The studio.

I know I mentioned the studio in a few posts a few weeks ago (scroll down to Aug. 4 and Jul. 28). Then, I stopped mentioning it. This little office in the front of our house just sort of disappeared from my blog.

Perhaps I gave you the impression that it was finished?

Wrong.

The floor is finally finished. Mom decided on a deep beige wallpaper that vaguely resembles burlap, a beige floor tile, and she chose out a beige rug. All in all, it looked really nice. It had this simple elegance to it.

Then, Dad and I haul the old office furniture outside, and she starts spray-painting it. I know what you're thinking. *She painted it beige, right?*

No. Of course not. She went and painted the bookcases and the desk fun colors. (Yes, that's how she described them).

Two bookcases are puce. The desk is federal monochrome, two more bookcases are apricot; and another bookcase and the printer-stand are yet another fun-but-unnamed shade of yellow.

So after we go to the trouble of hauling he furniture back in, we don't feel like setting the stereo back up. (Wires = bad.)

I never told you about the wires! When we had to get the desk out from the one side of the room -- this is when it was still white -- I was given the job of taking all of the wires and power cords out. Mom had twice as many power cords as there were appliances and computer peripherals on her desk. We still don't know what half of them connected to.

So, anyway, we didn't feel like sitting there, and playing the "which speaker does this go to?" game. Mister Boombox comes out to play. Mister Boombox's battery's die within the first ten minutes.The five dollar black plastic digital radio alarm clock does not go with the beige wallpaper and federal monochrome desk.