Finished Guest Room

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Sort of.

We decided to move the guest room furniture to one of the upstairs spare bedrooms so we can put the nursery in the downstairs spare bedroom (master bedroom is downstairs too). Funny how now that those midnight wakeup calls are so clearly in my future, the thought of trekking up and down the stairs a zillion times a day doesn’t seem so fun any more. Imagine that.

So while the room (that we used to call “the future nursery”) was empty we went ahead and painted it. Nate was nice enough to let me pick the color. I try to pick nice neutral colors for most areas of the house where we have to spend a lot of time, but in this guest room I was really excited to go for something bright and fun! I had the color matched at Lowes from one of the stripes on the bed set and I think the match turned out AWESOME!

Nate thinks the paint looks good but I have a sneaking suspicion he’s talking more about the good job we did painting than he is about the awesome job I did picking out the color, which really is fine with me.

It also really reminded us that that whole painting thing really is not as hard and awful as we remembered it being. We’ve decided definitely we’re paying someone to paint the master bedroom and we had planned on having them paint the nursery too, but ‘eh. We can totally do that now. The nursery, not the master bedroom. The master bedroom has vaulted ceilings that are about two stories high at the point and there is no way we’re scooting around with ladders trying to paint that crap.

So really I expect our home improvement projects to be ramping up here in the future trying to squeeze stuff in before we no longer have the free time for it!

8 Weeks

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So holy crap, people! We’re having a baby!

And yes, I really did pee on 4 sticks, because what if the other three were lying? It could happen. Actually if you want to get all technical (and if you don’t, umm, sorry about this) I peed on two the first day, one first thing on the second day, and then the fourth one a few days later just because it still didn’t seem real. It’s not even that this was a surprise pregnancy or anything, but still somehow when I took that test I felt surprised that it came back positive. My period was only a few days late and I really felt like it could be coming any day now. Which is sort of why I took that fourth test, because for the first couple of weeks of knowing I was pregnant my body still felt like ANY DAY NOW.

Anyways, we are super excited and it’s really hard to pace yourself because now we just want to go out and buy baby things. Lost of baby things, but with 7 months to go we’re trying to pace ourself.

It’s only been a week since my 8 week appointment, but it feels like longer. I haven’t told anyone at work I’m pregnant and I think there’s a 99.9% chance that no one at this work place reads my blog so I think I’m safe making the general announcement. And on the off chance that someone from work does read this then there’s a pretty good chance they have the good sense to keep their lips zipped!

Also I’m totally blaming my last few weeks of virtual silence on the fact that it’s REALLY hard to not talk about the one thing that’s occupying your mind like 110% of the time.

More Plants

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Since Nate and I bought our first house together I’ve slowly been getting more and more into gardening. This is my collection of potted plants along with some trailing gardenias.

Last fall at the farmer’s market I picked up some 1 gallon trailing gardenias to put around the patio. Unfortunately, these are not those plants. After having the deck screened in only one of the original three remained and it was relocated to the side of the house where there is almost real dirt (as opposed to the clay) and where it actually bloomed for the first time. I’m pretty sure that the move to the side yard saved it.

In their place I went and got 3 larger trailing gardenias from Lowes. I would have gotten them at the Farmer’s market, but all they ever have are the one gallon and since they were SO TINY and it didn’t work out so well for me last time I went ahead and got them. They’ve finally started blooming and I love them!

Last weekend I went to the farmer’s market to buy veggies and came home with a new red flower (I can’t remember what it’s called) to go under my bird bath, and a new hydrangea to go on the side of the house. I just couldn’t resist!

I’ll admit I’m a little worried about the plants in my flower bed by my veggies. I think the clay has caused some of them to drown. I had 2 plants that did not come back from last year and one that thriving this year suddenly shrivel up and die after a few days of downpour last month, so now I’m kind of freaked out about the rest of my plants in that bed and about all of the future plants I have already planned. I’ve picked up some soil conditioner at the store that I plan on trying to mix in this weekend, but do you guys have any suggestions? I’ve got several plants back there that I really don’t want to lose!

Raining Cats and Dogs

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So yesterday it rained ALL DAY.

I don’t think it stopped at all. It stopped pouring a couple of times to sprinkle instead, but it just wouldn’t quite quit.

Fortunately I managed to turn off the sprinklers before they started, but I caught about the only break of the morning. It stopped pouring long enough for me to turn them off, and then drive about 3 minutes from the house and then I spent the rest of the drive into work in a torrential downpour. I also had to make a run for it from the car to the building. I sat in the front seat of my car strapping on my backpack and getting my umbrella out and wound up ankle deep in running water on my way in.

