Sold on the promise of instant clean and freshness I followed the advice of a certain gypsy woman and painted the kitchen trim, pantry door, and baseboards this week. WOW! she was right. Gave the whole room a boost. I think the proper way to do this is to scour the baseboards thoroughly first. We wiped them down but basically employed a technique I like to call “apply paint generously” instead.

The only downside is that the rest of the house trim looks needy now. We plan to just work around the downstairs this coming week. The taping was the putziest part of the whole job. It was very gratifying when finished! I could show you, except that I erased the iphoto application. Seriously. So much for “you can’t break a Mac”. They haven’t met me yet! I am special that way. Turns out our Time Machine application needed to have an outside drive or some such thing so we couldn’t set the cpu backwards a few days to recover it. Who knew. ‘Outside drive’ is what I do when I get in the car. You need to be WAY more specific when giving me technological instructions.

So anyway, we get to be the rare Mac owners to reformat apparently. Not this week though. This week we paint and dh has a full schedule. It will happen eventually. Meantime we press on. I do encourage you to consider your trim though if it is as banged up as mine was. That was a relatively easy fix that made a world of difference.