Enjoy!
10.13.2009
Room Decor Challenge
Below is my Room Design Challenge Entry and I chose a Nursery with an Aquatic Theme. It is more ideal for a boy, but could be girlied if needed. I love the underwater and found the ocean design calming.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
10.12.2009
*My Power Buys*
Since I am home these next couple days by myself, I spent part of my evening looking for some great deals.
At Bed, Bath & Beyond:
Cookbook Holder for the Kitchen (orig. 12.99- 20% off = $10.39)
Picture Frame Tray (Clearance = $4.98) -For our Guest Bedroom-
*It is missing a piece of glass to cover the pictures, but I can find one and it may need some touch-up paint*
At Target:
Photo Box (Clearance = $ 4.98)
*I added a coat of white paint to cover some dirt marks and then fixed the ribbon (it was falling off) with some hot glue and added the shells*
At Bed, Bath & Beyond:
Cookbook Holder for the Kitchen (orig. 12.99- 20% off = $10.39)
Picture Frame Tray (Clearance = $4.98) -For our Guest Bedroom-
*It is missing a piece of glass to cover the pictures, but I can find one and it may need some touch-up paint*
At Target:
Photo Box (Clearance = $ 4.98)
*I added a coat of white paint to cover some dirt marks and then fixed the ribbon (it was falling off) with some hot glue and added the shells*
Busy Bee
This is a somewhat hectic week for me with all that is going on, and I really need to conquer some things around the home and in my life. Greene is traveling for work until Wednesday. Thankfully, we did laundry, changed linens, did the dishes, and even vacuumed and straightened up a bit this weekend. *Note: We have a gazillion clothes and therefore only do laundry every other week, and to be all honest the dishwasher gets run approximately 2x a week since it is only the 2 of us and most times the 2nd wash is pans and it's only 1/2 full.* In terms of our house cleaning schedule, I am notorious for straightening up behind Greene as he leaves things around, but for the most part we "clean as we go". *Thank you God I have a husband who understands the meaning of a clean home and picks up for himself (for the most part).*
My Schedule for Tonight:
* Trip to Michael's Craft Store (look for some extra pieces for the Halloween village)
* Redo the Recipe Cards and catch up on the stack of recent recipes
* Watch my "girly" shows
* Work on the Christmas applique kits
Later this Week:
* Higher Education Finance class starts (Wednesday evening)
* Grade exams (Friday & Weekend)
* Relax and POGO (my evening escape)
My Schedule for Tonight:
* Trip to Michael's Craft Store (look for some extra pieces for the Halloween village)
* Redo the Recipe Cards and catch up on the stack of recent recipes
* Watch my "girly" shows
* Work on the Christmas applique kits
Later this Week:
* Higher Education Finance class starts (Wednesday evening)
* Grade exams (Friday & Weekend)
* Relax and POGO (my evening escape)
...
Blogging has definitely taken a backseat to life here but mainly because grad school, being sick, teaching 7 classes a week, Husby traveling, and my shoulder still hurting has been the primary focuses. Once again Husby is traveling and it is a quiet week between grad school (term starts Wednesday) and teaching (Exam 2 this week).
Nothing to exciting has been occurring either. We have the village almost all set for Halloween (pics to come in future post) and this weekend, we bought some new furniture for the home. We are beginning to transition ourselves from newlyweds and "stay-at homes" to more entertaining and future family status, so we found a really nice dining table that has a leaf for widening/extending it with 6 matching chairs and also a loveseat to match our couch in the Living Room.
Our Couch:
Our New Loveseat:
This is the Dining Room Table except with 6 chairs:
The Tall chairs (Ones on Left) are the chairs we went with (We already plan to redo the seats as I do not like the material on them from the warehouse):
*I think we are going to cover the chairs in a blue suede-like material, but cannot find a good picture*
*::*Update*::*
Although this is crappy camera phone picture, you can kid of see the color of the fabric. I happened to be near Joann's and figured I could snap a quick picture.
