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Project Home Reno is a go. We’ve sucessfully stripped every scrap of wallpaper from our apartment, Xander has sanded the door\/window frames and I am in the process of painting them white. Soon there will be no more pink!! I just sit in the livingroom now, looking at the door frame leading to the hall and it’s a nice clean white rather than old dirty purplish pink. It makes me so happy! I really am starting to get that “This is my home!” feeling, now that we are making our own mark on it!<\/p>\n

As most people who know me are aware, I have Eczema<\/a>. It’s a skin disorder that is really pretty common, but it hasn’t been much of a problem for me over the past few years. As a child I had it very badly, as a teenager it was worse. Luckily it usually was on places like the back of my knees, the bend of my elbow, my back, etc. Places I could easily hide from my schoolmates, so unless I told them they would never really know I had it. It’s not contageous and can be extremely uncomfortable and painful at times of flare ups. As I got older I learned more about it, how to care for it, and what to avoid.. so thankfully it’s not a day to day issue for me anymore.<\/p>\n

UNTIL RECENTLY!<\/p>\n

For some reason, so far during our entire renovation project, I’ve had this incredibly itchy\/sore spot on my first finger between the nail and the first knuckle. It’s driving me insane! Each night I wash it, put cream on it and care for it.. then the next day as soon as I’m doing something it flares up again. It doesn’t matter if I wear gloves, or a bandaid.. it still happens. I don’t have any problems with the rest of my hands or anywhere else on my body just this one pea-sized spot that is making me want to chop my whole finger off.<\/p>\n

Last night at about 1:30am I was woken up because it was so itchy and sore, so I had to get up and coat it with cream, then I sat and pinched my hand to distract myself from the brain cracking irritation of that one finger until I fell asleep. How on earth did I deal with this in mass amounts when I was younger?! Christ..<\/p>\n

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The above pic is of the color we’ve chosen for the walls of our livingroom\/diningroom and hallway. I biked to the shop yesterday and bought a small can just to test, after which I went through the house making small splotches on different walls to see how it looked in different lights. Then after getting Xander’s approval we went and got a whopping sized white tub of the same color so we can get cracking on getting those walls painted. I think it will look nice with the white trim. So warm and cozy..<\/p>\n

We’ve decided to cut a few things out of our plans, to have money for other areas.<\/p>\n