Good morning welcome to 2005. It's just like 2004 but different. it's funny sometimes the items that inspire sentimentality. Silly little things you never really thought about but somehow engrained themselves to deeply into your world that being without them isn't an option. I present to you one of those things, a small insignifigant factor of my childhood that for a reason not understood by me must be in this house. I simply could not consider disposing of it. A brass eagle keyhook:
The problem is we're tying to strike out all brass in this house in exchange for brushed nickel/silver/chrome. Which reminds me, do you know how hard it is to find silver door hinges? I mean it's like freakin' impossible to buy them in bulk. Back to my main point, I decided to refinish it in an attempt to make it more astetically pleasing. So I took out the eagle and hooks, sanded the board down with 60 grit and restained it minwax "special walnut" and spray painted the eagle the closest color I could get to brushed nickel. Also, I bought some new hooks because honestly, if I tried painting the old cap hooks, it would just wear off quickly. So the end results:
I guess it looks better. I mean I know it does compared to what it was...but I'm not 100% happy with it. Perhaps Jen was right and we need to "antique" it a bit to bring out the texture on the metal. Of course I could be crazy. Just seems that lately everything's lost it's luster. Probably has to do with the fact that my mom's birthday was a few days ago, and honestly that kinda is depressing. I heard an interesting saying the other day "the only free thing in this world is a mother's love". I mean, i'm not completely depressed or anything..mostly because I know that the people that love us would never want us to be sad over them, but the whole death thing kinda sucks overall.
What a terrible thought. Moving on, I have some links that I have to put up since they've been sitting here since last year:
- Merry christmas you ungrateful bastards.
- Really fascinating article on what it's like to work behind the scenes at G4/Tech TV. Pretty much what you expect since the G4 takover, bullshit, hypocrisy and manufactured live calls.
- Chopping Block. Because serial killers are people too.
- This is scary. One doctors trail of mistakes. Pefect example of why to get different opinions before any major surgery is done.