I did it!

[thelaughingmuse]

I did it! The room I was talking about painting, I got the two "furniture-goes-against" walls completely done and the "cathedral-peak" walls done as high as I could safely reach - so, not over the fireplace, and not over the snack bar. But tomorrow I can start moving furniture back out of the hall and dining room! (I'm taking my time putting all the books back. That's going to be a huge task.)

Now I've just got the lawyer-foyer, and that I'm hiring out along with the two peaks in the sunroom.

I need my nighttime meds, a heating pad, and my current book. And chocolate.

Comments

[vr_trakowski]

Congratulations!!

I have to ask...do you pronounce "lawyer-foyer" so that it rhymes, and if so, which way?

[thelaughingmuse]

I had to stop and think about that. I pronounce "lawyer" so that it sounds like "loy-er", accent on the first syllable. Always have. And I first heard the word "foyer" spoken by my mom, who had probably either heard it from the realtor or only ever read the word, and I pronounce that word "foy-er", accent on the first syllable. So, yeah, seeing them put together so that they'd sound alike when spoken seemed perfectly normal to me.

...and yes, I didn't think that I ever had an especially audible regional accent, at least not compared to people from Boston, New York City, New Jersey, the American South, or my midwestern relatives. Yet I've been told that I have a very faint hint of a drawl. (Except when I'm decaffeinated. Then it's generally just gestures, some of them rude.)

[vr_trakowski]

I've heard it both ways! Foyer, that is. I'd probably pronounce it "foy-yay" if I ever used the word but my brother would wince at my inflection.

Heh, I never thought about my accent at all until age 15, when traveling somewhere through the Midwest U.S. A kid at the campground where we were staying asked where I was from, and I had to say "Maryland" several times before I realized that I was swallowing most of it.