October 2012 archive

The Office

The office was actually my first redo in the entire house, but I’ve since wanted to do more things to it, so I’ve held off blogging about it. Since we have a tiny house, and since I work from home, and since I never cook, I turned our formal dining room into my formal office when I landed my kick ass job that lets me work from home. It was the most logical of the choices, which included the alternate option of bunking the girls in the same room. That option was way too risky, considering I’d hate for The Little Jerk to rub off on my oldest, who is charming and sweet and not at all mean like her little sister.

Thus began my new office. I outfitted it appropriately last year with furniture, but it was never bright (aside from my obvious brilliance). I am messy and unorganized, but there are certain things that I am very, very particular about. One of the biggest is symmetry, which is why I have a hard time with art. So to be honest, I didn’t even consider art when initially creating my office.

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Near Death Experience

So, I’m helping design Jason’s sisters house, now that my decor of my sister’s is nearly done. I need to remember to post pictures; it’s beautiful!

So as I am scouring Pinterest and other home improvement blogs, I’m getting more annoyed with my living room. I hate the color, to be honest. It’s super green. I knew that, actually, when I first rolled it on, but I thought it would dry darker, and it didn’t. So, I’m just living with it.

Or I was, until I kept pouring through thousands of ideas. So, how does this end up a near death experience? When Hubbin got home, I looked at him sheepishly and broke the news that the living room needed a makeover. Again. And if looks could kill….

In the end, though, he only said we need to do the kitchen first. Ok, I can get on board with that. In the meantime, if anyone needs me I will be pinning.

Spoiled Princess

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Daddy spoils his baby. Why sit in your high chair when you can sit in your Daddy’s lap while he feeds you? One day I’m going to look over and he’ll be chewing it and spitting it in her mouth like a mama bird.

Argh

“Argh” as in “lovely, she did it again”, not “Argh, give me all your gold, matey”.  But maybe that too.

If anyone has ever lived with someone that has near paralzying ADD, you know how frustrating it is. Imagine BEING that person, though. It’s really difficult and frustrating to be the one that can’t remember anything. Like…really frustrating.

My most recent “Ok, how on EARTH…” experience was losing our vacuum cleaner. It’s gone. I have no idea where it went. It vanished, into thin air. This house is the size of a coffin, so it’s not easy to misplace anything of decent size, even for me. I realized that in this entire house, there is not a single closet that exists outside of a bedroom. There are no linen closets, pantries, coat closets. Nowhere to put, say, a VACUUM or broom. The vacuum has lived inside Kennedy’s closet for a long time. I don’t vacuum often because I am totally lazy we only have hardwood, with a couple of area rugs thrown in rooms. The living room is a disaster, though, because the little one thinks nothing of crumbling cookies and stomping them into the floor.

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Mondays

Today is Monday (I hope you already knew that, though, and went to work today). Since I actually love my job, Mondays don’t bother me at all. I have to say that the constant barrage of “ZOMG IT’S MONDAY AGAIN SOMEONE SHOOT ME!” on Facebook is super annoying, though.

However, I will say that around fall time, I am super annoyed with Monday nights. A few years ago, I asked Hubbin what he wanted for Christmas and he said all he wanted was for me to watch football with him. I dislike football, but moreso than that, I am cheap and gift-handicapped, so I gave in. I gave it a valiant effort, too. Being a lifelong Niners fan, last season was like a dream come true for him. In a show if support, I ordered Niners shirts for the whole family, even the baby. We wore them during games, and I totally got into it.

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