Monday, February 28, 2011

Weekend Wrap-Up

We were all about the house this weekend. Which, in looking at my last week or so's corresponding 365 pictures, it may seem that we've been all about the house for, as Tred would say, a "minute." This is kind of true! The procrastination we've had in finishing a few projects that we had previously put on the back burner is GONE and we're trying to get everything done, done, done!

We bought two of these fans to put in the living room:


We're finally ready to say see-ya-later to the ugly track lighting on ONE side of our 30 foot long living room. This Saturday, Andy will be replacing the lighting with one fan and then installing the other on the other side of our living room. I really have no idea which of the previous owners (since '45) thought it was a good idea to have lighting in only one half of the room, but we're over it!


I ordered the new kitchen faucet as well! In the end, I got it for $185.00 less than the original price (that's an extra $70.00 more off than I thought I'd get) and I am so excited about that! Plus, with Amazon Prime, I paid $3.99 for overnight shipping so it will be here tomorrow! Can't wait to get this bad boy installed!
  

We caved and got this light for our bathroom, as you've already seen from my 365 from yesterday. I know that I said before that we were keeping our previous light fixture in there (it was oil rubbed bronze but I re-finished it in brushed-nickel). Well, when we put up our new fancy-schmancy curtain rod and curtain rings, they were a totally different shade than the light. And it looked weird! This light was half off and I love that the shades point up. With our old light, the shades pointed down and you could see the lightbulbs. I know, who cares, right? That'd be this girl. Sigh.


When we first moved in to our house, there was berber carpet in our living room and hallway. Since I knew that Craftsman bungalows were known for all things natural-wood, I was a little curious. Especially since the kitchen, dining room and one of the bedrooms still had the original hardwood floors. So one night, Andy peeled up a corner and it was like music started playing... Underneath the carpet was the original hardwood with a pretty pattern around the edge. I think we ripped up ALL of the carpet that same night, LOL. In the last four years though, it's been a pain in our butts as far as upkeep goes. We have four dogs and so all of those little puppy paws on hardwood = scratch city. This weekend we decided to buy two huuuge 9x12 rugs. This way, the pattern around the edges (it runs through the middle of the room too, which is why we wanted two rugs... The 9x12's will fit perfectly in the middle of the pattern.) still shows but the rest of the floor isn't getting destroyed. Problem solved!


I found these finials (and matching rods) to hang up the new curtains for the dining room. We already know how hard it is to find burnished brass ANYTHING, so I was ready to scream when I realized I was going to need curtain rods. Not to mention the fact that the windows in our dining room are abnormally large. I'm talking, two are 78 inches across and one is 114 inches across. Yeah, huge. AHH! We were looking at rugs at Home Depot and what did I spy right across the aisle? These finials with matching rods! And they were long enough for my windows!
  
Yep, I said new dining room curtains up there... We were at Marshall's over the weekend (just like every other weekend, it seems like!) and right after I found the clock that I posted about a few days ago, I walked by the curtains and found the deal of a lifetime! I figured there was no way in hell I'd find curtains there for my dining room since I'd need six panels and there usually aren't that many of one style available. I found six beautiful, gold silky panels though! What'd it put me back? 39 DOLLARS FOR ALL SIX. Insane, since that was the original price for just ONE panel! Woo! I thought it'd look a little weird to have 9 and a half foot and 6 and a half foot windows with curtains at the ends and nothing else but I was stumped when it came to what kind of valance to get. I browsed and browsed and browsed and just when I thought I couldn't browse anymore, I found the ones below. Chocolate brown with gold leaves! Perfection! Andy's mom is making sheers for us (hooray!) so we can get rid of the ugly, ugly blinds from the previous owners. By the end of the week (I had to order the valances), our dining room windows will be bland no more!



Other than buying out what seemed like all of the tri-cities in the home-decor category, we watched the Red Wings and had chicken fajitas at my mom's, LOL. What exciting lives we lead. ;)

365: 2/28/2011

DAY 59: Cautious optimism

Well, we've got one ceiling fan out of the box and we've been reading up on how to install this bad boy. However, let's just say that my husband usually isn't a fan of instructions (no pun intended). This'll be fun.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

365: 2/27/2011

DAY 58: NO! MINE!

