paint fumes......

ok, so i slept under a cloud of paint fumes.......and though latex is not nearly so foul as oil-based paint might have been, it is still offensive and probably taking years off of my potential longevity.......i am amazed that all of the ceilings have been sealed (code for soot-contained).....and painteda brilliant white...the can is generic....and so i have no martha stewart name for this color......i prefer driven snow.........and today we have been promised that several rooms will be knocked off.....at least to the point that we can move back the furniture and maybe put the pictures against a wall for the time being......every picture and objet d'art from our 1st floor is stacked in our bedroom.....and thus the observation that we/i have too much stuff is hard to ignore.......we/i do have a lot of framed photos/originalartwork/posters/prints........and the suggestion has been made that maybe we taper back a bit when replacing these on the walls.........of course, there is the obvious questions to ask.....do we leave off the things i made, you made, your mamma made, our children made.......or just the stuff we bought in memorable spots.....i can still recall the places......like a print shop in london somewhere on the walk back from st paul's....or the prints purchased along the seine...or in antique shops...or the curious prints inherited from family (always the ones nobody else seemed to want........)i like these the best, by the way.........matted and framed they all looked so nice right where they were.....but every nail has been taken down so that the holes can be refilled......and thus i will be starting from scratch...........cannot think on this any more today......too depressing.....