I hate to complain about rain considering just two summers ago we had a horrible drought, but still. MODERATION please!

Before the beach trip we picked up Lego Star Wars for the Wii so we would have a new game to play on the trip.

So since it didn’t actually rain on the trip we didn’t actually get around to hooking the Wii up so finally yesterday I decided to check it out. So far I’ve passed the first two rounds and I really need to work on not accidentally stabbing my droids with my lightsaber because you can totally cut their limbs off without even meaning too. Lesson learned. A few times.

Also I think I need to work on my fighting strategy which currently involves mashing a lot of buttons and jumping a lot because I keep hitting the wrong buttons and doing things like getting my lightsaber out instead of jumping, and then accidentally switching characters in the middle of a fight and not realizing which person I am… Really.. I think I may start over since I’m finally sort of starting to get a handle on things.

Otherwise I think it’s pretty fun and very cute. I mean, they’re Legos! And it’s Star Wars! How do you beat that?! (I’ve also sort of been looking at the Lego Indiana Jones if I ever actually get halfway decent at Lego Star Wars).

So does anyone have any other fun Wii games? The last video game I really played (besides the little Wii sports and stuff) was Final Fantasy VIII on Play Station and it was one of about 3 games I had  because I don’t know how to tell if a game will suck or not and I don’t want to spend $50 on a game if there’s any suck potential.

On Sunday Nate and I went to see Angels and Demons. (Holy cow it was long, but I enjoyed it and didn’t notice it dragging or anything, I was just shocked to see what time it was when I was leaving the theater). So of course I had to pee as soon as the movie was over and really that trip to the restroom just really reminded me how much I hate using public restrooms. Hate. People are so freaking inconsiderate it just blows my mind.

For instance:

1. If you put toilet paper (or one of those paper butt protector things) on the toilet seat (good for you, I totally do it too) make sure when you flush that it goes down the drain with everything else. Seriously. You didn’t want to touch a spot that someone else’s butt was, and no one else wants to touch the spot where your butt was, it cannot take that much time to double check something like that.
2. Sinks are not toys. How people get SO MUCH WATER outside of the sink is beyond me. I was washing my hands and felt water start dripping on my toes because there was so much water on the counter it had finally reached the edge and was now starting to rush over.
3. Automatic sinks or those sinks where you push the hot/cold buttons and the water runs for about 2 seconds. I think that one is pretty much self explanatory.
4. Automatic hand dryer. I walked past it and it turned on, but I just know that had I actually tried to dry my hands under it, it would have turned right back off.
5. Paper towel holders that are SO FULL you wind up tearing 3 paper towels to shreds before you can pull out one to actually use.  

Seriously this stuff seems like it should really just be common sense, but somehow it’s not and I just can’t quite get over it.

Sunset

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(AKA: Holy Cow I am NOT in the Mood to Work Edition)

So I definitely planned on writing little countdown emails all the way to day 0 in which we loaded up the cars and left for the beach. Unfortunately the father of one of my friends who was going to come on the trip with us had a stroke and was admitted to the hospital. He’s showing signs of improvement now, but still has a long way to go. I just couldn’t scrape together enough whimsy to keep going with my countdown.

That being said the trip was pretty great. The weather was mostly nice, went to the beach, played at the pool, I even actually got a tan! The trip was from Saturday to Saturday so we got home around noon on Saturday and picked the dogs up Saturday evening. Gouda was pretty much soaked from playing in the baby pools at Pupsi, so at least we know they were having as good a time as we were!

We stayed in Duck on the sound side just a short drive from the beach. Most mornings we drove over to the beach and then spent the afternoon at the pool. We played corn hole and badminton (where I was eaten alive by bugs), watched movies and sang karaoke. Or some of us sang. I’m not sure you could really call what Nate and Ted were doing singing…

We really lucked out with the weather considering there was a chance of rain every day we were there. On Sunday we got to the beach just in time to set our stuff out right before it started pouring, and then like 15 minutes after we got home the sun was out and we were able to go out at the pool. I think on Wednesday it rained the most so we couldn’t go out much which was fine with me because I had minor sun rash on my stomach and needed to give it time to heal.

Nate’s brother’s family was there so there were two little girls, ages 14 months and almost 3 years (34 months). Who knew two such small beings could bring such big noise! Lucky for them they’re also completely adorable and very sweet.

Anyways, I’ve posted a zillion pictures on Flickr,and when I say “zillion” I really feel like I’m not exaggerating at all.

