Since I’m really trying to get myself back into blogging and I don’t want to lose my momentum but don’t really know what to write about today, I thought I would share a list of the books that I’ve read recently. Our library does a summer reading program for adults, so on our next trip I will have a lot to update on my list.
E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton
H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels
Loose Ends by Terri Reid
Good Tidings by Terri Reid
Never Forgotten by Terri Reid
Final Call by Terri Reid
And next up is Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris. It’s the third book in the Aurora Teagarden series.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Home
Sitting here in the dining room watching Addison do Yoga, I’m thinking about my house and how I want it to feel. This is probably my favorite room in the house right now, but I want every room to be my favorite room for different reasons. The dining room is it because I love the colors and the way everything just seems to fit together nicely. There’s mostly old stuff in this room or stuff that looks old anyway. It’s never very hot in this room and it always gets a good breeze with the windows open. It just feels comfortable, like a gathering place.
The living room would be my second right now but the empty wall is driving me crazy and I have no idea what to put on it. The color scheme is light brown/tan walls with red furniture that has the same color cording on it as the walls. The rug is the same colors as the walls and the furniture with a little bit of blue and green and yellow mixed in. Behind the big couch is a big, almost empty, wall. Right now there are 3 8x10’s hanging on half the wall and I hate how it all looks. Any suggestions? I guess I need to make a trip to Hobby Lobby and/or Target and look for a big piece to help with the space.
I want my house to feel cozy and homey. Like a country cottage out in the middle of a field in a snowstorm with a fire lit in the fireplace and hot chocolate smells drifting through the house. It's hard to describe exactly, but I have the vision in my mind. I want comfy furniture and handspun rugs with soft lighting all around. Quilts draped over chairs to wrap up and cuddle in. Problems with this scenario: We don’t have a fireplace, it’s too hot for hot chocolate and I’m cheap. I need to start hitting up antique/junk stores I guess and see what I can find.
The living room would be my second right now but the empty wall is driving me crazy and I have no idea what to put on it. The color scheme is light brown/tan walls with red furniture that has the same color cording on it as the walls. The rug is the same colors as the walls and the furniture with a little bit of blue and green and yellow mixed in. Behind the big couch is a big, almost empty, wall. Right now there are 3 8x10’s hanging on half the wall and I hate how it all looks. Any suggestions? I guess I need to make a trip to Hobby Lobby and/or Target and look for a big piece to help with the space.
I want my house to feel cozy and homey. Like a country cottage out in the middle of a field in a snowstorm with a fire lit in the fireplace and hot chocolate smells drifting through the house. It's hard to describe exactly, but I have the vision in my mind. I want comfy furniture and handspun rugs with soft lighting all around. Quilts draped over chairs to wrap up and cuddle in. Problems with this scenario: We don’t have a fireplace, it’s too hot for hot chocolate and I’m cheap. I need to start hitting up antique/junk stores I guess and see what I can find.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Back....for now.
It’s been quite a while again since I last posted. I have had lots of things happen since the last time I posted; I just haven’t taken the time to write about them because I didn’t think anyone really cared to read about it.
Let’s see, in June our basement flooded while we were out of town. Luckily we got immediate help from some volunteer Rear-Detachment soldiers and my mom also came to help out. After hiring a dud fixit guy to do the work, I soon realized my mistake when he left and never came back with $300 of my money and not even half the work done that he was supposed to do. I quickly hired another, more reputable, crew and they completed the work in 4 days and even worked through the weekend to get it done. Right before they started work we had a new furnace/ac unit installed and that’s actually how I found this crew. They came back later on and did the trim in the kid’s rooms as well.
I celebrated my 30th birthday and Addison had her 5th. We finally made it to Missouri and on the lake, first and probably only time this summer.
Perry, the escape artist, got out once again recently but was quickly found out and all was well. A plank on our new fence came off where he jumps on it all the time so I had to nail it back up. I put several extra nails in that plank as well as the surrounding planks, just in case. Hopefully it will hold until Chad gets home in the next couple months.
I feel like more has happened and it probably has but I don’t remember right now. I ordered cool shirts from Cafepress.com for the kids to wear to Chad’s homecoming. I also ordered myself a couple t-shirts, one is for Red Friday and the other says “Proud Army Wife”.
I know, very boring stuff but it’s all I got right now.
Let’s see, in June our basement flooded while we were out of town. Luckily we got immediate help from some volunteer Rear-Detachment soldiers and my mom also came to help out. After hiring a dud fixit guy to do the work, I soon realized my mistake when he left and never came back with $300 of my money and not even half the work done that he was supposed to do. I quickly hired another, more reputable, crew and they completed the work in 4 days and even worked through the weekend to get it done. Right before they started work we had a new furnace/ac unit installed and that’s actually how I found this crew. They came back later on and did the trim in the kid’s rooms as well.
I celebrated my 30th birthday and Addison had her 5th. We finally made it to Missouri and on the lake, first and probably only time this summer.
Perry, the escape artist, got out once again recently but was quickly found out and all was well. A plank on our new fence came off where he jumps on it all the time so I had to nail it back up. I put several extra nails in that plank as well as the surrounding planks, just in case. Hopefully it will hold until Chad gets home in the next couple months.
I feel like more has happened and it probably has but I don’t remember right now. I ordered cool shirts from Cafepress.com for the kids to wear to Chad’s homecoming. I also ordered myself a couple t-shirts, one is for Red Friday and the other says “Proud Army Wife”.
I know, very boring stuff but it’s all I got right now.
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