Saw this fabric and want to make pillows out of it or maybe placemats and napkins:
*http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat1183844&PRODID=xprd779844*
Nothing to exciting has been occurring either. We have the village almost all set for Halloween (pics to come in future post) and this weekend, we bought some new furniture for the home. We are beginning to transition ourselves from newlyweds and "stay-at homes" to more entertaining and future family status, so we found a really nice dining table that has a leaf for widening/extending it with 6 matching chairs and also a loveseat to match our couch in the Living Room.
Our Couch:
Our New Loveseat:
This is the Dining Room Table except with 6 chairs:
The Tall chairs (Ones on Left) are the chairs we went with (We already plan to redo the seats as I do not like the material on them from the warehouse):
*I think we are going to cover the chairs in a blue suede-like material, but cannot find a good picture*
*::*Update*::*
Although this is crappy camera phone picture, you can kid of see the color of the fabric. I happened to be near Joann's and figured I could snap a quick picture.
Saw this fabric and want to make pillows out of it or maybe placemats and napkins:
*http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat1183844&PRODID=xprd779844*
8.13.2009
Diet?
First off, let me just say I am not a big fan of dieting and have never been structured enough to follow a diet for more than a few weeks since I get "bored" with the recipes or crave something not on the diet. Once I cross-over I never seem to want to go back to the diet.
Recently, with all the problems I have been having with the PCOS and because of the steroid weight gain, I feel it is necessary to maybe try a new diet plan. Unfortunately, the diet that is recommended for my PCOS is a Low Glycemic Index diet. I think if I was not married to Mr. Mac-n-Cheese and Potatoes, this would be an easy diet for me to follow since it entails a lot of vegetable eating and grains, but I fear dinnertime will become a battle if he cannot have his MacnCheese and Mashed Potatoes.
A little more research and maybe some discussion with husby can result in introducing this plan of acceptable foods into our house. I also need to get my shoulder fixed so I can go back to working out and sweating away all this steroid weight. So, so annoying.
Recently, with all the problems I have been having with the PCOS and because of the steroid weight gain, I feel it is necessary to maybe try a new diet plan. Unfortunately, the diet that is recommended for my PCOS is a Low Glycemic Index diet. I think if I was not married to Mr. Mac-n-Cheese and Potatoes, this would be an easy diet for me to follow since it entails a lot of vegetable eating and grains, but I fear dinnertime will become a battle if he cannot have his MacnCheese and Mashed Potatoes.
A little more research and maybe some discussion with husby can result in introducing this plan of acceptable foods into our house. I also need to get my shoulder fixed so I can go back to working out and sweating away all this steroid weight. So, so annoying.
8.12.2009
Tuesday Rambles
I am honestly losing my mind over keeping up with this blog and keeping everything organized. We have been super busy remodeling/decorating the house. Greene has been working nonstop on the Master Bathroom and this past weekend, we finally finished it! I found everything to decorate it between my local favorite haunts and Marshall's, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Target, Ross and Home Goods over the weekend. And because of how detailed oriented (you may call it something else), we even hand-made our own reed diffuser and tray sets for each bathroom (pictures to follow if I ever find the cord to connect to the computer). My friend from back home comes to visit next week, so thankfully we finished the bathroom in the nick of time. Now the next projects are minor details like trim and then once we get through August and all our guests and visitors, we will deconstruct the guest bathroom to paint and do some minor detail tiling.
