before i leave for college, my family decided that we should take out the carpet from the guest room and replace it with planks of laminated wood. it seems to be the latest rage in households these days, especially among the asian community. we also decided that we should paint the walls a different color. my mom wanted it to be cream cake. my dad insisted on croissant. i said that they should both compromise and pick apricot mousse. other nominations were sky blue, guava green, sunny delight, egg shell white, and heavy metal black. my dad ended up getting croissant, and so my mom and i started painting the room. it ended up looking like cheese.

  you see, the thing about wall paint is that when you go to a place like home depot or lowes, those little cards with a sample of the paint they give you are quite misleading. croissant turned out to be more orange than it was supposed to be, so it ended up looking like a giant room made of cheese. i wonder if little mice would come in the middle of the day and wonder the same thing.

mouse 1: hey look at this! it seems that we have stumbled into a giant room made of cheese!
mouse 2: fascinating! take a bite of it and see if it's edible.
mouse 1: *starts munching on the wall*
mouse 2: well? what does it taste like?
mouse 1: exuberant!
mouse 2: jolly good! i would like some too then!
*both mice start eating the walls*

  now that the paint job is finished, i tried to read the instruction booklet on how to install wood flooring. and i must say...it's complicated! the diagrams and the instructions are particularly confusing, especially if you have never done it before, or heard of the tools they told you to use. after much debate, we finally figured out how to install it. anyways, we're almost finished, and it actually looks pretty good. i'm leaving for austin tommorow, so i won't get to see the finished product for a while.

  my summer back at home has been quite pleasant. hanging out with old friends was pretty cool, and being with my family is always fun. after eating college food for so long, nothing beats home cooked food. this fall seems to be interesting. hopefully i can figure out what i want to major in, and what i want to do with my life. now if you will excuse, i need to get rid of those annoying little squeaks coming from the guestroom.

  *loads shotgun*