The Challenge

I joined up today to do "the challenge" blog. One of my best friends Kensley told me about it, so I will be doing it with her. I'm nervous, but I have to lose 15 pounds by April 24!!!! AHHH! the hardest thing for me will be the giving up of sweets, I guess that includes chocolate... oy vay! anywya, I guess we will see how it goes, Stephanie (my sister) took me to the gym yesterday to teach me some things to do, so hopefully that will help! Giving up chips, cheese, and red meat as of friday! wish me luck!

Finally decided on the invitations!

Woot woot! Hopefully the order will get put in today, and I can start working on my calligraphy and get them addressed! We went through a TON of different invitations, but I think in the end, simply is always better! I'm very happy, and I can't wait to see them! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, so the picture I'm about to post isn't exactly what it's going to look like... but at least I can post the wording! I can't wait! Way to excited!

Wood floors are getting installed today!!!!

Yeppers! as I type (during lunch at work), future husband is at home with the guys putting the floor in! So excited! I can't wait to go and see it after work! It's funny, I get all excited and yay about it... then it makes me think of all the other work I have to get done before Chris moves in next week. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Pulling hair out now! Why is there always so much to do and yet so little time?! Anyway, i will post pictures soon!

I hate glaze!

I'm not talking about the glaze on donuts, because well, I love that kind of glaze! I'm talking about the clear, satin sheen glaze that goes on top of the Venetian plaster I've worked so diligently on! Last night, I went to Husbands and my house to finish the glazing process of the dining room.... after 4 hours (dinner in between, which I will discuss later), I ran out of the stupid glaze! And of course at that time, Home Depot was out of the question. So I have to stop, with less then half a wall to go! I was soooooo mad! I just wanted to finish this, this, lunatic project of mine, but no, I ran out of stupid glaze because they only sell them in quarts and not gallons. Stupid glaze people! However, I will be completely finished with the Dining Room tonight.... I hope.

While in the fixing up the house project, the people at Albertson's now know my by a first name basis, because I"m in there ALL the time. It's interesting to look at my credit card statement, it goes live this: Home Depot, Albertsons, Home Depot, Albertson's, Home Depot, Albertson's... I think you get there picture. For ever purchase we make for home improvement, we make one to fill up our bellies.... The problem is, is that we don't get ingredients, we get microwavable or oven meals. Last night I went and got Stoffer's Chicken Enchiladas. it was HUGE, so I promptly called mom and asked if her and dad wanted to come over for dinner (we're close now, so I can actually do it, and it was pretty darn fun!) They came over, and being the wonderful parents that they are, they helped out with the house. Dad finished priming the master bedroom for me, while mom helped me in the dining room by cleaning the woodwork/ sanding it down so I can paint it tonight.

Oh I think I forgot to mention... Poor future husband hurt his back REALLY bad. He was attempting to put up crown molding, and he fell off the ladder and messed his back up. He can barely stand up and sit down the poor guy. but being the good sport that he is, he Cowboy'd up and taped off the chair railing so that we can paint. Gotta love a man that works through the pain! We need to get him better quickly though, because on Saturday, we have a bunch of big, strapping, burly men coming out to help us move stuff... ok, well maybe that was an over-exaggeration, but we have some guys coming out to help do the heavy lifting that I refuse to do because I want children someday! There's only 10 days left in both of our apartments until Future Husband moves into the house, and I go to my parents. So we really need to get on the ball.

Did I mention I have a cold now? The staying up late/working my butt off Routine that I've been doing for the past 2 weeks is REALLY starting to catch up with me... and let me tell you, it sucks. As I'm sitting here typing this, I'm sneezing, coughing and about to fall asleep.... Maybe moving back to my parents is a good thing, I might get more rest! Oh wait nevermind, I'm the idiot who changed her work hours to 7-4 so that I can miss traffic..... No rest for the weary I swear!

The joys of homeownership!

So Future Husband and myself bought a wonderful, beautiful, glorious house together exactly 1 1/2 weeks ago! We closed on Friday morning, and we haven't stopped working on it since! We've had a deadline because this Friday, hardwood floors are going in, so we have to get painting and crap done is certain areas of the house first. Well, being the brilliant person I am (that was dripping with sarcasm by the way), I decided HEY! let's make the dining room gorgeous and I'll spend the weekend putting Venetian Plaster on the walls and it will be OH so dramatic and beautiful! A week and a half later, and I'm still not finished! I really want to shoot myself! Oh sure it's pretty, but my arms, legs, calves, butt, head, fingers, toes, nose, eyes, and hair hurt! Between the putting up the plaster, moving things out of the apartment, unloading Husbands truck, working all day, going to class Tuesday/Thursday nights...(well ok I only go once a week but whatever!) and then priming the neon green room upstairs that will be husbands office, priming the master, painting the ceilings, painting the kitchen and the family room..... I'M EXHAUSTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It will be great though.... except for the fact that Future Husband get's to live there and reap the benefits of all my hard work while I go live back at my parents house for 5 months. Not that my parents are bad or anything, they're incredibly awesome people who have really helped us... it just generally sucks that I don't get to live in my home yet. But hey, it's only for 5 months right?!... yeah... who am I kidding. So that's generally been what's going on! Well that and I gained 3 pounds because when you're doing all this crap, you definitely don't eat healthy! I'm so sick of pizza! I never though I would EVER utter those words, but I did. Pizza is ugh to me right now, I've had pizza everyday for the past week and a half, and it's getting OLD! I now officially want SUSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring on the soy sauce and fish! Yum-O!

Oh yeah, and at some point in time I have become addicted to The Pioneer Woman's blog. I think I've read everything on there.... and I totally want her cookbook! As soon as I do move into our glorious home, I'm totally going to be one kick-@$$ chef! that's all I have to say!!!!

Below are pictures of our wonderful home!

Happy Hump Day! Stay Strong!






Dining room PRE- Venetian Plaster!

Family room PRE-Paint