When I find something that I like, especially when it's one of the last or the last of what's available, the primal urge to protect it from others comes out in me. This light was the last one at Home Depot. It was on sale. It was getting "checked out" by a few other people in the aisle. I was the closest to it... So can you guess what happened? Yeah, this little baby got put in my cart and went for a ride before I decided if I even wanted it or not. Because what if I went back after deciding I did want it only to find it gone?! Umm, no! Unacceptable. By the way? I did want it, thank you very much!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

365: 2/26/2011

DAY 57: Burnished brass is a pain in the ass

Yeah, I said it. I apparently picked the absolute hardest metal finish to coordinate for my dining room. It all started with those damn pendant lights I love so much. I then had to coordinate cabinet handles for the open face cabinets, curtain rods and a clock. It's really hard to find a clock that matches! Thank you, Marshall's, for coming through for me again! (Told you I wasn't afraid of color -- here she is on my dining room wall! Rust red, FTW.)

Twenty-Six

I've seen a lot of these recently and thought I'd play along. So, without further adieu, here's the "A-Z of me:"

1. 
Age: 23. I'm wittle. ;)

2. Blog Title Inspiration: One of my favorite Beatles songs is For You, Blue (which was written and sung by my personal absolute fave, George Harrison). June holds a special place in my heart -- it's my mother's middle name and also the month I was married in.

3. Chore You Hate: Cleaning the bathroom. EWWW.

4. Day at the Beach or Cozy Rainy Day?  Cozy, rainy day. I love the rain.

5. Essential Start Your Day Item:  Something to drink.

6. Favorite Color: Yellow, green, red, purple, teal... I love color!

7. Gold or Silver? White gold!

8. Height: 5'4''

9. Instruments You Play:  Hmm. I can play Superstitious on the piano aaand that's it! LOL. Andy is the more musically inclined out of the two of us - he plays bass guitar, drums and saxophone.

10. Job Title: Account Financial Analyst. And part-time photog for my friends. ;)

11. Kids: Not yet!

12. Live:  In an adorable cerulean blue Craftsman bungalow in mid-MI.

13. Mom's Name:  Shirley.

14. Book Currently on Your Nightstand:  None as of right now. I desperately need to get some new books!

15. Nicknames:  Yiya, Wee or Kayc.

16. Overnight Hospital Stays? I think once when I was a newborn and had the flu. But other than that, none! And I'm glad for that since the hospital in this town is more of a hindrance than a help to most people!

17. Pet Peeve: I donno, really. Not a lot bugs me, I'm pretty go with the flow about most things!

18. Quote from a Movie:  "HOW DARE YOU! SHE'S A NICE LADY!" Some Hangover to brighten your day, since the girls and I were just talking about this one!

19. Right or Left Handed? Right. 

20. Siblings:  Two younger brothers -- Ron & Nick.

21. Time You Wake Up? For work, I'm usually up by 6:30. I dilly-dally around the house for a while since it doesn't take me long to get ready (seriously, my husband takes a longer shower than I do!), I only live about 7 blocks from work and don't have to be in until 7:30. On weekends, I'm usually up between 6:30 and 7. It's just habit!

22. Underwear:  Umm, yes...

23. Vegetable You Dislike: Celery. I just can't. BLECH.

24. What Makes You Run Late:  Andy, LOL.

25. Yummy Food You Make: Apparently a kick-ass taco salad is my specialty because I make it for work potlucks and it's gone within the first half hour!

26. Zoo, Favorite Animal:  BUFFALO!!

Friday, February 25, 2011

365: 2/25/2011

DAY 56: Service for eight

Andy and I were out and about tonight and I noticed that the silverware set I've been only slightly obsessed about was on sale! Obviously it was meant to be.

Deal o' the week


Super pumped about this faucet, y'all. Once it's here, it'll be sitting pretty on our pedestal sink in the bathroom. Retail? $110.00. What'd I pay? $45.00! WOOOO! Pretty sure I'll order the kitchen-sized faucet for our kitchen sink as well, since it's currently $115.00 cheaper than it normally sells for! Amazing.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

365: 2/24/2011

DAY 55: Click your heels

Today was a LOT of fun! The girls and I went out to lunch and decided that ehhhh, work was overrated! So, we went over to Anne's and just hung out. After a while we went out to Saginaw to get dinner and stop at David's Bridal since Kelli and Angela had to pick out bridesmaid dresses for Anne's wedding. They needed the opinion of the wedding photographer. ;) I'm SO excited to shoot this wedding in September, especially since all the 'maids will be rocking these AMAZING shoes!!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

365: 2/23/2011

DAY 54: Nick's grumpy face

This picture isn't actually from today... But I had to share it because I love it, lol. He didn't want me to take his picture and so instead of smiling, he gave me a stank face. ;)

Wee Bit Wednesday





{one} do you always wear your seatbelt in the car?
Yes! Always, and it boggles my mind that there are people that don’t! Not to mention, my town is HUGE on seat-buckle violation stings.

