OKAY!!!

So I went to Hobby Lobby after work...I truly have a love/hate relationship with that place. I spent about 70 bucks however I would've spent 150-165 if they didn't have their sales.

I think everything I bought either was 50% or 66% off...so hey and I figure with all the stuff I got for the guest room even the stuff from Target I will have done a total room transformation for about 165 bucks....I think that is truly a success!

I forgot to look at the clock when I had finished putting together the other nightstand/bookcase. But I know it didn't really take me long at all...even after messing up one part twice heh...

I was actually able to move the old furniture out and take it through the damn house into the garage. The headboard was surprisingly heavier then I thought it would be but that wasn't the true test....we had this dresser/bookshelf thing. It was two pieces....and I remember the movers saying how surprised they were at how heavy it was and Mr. B saying something about the wood and it being made in the U.S.A haha

Well I took the top piece out and yes it was heavy. I stopped about 4 times haha
But the true test was that damn lower half ughh

I ended up pushing it to the living room on the carpet but then knew I wouldn't be able to pick it up so I took an old sheet and put it on the floor and was able to somehow get the dresser on top of it and then I could push it across the floor without scratching up the wood floor. But I did it and I can imagine what Mr. B will say...something to the effect of being shocked as hell that I did it haha but when I put my mind to something I will do it!!!

So the curtain rod came in and I started to hang the brackets but haven't finished because I needed to clean the other part of the house in between Glee...

So I got the living room looking much better and two loads of laundry done and the kitchen is looking much better.

Tomorrow night I will do the living room floors and finish the kitchen and more laundry and vacuum....and clean our bedroom and bathroom.

Oy vey and finish the guest room.

Well I am catching up to this whole blog everyday...well hey two on some days counts right?! haha

Tomorrow night I'll post Before and After pics....

Bookcase/Nightstand

Okay let me just say that they are soooo much bigger then in the picture and I really wish I would've just gone to Target myself and looked because I wouldn't have gotten them.

Don't get me wrong you get a lot for 55 bucks but the room isn't THAT big for a queen bed and two of those on the wall that I wanted it!

So I got one together and had some hiccups but managed to do it all on my own and tonight's will be a breeze now that I know what I'm doing.

I'm thinking that I might have to change the layout of what I wanted and just have one nightstand actually by the bed and the other one on a different wall if I want the window to be open so you can actually really see the curtain.

So last night I took a look at the massive collage picture frame that Mr. B's aunt and uncle got us. It holds 33 pictures. Here's the issue. Only about 16 are 4x6's and about 3 are 5x7's. The rest are either wallet size or get this even smaller!!!!

So last night I go and figure out a plan because I'm OCD and need everything to be matchy matchy and I picked some to be Sepia print and some color. But on Shutterfly if you order a wallet size you get 4 pictures and wallets apparently are really expensive. Sooo I had an issue because I didn't want 4 of all of those tiny damn pictures. So I didn't order the wallets and figured I'd take the memory card into Walgreens and see what I could do because I know my grandma has done it before and I maybe able to print out wallets but with different pictures since I would physically be there.

But at least I can get a massive start on that project. I also ordered pictures to go into this cool frame which will be in the guest room. Then I ordered this great picture of Auntie Sylvia at my wedding and had this cool Damask frame that I got months ago. Then this morning I pull it out and realize it only fits a 3x3...wtf is up with all of these small photos? I mean where do you even get them for crying out loud!!!!

But I think I'll be able to cut it down and if not then I'll find a different picture to put in there and I'll just use a different frame.

Because tonight I'm going to Hobby Lobby to get lamps for the tables and I'm going to get some floating shelves I do believe.

But I don't know about hanging those myself...that scares me. And maybe I can find some more fall decorations and some new Xmas stuff weeeee

Are y'all well the 9 folks that follow bored with this decorating talk..because I'm kind of boring myself but I really don't have anything else going on and I'm excited.

Well last night while I was working out the little girl (who I think is 19ish) who already has a child who's about 2 (and her boyfriend works out there too) was outside because her mom came and they were fighting...I didn't want to just stare but they were pretty heated and that led me to believe that she probably lives at home with her parents still and she probably was asking for money or something...well she came in and I heard her talking to the other girl and she was crying but that damn music was soooo loud.

That's what I don't like about when the owner isn't there because he has these little kids working for him and they act so unprofessional. Holy crap I just realized that I have to start tanning for Mexico this week!!! Today is the only off day of working out hmm crap

I think I still have some tans left at the other tanning place so I better use them up before checking out the gym....kill two birds with one stone the way I see it!

