Friday, July 1, 2011

I think I forgot to mention

That we faced yet another foe in our quest to grow some vegetables in our backyard.

This time however, I felt uncomfortable killing them.

Darn those birds. But no longer!  We have triumphed yet again over another formidable adversary.

Our new bird netting.
Take that birds.

(And thank you Amazon Prime - you are well worth the annual fee to get 2 day free shipping and cheap prices on necessary garden equipment.)

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The laundry room saga

You might have wondered to yourself why a simple laundry room might eat away at my sanity. I'm going to give you some facts and pictures to help explain.

Fact - this particular laundry room is SO TERRIBLY ORGANIZED that there is no place to hang pants and lacks so much usability that I hate going in the room.



Don't judge our pile of towels and sheets! :)
Fact - the husband uses the laundry room as a paint prep room and paint storage room - BOTH of which grate on my last freaking nerve.




Fact - storage and organization would take care of both of these problems. So that's what happened.

To be continued.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Our weekend

Last week was busy with three of the five days requiring later work hours for one of us. Add a recent new workout regime for myself and an attempt at eating healthier and by Friday we both needed some veg time. So we ordered takeout Vietnamese and caught up on some DVR shows.

Such a good show!  Picture from here.

Saturday started out as usual - the husband gutted the terrible caulk in our shower and cleaned the ever living crud out of it - literally. That man is meticulous about stuff like that.

I did some grocery shopping and picked up some 10lb weights to go along with my workout.

We have a grocery store called Fiesta and they sell really cheap produce. For example, at the HEB (our other grocery store, sort of like Harris Teeter), those little things below are 3 for $1.

Picture

At Fiesta, they are 20 for $1. I bought what I'm guessing is close to 30lbs of vegetables (good stuff like red peppers and avocados, etc) and spent $22. That's my kind of store.


I got home and cleaned the veggies, did some prepping for food stuff and contemplated how to take back my sanity from my house.


Then things sort of went downhill, in a way.

The cluttered areas of our house that have, as I've mentioned, eaten away at my sanity slowly but oh so surely finally caused a break. I told the husband I wanted to go to Ikea Sunday to get organization stuff for some of the rooms that are chowing down on my sanity. He said, "lets go now," and what began as a normal weekend quickly turned into chaos (albeit organized and sort-of-planned).

Here's a sneak peak.


Friday, June 24, 2011

Life list

Yeah, I'm gonna get on the bandwagon of life lists - you know, lists of things you really want to do in your life. But I'm trying to be super intentional about my life list so I've only got a few for you today. And to be totally honest, I am 'borrowing' the idea for the first one from a blog post I can't seem to find today. The blogger said she wanted to start out her list with something she can cross off. It just so happened that I totally loved her first item and it fits me pretty well too (if/when I find the originator of this idea I will update this post).

1. Not run a marathon!  YAY - totally accomplished!
2. Learn to sail a boat.
3. Do two pull ups. 
4 through 100 - TBD