{two} do you crack your knuckles?
Yes, usually a couple times a day.

{three} what is your favorite flavor of gum?
I don’t chew gum… It’s a texture thing – eww.

{four} what is your favorite piece of jewelry that you own?
My engagement ring & wedding ring.

{five} who is your best friend?
My mom, brother & husband. I can’t pick just one. :)

{six} what is your favorite smell?
I’m kind of embarrassed to say this: hose water. LOL, don’t ask me why because I don’t know! Also, lilacs.

{seven} what is your favorite lunch meat?
Koegel bologna. I love turkey pastrami, too!

{eight} do you still have your tonsils?
Yep.

{nine} do you untie your shoes before you take them off?
I only have one pair of shoes with laces and I never wear them, LOL. It’s the whole aversion to exercise thing.

{ten} what color is your car?
Burnt orange. It’s pretty.

Re-doing our guest room

A few months ago, we got a new mattress and boxspring for our bedroom. This meant that our guest room got an upgrade too, since we moved our previous queen set in there and gave our old full set the boot. Fortunately for me (although Andy sees it otherwise, lol) this also meant that the guest room got new bedding since our other stuff was the wrong size. I really had no idea what I wanted since we were going to be swapping bedrooms and I could pretty much start over as far as decor went. We were out one night to pick up a few sets of sheets when I walked by a comforter set. It was one of those moments where you kind of just walk by something, give it a passing glance and then realize what you saw so you put it in reverse and take a closer look. What's more Craftsman (other than sleeping with a blanket of leaves, maybe) and/or quentissential Americana than a quilt? Seriously. And the colors were so fun! So, the set was mine -- err, ours:


That started my color palatte. The bedroom that is to become the guest room has cream crown molding, chair rails, baseboards and closet doors so I knew that I could get away with a darker color on the walls. I decided to use the dark teal color on the quilt as my wall color. Thankfully Behr has ColorSmart and so I was able to select and modify colors until I found one that worked, as seen on the random bedroom walls that Behr lets you "paint":


Eventually, and hopefully soon, I'd like to get a bed set like the one below. It's almost identical to the full size one that we had (it was a birthday gift from my dad when I was 16 or 17) previously... I just like cream headboards, I guess!


I'm obsessed with artwork, seriously. On my down time, if I happen to be online, I've always got a tab open to browse All Posters. The art I'm using in the guest room? I've actually had the prints for about two years now. They were on clearance and I just loved them... They're not anything like what I typically buy (I tend to stick with vintage ads or plant/wildlife scientific-type prints) but for some reason I just had to have them! I think I spent maybe $5.00 a piece on them, which is insane because they were about $40.00 a piece when they were first available. Anyway -- to sum it up -- I love them, I just had no where to put them! So they stayed stashed in my cupboard in their little cardboard roll. It wasn't until I brought the quilt home that I realized Heshi Yu's artwork had the same teals and yellows as the quilt and so, umm, CHA-CHING! Guest room walls = done! I'm using "Springtime" (first piece) and "Skaters" (second piece), as seen below:



Now all I need is the willpower to stop procrastinating and start painting. Blech.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

365: 2/22/2011

DAY 53: Filling my open-face cabinets

Most of my upper cabinets in the kitchen are open-face and so that forces me to keep them clean and pretty. I've been browsing some inspiration of how to decorate them (post on that later!) so I bought a few things tonight to help fill them up. :)

Okay, so let me elaborate...

