A few unrelated thoughts:

posted by mihow on May 27th, 2003

1). If some asshole from Trading Spaces ever paints my walls zebra skin, puts fake plants around my bed, or dangles stuffed monkeys from my ceiling, I’ll sue their ass.

2). If you leave a bag of potting soil outside for over a month in the rain with the top open you will prove the existence of alien life.

3). They DO use actual dead people as crash test dummies.

4). Avis is a rip-off.

5). Someone explain to me how Delaware is a State and D.C. is not.

6). No colon should be able to hold 40 pounds of shit. And if one should, no one should know about it.

7). The telephone will not hurt you.

8). Someone, namely Missy, should figure out a way to (sometimes) shut me up.

9). It’s not the Virgin Mary.

10). Why did Joe and Jake break up? I can’t remember.

50 Responses to “A few unrelated thoughts:”

  1. Missy Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 07:30 AM

    You don’t need to be shut up.

  2. girl27 Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 07:45 AM

    11. Dubstyle and Girl27 ran over a raccoon last night. It was on a accident.

  3. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 07:53 AM

    oh bummer. Poor coon. :[

    These things happen, unfortunately.

  4. freakgirl Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:09 AM

    Obviously you watched the “Jungle Room” episode of Trading Spaces. Yeep.

    Jake and Jo break up over some sort of chain of events involving Amanda, the bike shop burning down, and Jake trashing Jo’s apartment.

  5. freakgirl Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:10 AM

    And as for your #6? Have we ever gotten through a day without discussing poo or pee?

    Not that it’s a bad thing, but just wondering.

  6. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:14 AM

    well, yes. I have. That’s from the M¸tter museum, though, so it’s their fault this time.

    I totally don’t remember Jake and jo’s break up.

    Jungle room? Not sure. Only one room was done that way, the other was done by the I’m gay, married man in some starry sky motif. I didn’t know it was named. It was horrible. that designer should be fired.

  7. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:19 AM

    It was this one.

    (hope this works)

  8. girl27 Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:21 AM

    Yeeek! That #6 is for REAL?

  9. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:23 AM

    Yes, it is for real. They have the colon, stuffed under glass at the M¸tter museum. It’s freakish. The guy pooped once every 2 months.

  10. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:29 AM

    You know, that wouldn’t be so bad, though would it? Hopefully you wouldn’t be at your new boyfriend’s house the day your colon decided to blow. Think of the embarrassment.

  11. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:30 AM

    Weird, I have that same “Before” bedspread. It’s from IKEA.

  12. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:31 AM

    Here is a link. Scroll down a bit.

  13. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:31 AM

    Here is a link. Scroll down a bit.

  14. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:33 AM

    Sorry, I keep posting…

    That “After” room looks like one of those fantasy motel rooms that you can rent the “moon room” or “Jungle room.” Kinda like this: http://fantasytheme.com/ Seriously, that jungle room isn’t too far off from this piece of poo.

  15. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:40 AM

    Isn’t a bad thing when you like the before better than the after? I mean, this is way too much for more than one night. I’d go nuts in that room.

    There was another one I was shocked over as well. It consisted of nailing a hundred or more records to the wall IN A LIVING ROOM, spray painting her favorite chair black, and painting the walls all bright and crap. Who does that? It’s like a big open wound that’ll never heal. How ugly.

    I’m thinking how much of a pain in the ass it’d be to remove the records and cover up all those nail holes the moment they leave the house and you’re done crying. Ugh.

  16. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:46 AM

    Here is that episode.

  17. freakgirl Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:46 AM

    Who did the Jungle Room? Doug? He’s famous for doing exactly what the owners don’t want.

    Hilda was responsible for the record album fiasco. She’s evil on a stick. She’s also responsible for the Hay Wall Room, and the Bathroom Walls Covered Entirely in Flowers.

  18. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:53 AM

    I think it was doug, actually. Do you get to choose who does your room? If not, I wouldn’t risk it. I like the Asian guy.

    I haven’t seen the bathroom you speak of. Ugh. That woman, she destroyed that room. truly.

  19. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:55 AM

    Yes! I was just searching for one with the bathroom walls covered in flowers. Mind you, these were all staple gunned to the walls. I would of gone ape shit crying and taking these down, one by one…

    http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/tradingspaces/beforeandafter/beforeandafter_10.html#

    Go to Mississippi: Golden Pond (Hilda’s room) to see the disaster for yourself.

  20. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 08:58 AM

    holy sweet crap, that’s horrid. Truly.

    I don’t get it. I mean, how can these people still work? That’s insane.

    I wish they’d put out a “Behind the Music” type of show for “Trading Spaces” I have a feeling there’s some great stuff.

  21. freakgirl Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:08 AM

    Homeowners don’t get to pick their designers. They can request, but it doesn’t mean they get them. I think they hire people like Doug and Hilda because they cause controversy which causes ratings. I would like Gen to do a room in my house.

    I always mention this, but it’s my favorite show so I tend to repeat myself. My friend and her husband were on the first season of Trading Spaces. Hilda did their bedroom. It was before she went nuts, I think. It wasn’t horrible.

    It’s here. New Jersey: Sam Street – Josette and Ed’s Bedroom.

  22. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:16 AM

    All I’m sayin’ is I couldn’t get freaky deaky in the bedroom with a crucifix hanging over it. ;) Was that there before?

