I need suggestions for hiding wires visible beneath and behind a shallow wide table.

By on June 30th, 2010

We are frugally decorating a small casual lake house that is not our primary home. The living area is one large room with the kitchen separated by an island. A flat screen TV is mounted on a wall and beneath it is a table about 3 ft high 4 ft wide and 18 inches deep. It holds the electronic gizmos. I need something to put underneath it to hide the wires going into the wall behind it. Our walls are white as are all the tables, the floors are dark wood, furniture brown leather for the most part. I have some silk plants since I won’t always be there to water. I thought about a wide arrangement as a possibility but maybe someone has a better suggestion.

One other problem is lighting. There are no outlets in the floor so any lamps in furniture groups need to be plugged into the wall or have extension cords run to them. Any ideas about that. Thanks.

PLEASE ANSWER. what movie is this.

By on June 29th, 2010

There is theis move I saw when I was like 7. In the story all i remember is there was this like twelve year old boy trying to kill his mother(lady,aunt, etc) in like a big mansion. He was like crazy. Basically the script has something to do with the mother lying to the boy about his father. Oh yeah. There was a gun involved.Please Help.
Other scenes-
-Mother running in garage
-Mother hiding in kitchen cabinet

Help. looking for this sims 3 house.

By on June 28th, 2010

Before i had to reinstall my game i had this sims 3 house, but it was lost and i cant find the download again. The house was pretty modern, it had a pool in the backyard, in the house it had a garage, and normal house-type stuff downstairs (kitchen, dining room, living room) and upstairs it had a living room with a tv that was a projector thing and the master bedroom had the only bathroom in the house connected to it, and there was a room on the other side of the living room upstairs was like a study, with a desk and a computer and a balcony. does anyone know of a sims 3 house download like this one.

Have you ever done a Ouija Board.

By on June 27th, 2010

My friends did one at a sleepover while I was asleep. They woke me up and said it moved and everything. Aren’t Ouija Boards like a REALLY bad idea. They did it while I was asleep because I thought it was a stupid idea. The friend that hosted the sleepover was home alone one night after the Ouija Board and said the cabinets in the kitchen kept opening and slamming shut. :p She also says she hears someone whispering her name every now and again.

Is Kitchen Princess (manga) any good.

By on June 26th, 2010

A friend had a few volumes so I decided to read the 6th because there wasn’t a volume 1 and it seemed a bit boring because I didn’t understand what was going on so I know it’s about a girl trying to find that prince of hers and all she had was a silver spoon left. So is it any good. And I’m not reading it online because my mom’s planning to go to the bookstore for this book or whatever and I’d thought I would come along and check out that manga myself and we’re going tomorrow so I don’t want anything spoiled for me.

Can I repurpose slate roof tiles as floor tiles for my kitchen and bath.

By on June 25th, 2010

I am renovating a 1900’s home with a slate roof that needs replaced. There’s too much damage to repair but still have hundreds of square feet of perfectly good slate roof tiles. I am not an artist that wants to paint a million little tiles but I do have a kitchen and bath that need to be remodeled. Can I use the slate roof tiles as floor tiles. If so, what extra steps do I need to take to make them suitable for the floor.

what type of legal action should be taken in this situation.

By on June 24th, 2010

my parents hired a contractor to remodel the kitchen and bathroom in their condo in florida. the contractor pushed my parents to sign the contract so he could start the work, and it has all gone downhill from there. here’s the situation:

1.) the contract states that the work would be done by february 2010. it is now the end of june, and the work is nowhere near finished because the contractor shows up to work for MAYBE 10 hours a week.

2.) the top of the contract has the contractor’s name and contracting license number. i went to florida’s state website where they have a search engine where you can search by license number or name. i searched by both, and the name is not associated with any license number, and the license number he has was never issued.

3.) on the contract, my parents listed the exact product names, numbers, stores, prices and everything of the products they wanted in the kitchen and bathroom, such as faucets, mirrors, sinks, etc. and the contractor said that he would get them. he hasn’t gotten any of the right materials. for example, the bathroom medicine cabinet that my parents wanted was $100 at home depot, mirrored inside and out with a stainless steel box. the mirror that the contractor bought (and we checked it after we saw it) was $12.97 at home depot, only a mirror on the outside, plastic box, and about 4-5 inches too small for the hole in the wall.

4.) my parents paid him $10,000 up front, and have given him about $5,000 more as some work was completed, but somehow he “doesn’t have the money” to finish the job, even while he’s buying the cheap version of everything

5.) his work is complete crap and a 7th grader in shop class could do better. all the kitchen cabinets are messed up, none of the handles are level.or even the same for that matter, even though they told him, and SHOWED HIM, exactly which handles to get. the glass for the cabinet doors is only held in with a thin line of silicon and no clips, and there’s silicon smeared all over the glass. it’s just completely awful.

6.) and on top of all of this, he stole my dad’s ipod. like, it was on the table, we left, he was there, we came back, he was gone, it was gone. we searched the house, it’s nowhere to be found.

i’m just wondering, what type of legal actions can be taken in this situation. i hate seeing my parents scammed by this freakin’ con artist, especially because the extra money they’re using to fix all of his mistakes is coming out of my college fund. what should my parents do.
long story short: he’s a liar, a thief, and is working without a valid license although claiming he has one.

