Extreme Makeover Continues: Cupula creates a Murphy Brown-Eldin Bernecky kind of a relationship

Murphy Brown: Remember that show? I think it was an NBC sitcom. I grew up watching it (I was in secondary school at that time, still living in Istanbul) and always wanted to become a good (and famous) journalist like her (minus being as lonely as she was and raising a child by myself). There are many similarities between me and Murphy: she is very selfish, stubborn, extremely hot-tempered but also, --I know this sounds horribly arrogant--talented, resourceful, clever and caring.

If you do remember the show, after returning from a "stay" at the Betty Ford rehabilitation center, she hires a painter, who slowly becomes a part of her life, because after getting used to her neurosis, he starts enjoying her company and even though she denies it at first, she likes the company as well, so much that when Eldin's work is over, she creates new projects so that he stays in the house keeping her company, an becomes her therapist, almost.

After a week of suffering at the CUpula with a plummer who totally ignored my orders, and kicked me out of my house so that he can "work" alone, Titi called a friend, Carlos, who, as far as I saw so far, does great things around the house. The first day he painted the parts of cupula that I could not reach. Yesterday he made me a kitchen counter to die for--a very rustic wood table--and asked me what else needed to get done, offered to come back to finish off those details. He then suggested that it should be painted again, and proposed to make me a custom made bed for the small bedroom! I said to myself: I have an Eldin--tough Carlos is not so savvy and chit-chatty, he is not a smart ass, he is very very nice.

How are things at the cupula then? So far the bathroom is done (looks really really cute), the living room is almost done (we probably finish it on monday) and tuesday I can probably move my stuff in there, and I can inaugurated on wednesday.

The guests will be asked to bring a plant--bigger and greener the better--no flowers, for the cupula. I will serve meat and sangria!