For Christmas in 2005 my parents gave my grandfather (Papaw) a digital camera.

Since my digital camera has recently gone a little crazy (the color seems off in addition to the viewfinder FREAKING OUT sometimes and producing really weird pictures) and since Grandma doesn’t use the camera at all since Papaw passed, my mom gave the camera to me. It’s a nice little Canon and yesterday when my parents came over for dinner I turned in on before they left, and there were still pictures on it! It turns out that while he downloaded the pictures he never erased them from the memory card.

So we scrolled through his pictures last night and I downloaded them all onto my hard drive. It was cute looking back to see the things he thought were worth taking pictures of. His new car and the new calendar that came with the new car. His new plasma TV, and a new piece of furniture for the living room. Plus about zillion pictures of his cats starting when they were cute little kittens! (I’m pretty sure I already had most of those cat pictures though because he used to send them to us on a regular basis). In my family, we treat our cats like the spoiled mini-gods they think they are!

So my new little camera is really cute, very nice and compact and I’m glad to have one back because I would like to take pictures of my awesome new plants. And of my adorable pets, not to mention all the pictures I’ll be taking at the beach next week! WOOHOO BEACH TRIP!

It looks like things are pretty much settled for shows coming back and not coming back next season.

Since I watch a lot of TV I have a lot of opinions about a lot of shows.

Like Scrubs. It was supposed to be in its final season and now it’s been picked up. I watched the season finale and think it was a fine ending so I give up. No more Scrubs!

Castle. Oh Castle. I was pretty sure it wasn’t coming back because while it’s cute it’s just not…I don’t even know what. I’m really not feeling it. So goodbye, Castle.

Better Off Ted is coming back! I totally did not expect that but it makes me happy because I think the show is really cute and clever.

Umm, NBC might be having trouble finding a slot for Medium? Really? Stupid Jay Leno. If they can’t find a home for it, it may go to CBS which would be extra weird, but whatever. Apparently networks are not afraid to pick up leftovers any more, and I don’t really blame them. I think Medium is a great show and I would be sad to see it go.

I think those are the only shows I watch that really were even kind of hanging in the balance. Now that finales are over and summer TV is starting (True Blood and the Closer!) I also have my cancelled shows to look forward to since ABC is going to air the remaining unaired episodes of Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money, so that’s also something to look forward to! That and 3 months of HBO, so HBO had better not let me down!

Today was definitely a Monday.

It started off with me remembering a REALLY weird dream I had last night. A dream where I was flossing my teeth just like any other night, only it wasn’t night it was morning, and while I was flossing my molars one fell out. EWW! It fell out with a little pressure from dental floss. So of course I freaked out and I know you’re supposed to put the tooth in milk or something and go to the dentist right away so I put the tooth in soy milk because we don’t have actual milk (seriously, we don’t, but that’s a whole different story). And then off to the dentist I went with my tooth in soy milk wondering if they could reattach it.

Then somehow my shower this morning took a full 5 minutes longer than usual. I’m not really sure how this happens, but sometimes it does. It’s like I lost time somewhere in between getting into the shower and getting out. Like shampooing my hair suddenly takes a full extra 5 minutes, or maybe I spent that 5 minutes in a daze rinsing the shampoo out of my hair even though it was already rinsed I was just too tired to notice? Who knows?

Of course I also couldn’t find a single thing to wear to work. Seriously. In a closet full of clothes I could find nothing. I changed shirts like 3 times and the only reason I didn’t keep going was because I didn’t really want to be late to work. Fortunately by then I had sort of caught on to what was going n and I had sense enough to realize that at that point it didn’t really matter what I wore. I was going to hate it no matter what so I may as well get out the door and be on time to work.

Then on the way to work I turned a corner only to get stuck behind a school bus. An empty school bus with it’s flashers on. When I say “empty” I don’t just mean no kids, I mean no driver either. Completely empty parked on the side of the road with NO ROOM to go around it. Fortunately it was near a stoplight and the light was red so a VERY nice person coming the other direction left a big enough gap for those of us stuck behind the EMPTY BUS could get around. Otherwise god only knows how long I would have sat there.

Next there was my coffee. Because it is a Monday and I seem to be in a complete daze today I went to add a little extra sugar to my coffee and instead I poured in the powered creamer. It turned out so gross I couldn’t drink it.

So by then it was about 7:30 and I was already counting down til bedtime. So I could go to sleep and get on Tuesday and try again.

I just have to keep telling myself, next Monday I’ll be at the beach and it will all be OK.

And it was AWESOME!