Ok well I do have actual work to do...not enough that will be 2.5 hours long. Oh and my bosses boss just resigned so I'm hoping my boss will apply and get it and then I'll apply for her job and hopefully get it. This would mean at least a 10k raise which I'm sure they would low ball me and give me that but I know the range so I would ask for in the middle and hopefully get it. Well who knows if my boss will apply and get it but that's my shot or another one of her in the different district but still in our Region gets it so I can apply for their job...if someone outside our Region gets it then well we're all screwed. I planted the seed a couple times today so we'll see haha.

Tree

Well I can't find the picture of my sleigh bells boo but here is a picture of the tree I just bought

I think it will be cute in our corner and it's perfect for 15 dollars haha

Z..z...z...uuuuuuummmmmm

ba!!!

Yep that's Zumba. I'm so excited that I saw a sign for it the other day while driving to work. I called earlier and got nothing and got worried but just called back and got someone!

It's at a dance studio I think mainly for younger kids but they are introducing this to adults.

They have two classes
Mondays-6:30-7:30
and
Thursdays-7:30-8:30

I will of course be doing the Mondays....that's already an hour later then I am normally used to. So I'll basically be going home to try and get some kind of dinner together for Mr. B and then leaving right after that. I won't eat beforehand because I know that this gets crazy intense.

So now I'll be doing Zumba on Monday's and then working out 3 other times during the week and the day that I don't work out I'll be doing weights at home weeeeee!

I don't have much longer before Mexico and I know that 10 more pounds is probably not going to happen so my goal is 5 more lbs and just to be toned...that's really what I want. I want to b e able to take pictures of me in a bikini and not cringe.

And not to mention that we'll be talking about baby making seriously and we better be doing it starting January 1st and I would really like to be in the 150's by the time I get pregnant. So that means that I have about 10ish-12ish lbs to go. But I'll have the rest of December to make that happen and I will work out while on vacation since we'll be doing a lot of relaxing and not much of anything...just the way I like it.

I talk to my MIL (mother in law) last night and she's not going to come and clean the house...apparently Papa is taking her off as executor and putting her dip shit of a sister on there...I don't know why these people think it means they pick how much money people get....all you're doing is making sure people get what's supposed to be given to them via the will. I think the dip shit and the new wife are in cahoots together and have a bigger plan.

But MIL doesn't even care. She just wants to get the pieces from her mother's grandma out of there. Even the uncle called and said the dip shit has been going in there and taking stuff which doesn't surprise me at all. So my MIL and her other sister will get that stuff and flea bomb it and separate between the two. I think the other sister has about had it with them as well.

MIL did say she called and left a message for dip shit that wasn't nice and she told Papa he was making a mistake...but like I told my MIL they took out 50k on the house for who knows why and it would be better if he did take her off of the will for the house that way she won't have to worry about having to fix it up to sell it and try and get a profit after they owe the 50 extra k on it. I say give it to the nasty new wife and dip shit and let them deal with it.

They're all not very close anyways except for MIL and the other sister which obviously won't change anyways.

I just looked at saw my nightstands are out for delivery whoooo...which is perfect since Mr. B went off to GA today and won't be home until Friday. I'll put together the nightstands tonight and take out the old shiter and move the bed in the new place in anticipation for the rod and curtain....which now that I think about it I might need another panel but we'll see.

I went to Lowe's today and bought a sleigh bell thing it's a bunch of bells on a leather strap...it goes on a door. It soooo reminds me of the one my GG has which will be nice to have that homey feeling. I also bought a fake tree for 15 bucks...yep you read that right. It's 6ft tall and it's one of those taller but skinnier ones but I think that will be perfect.

I plan on getting a tiny like 3ft'er to decorate with all of our odds and ends ornaments and the skinny tree will be for only the one color theme I have.

I'm also thinking of buying another little tree and decorating it in LSU hehe.

I hate that Tday and Xmas are so close together because I feel like I just get up my Tday stuff and then I start getting my Xmas stuff up.

I started placing pictures in my order bin on Shutterfly for my big ass picture collage frame that Mr. B's aunt and uncle got us for our wedding. I think it holds something like 50 pictures haha so most of them will be pictures that I took of really cool acrhitecture and just a few thrown in of family....I'm going to do a mixture of I think color (with a soft focus on it) and sepia.

So this week begins Project cleaning for my grandparents arrival!!!!

Unfortunately not one room can be done and ready tonight haha but the guest room will be ready by Thursday night and that means the Office should be fairly close too.

I can then just close the doors on those two rooms so Parle doesn't get in there...then the morning they're coming I can go in for a quick wipe down and candle burning.

I think they'll end up taking showers in our bathroom since they won't have to lift their legs very high which means extra cleaning in there.

