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May 16, 2007

DIY Dreamgirl

This is so great. For the last couple of years, I have noticed that the paint on a thin metal strip on my car just below each front side window has begun to crack and chip. Weathered and washed and weathered some more, it just started to look crappy. Back in high school I had refinished our barbeque with special high heat super duper spray paint and thought this might just do a good job of covering up all the newly exposed shiny metal on the strips on my car. So I spent all of ten bucks on paint, tape, a roll of brown paper, a scraping knife and sand paper and got to work.

And of course I actually started working on it once I had arrived on campus at Biola to visit friends. So the thing that was so great about all this is I'm standing there masking off a little strip of metal on each side of my car, sticking up big sheets of paper with bright blue painter's tape, all this as students and staff are milling about their daily business.

I definately got some looks. And there was more than one "double-take." One guy when walking past me for the second time in a few minutes said, "Ok, you've got me stumped. What are you doing?" It was fun to explain that I was "fixing" my car. I love being able to tackle projects like this with a confidence that I'm sure is due to the "You're going to learn how this works" treatment I got from my dad growing up. Even if I didn't care to know, he told me, and now I know such cool stuff.

Anyway, the metal window trim turned out perfect and I am feeling the satisfaction tonight that comes with the completion of a project long over-due. (Not to mention the fun of impressing a few men :)

(Speaking of men, I definately feel like I want one right now. But that's another story...)

Posted by libbystokes at May 16, 2007 12:43 AM

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