On side note, my shoulder is still messed up and I am still waiting for the Orthopedic Dr. for WC to decide what the next plan is. I am still having issues lifting anything and moving my shoulder without experiencing some pain, so who knows what is wrong at this point. I think I may need to look into WC lawyers and go to our family orthopedic doctor for a second opinion since this has lingered ALL SUMMER. Since we are already on the mention of doctors, today I have yet another lovely appointment with the OB/GYN specialist for my cysts. The recent BC medicine she gave me to help cycle me and reduce the risk of cyst ruptures does not seem to be working and I am beginning to fear the worse (why? because I always worry about everything). With the lack of cycles I was sort of hoping for the pink line, but none so far, which means it must be the PCOS rebounding against me. Even though we are not trying to get preggers at the moment (I need to finish my Master's) in case the 9 months are bad, I would rather know why my cycle is so wacky and I'm having all the pain.
We did, however discuss the future and try to make a time frame for when we want to have kids. Ok, I know you cannot have a schedule and expect your schedule to run fluidly with God's plan, but at least I can hope. So, I think we came to the conclusion we can start trying in a few more months, but we won't enlist any help until Summer 2010. *It is likely I will need to go back on the Met with another medicine to get my body to have normal cycles long enough to conceive, so that is what we mean by "enlisting help".* I wonder, can I still do some diving while I am pregnant? I lost this entire summer to my shoulder, not sure I want to lose another summer, prime dive season....this could be interesting.
School starts up in another 2 weeks. I am looking forward to going back to teaching in the classroom. I made my schedule so I will teach all day * night Wednesday, afternoon & evening Thursday and Friday morning for a total of 7 labs. I will work at the lab only on Mondays, Tuesdays and mornings on Thursday. I am itching to get back in the classroom since the lab has been so quiet lately, but I am also hesitant the schedule is a bit hectic and I still have all my Grad School work to keep up on.
Other than the above activities, life has been quiet and good. We've had some rough thunderstorms lately, but thankfully no H's. They may have named the first one yesterday, but it was so far away that it is not a concern at the moment. All the puppies are doing good. They are being their mischievous selves. Our gerbil passed away recently and I think Lucky took it the hardest. While we were cleaning out the cage and packing it up for storage in the shed, he kept whining and putting his nose in the tank in a search for Buddy, the gerbil. We moved the little turtles over to where Buddy's cage used to be, so occasionally he runs over to the tank and then sadly realizes it is no longer his gerbil friend.*There is no plan to get another gerbil...Buddy lived a long, wonderful 3 years and we are not planning to have a gerbil again until one of the kids ask for one* The fish tanks, turtles and dogs are more than enough to handle with school, work and home remodeling.
But it seems our house is still an animal shelter. We may (keyword: maybe, meaning if someone else does not step up) be getting another dog by default in the coming weeks. So as most of you know, we live on a pretty quiet street, with nice neighbors. Well there are a few houses for rent, one being the house next to us. So the last renters up and left one day leaving behind some things (a car, some of their kids toy's, and their puppy). We did not realize they had left the dog in the backyard, but there she sat for a week in the patio area of the house until the new renters moved in. We guess she is 6-8 months old and she is some mix of a pitbull and something else. Being that she is so young and super friendly (she loves to lick and give kisses, responds to us-she has escaped their backyard gate numerous times when they lived there, and is still a puppy and therefore trainable). She also plays well and seems infatuated with Lucky, so we will see how the next few weeks play out. The new renters do not want her, but they too do not want her sent to the pound, so who knows maybe they will fall in love with her and decide to keep her along with their other dog. The old renters have been called numerous times to come get her, but say they do not have room in their new home nor a kennel for her. The biggest issue about her, she is not house trained at all, :( but Greene thinks he can easily crate and house train her if we should adopt her in. Being that she is female and super affectionate and has run around in the backyard with our 3, I am not concerned with her pitbull genes being a problem...but if we adopt her, we will probably take her to a local vet to get her checked out and determine what her breed mix is.
I think that about sums it up. I have a few more things to catch up on, but I need to get back to work. Hope everyone is having a good week!