Please Rate my Paragraph of Writing.

By on June 23rd, 2010

Let me tell you something.
Every summer, I am sent off to a place where there are people who aren’t like me at all. They don’t know me, or what I like, or how I act. I always try to fit in, though. It never works, but I try.
Every summer I am sent back home.
I go to a school halfway across the world, away from my family, true, but closer to my friends. Closer to my other family. There, I do fit in. I feel good and smart and I do well in school and life, in general, because things are so much easier there. It’s like it’s just me and the world and I’m in charge and I can’t even describe that powerful feeling that swells up inside me every September when I return.
I return to Z-Town School for Extraordinary Girls.
There, we learn weird and new things, strange questions are asked but they receive even stranger answers and that’s okay because they make sense. Everything makes sense there, and nothing makes sense once I’m back home, but it’s that promise of return in September that pushes me through the long summer days with my prestigious family. At that school, all the girls get this sense of empowerment. We get to do things that we’d never be able to do at home. We go bungee jumping and learn how to fly a plane. We are sent to spend a week in the woods with four other girls and no provisions to learn survival skills. We study the stock markets and practice business tactics in the lunchroom. We dissect imaginary creatures after we build them up, using a computer program to design their nervous systems. I’ve personally operated on a pig with a tumor, and everyone knows how to treat a snake bite with nothing but a rubber band and a pen. We are chronicling our lives in huge books with a feather and ink, and exploring underground caverns on Saturdays. It’s all very exciting.
Until about the middle of June, when I go back home.
I live- actually, I should say my family lives in Virginia. We have an estate there. Quail Hollow. It’s very picturesque, all these quaint trees and a small stable, a swimming pool with a little waterfall, some woods in the back with a brook running through it. Not to mention our huge, white house. Southern style, with some European flares inside. Mossy green shudders, and some ivy growing up the extension that is our kitchen wing. A little brick walkway leading to the driveway, which isn’t paved, rather it’s a mass of little white pebbles. I love it very much, and when I was little I had a lot of adventures and made up games going on in the woods by the brook. I pretended it was an enormous river. I also loved-and still adore, to this day, the stable and my horse, Zoe. She’s white with a tan patch on her side and she’s probably the only one who really understands me at home. Except Cook. Cook’s great, like a second mother. My real mother, Dorothy, is very strict with me…when she sees me, that is. I don’t think she likes me very much. She’s never around, not even when I was little. Maybe that’s why I wanted to go to school in New Zealand. Then there’s my father, Gregory Paul. He’s around more than my mother. My mother’s the business woman, but my father inherited the estate along with a large sum of money, so we have more than enough to make ends meet, to put it lightly. My father’s a pleasant fellow, if he’s in a good mood and you’re doing something nice for him.
My name is Gail.
(Ta-Da. It goes on for like 8 pages, but.well, so what do you think. Could these skills write a novel and be published.)
Well, it’s the beginning of a book, so you have to introduce the character. Later on, there IS action, trust me. And I didn’t know where to stop the paragraph. And technically, a paragraph can be as long as you want it. But yes, the thoughts/explinations/intros are in Gail’s head.

What to do at work, when everything feels almost like a double standard.

By on June 22nd, 2010

Here it goes: 45 days ago, I was hired into my new job. A pizza joint. It’s a large chain, but our particular shop is quite small. Anyway, most people who work there, are between the ages of 17-25. A majority in there early twenties. Most of the people who work in the kitchen making food, are women. Besides me, there are two other men working back there, too. One of them being the manager. Who all in all, has complete power over me. Not everyone there, is the sharpest tool in the shed. The one manager, had gotten caught buying dope his senior year of high school, and his graduation present was his parents getting his car out of the inpound lot. Another manager, had her first child when she was 14, and now already has 3 children. Another worker, uses the F word as every other word, and I find it inappropriate to use it on the job. Let alone, her boyfriend beat her to a pulp while he was intoxicated, and she is still with him. Like I said, not the sharpest tools.They do get the job done when need be, only if it is busy.

But now to my main point. The manager that I work with most of the time, always flirts, and screws around with a girl who hired in the same time as me. Let alone, he acts goofy and silly with a majority of everyone else. The thing is, when it comes to me, he is always strict, stern, and is quite opposite with me. This wouldn’t bug me if it was like this with everyone. But I feel like since I don’t have lips, hips, or ****, i’m the odd guy out. On a majority of shifts, i’m usually the first one off, scheduled. But since it is summer time, and warmer out, shop is slow, and i’m usually sent home more than an hour or two of what I’m originally scheduled off. I find this unfair, and i’m losing quite a bit of cash. Yes, it’s only minimum wage, but it adds up quick. If I approach the owners about it, I figure it will somehow word will get around, or if they were to talk to my managers, that could make things even worse for me.

How to fix a kitchen cabinet. [With pictures].

By on June 21st, 2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51177188@N06/4703738698/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51177188@N06/4703738210/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51177188@N06/4703102409/

Those are the photos of the kitchen cabinet and the attachment it was hooked onto. Is there any way to DIY fix it. I want to repair it as to make it good as new type thing, using the same cabinet.

Thanks.