Don’t even get me started on the part where I paid $10.25 for a small popcorn and a small coke (neither of which were all that small) because I didn’t have time to have dinner before the movie because DAMN that is a ripoff.

Seriously though, I loved it. I went to see it with Ted and Mike because their wives didn’t want to see it and my husband didn’t want to see it, so that worked out pretty nice.

I laughed, I cried, I want to see it again! (Ok, so maybe I didn’t actually cry, but I did get a little misty there for a minute. That totally counts.)

And also? I read somewhere online (as did Mike) that there was something during the credits so we waited. And there was nothing. So apparently you can’t believe everything you read on the internet (especially if you can’t even remember where you read it). Go figure.

So I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before, but I’m sort of a freak about my yard. It would not be at all strange to find me spending the first 5 minutes after I get home crouched next to the curb pulling weeds. In my work clothes. Because I went to check the mail and I couldn’t stand the freaking weeds that I cannot seem to get rid of. So we re-hired Scotts LawnService and I’m going to let them get rid of the weeds because obviously my methods are just not working. Whatever.

Anyways, that leads me to my shrubbery. Last fall I bought 8 1gallon gardenias from the Farmer’s Market. Two of the three planted out front have pretty much croacked, and two of the five planted out back were mangled by the deck builders. One of the ones in the back I replaced with my veggie container garden and the other one sits all alone. All by itself. It’s actually quite sad. We have a similar situation with the one in the front sitting all alone. So I bought new ones. Three for the front and three for the back, this time they were three gallon too, so they won’t be so weenie. Of course what with these new ones being bigger the old ones would look out of place so the two lonely plants from the front and the back are going to be relocated to the side yard.

Which means I have to prep a new area on the side to be a flower bed instead of grass, and then I have to dig eight holes total.

I’m telling you, it seemed like an AWESOME idea when I was at Lowes and the flowers smelled SO GOOD and six new plants did not seem like a big deal, what with all of the planting success I’ve had recently planting smaller flowery guys around my bird bath. The actual digging part? Not so fun. I managed to move two plants and plant three new ones in addition to spreading pinebark. When I finished with the front and side yard beds I couldn’t bring myself to do the three new plants in the back. I would say there is always tomorrow, but tomorrow I’m going to see the Star Trek movie! YAY!

And now I have to go collapse on the sofa.

Literally.

Which means that the local news will be airing the weather map and updating us constantly until the storm has passed. I hope no one was interested in the actual news around here!

Oh! Update! We’re under a tornado warning! Hopefully the rain will pass by the time we go to bed so the dogs won’t refuse to leave the porch.

So anyways, that’s all the excitement I can muster for right now. I think I need a nap.

And also? My work has blocked access to Twitter which makes me really sad. I mean obviously I’m not spending all day on there or anything, but really is it so awful to be able to pop up every once in a while just to see what’s going on with my tweeps?!

Container Veggie Garden

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So here is my container garden. Last year I had some success with jalapenos and green peppers and if I hadn’t planted 4 tomato plants in that one green container I’m pretty sure the tomatoes would have been a success too, so this year I went all out.

I have lettuce, broccoli, onions, garlic, tomatoes, green peppers, jalapenos, and not in this area I have strawberries too. We’ve already had two strawberries that were ready and they were delicious! I’m pretty exited and I hope everything survives. It looks like something is eating some of the leaves on my green pepper plant, but so far the green pepper plant is the only one so I can’t quite figure that out.

Anyways, it may seem a little weird having them in the pots in the garden area since I obviously have space for them, why not just plant them in the garden? And I really did think about it, and then I had visions of my dogs trampling and peeing on stuff I intend to eat and I decided that pots were the safer option. Fortunately I also have two rain barrels because that crap needs a LOT of water!

I just kicked Ted’s ass on the DDR. Three rematches later it was an ass whoopin.

And that included us playing the first two rounds on the WRONG MATS. That’s right, we didn’t bother to check which was Player 1 and Player 2 before we started playin, we just started playing. Obviously smart is not our strong suite.

We played one game on difficult and it seriously cut out on us in the middle of the round we were doing SO BAD. Awesome.

Nate and I had a small Kentucky Derby party. I made pizza, we played corn hole and watched the race. I was glad to see this year was Derby Drama free. (Aka: No one got euthanized on the field after the race).

I  hope everyone had a good weekend! I’m really looking forward to a quiet/lazy Sunday.

I’m trying to hit up the library tomorrow too I think, can anyone recommend a good book? I’ve finally worked my way through all of the Charlaine Harris books. I think I’ll pick up Son of a Witch, but don’t know what to read next.