wearin myself out

what a day. I've been super productive, which always makes me feel good. Even better, the husband is being helpful. I went to feed the mutts, realized we didnt have enough dog food for even one bowl, and called him. He asked me if I was calling to ask him to bring him dog food :) He was about to head out to Sam's and pick up a 50 lb bag anyway. I love it when he's helpful.

I changed the sheets on the bed and threw the dirty ones in the wash. Moved the comforter from the guest bed to our bed, seeings as its FREEZING. Changed out the pillows, put on the shams, put the new towels up in our bathroom. Folded a ridiculous amount of laundry and waiting to be able to throw a load in. Scrubbed the moldy pyrex, ran the dishwasher, scrubbed and washed the big dog water bowl, filled it up, chased dogs around the yard, vacuumed...I've been a good little girl! This after going to a mind-numbing bar review class for 4 hours then sitting in traffic trying to figure out how to get around roadblocks to get my allergy shot (didnt happen, doh).

Tonight is football night! I looooove football. Its nice to have something that I can share with my dad or M, no matter if we're not getting along at the time. And of course, the Tide are one of my teams. Thus, I'm nervous but super excited. Sure hope we win!

Best of 09 - Day 13

  
    
  


December 13 What's the best change you made to the place you live?

I don't know why I can't turn off italics, sorry. I moved twice this year - from my rented house in Alabama to M's apartment, which was...awful. The apartment just had too much stuff in it, and was frankly miserable to live in. Then, we moved from the apartment to our own home. That move is really the best change, but I'm going to treat this question as referring to the place I live now. 


We've done a lot to this house, obviously. Putting in furniture, bringing in our belongings, our momentos. Getting the directv hooked up. But I guess the BEST is the wall at the front of the house, next to the front door. There's a little entryway. When you come in, you immediately face the fish tank (just retrieved from our friend's home) and the sign that has our last name and date of marriage, a gift from my middle school best friend. On your right, on the wall as you come in, are our pictures. There's pictures from our wedding, our engagement photos, some of the dogs. I just put together more frames to have pictures of our families, our nephews and niece, the people that are important to us. There's two canvases from Canvas on Demand of pictures from our wedding that we got for a steal. It makes this house a home, I think.

Happy Friday!

Why is everyone I know tormenting me by having babies? I'm so jealous. It's going to be at least a year before I get to do that myself (that actually having one part...hopefully the trying to have one/sharing the joyous news part will be a little sooner). My hormones are constantly reminding me what they're for, and it's just not fair!

In other news, I've been SuperWife today. I'm proud of myself because I wasn't feeling well yesterday (either a bug, or maybe a weird reaction to my allergy shot...that would be a problem) and so I slept til noon. For only being awake 5 hours and still not feeling peachy, I think I've been pretty damn impressive.

I talked to an important person in one of my Guardian ad Litem cases (I'm a volunteer GAL) and updated my supervisor. I called my dad to check on my uncle while on my way across town to pick up something from the pharmacy. Gave M the info he needs to finally put me on his damn car insurance so we're not paying extra to maintain 2 separate policies for no good reason. Did a lot of dishes, ran the dishwasher twice, have done two loads of laundry so far, picked up a bunch of M's clothes since he rarely puts anything in the hamper, hung up and folded and put away a ridiculous amount of clothing, put together the wine rack, cut a photo of M's grandmother we received from her husband yesterday to size for a frame, and put away/reorganized a lot of dishes. In a little bit, when my energy recovers, I'm going to put up a bunch of frames (we bought a box of ten frames of various sizes at Target last week for ridiculously cheap and I've been printing out and putting in pictures of family) on the wall and try to get M to help me mount a slimline CD player. And I'm going to make dinner.

Not too bad for a few hours of not feeling well, right?

Best of 09 - Day 11

December 11 The best place. A coffee shop? A pub? A retreat center? A cubicle? A nook?

The best place is, of course, our new house! I've written about it before (don't remember when, but I don't have so many posts that you can't easily scroll through and find it if you're interested). It's not the best place simply because it's ours, though that is a major plus. The house itself is truly cool. Here's the overview:
-on a decent sized lake
-far enough away from the city to be nice and quiet
-almost an acre (part of which is water, and part of which a neighbor has fenced us out of...but we still have a huge useable lot)
-laminate floors, which doesn't hold doggie fur, puke, pee, or poop, and which the dogs slide all over, which is hilaaaarious
-the bathroom with the blue floor looks great with the stuff we got off our wedding registry