Our vacation week has arrived! Justin has final exams this week with half days Tues, Wed and Thurs with Friday off from school. So we decided to head south for a quick four day vacation and surprised the kids with the plan Christmas morning. Thursday we're getting on a plane at 2:30 and heading for Universal Studios Orlando! I've been watching the ( Read more... )

Here I am with my latest home repairs and upgrade tales. Seriously, do I do anything else? We (mostly Steve) retiled our hearth as it wasn't up to code since we put the woodburning insert in two years ago. We have the burnt carpet to prove it and a healthy fear of coming home to a burnt out shell some day. So, Steve pulled out the insert into ( Read more... )

Well, I finally did it - I completed (mainly) a project in about a week! At least the hard stuff is done, now there's the arranging etc but that's the fun stuff. Phase two will involve money so that will wait (longer counter, better lighting etc). But I feel very accomplished! I learned how to use my miter saw finally (so fun and easy) and best ( Read more... )

Apparently I took the entire summer off from blogging as the last entry I remember doing was my home invasion summary. I just don't feel very creative when I have downtime to write. So to catch us up ( Read more... )

Had a new experience yesterday - got a frantic call from Justin while I was on my way home that someone had broken into the house during the day while the kids were at school and Steve and I were at work. They/he kicked in the back door to the garage, breaking the door jamb which to me was the best case scenario as that was easily boarded up vs ( Read more... )

Crazy crazy busy. That's been me the past two weeks. This is the height of my baseball season job when we turn 850 names on a list into 80 teams. Plus deal with the upset parents who didn't get the coach/field/teammate they wanted. And registering the person who somehow didn't see the banners, posters, flyers, ads or read any of the emails we ( Read more... )

Isn't it creepy when you log in somewhere and see ads for stuff you've recently researched? For instance, I logged into LJ to blog about our new mattress arriving shortly and on the login page is an ad for Temperpedic mattresses. Which is what we're getting. The memory foam stuff. We better love it because it's now the most expensive piece of ( Read more... )

Here I sit at the dentist office waiting for Justin and Julia's appointments to be done. I brought my laptop as I have 1/2 hour more of computer work to do but the internet connection (my mobile broadband) isn't fast enough and I can't keep a connection so I've quit trying. It's fast enough to check email and blog though so I'll do that instead ( Read more... )

I don't want to go on the cart. I'm getting better. I think I'll go for a walk ( Read more... )

Well, what have I been up to. After much gnashing of teeth, I figured how to load these pics into LJ - couldn't see the thumbnails and didn't know which pics were which. Anyway, here's the attic progress.

When last you saw pics, you may have seen this.


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