Archive | August, 2008
Purge! Clean! Cook! Cheap Trick!
We spent an hour online contemplating running away this weekend. Both New Orleans (oops, we didn’t look at the weather reports) and Savannah almost had us. Alas, we decided to stay home and make each other nuts. The purging has started. The closet is done and my home office is 65.4% done. Still need to [...]
Continue reading...Flat Stanley – Home Media Frustration.
29. August 2008
We’re thinking about getting a flat television but it’s going to be a long and agonizing process. It’s not that our current television doesn’t work, it does. In fact, it works perfect. The problem is that the huge television sits on an old china hutch. I want to put a china hutch in my home [...]
Continue reading...Womp! Womp! Yack! Time To Purge.
27. August 2008
I think I shall torture the Fiance this weekend by playing one of my favorite games… Purge-Atory! Rules: 1. Argue about what’s crap and what’s not crap. 2. Wear the other person down till they say “Fine! Do what you want with it!” 3. Fill the box. Take the item out of the box. Apologize. Put it back in the [...]
Continue reading...Is That A Piece of Pepperoni, On Your Floor?
27. August 2008
I had my first sewing lesson tonight and the instructor showed up straight from her eye exam where she’d had her pupils dialated. As we were laying out the fabric on the floor to pin the pattern down she exclaimed “is that a piece of pepperoni on your floor!?!?!?” I started to laugh and then [...]
Continue reading...Short Week. Hurrah!
26. August 2008
I took yesterday as a vacation day, and this Friday is a company-wide half day with the following Monday off for Labor Day. Short weeks! Short weeks! Hurrah! No clue what I’m going to do with the upcoming long weekend. I think we’re sticking close to home since Miss Talas has been a bit lackluster the last [...]
Continue reading...Of Course, I ‘Squeezed’ Some Chairs Into The Trunk…
25. August 2008
Yep, yesterday was pretty darn close to being a perfect Sunday. The only thing that could have made it better would have been a stack of blueberry pancakes. Chairs! Chairs! Chairs! Yeah, I have no idea where they are going to go. I thought I knew. Now, not so much. Pottery Barn Andros metal bistro chairs for [...]
Continue reading...Beep! Beep! Boat Coming Thru…
24. August 2008
The Fiance’s Grandfather isn’t driving anymore and so he gave us his car. It’s a Buick Park Avenue. Not this one, but same model… We’re little-car-folk (Toyota) but we sure did have fun cruising around today. It’s like driving a big overstuffed couch. Beep! Beep! The car is massive, it looks like the car service vehicles [...]
Continue reading...Yep, Quite Proud – But Not Of The Ironing Board.
23. August 2008
OK, I’m a little proud of the ironing board…that I made from scratch! First though, let me tell you about my afternoon with Larry… I forgot my cellphone today. Left it at home. I walked out of the subway and not more than 15 feet from me saw a little old man tumble like a bag [...]
Continue reading...These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things…
22. August 2008
It’s Friday, let’s have a sing-along. OK, maybe not. I see a few of you are stand-on-the-side-liners. Me too, mostly. Pass the bottle opener. Thanks. The September issue of Country Living Magazine arrived last night. Remember CL? It’s changed. A LOT. In fact I met with one of their staffers earlier this week and she confirmed, things [...]
Continue reading...Where Do You Display Your Family Photos?
22. August 2008
I snapped this picture the other day while I was standing on the stairs. I try to keep all of the family photos in the hallway and/or in my bedroom. There are a few elsewhere (my Mom is nothing if not rebellious) and of course the fridge is covered. How do you display family photos? [...]
Continue reading...Perm + Bangs + Bustier. Oh My.
21. August 2008
It’s 2:45AM and I can’t sleep. I was going through my other flickr account and finding pictures of me through the years that made me chuckle. Go ahead…have a giggle…perm-city. This first picture is my “headshot” back from when I was going to rule the world with my bass guitar. Umm, it didn’t quite happen – [...]
Continue reading...Keep Calm And Rock On.
21. August 2008
You know how everyone and their mother has been rocking the “Keep Calm And Carry On” poster for a year or more? Seemed to be the “it” home decor item that you couldn’t escape. Well, I like it but I refuse to put it in my home because it’s…everywhere. That annoys me. What can I say? BUT [...]
Continue reading...Renovation (Retail) Therapy.
21. August 2008
I had an 11AM meeting at Barnes & Nobles today. As soon as the meeting was done I raced over to Lord & Taylor. My wardrobe is just looking SAD lately. Last night we went to dinner and I looked at myself and said “ugh, I look like a tourist“. They even tried to give us the crappy tourist [...]
Continue reading...Toast My Ning – In More Ways Than One.
20. August 2008
When you’re renovating a house that was built somewhere around 1839 you hope to find some treasures. It’s true. Everytime we rip down a wall I think “this time I’ll find the bag of gold and pay off the mortgage!” We pulled out the shelving in the upstairs bathroom during the painting process…this shelving specifically: Well, here’s [...]
Continue reading...In Here! In Here!
19. August 2008
When you have a real live painter at your place…and A LOT of leftover paint… You start to open doors and yell “In Here! In Here!” and that’s how I ended up with TWO freshly painted bathrooms…this is the downstairs loo…mid-paintin’. Have you ever seen someone clear out a bathroom in under 2 minutes? That paintbrush was full [...]
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30. August 2008
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