When I said earlier that my search for the perfect dining room set has gone on for three and a half years, I wasn't kidding. I know, I know... You're wondering how it could possibly take someone three and a half years to find a dining room set. Well, uhh, I don't really know. Does it make it any better to know I've really only averaged finding and nixing one set a year? No? Well fine! I've totally found pretty ones but they're just not "the one." There's one thing I really obsess over and it's my house. I grew up in an old Victorian home that my mom decorated to look like everything was original and that's probably where my obsession comes from. I don't have a cookie cutter house, I absolutely did not want a cookie cutter house and so this vintage Craftsman bungalow of mine will look like a Craftsman bungalow! I feel like that should have damn it at the end of it. ;)

Anywho. I thought I'd tell the story of my search. It started with this dining room set:


It was perfect! Until I realized it was the exact same color as our hardwood floors. That might not be a big deal to some... But, it was also the same color as the baseboards. And the crown molding. And all of the woodwork/trim around the windows. Guess what? Our dining room is open to the kitchen except for an island with open-face cabinets above it. The other three walls? ALL windows. Yeah, it was a little overwhelming.

And then there was this one:


I loved it. A lot. The backs of the chairs were beautiful. It definitely had a vintage look. It was on sale. It had a matching buffet. The top of the table was a pretty, dark mahogany color. Well, it was until you set anything on it. The pretty mahogany stain scratched away just from having things placed on the table. Yeaaah, no.

Andy was kinda-sorta obsessed with pub height tables which I still, to this day, don't get because he HATES sitting at them if we go out to eat. I mean, really hates it... Like, "wait an extra 30 minutes for a regular table at Lucky's" hates it. He was all "why not?" and I was all "WHY?!" and I thought I had successfully dodged the pub-height bullet. But, alas, one day we were browsing furniture websistes and we saw this one:


Andy was all "woo hoo!" and I was all "WHY?!" and he was all "wah, wah, I like it and I never get a say in how our house is decorated, wah." So I caved. I will admit that the Craftsman undertones of this table helped to sell it a little. All of the slats on the chairs are pretty, I still think that. I just couldn't get over the fact that I don't see counter height tables as formal. One thing I really wanted in a house was a separate dining room and to me, a separate dining room calls for a table that's a little more formal than simulating sitting at a countertop.

So there we were... Still stuck with the little four seater table that we got when we moved in. Every so often, when we're out and about, I make Andy stop in to furniture stores just to browse. He loves it! (Just kidding) We came across a dining room set and I fell in loooove. It was heavy and had trestles just like the first table. It was a little lighter than the floors and trim in our dining room, it was distressed and it had pretty metal details on the corners. It was big enough without a leaf to seat six people comfortably and with the leaf could easily accomodate 8-10. PERFECTION. I sat on my hands about this one, though.


Me sitting on my hands might be different than the normal person, though. Me sitting on my hands means that I spend every waking minute thinking about how bad I want the table and just knowing that when the time comes that we actually suck it up and go to get it, it will be gone and I'll be devastated. Did I say "might be" up there? I meant "is totally." It also entails me dragging Andy to the furniture store as often as I can just to look at it. It took the better part of a year of me doing this and still wanting the table to bite the bullet. That picture up there is a peek of the set and much better quality than the picture I took with my camera phone, LOL. Come this time next month, it'll be sitting pretty in my dining room and I'll never think about dining room tables again.

Monday, February 21, 2011

365: 2/21/2011

DAY 52: The many napping positions of Sadie

I, thankfully, had today off of work (yay government holidays!). I say thankfully because I had the worst headache ever and spent pretty much all day on my couch, documenting the weird ways Sadie sleeps. LOL.

Music Monday

Spotlight on:

Okay... Y'all... Seriously... If there were ever a voice to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, it's Ray LaMontagne's. He brings a modern edge to blues music, that is for sure. His music is so relaxing and I think I'm just going to let it speak for itself. (Although, I have to say, be sure to listen to his cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" at the end... It's awesome!)

LOL


I love this.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

365: 2/20/2011

DAY 51: Clearing off my neighbor's roof

The glare from my window doesn't help this picture, but I was way too worried this little guy would run off before I could snap a picture to think about composition! He kept running to that little patch of snow/ice to the left and breaking off little chunks to munch on. Adorable.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

365: 2/19/2011

DAY 50: Dining room set sneak peak

We went and ordered our dining room set! It'll be here next month and I can NOT wait. I'm so glad we didn't wait any longer since they've retired the collection and we're getting one of the last 30 sets in production! Finally, my 3.5 year search for the perfect dining room set is FINISHED.

