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Today's writer's block question: Home sweet home

Do you have a favorite aesthetic style in terms of home design? If money were no object, how would you change your home?

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I personally love the mission/craftsman style of furnishing and construction. (For those of you with kids the right age, check out the movie Zathara. Crappy movie, which I was compelled to watch entirely too many times, on a loop, when I worked in KMart's electronics department. ((Kids would enjoy it more, I expect.)) But damn that house was gorgeous! Even had a working dumbwaiter. :D )

I would probably build a low, rambling, cottage/bungalow style of Craftsman house, with a spacious basement for storage and davner's man-cave. Perhaps an outbuilding or two designed like an era-appropriate stable, to keep the car in and serve as a tool shed or a workroom, if Dav gets into woodworking or fly-fishing in his retirement years.

Plenty of space for rooms lined in bookcases. :D A sewing/reading room for me. :D Lots of windows, esp. if we are lucky enough to get land with mountain views. Built in china cabinets like the ones in the houses I grew up in. Stained and beveled glass accent panels, in both windows and cabinet doors.

And if money were really no object, possibly build a quasi-Victorian house - but still mostly furnished in Craftsman style, because while fainting couches and the like are lovely to look at, I don't think they'd work well with my lifestyle.

Voting Day

Well, my original plan of going to the poll right after the boys had lunch was derailed by Act of Jack-Jack. ^_^; I let him take his uneaten half poptart into the living room, while I got everyone's socks and shoes.... I returned to find a very sticky little boy, with red fruit paste worked into his fuzzy blond hair, and poptart fragments all over the beige carpet and more red fruit paste ground into it. ^_^;;;;

A quick run of the vacuum and one emergency bath later (which made him OH so very cross) we tried again.

My poll is in a tiny room in the basement of a very small nondenom. church. I think they use it for post-service brunches and such; there was a pass-through to the church kitchen in one wall.

There were five poll workers, six poll booths for paper ballots, and two for electronic voting. And me. ^_^ I got the impression they'd had a really slow day so far.

Mark ran around the perimeter on his tiptoes, tried making off with the rubber fingertip grips used for handling paper ballots, and made friends with the sweet elderly lady in charge of handing out 'I Voted' stickers. Jack and I handled getting my ballot card set up, and voting. (I used an electronic booth.)

Took less than a minute, once my ID was checked and the scanner card for the booth was encoded. The only contested race on the Dem. ballot was for the Senate race. I expect November's will be more interesting.


Then we went to Culver's for fries and cheese curds. ^____^

Tonight's plan? Bounce around on caffeine, work on my cross-stitch, and watch the poll coverage by the local news. My liberal nerdy heart is filled with glee. ^______^

Yay! Politics!

Well, the local stations cruelly did not have a running results ticker at the bottom of the screen during Wipeout. So, I let davner watch it unmolested, while I swapped the dishwasher out, sorted dirty laundry, and compulsively hit refresh on the Denver Post, Washington Post,, and Fox News websites.

Dav went upstairs to read FEED after Wipeout, by which time KRDO had finally gotten a running results crawl going. (I'm watching America's Got Talent, on KOAA instead. KRDO is airing Shaw Vs. :;shudder::. Their ticker's got the same content.)

As of ten minutes ago, the Denver Post called the Dem. Senate race for Michael Bennet. ^_^ V He was my choice, and currently enjoys a 9 percent majority with over sixty percent of precincts reporting.

The GOP Senate primary is currently really really close. Buck leads Norton by less than three percent. I kinda hope she can pull things around. I dislike her politics, but would rather have a potential GOp Senator who doesn't go around saying candidates who don't wear high heels are better qualified than those who do.

Over on the GOp Gov. race.... Oh my aching head. Maes currently enjoys a slim margin over McInnis.

Maes. The man who was recently quoted as saying he thinks the Denver pro-bicycling initiatives are a secret plot by the United nations to take over the city of Denver.

I wish I were kidding.

God damn, local Republicans, I admit McInnis has had some scandals recently, but why were these two the only candidates you could muster?!

I'm just grateful that so far polls of a two way race between him and Denver mayor Hickenlooper, the only Dem. candidate, or a three way race between Maes, Hickenlooper, and Tancredo, all show Hickenlooper winning handily.