SLACKER!!

I haven't done a good job of taking pictures lately. So I'll post other people's pictures that I lurv.



This is pretty much my favorite picture right now. I look HAWT! Thanks Shelbells!


My sweet little neice Katie being entertained by the most handsomest(is that a real phrase?) nephew Jimmy in the world! - Thanks Carrie!


My auntie, Joanne, Michele, and me last weekend up in Seattle

Yeah, that's about it. Work went rather well, busy, but well. I have a WU student teacher in my room doing randoms for 30 hours. I'm not sure what to have her do this next week. She got all these book things put together so fast- I had honestly expected it to take 30 hours. It was ridiculous! And I sure am thankful for her help! Now what?!

I've been *highly* contemplating working on fixing up the bathroom. I think maybe I'll make Drew go to Lowe's with me tomorrow and at least buy moulding for the window in the kitchen and the rest for the bedroom closet, and maybe for the laundry closet. I just keep forgetting about that stuff. I think I'm also just excited to paint the bathroom purple. teeheehee

Ugly Bathroom

This winter/spring, Drew and I spent an enormous amount of money at Lowe's redoing our kitchen. We chose to do it at this time because there were a bunch of sales, and a 10% bonus on whatever bathroom and kitchen items you purchased. So we now have some Lowe's gift cards in our possession that need to be spent. We plan on buying a new front door with the money, and had initially wanted to pay for installation of the door as well. Welllll, after crunching the numbers of a new door + screen door + prof. installation, we realized it was too much money. We'd be better off if Drew and I just installed the door. Installing doors sucks. It takes a lot of time and patience to make sure it's balanced. The current door was not balanced properly, and closes on it's own. Thankfully, we've hung doors before and can do it, just neither of us really WANTS to. But we will.

So after a door purchase, I think it'll leave enough money left over that I can somewhat update our bathroom. This bathroom is just gross. It's old and I just don't like it. We're not going to have enough money to level out the step and re-plumb the shower/toilet for a while, so I have to make do with what we have. I have been thinking that I would like to rip out the current "closet" (I took the doors off a while back because the smoke smell was just saturating everything), and put in some wire-adjustable- shelving. I like those and I know it seems industrial, but I like them anyway. So, I'd want to do that, and I was thinking of sanding down the vanity and painting it some other color than what it is now. There's also a lady at work that said I can paint the top with some kind of whatever and it'll stay on the linoleum counter top. I'm going to have to look into buying some of that.- I wonder if I can get black? I was also thinking about changing out the sink faucet, and buying a new towel rack since ours is falling off every time you touch it.

So those are my thoughts. I haven't gone to price any of this out to see if it's even doable with the gift cards we have, but I thought I'd try. I'll post some pics of the ugliness. :)



The lovely sink, and our beautiful linoleum tile- LOVE IT!




We're classy


La Toilette


The linen closet that doesn't have doors cause of smoke smell issues- it still stinks, but not as bad.


The sink- Maybe black top, white base, like the kitchen? My hardwood floors look SO good though!

We should also get a "laundry room" door of some kind, but since it's oddly sized, it's hard to get anything standard, and custom ordered is a beast. ugggghhhh

So yeah, any thoughts?

Well, the list from yesterday was quite extensive, and needless to say, we didn't get through all of it. I had forgotten that we ordered the wrong opening door to our bedroom, so we weren't able to hang it. We'll get the left opening door when they deliver our base boards, along with our kitchen sink faucet. We got everything else done though, except putting up the casing around the doors. I think that'll have to happen either during the week, or this weekend....we shall see.

We did get up the cover panels on all of our cabinets, along with the giant one for the back of the part that faces the dining room. That was a task in itself. We also got all the toe kicks put in, in the kitchen...so really all that's left in the kitchen is waiting for the countertop on the 25th, and then the sink can be put in! YAY!!! There's light at the end of the tunnel FINALLY!!!!

I got asked to be on the Garden Party activities committee today at church. I have no idea what this even is, or what I have to do to help, but I figured since I'll still be in town, and it's after I'm done with my pottery classes, there can't be too much harm in saying yes. I do have pottery til 6pm on Tuesday, and then a meeting for it at 7pm, so that'll be a bit busy, but I'll make it work.

I'm geared up to hopefully have a much better week this week, than last!


This pic was taken a couple weeks ago, but I
tweaked some stuff, and I am just loving it -
I thought that I'd share it. :)

Busy Day, Busy Week, Busy Month!!!!!!!!!

I like lists. It helps me to feel accomplished. Kind of lame, yup! :) So, this is what I have to get done today:
1. Exercise (harder than it sounds - there has been little motivation lately!)
2. Eat breakfast (I cna't eat breakfast til I exercise cause I can't go as fast if my tummy is full)
3. Wrap gifts for bridal shower
4. Go to a bridal shower at the country club....hub hub hub LOL
5. Come home, and help put on the sidings of all the new cabinets and island. I think the island thing is going to suck cause the panel thing is so heavy and huge
6. Help get the new doors into their places - we have 3 to do today - annoying!
7. Put in the frames for the closets so the dry wall isn't exposed
8. put casing around all of these enclosures and caulk them up to make them nice and pretty
9. Touch up paint everywhere there's a screw - I hate this part the most, I think.
10. Cook dinner. - this is normally a good thing, but on days like this, it's the last thing on my mind, so if I think about it nooooww, I'll know what to cook!