Friday, February 18, 2011

365: 2/18/2011

DAY 49: My deer-legged dog

Sadie has got the craziest long legs for a dog, I swear. Here she's looking at Ronnie while he pets her, LOL.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

365: 2/17/2011

DAY 48: I still love my wedding bouquet

My cousin, Rachel, took this picture of my bouquet (I edited it, though!) and it's from a year and a half ago... But I swear that I am just as obsessed with it today as I was in June of 2009. <3

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

365: 2/16/2011

DAY 47: My Colie cat

I love this cat, I really do. He's content to just lay in my lap and get his chin scritched.

Wee Bit Wednesday





{one} what is your favorite breakfast food?
French toast. I really, really love French toast. Or scrambled eggs with ketchup... Yeah, I'm one of ~those~ people. ;)


{two} how many pairs of shoes do you currently own?
I couldn't even begin to count!  I have boxes upon boxes of shoes. And I'm not talkin' shoe sized boxes... No, I'm talking large sized moving boxes from Home Depot sized boxes.


{three} city or country?
I'm a city girl, that is FOR SURE.


{four} what is your favorite part of your job?
My friends -- AKA coworkers! :)


{five} what is your favorite junk food to snack on?
Can cheese be considered a junk food? Even if it's not, it's my all time favorite snack food. I could eat sharp cheddar cheese all day.


{six} have you ever been mentioned in the newspaper?
Yes, just little blurbs... National awards for school, scholarships for college, soccer tournaments... That kind of thing!


{seven} do you use post-it notes?
Not at home, but I use them every day at work.


{eight} do you have freckles?
TONS. Thanks, Dad.


{nine} is it okay for men to wear pink?
Definitely!


{ten} when was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper?
Last year to my grandma when she still lived in Tennessee. She lives in Bay City again, now!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

365: 2/15/2011

DAY 46: Frank likes to cuddle

What you're looking at is the top of Frank's head in this picture... Yes, he is massive and makes me look incredibly small, LOL.

Monday, February 14, 2011

365: 2/14/2011

DAY 45: Happy Valentine's Day!

I really can't believe that we are half way through February! I spent my day at work, being forced to sample all of the different foods brought in at our potluck. Since then, Andy and I have just spent a quiet evening at home -- relaxing on the couch and cuddling. :) I love nights like these.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

365: 2/13/2011

DAY 44: My pendants

The previous owners had these really weird silver pod-looking pendant lights in the dining room. Our house is a 1940's Craftsman bungalow and that combo made my brain hurt. Needless to say, I am really, really obsessed with the pendant lights *I* picked out. :)

Saturday, February 12, 2011

365: 2/12/2011

DAY 43: My OCD-filled planner

Taken with my cell phone, you're looking at my wall color planning from last week. The little grid in the right corner is all of the colors currently in my house. The two other squares are the new paint colors for the bathroom (bottom left) and guest room (top right)... I'm obviously not afraid of color (and with a vintage house you definitely have to pay homage to the way colors were used back when the house was built!), but I have to make sure the colors I pick won't clash. :)

Bad, Bad Blogger

I have been a bad blogger, it's true! Have I been posting lately? Yes. Has it been much more than my 365 pictures? No. I've been busy planning and working on household projects and to be honest, I haven't touched my computer much when I've been home! While I'm still doing stuff around the house, I figured I need to at least update my blog with what's been going on! So, have some tidbits:

- My lack of posts stem mostly from the fact that I'm re-doing my bathroom from top to bottom... And when I say top to bottom, that is sooo literal it's almost not even funny.  Other than the toilet, sink and tub, the only thing staying is the mirror and that's only because it has beveled edges and goes with everything, LOL. I've spent the last week painting every inch of the bathroom. The walls have gone from tan to dark gray. The wainscoting, cabinets, doors, trim, ceiling and beams have all been painted bright white (they were all previously off white). Next up is installing all of the new hardware, putting the light fixture up (same one, because I love it so much, but I got some of that spray paint that replicates brushed nickel and changed it up from oil rubbed bronze since all of our new hardware is brushed nickel) and hanging the new art. But before all that? Putting in new flooring. I'm so looking forward to being done!

