pretty amazing. I also went and bought Jay a pretty lamp tonight and of course have no light bulb for it (it's on the bed to prove he gets a pretty one, too):
I also organized my closet. It's pretty incredible. And Jay cleaned my room out (we have 4 bedrooms so one is ours, one is the guest, one is his studio, and one is my yet-to-be-defined space that had a bunch of boxes until he emptied them all out yesterday).

The crazy thing is that's just our recent projects (painted the laundry room, parents helped us with landscaping, etc) and there are so many left to do!

Friday, October 16, 2009

Update

Home
Linz loves projects. I'll bet there's an older post that starts with that......AND I love Linz so...... we painted what will hopefully be the last of the kitchen cabinets (the insides) last night. Tonight we are going to watch "Sunshine Cleaning (Amy Adams)" which we have both been wanting to see for a while. There are also a number of movies we haven't gotten to see, but would like to..... they are the following:
1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. The Informant
3. Zombieland
4. Capitalism: A Love Story
5. The Invention of Lying

I also want to include the albums/records I am currently listening to. This is more for my older sister who sends me emails periodically looking for new music.

1. Muse "The Resistance"
2. The Alternate Routes "Good and Reckless and True"
3. The Beatles "Abbey Road 2009 Remasters"
4. Owl City "Ocean Eyes"
5. Jonsi and Alex "The Riceboy Sleeps"
6. Mutemath "Armistice"
7. Derek Webb "Stockholm Syndrome"



Work
Linz is loving her new job at Waste Management downtown. She drives to work in a little traffic and goes to the 40thish floor where she works with O'dalis, Clint, and Jeff. All I know is she build pricing models for their commercial property pricing strategy. Sounds fun.

I am currently producing a five song worship EP for Neal Mabry. Neal leads worship at Fellowship of The Woodlands for the youth. We recorded drums Monday the 12th in The Woodlands at Red Tree Studios. We are recording most of the rest of the record here at my house. I am sending songs to a bass player I met in Nasvhille (Tony Lucido) and also a keys player there (Cason Cooley). Cason started the band "The Normals" with Andy Osenga and both of those guys have played on pretty much every christian record you have ever heard. Such as : Stephen Curtis Chapman, Nicole Nordeman, Matt Kearney, Matt Redman, Tobymac, Bebo Norman, DC Talk, Starfield, Jennfier Knapp, Ginny Owens, Reliant K, Avalon, Matthew Perryman Jones, Derek Webb, Sandra McCracken...... on and on the list goes. I am really excited.



Some pics and video from Monday the 12th.