Desperate Housewives of ILX

housewiving w/out being a wife is hard.

bleach on the bath towels is like my number one pet peeve. ok not number one but it's up there. how does it get there?? and on bedsheets??

replace as in buy new ones? maybe every couple of years

in terms of daily usage, i am very stringent about replacing the towels i use though. nothing worse than an old towel.

i need a friggin registry is what i need.

ugh i feel u

yeah also they are black so the bleach is like, orange spots!
i think it was a hair dye thing.

i also bleached a pillow case (purple --> orange streak) from a benzoyl peroxide face cream (i think).

that's what i have been thinking too! the benzoyl peroxide! but then i talked to a friend who has had the same problem with pillowcases and she does not use benzoyl. seems to make sense though.

but it really helps my skin so it's like what am i gonna do, not move in my sleep

Um how about using white sheets & towels?

it had to be that.
i stopped using it.

ugh no, i love my purple sheets!

xp Is that a silly question?

Oh, purple.

Tza, you've had those sheets for AT LEAST three years, because I used them when I stayed at your house in BROOKLYN and I was worried that *I* got the peroxide stain on them!

they are good sheets! but they may have been a different set or maybe i just gave you a diff pillow case because these are queen size and that was a full (i did have a set of purple sheets for that, too). what is wrong with having sheets for three years? i wash them! i got these sheets when i first moved to nyc in 2006 because then i had a queen... and that's when the bleaching happened. but then i didn't use them for years because i had a full bed.

i mean, i've been rocking purple and red sheets since about 2000 or so. i've been through many sets.

what skin cream do u use now? salicylic?

how do you get blood out of sheets

yeah salicylic. sometimes sulfur-ish things (mario badescu drying cream, for example).

throw them away? xp

(skin is also a lot diff now than it was back then!)

you know what - the sulfur products are actually pretty good.

i think somebody told me hydrogen peroxide works on blood? am i making that up?

i want to try this one - it's always in the impulse buy lane at sephora: http://www.murad.com/treatments/acne-spot-treatment.jsp

interesting - sulfur AND salicylic acid.

I m serious about the blood

my mother in law once removed a deep blood stain from a shirt of mine with hydrogen peroxide. i was shocked at how completely she removed it.

wait you just said peroxide causes a stain

benzoyl peroxide seems to, and i'm sure other peroxides do, do i did a quick google search on hydrogen peroxide, and it seems to be a stain-fighting agent

*but i did

so how do I get the peroxide stain out after the blood is gone

Water.

how do I get the water out

Put it in the oven and bake it out.

you know everything

what do we have on our weekend agendas, ladies?

i really need to wash my floors

I'm trying to find the right light bulbs for a ceiling fixture, big round globe ones. Bought some from lighting store the oth day but they're too dim. :( Might be trial-and-error going back and forth to the store in Chinatown until I figure it out.

This weekend, though, I'm leaving the apartment and any mess there behind and going away.

When I get back, the kitchen floor will get washed LIKE WO.

I bought two beach-themed throw pillows for my living room: one has a blue octopus embroidered on it, and the other one will have red coral (when it arrives).

oh how fun! i love throw pillows. i am in need of some new ones, myself. where did you find yours?

overstock.com!

i totally need throw pillows! and fun ones like laurel's (which i saw in real life and it is Awesome)

oh dudes, i mean, housewives: when i got home last night at 4 o'clock in the morning after a long bus ride from NYC, after not being home for almost a week, I was sooo tired yet couldn't let the semi-disaster of my place go untouched... my friend had been feeding my cats but didn't do a great job of the cat litter scooping (hey, i understand), plus my bathroom had some construction things done to it and so was grimy from that. ended up cleaning cat litter, washing floor, cleaning kitchen sink and entire bathroom (including scrubbing tub/shower), just so i could wake up this morning and not have to deal with it!

Holy crap, that's a lot to do after a BUS RIDE. Robyn!

I don't know what came over me w/r/t the pillows, normally I hate throw pillows like on beds for a photo shoot, what the hell are you going to do w those when you want to actually SLEEP in the bed?? But I was just sitting at my desk thinking about my living room and something...snapped.

lol. like on that show, Snapped. except u resorted to throw pillows instead of a gun.

robyn, that sounds like a terror!

haha i know, eh? one of those things where i only fell asleep on the bus in the last 45-min of the trip but spent the previous 8 hours talking to my seat-mate (who ended up being awesome! a rarity!) and watching The Green Hornet (hilaire/ridic/kinda half-assed tbh?). so when i arrived home i was both discombobulated and buzzy-awake. also, i've just really been wanting to get my house in order in all ways...

throw pillows are pretty and fun and occasionally useful! i also think that their name should be taken literally, so thinking of them as a gun alternative is good! throw pillows not shoot guns!
wait.

i only have a couple throw pillows, acquired recently from the thrift store, with some pretty rad hand-embroidered tree-of-life floral embellishment on them. and they came with BIG BRIGHT TAGS certifying that they were FREE OF BEDBUGS, thank goodness for that.

thank goodness!

all my windows are open, it is lighly raining out right now, and it's friday

it is nice

i organized ryan's clothes yesterday - he had a bunch laid out in the bedroom that he cleared out of the closets. they are bagged and ready to give away. i also changed the linens and swept, so the bedroom is in order now.

I mowed the sump pump tube into pieces

that does not sound good

haven't played with this yet, but it looks totally fun!

http://urbanbarn.com/the-make-room

oooh!

also: i have decided to paint all our furniture varying shades of distressed pales, bc all this medium-to-dark wood is just too gloomy.

i believe that is a sign that teh west-coast assimilation is in its final stages