- Before I started in the bathroom, I completed my quest for new living room curtains. It doesn't seem that hard but ya know what? I'm PICKY! We had pale green, pale red, gold and brown checked curtains for out here but I have so much artwork that I decided I wanted one, solid color for the curtains. Rust red. I seriously had to trek all over mid-Michigan to find some! And when I finally did, it was at Marshall's of all places! But they're perfect and had matching valances so my heart is happy and my living room windows are complete!

- Andy started a new job this month! His background is in IT and he's been trying and trying to get something in that field ever since he volunteered as a power user when he first started working for Dow. He finally interviewed for an in-house Network Technician position on a Tuesday, was called in for a second interview two days later and then was called and offered the job an hour after his second interview! He was really excited, especially since the company he now works for has contracts with major corporations like GM, Target, Blockbuster, etc. and he gets to play with their networks all day.

- Once the bathroom is finished I plan on finally swapping our bedrooms. We're currently in the bedroom toward the back of the house and I want to move into the guest room we have toward the front of the house. We have a Craftsman bungalow from the 40's and the bedrooms are the same size, so it doesn't matter which one is the "master." We've got to repaint the rooms though. :( The new master bedroom will be the same pale red we've had to go with all of our existing stuff in the current master, but I got all new bedding for the guest room when we upgraded the mattress set in there from a full to a queen and so we'll be painting the new guest room a dark teal color to tie together all of the new bedding!

- The search that I'm ashamed to admit has continued? My hunt for the perfect dining room set. I've spent about three years hemming and hawing over what I want. I think, though, that I've found *the one.* I won't say anything more until it's for sure... But I think after this week we'll own it and I'll be in love with it. And THEN I will share my love with the blogging world. ;)

I told you my life has revolved around house stuff lately. One little snippet about Andy and the rest is all home decor. Yikes. More not so boring stuff later!

Friday, February 11, 2011

365: 2/11/2011

DAY 42: My grandma is 90!

Last night after work, we met up with my dad's side of the family (which is huge, by the way) to celebrate my grandma's 90th birthday! Her grandson (my brother, Nick) and great-grandson (my cousin, Jake) helped her blow out her candles -- 9, one for each decade... 'Cause 90 would be just a little crazy. ;)

Thursday, February 10, 2011

365: 2/10/2011

DAY 41: A wave of clouds


This really isn't the best picture since I took this through my car window while I was driving (SHH), but I really like clouds. And I thought it was cool that the sky looked like a wave was rolling across the sky. :)

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

365: 2/9/2011

DAY 40: My bathroom ceiling keeps me up at night

Currently, my bathroom ceiling is white with white wood beams. The last few days I've been trying to decide whether or not I want to paint one or the other... I decided that the only way to solve this would be to open up trusty ol' MS Paint and draw up a little diagram of what my bathroom ceiling looks like when you look up at it. I then tried a gray ceiling with white beams and a white ceiling with gray beams. As you can see by the thumbs up, I definitely liked the first one better!

Wee Bit Wednesday



{one} ice: crushed or cubed?
Crushed! Lots and lots of crushed ice… I usually order my drinks with extra ice because I can’t stand when it has melted and I still have half a drink left!

{two} what is your worst traffic pet peeve?
When someone hurries to pull out in front of you and then goes extremely slow when there is absolutely NO ONE behind you. It’s like… Could you not have waited the extra three seconds it would have taken for me to pass by you? Grr!
 

{three} what room in your house best represents your personality?
Hmm… This is really tough because I struck an agreement with Andy when we bought our house in 2007 that I would have total control over how the upstairs would be decorated so long as he would be able to have a say in what we did in the basement. Plus he got the garage. Big loss, LOL. I think every room is a big representation of me – when we moved in EVERY single room in the house was painted the same boring tan and I’ve gone to great lengths to bring. some. effing. color. ;) That’s all I’ll say because I’m planning on a house post soon!

{four} do you save old birthday cards?
Sometimes. It depends on who gave the cards to me!
 

{five} when was the last time you went on a picnic?
I have no idea! I guess our backyard barbecue wedding in June of 2009? If that counts, anyway.

{six} do you regularly check your horoscope?
Never.
 

{seven} when you’re home, what do you wear on your feet?
I have a pair of slipper boots that I put on as soon as I get home. Sooo comfy!
 

