I hope everybody had a fantastic Thanksgiving!! We are doing *awesome* over here! It looks like it’s going to take longer than expected to get the updates and fixes done to the website, so I might as well keep on writing. Sorry about the things that don’t work — like the comments and the archives… Continue reading
Category: Living!
Refinishing the trunk (post 1 of possibly more)
Several years ago (13 March 2010, to be exact) Justin and I rescued a trunk from a little knickknack shop that was going out of business. It was painted this hideous color beige, but it was solid wood, unfinished on the interior of the trunk, and the hardware marked it as unlike anything I’d ever… Continue reading
Tackling the vines project
Sunday afternoon, I turned to Justin and said “It’s a beautiful afternoon. I’m thinking of dragging the trunk from the living room outside to finish stripping the paint off.” To which he said, “I was thinking of mowing the lawn” and we both went and changed into work clothes for the afternoon. Now, since I… Continue reading
Family Day and hiking out in the woods
The weather here is FINALLY starting to cool off. We’ve been able to open up the windows and bring in cool air from outside and since the air conditioning upstairs has been broken for most of the whole summer, that has been a HUGE relief, let me tell you! It still got up to 80… Continue reading
Learning about muscle groups!
I’ve been pulling out the aerobic videos that I haven’t played for a while. Mostly, I haven’t played them because I’ve been lazy, but now that I’m really working at losing weight again, I’m pulling them out for a little variety in my exercises. Besides the primary impressions of “Holy cow, this didn’t used to… Continue reading