So since I should be doing a million other things (planning a Girl Scout Daisy meeting, getting tax papers together, sewing, making phone calls, you know the usual), I'm obsessing over our main level bathroom redo. I'm not calling it a remodel since we're not replacing anything major like the floor or vanity. The big changes are stripping the wallpaper, painting, and installing a shower curtain rod. Who has a shower/tub without a shower curtain (or door) in the first place? See the picture below, it's a piece of fabric attached all the way to the ceiling that only covers half the tub. Madness...
In the replacement department, I'm buying a new mirror, faucet, towel bar, drawer pulls, and light fixture. And I'll probably switch out the brass toilet flushie thing since the new stuff will be brushed nickel. (Like our upstairs bathrooms.) I'd love to switch the brass pieces in the shower too but that seems like more work (and money) than I can put into this at the moment. The goal is to stay under $200 for all of the above. Anyone have a spare Lowes coupon I can have? Pretty please with sugar on top?
Oh oh, I already have the new shower rod, curtain, paint, and linens (see the towels?) so they don't count in the $200. I've actually had all of that since July... Change takes time, man! And the thought of "stripping wallpaper" has kinda slowed me down.
Before:
Look for the after picture before the end of January! (Or February. Or March. Or if experience has taught me anything, the month before we sell the house like 5 years from now...)
Rotten mommy alert:
I am sooo looking forward to tomorrow morning at 7:45 (kids' bus pick up time).
Don't get me wrong, it's been fun and all (except for that whole kidney stone thing) but I miss our schedule. And the kids miss their friends. And I really miss 8am quiet time.
Oh wait, I haven't usually been awake at 8am...
Hmph, I think we've hit a Catch 22.
Is it too early to call a do-over for the new year?
New Year's Eve started out fabulous, we had drinks and food and friends and family and it was awesome! And then around 9:30, my lower back on the right side began to hurt. I went upstairs to lie down and then began puking. And the pain was worse and there was more puking. So not fun... I passed out (fell asleep, whatever) at some point and missed all of the midnight celebration.
Around 4am the pain was still there and I couldn't even keep water down. The lucky thing was we had lots of family and friends staying the night so Greg took me to the local emergency room. A CT scan later and yep, kidney stones again (I've had them once before, a little more than 10 years ago while pregnant with the twins). I kinda thought that's what it was but it seemed like drinking and junk food were the more likely cause of an upset stomach at the time.
I spent Jan 1st sleeping off the vicodin. As far as I know, the stone hasn't passed yet (I have a strainer, blah...) and I have to see a urologist sometime next week. Leave it to Steph to point out, "it can only go up from here." Here's hoping.
(Right, I think I'll keep the blog around for a bit longer. I probably just won't post as often. Still debating on Facebook. Thanks for all your comments!)
So this blogging thing...
I've been thinking about quitting. I've been thinking about this for months. I have been blogging for 5 years, 2 months, and 27 days. (But who's counting?) And I know this really sucks for those of you who just found me and then also for those who keep up with me this way. But I just kinda don't want to do it anymore.
There are lots of little reasons, half I can talk about, half I don't want to talk about. The big one may be the lack of good blogging material from the kids, the main point of this site. The kids aren't in that cute "OMG my two year old just said the funniest thing!" stage anymore. It's more like pre-teen whining and "Mom, we're out of granola bars!" Plus there's the whole privacy thing as they get older. No teenager wants their mom bragging or complaining about them on the internet.
I also don't feel like writing about sewing or exercise or knitting or cooking or housekeeping or running errands or the other random stuff that takes up the majority of my non-kid hours.
While I have lots of opinions on the meaning of life, love, and happiness (and politics and philosophy and religion), I don't want to share them in this public format. One I'm a wuss and don't want to deal with the trolls that those type of subjects attract. And two I'm a bit wishy washy (Libra!) and change my mind sometimes. And contradicting myself on the internet is a lot crappier than just doing it in my mind.
So...
I'm not sure where this leaves me. It's not like I want to leave the internet behind forever, I just don't feel like continuing here. What's the latest and greatest the web has to offer? Twitter? Facebook? Flickr? (Although I kinda suck at photography.) What am I missing? Or if you've gone through blogging malaise, what's the cure? Subject format change? New template? Or is this just The End?
Happy Hanukkah!
And um right, 3 days until Christmas, where did the time go?
I'm not looking at a horrible To Do list at the moment, it's just a matter of keeping on task and it'll all get done. Or I'm in complete denial. Actually there's a good chance of that.
The one item I thought of this morning that threw me for loop was that since we're hosting Christmas Day dinner, I may need to go to the grocery store to buy ingredients for said meal. *pencils in "grocery shopping"* My mother-in-law is cringing right now.
It'll all work out, it always does.
Do you think I could hit "snooze" until about Jan 5th?
Happy Friday y'all.
Oh oh, wait, come back!
One of my dear new neighbors just had jaw surgery. And while I'm planning to snitch her boys (ages 3 and 2) next week so she can get some rest, is there anything I can bring her food wise? Milkshakes from Chick-fil-A? Any help is appreciated. And also lots of caffeine.
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