{eight} what’s your favorite gambling game?
Honestly, I rarely ever go to the casino. We stop at Turtle Creek when we’re up in the Traverse City area every six months or so, but other than that, I think the last time we were at a casino in our area was when my brother, Ronnie, turned 18. He’ll be 22 this year, LOL.
 

{nine} have you ever written (or started writing) a book?
I wrote a lot of books when I was little, LOL. I wrote a little mini-story about the months leading up to our wedding. I should probably post that on here with some pictures!
 

{ten} what is your favorite musical?
Yeaaah, I don’t do musicals. I’ll tell you my favorite play, though: Tartuffe by Moliere.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

TV Tuesday: Recommendation


If there’s one show that you haven’t watched yet and absolutely should, it’s the Big Bang Theory. While my brother DID give me all of the seasons (so glad his fraternity has every season of every show under the sun to share!), a few other people told me I needed this show in my life and you know what? They were right!

Aside from Monty Python, I’m not a fan of stupid humor. I know plenty of people that get a kick out of American Dad or Reno 911 (my husband being one of them), but to me? It’s just, well… Stupid. I know plenty of people that laugh every time they hear the dueling farts from Family Guy. But me? Once was enough. The thing I love most about BBT is that it follows a group of genius physicists. Their banter and jokes are SMART while still maintaining a funny factor. I don’t necessarily like to be “tested” while watching a show but I’d like to at least think my brain isn’t going to turn to goo from watching a few seasons!


Normally, my favorite ANYTHING is the underdog. Something else I absolutely adore about this show is that the four guys (Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj) are ALL underdogs. Leonard, try as he might, just can’t get the girl across the hall, Penny. Sheldon lacks the ability to comprehend ANY sort of social skill – random kindness, sarcasm, irony, etc. Howard tries to be a ladies man, fails miserably and always ends up coming off as utterly creepy. Raj totally loses the capability to speak whenever a girl joins a conversation. I have to admit, though, I think that Sheldon is my favorite of the underdogs. It’s just so funny to watch him try to interact with others that it makes the whole show for me!

Penny, the girl across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon, works at the Cheesecake Factory and becomes friends with the group even though she is nowhere near as intelligent. The interactions between her and Sheldon are easily the most amusing, especially since Sheldon thinks his intelligence makes him some sort of superhuman and Penny thinks his intelligence makes him socially retarded.

( They are invited to a costume party and all try to be the Flash. )

I want to end with quotes that make me laugh every. single. time. Enjoy. ;)

Zack: Is that the laser? It's bitchin'.
Sheldon: Yes. In 1917, when Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundation for the laser in his paper "Zur Quantentheorie de Strahlung," his fondest hope was that the resultant device be bitchin'.

Sheldon: Good morning!
Penny: Do you have any idea what time it is?
Sheldon: Of course I do, my watch is linked to the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. It’s accurate to one-tenth of a second, but as I’m saying this, it occurs to me once again your question may have been rhetorical.

Sheldon: Why do you have the Chinese character for "soup" tattooed on your right buttock?
Penny: It's not "soup," it's "courage."
Sheldon: No, it isn't. But I suppose it does take courage to demonstrate that kind of commitment to soup.

Sheldon: I find zombies dancing in choreographed synchronicity implausible. And, also, it’s really scary.



365: 2/8/11

Day 39: Andy gets what Andy wants

I can't complain. I get what I want, too... I just finally succumbed to Andy's desire for a netbook tonight. It IS pretty cute.

Monday, February 7, 2011

365: 2/7/2011

DAY 38: Clean clothes = the best bed ever

It never fails that when I bring up an armful of clean clothes from the dryer, Cole will be asleep on it in minutes. No wonder I have white cat hair all over my clothes! Silly kitty.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

365: 2/6/2011

DAY 37: The backlash of not paying attention


Never again will I guess what kind of lights are needed for the pendants in my dining room. I s'pose that's what the little light bulb with the letter on the package is for... To eliminate the guessing. Oopsies.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

365: 2/5/2011

DAY 36: A plate for the bathroom

Yeah, that's right. I'm hanging this in my bathroom! We've taken EVERYTHING out of our bathroom so that I can repaint it from the beams on the ceiling down to the baseboards. We're putting in new flooring, new hardware, new artwork, etc... The only things that aren't changing are the tub, sink and toilet! I found this plate while browsing Marshall's earlier today and new it'd be PERFECT for the wall!