  23. katie Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:18 AM

    No, you don’t get to choose your designer or carpenter.

    I like a lot of the bizarre stuff the designers do that most people hate (I don’t mind the Jungle Room), but I have to draw the line at the flowery bathroom. That’s hideous.

  24. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:18 AM

    My eye went straight to that as well, Megan.

  25. megami Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:18 AM

    I thought the jungle room looked great. I wouldn’t want it in my house, but they all did a really good job. I wonder how long it lasted before they ripped it all out.

    The records on the wall was shameful! Oh, the horror of filling in all those holes…I hadn’t even thought of that before. Didn’t they say there were over 260 records? And what exactly did she paint the chair with? Regular wall paint? So you can’t sit in it anymore…it’ll just crack.

    I have to say that while I HATED Kia’s design, the bed hanging on chains was really cool. I wish I had a bedroom big enough to do that in. What a nice sleep, swinging away.

  26. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:20 AM

    Yeah, like I said, I’d probably rent a room like that or maybe even enjoy it for a day or two, but once the novelty wears off, I’d probably swallow my tongue.

  27. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:22 AM

    Apparently, they ripped it out after about a month. She said, while standing there, “I don’t know whether to kiss you or kill you.”

    Indeed. Me Tarzan, you get that shit out of my room.

  28. megami Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:25 AM

    hanging bed.

  29. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:26 AM

    I liked the hanging bed idea. But I wonder if I’d get dizzy. Seems to swing a lot. What do you think?

    Those columns, ugh. Those horrible columns.

  30. girl27 Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:28 AM

    I would put that colon on my mantlepiece as a decoration before I would let Hilde put records or hay all over my walls.

  31. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:28 AM

    I’d be terrified it break during a session in there….no crucifixes in there, though. It just kinda reminds me of a sex dungeon.

  32. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:29 AM

    Girl27, that’s some funny shit. Did you see the one where she put moss on the walls a couple’s bedroom?

  33. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:32 AM

    See, now the flowers on the wall of the bathroom, that’s just crazy. Imagine the mildew? That bathroom would NEVER be dry. bugs would grow, worms, it’d look like my bag of dirt after a few weeks.

    Moss? Oh dear.

  34. freakgirl Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:33 AM

    The crucifix was there already. They are Good Catholics. They have like five little kids.

    They’ve already moved out of that house. I wonder if they used the Trading Spaces thing as a selling point…

  35. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:36 AM

    Now I just feel bad.

    :: burns in hell ::

  36. freakgirl Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:40 AM

    Why would you feel bad?

  37. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 09:59 AM

    Because they’re this nice family with 5 kids and it probably means a lot to them. And then I go and make some comment about how I couldn’t do it in that room. I don’t know how to explain…probably just some good ole Catholic guilt working its way back.

  38. megami Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 10:05 AM

    If it makes you feel any better, Megan, I was wondering about the crucifix as well. It looks like the finials on the poster bed had been changed to crosses as well but I can’t be sure. I would also feel strange having sex in a bedroom replete with crosses. Or I might just laugh and dub myself the High Priestess of the Dirty Doings. Who knows.

  39. girl27 Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 10:06 AM

    Megan, I love the ::burns in hell:: comment! Said so naturally. You must have been raised Catholic.

  40. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 10:16 AM

    Yeah. Mihow was too, I think, so y’all probably understand. For the record, I got 100% on my Saints test in 8th grade. Yes, we had a test on fucking saints.

  41. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 10:25 AM

    Well, not fucking saints, but on saints and their deeds. But not doing the deed. Just things they did. Not like people they did, because they’re saints, and I think there’s probably some rule on saints not having sex. See, this is why I can’t be catholic. I just keep digging and digging. All the way to hell.

  42. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 10:34 AM

    ha!

    It’s not easy to not think when someone tells you you shouldn’t. That was always my problem. As soon as they started telling me not to have “sinful” thoughts, I started to wonder what they were.

  43. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 10:38 AM

    I remember my 6th grade religion/sex ed teacher telling us that french kissing was a sin, and I think from that point on I thought it was all pure crazy talk.

  44. tobyjoe Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 10:58 AM

    megan, we call it “Freedom Kissing” around here

    wow, that joke was so 5 weeks ago…

  45. mihow Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 11:05 AM

    yes, because “french kissing” is actually a sin.

  46. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 11:24 AM

    ha ha ha…damn, that’s some funny stuff. I think after a month it becomes a retro joke and all the cool kids in the city start using again. So, your fine. You’re like the Hush Puppies, the airline bags used as purses, the undy rug (see here: http://www.triplebstudio.com/UndyRug.html) of jokes. Yes, I just purchased the undy rug, so I am making fun of myself.

  47. freakgirl Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 11:46 AM

    No worries, Megan, I certainly wouldn’t be able to do dirty fun things in a room with a cross either.

    Maybe my friends have only done dirty fun things exactly five times. Heh.

    :: rubbing eyes with brillo pad ::

  48. Lake Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 12:52 PM

    I have a crucifix over my bed and a Blessed Virgin Mary statue on my night stand. You can’t see either in the dark…

  49. Megan Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 12:57 PM

    Hey, Freakgirl, is that Brillo pad art? (see Freakgirl.com)

  50. freakgirl Says:
    May 27th, 2003 at 05:59 PM

    ha ha ha!

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