So then, this weeeek, I need to:
1. Head to the library and get my new books
2. Call up the Dr. and make sure I'm current on all shots for leaving to Mexico for 2 months
3. Get the rest of the baseboards in place so we can actually have people over! (hopefully it's here this week - they were back ordered)

This month has way too many things to list. I think I'll just keep with today's list and see how it runs.

Oh, I also knitted a trial run teddy bear this past week during conference (well, 3 of the 4 sessions). I got yarn to make a for real one yesterday, so I think I'll make that tomorrow after church. The pattern I have makes a really cute bear, but he's only about 6-7" tall. I'm contemplating doubling up the pattern to make it twice as big. .....I'm not sure if I want that kind of commitment though :/


This is my lame attempt - it's white cause that's all I had when the power went out, and the nose and eyes aren't out of the right kind of thread. I just wanted to make sure I could do it. It's also supposed to have a bow - I didn't have any bows! :)

trivial thoughts

I was thinking about my week last night and how quickly it had gone by. I honestly not quite sure what happened on Monday, or Tuesday. Wednesday we went on a walk because it was so beautiful outside. ....what happened?? So then on Thursday, I had my pottery classes and then a book study with some ladies from church.

I couldn't believe how much I had missed throwing. I might not be great at it, but it was nice to know that it had been 3.5 years since I've touched a wheel and it took only seconds to center my clay. I was pleased with my ability. I made a few cups. I don't know if I'm entirely content with them, but that's where my teacher wants me to start, and I don't want to do mugs. My goal for taking these classes was, and is to thin down my clay...to become more comfortable with pulling thinner vessels. I hope I'm able to do it. I'm also able to go in on Tuesdays to throw, which I will definitely take advantage of.

The book study was fun. We chatted about Northanger Abbey...which is probably my least favorite Jane Austen book. Then again, I just have a hard time reading those books anyway, since I have to really pay attention = hard to read and walk on the treadmill at the same time! We're reading some biography on Abraham Lincoln for next month (I went and put in a request for the cd's)- there's no way I'd be able to stay awake and read a biography..just won't happen! So then, the month after, we're reading The Hobbit. So, I need to get through those two, plus the book I chose for my own reading. I think choosing what I want to read has been one of the best aspects of not being at school!

I had a stupid moment on Thursday as well. I had my salad open, all ready to eat, and realized I had forgotten to send of a reminder email to keep the pecans off. So I figured 'oh! I'll just pick them off!' - yeah, that wasn't going to work. I ate a crouton while I was at work pulling those devil nuggets off and realized that the pecans had saturated everything....I had no lunch.... So the only redeeming factor of work on Thursday had quickly been diminished! My mouth started to itch! So I kept the salad for Drew to eat. Dang. So THEN, when I was at this house that night, they had dog dander around their house, and after sitting there for 2 hours, my immune system just couldn't take that much threat on my body. I got home and my chest was so constricted, my throat and mouth were out of control with burning and itchy-ness! I shouldn't have even touched that salad. I just didn't realize my pecan allergy had gotten that bad. :( I ended up downing a whole lot of Benadryl and passing out. I don't think I moved all night. I still had residual feelings yesterday, so downed more benadryl. I think that crap stays in my system for a long time cause it's mid afternoon now and I still feel groggy.

I guess I'll go back to fiddling around on the internet. I painted all of the closet casing (that we have to put in before we put in new doors), and all of the case moulding (put around the doors). It took a solid 2 hours. Now we wait for the base boards..... Oh, I guess I have to paint the doors, too. boo. hahaha

Stupid Weather

Drew and I were going to go out to the coast to go whale watching yesterday, but thought better of it because of the snow flurries here and there; we decided today would be a better day. We got up early so we could get in some shopping, and then headed over to Fathom's to eat and watch whales. Last year, we were able to see about 5 or 6 whales while we ate, and there was NOTHING today. I was a bit disappointed. I read though, that the mom's and babies end up migrating in a few more weeks, until about June, so I guess there's still some possibility of getting some whale observations in. I love those guys! - I also think we couldn't see them cause the weather couldn't make up its mind if it was rainy or clear, so maybe the whales were further out, in less choppy water?

Also, for those that know, or don't know, we have been ripping this place apart! Since we didn't go to the coast yesterday, we put the lighting in, in the kitchen. It was quite the ordeal. Drew was up in the attic cutting out the holes while I stayed below for saftey and accuracy duty. We were both worried it would look weird when we were done - but to our surprise, it looks incredible! I'll upload some pics later when I pull them off the camera. We also got another dumpster and were able to get almost everything off the porch (where our hord of unwanted crap has gone). So all we have left is a large pile of cut up wood from the beams in the ceiling, and cut up doors....SOOOOooOOooo, if anyone want some free wood, come get it!!!!!

There's only a week or two left before our lovely countertops will be here, and then we'll finally be done with the kitchen (other than a few minor touch up stuff). Thank goodness! Then all we have left is doors, and moulding....until we get crazy again and start ripping apart the nasty bathroom. ;-)

I guess that's about it for now. I think I might go play Sims for a while.