(20) A Day of Colors

The highlights of my day today were visiting my grandma again, and bleaching a lampshade. Both my grandma and Chuck seemed really chipper today, so I was glad to be there. It was a short visit, only about an hour and a half, but a good one. She gave me snacks! ;D
Afterwards, I came back home to pick up my mom and we went to Home Depot to pick out a paint color for my room. It was a tough match between Gypsy Magic and Hourly Phantom, but the Phantom won against the Gypsy. Both are lavendar-violet colors, but I liked the phantom color more because it had a red tint to it, but it's still very light so that one will not be "consumed" by the room once its fully painted. Yay pretty colors.
Then we came home to a lovely dinner awaiting, my mom had been cooking a roast all day and it was finally ready. Good home cookin', soon to be abandoned again for schoolin' and cafeteria food ;(

As I went down to my room to check my email, I looked over at my favorite antique lamp and suddenly I became really grossed out by it. By a lamp, you ask?
Yes, because it used to belong to my dear old gramma before she gave it to me, and let me remind you she smokes a lot. So even after all the years I've owned this lamp, its never quite dawned on me that the color of the lampshade is more than likely supposed to be a light yellow color, not orange.
So I bleached it. I bleached a lampshade. It took a lot of work because I didn't have a big sink to submerge it into, but I was able to restore it back to its natural color. With a little scrubbing and finally deciding to just let it soak in the washer for about an hour, it sure made a difference. I wish I could say it looks as good as new, but that would be such a lie. It kinda fell apart in a few places on the inside, but it's nothing that a little scotch tape can't fix.
Anyway, its made all the difference in lighting up my room. To think that all the smoke residue has been sitting there all this time, and I never even noticed. Makes it sound like I live in a really questionable house, but I swear my house is totally sanitary!