On side note, my shoulder is still messed up and I am still waiting for the Orthopedic Dr. for WC to decide what the next plan is. I am still having issues lifting anything and moving my shoulder without experiencing some pain, so who knows what is wrong at this point. I think I may need to look into WC lawyers and go to our family orthopedic doctor for a second opinion since this has lingered ALL SUMMER. Since we are already on the mention of doctors, today I have yet another lovely appointment with the OB/GYN specialist for my cysts. The recent BC medicine she gave me to help cycle me and reduce the risk of cyst ruptures does not seem to be working and I am beginning to fear the worse (why? because I always worry about everything). With the lack of cycles I was sort of hoping for the pink line, but none so far, which means it must be the PCOS rebounding against me. Even though we are not trying to get preggers at the moment (I need to finish my Master's) in case the 9 months are bad, I would rather know why my cycle is so wacky and I'm having all the pain.
We did, however discuss the future and try to make a time frame for when we want to have kids. Ok, I know you cannot have a schedule and expect your schedule to run fluidly with God's plan, but at least I can hope. So, I think we came to the conclusion we can start trying in a few more months, but we won't enlist any help until Summer 2010. *It is likely I will need to go back on the Met with another medicine to get my body to have normal cycles long enough to conceive, so that is what we mean by "enlisting help".* I wonder, can I still do some diving while I am pregnant? I lost this entire summer to my shoulder, not sure I want to lose another summer, prime dive season....this could be interesting.
School starts up in another 2 weeks. I am looking forward to going back to teaching in the classroom. I made my schedule so I will teach all day * night Wednesday, afternoon & evening Thursday and Friday morning for a total of 7 labs. I will work at the lab only on Mondays, Tuesdays and mornings on Thursday. I am itching to get back in the classroom since the lab has been so quiet lately, but I am also hesitant the schedule is a bit hectic and I still have all my Grad School work to keep up on.
Other than the above activities, life has been quiet and good. We've had some rough thunderstorms lately, but thankfully no H's. They may have named the first one yesterday, but it was so far away that it is not a concern at the moment. All the puppies are doing good. They are being their mischievous selves. Our gerbil passed away recently and I think Lucky took it the hardest. While we were cleaning out the cage and packing it up for storage in the shed, he kept whining and putting his nose in the tank in a search for Buddy, the gerbil. We moved the little turtles over to where Buddy's cage used to be, so occasionally he runs over to the tank and then sadly realizes it is no longer his gerbil friend.*There is no plan to get another gerbil...Buddy lived a long, wonderful 3 years and we are not planning to have a gerbil again until one of the kids ask for one* The fish tanks, turtles and dogs are more than enough to handle with school, work and home remodeling.
But it seems our house is still an animal shelter. We may (keyword: maybe, meaning if someone else does not step up) be getting another dog by default in the coming weeks. So as most of you know, we live on a pretty quiet street, with nice neighbors. Well there are a few houses for rent, one being the house next to us. So the last renters up and left one day leaving behind some things (a car, some of their kids toy's, and their puppy). We did not realize they had left the dog in the backyard, but there she sat for a week in the patio area of the house until the new renters moved in. We guess she is 6-8 months old and she is some mix of a pitbull and something else. Being that she is so young and super friendly (she loves to lick and give kisses, responds to us-she has escaped their backyard gate numerous times when they lived there, and is still a puppy and therefore trainable). She also plays well and seems infatuated with Lucky, so we will see how the next few weeks play out. The new renters do not want her, but they too do not want her sent to the pound, so who knows maybe they will fall in love with her and decide to keep her along with their other dog. The old renters have been called numerous times to come get her, but say they do not have room in their new home nor a kennel for her. The biggest issue about her, she is not house trained at all, :( but Greene thinks he can easily crate and house train her if we should adopt her in. Being that she is female and super affectionate and has run around in the backyard with our 3, I am not concerned with her pitbull genes being a problem...but if we adopt her, we will probably take her to a local vet to get her checked out and determine what her breed mix is.
I think that about sums it up. I have a few more things to catch up on, but I need to get back to work. Hope everyone is having a good week!
8.03.2009
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