So that means cleaning the shower this week, next week, and the week they come. Which if you know me I hate hate HATE bathrooms!!!

And then there's the organizing of the pantry which I have thrown away a lot of stuff and will do so more this Thursday for trash night and then there's the cleaning out of the fridge. I can't wait to get rid of a lot of this beer for our last tailgate together!!!!

Ahh so much to do so freaking little time.

Weekend Recap

Friday oh how I love thee!!!!

I worked out...I'm so proud of myself because the week before with Auntie DC and Auntie Kellie coming in I didn't get to work out at all even down in NOLA.

So I figured last week I would be lucky to get 2 workouts in due to getting back into the swing of things. I intended to go on Tuesday but this darn bronchial crap was still too much so I went Wed, and Thurs, and talked myself into Friday.
I am loving the new daylight savings thing because now it's dark and people aren't motivated to work out haha so nobody is in there which I love.

Then we just relaxed and watched tv and I slept in (well more then a normal home game)

We then headed up to Lafayette to see Uncle Kevin and Auntie Jen. They were having sort of a housewarming/LSU party.

We ate a lot of great food and drank a lot and watched LSU play. I think it was rigged and Bama shouldn't have won. Clearly that interception was real and it's funny how the reviewer went to Bama...and how the ref's are based out of Birmingham ummm how could that be?

But our ranking actually got better!!!! We're 8th in the AP poll and we were 9th before the game.
But heck we've only lost to the #1 and #3 teams so I think that is pretty darn good.

I love Iowa but I'm glad they lost so the fans will be knocked down a bit...they really shouldn't have been ranked as well as they were because the quality of teams weren't that great.

Yesterday we just lounged around and I was able to nap. I put Loaded Baked Potato soup in the crock pot and let it do it's thing.

The Saints played which it was definitely a lot harder then I think they anticipated but we're 8-0 baby! WHO DAT....WHO DAT....WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS WHO DAT!!!!

I'm really proud of those guys...it's awesome!

Well Mr. B got a call from his mom saying Papa's house is filthy...the new wife doesn't do shit and he has cancer and he's doing radiation so he can't clean it up. She brought all her filthy animals in and doesn't clean up after them so now the sisters are going to go and clean it out and do flea bombs...she said it could get ugly.

I don't know if she'll really come or not but we've offered for her to stay at our house which would be nice while Mike's gone. But geez she should be getting here today or tomorrow if she does so we'll see.

I can't believe the weekend went by so fast...geez we need to win the lottery so we can just stay home haha

Sorry for the Delay

I didn't bring my laptop with me to Uncle Kevin and Aunt Jen's.

I'll recap the weekend after I post this (that way one of these can be considered a post from a few days ago heh)

I did a little shopping on target.com (I luuuurve Target). I really wanted to spruce up our guest bedroom especially before my grandparent's get here for Tday. I actually really want to buy some crown molding for our guest bathroom as well...but just the plastic kind because who will really be able to tell anyways and that would only cost like 50 for that...I think it's worth it however getting Mr. B to believe it might be harder.

But if he goes out of town for the Ole Miss game (it's away) then maybe I would have auntie Mel come up and "surprise" Mr. B on Sunday haha

Ok regardless I wanted to buy more but you know felt bad and all since Mr. B's commission checks are always a surprise like in the Cracker Jack box. Although we're thinking that these next few months will actually be better yipee


So I bought two night stands (which are actually bookcases but you can't tell), a curtain rod, and a curtain haha


I'm going to take out the old crap and put it in our bulging garage where apparently everything goes. I think I need to make a call to the Good Will again.

1-Curtain Rod- 9.99

1-Curtain- 14.99

2-Bookcase- 55.00 (now back off sale for I think 69.99)

I also have little things that I bought months ago in hopes and preparation that I would finally update the room so I'm happy I won't have to buy much but maybe a small wicker basket for each bookcase which I can get at Walmart for cheap.

I'm thinking of bringing in the computer desk since it will now match the night stands. I gave up on the bed in a bag that I wanted because it was a little over 100 and then I'd have to for sure get black furniture. I really did want black but the espresso still is nice and I can the taller bookcase for the room later on and then it matched the desk.

And I began to think where would I put the desk when/once we get pregnant because the only option was the laundry room but I was afraid Parle would pea on some wires or something but now with not getting bigger furniture we have plenty of room and then the guests of course could have easier access to the computer.

So yah Mr. B has no idea that I'm doing this because I knew he'd gripe about it and he just so happens to be going out of town this week when all of the stuff is supposed to arrive.

Cole B Photoraphy

I finally was able to get some decent shots of NOLA without the rain! But I didn't want to take too much time up since I had guests with me.

These are raw...I haven't done any editing to them.