Misery

Loves company, don’t ya know? 

I did a little yoga with one of my friends last night.  I always thought yoga was just twisting your body into odd positions while you meditate on the universe.  Turns out yoga is actually exercise and I’m feeling it today.  *great big googly eyes*  LOL. 

Now if I can just make myself keep doing it alone.  Unfortunately, exercise is miserable, and misery loves company.  bwahaha. 

Randomness:

• I’m blogging while I wait on my iPod to finish it’s software update.
• I’m actually really hungry because I haven’t had breakfast and snack last night was nil since at the moment last night when I can usually be found vegging with a snack in one hand and computer mouse in the other, I was instead twisting up my body into a human pretzel. 
• I want to go upstairs and find something unhealthy to eat.  But I have to wait on this stinkin update. 
• At least this way, my blog will not fall victim to another entire week without a post.
• I love Fridays.
• My iPod just beeped.  I think it might be finished.
• Wait…now my apps need updating. 
• I’m really hungry. 
• I’m going to stop with the play by play randomness. 
• You’re welcome.  =)

In My Head

Well, it’s been a week since my last post.  I have to say…I am becoming a FANTASTIC mental blogger. 

ROFL. 

That could be a good thing.  But it’s not so good if you’re nuts enough to want to read the actual words on the physical blog. 

I’m thinking it’s a bad thing though that I have so many unspeakable things in my head.  Typical…but bad. 

I don’t know how to fix it either, other than going anonymous or just letting everything fly here…either way could be dangerous.  LOL. 

Some of it goes back to my last post (which, by the way, thanks for the commiserating comments…ya’ll are great!) and some of it branches out into other areas of my brain which are conflicting and confused. 

I’m pretty sure if I let it all out here though, I would be making the case and providing all the evidence necessary for the people who are looking for reasons to dislike me.  Yeah, I know…hard to imagine that people wouldn’t like me…but…uh…see prior post.  Not so hard to imagine.  And I guess providing more reason would probably make my life un-necessarily miserable.  SO I’ll keep it to myself and try to go back to your basic everyday blah blah blah updates. 

Even though I don’t really “get” people…I still actually “like” people (most of the time) and prefer not to make social interactions any more difficult than they already are for me.  LOL. 

Speaking of difficult…I volunteered to help out at a fundraiser breakfast on Saturday morning as a server (waitress) for three hours…talk about out of my comfort zone!  I knew most of the other volunteers, so that part wasn’t so bad, but walking up to tables of total strangers and remembering orders and pouring refills and carrying trays of food without dropping anything….definitely a challenge, but I succeeded, so that was a plus.  Haha.

Anyway.

KC and I went out on Friday night with another couple to Olive Garden (KC’s parents had the kids, so we had some grownup time for my birthday…woohoo).  And it was extra nice because we’ve been friends with the other couple for like 20+ years, so it was totally in my comfort zone!  LOL.  And then us girls split off to go shopping at the mall because we SO weren’t interested in going to the Tool store.  Hahaha.  I even spent a little bit of money without feeling guilty since it was my birthday present…lol.  I’d totally put the night up there at the top of my ideas for a perfect birthday. 

Now it’s Monday…and the Monday after the time-change no less, so I am totally dragging.  Haven’t gotten ANYTHING done today.   =/ 

*sigh* 

There’s all the blah blah update I can come up with for now, so I guess I’ll head off and try to be productive for the afternoon.  =) 

I Don’t Get People

And I don’t think people get me either.   

In the past week, I’ve blogged at least 10 times.  And all ten times, I’ve thought…you know what?  I better not say that. 

So I didn’t.  But I still want to.  So now I get to write a blog post while resisting the temptation to give in and say it anyway.  It’s easier to avoid temptation if you just avoid the thing all together.  That’s probably why people choose the easy route and live life in total abstinence of things that might be a challenge to balance appropriately.  Me, on the other hand…I like to do things the hard way.  LOL.

Maybe that doesn’t make sense.  Like I said…people don’t get me either. 

But here’s my thing.  Why can’t we all just get along?  Why do we have to do things that just poke at each other?  Why does it matter if you believe one way and I believe another?   Why can’t we just live and let live…and for heaven’s sake, kill the tension and drama.  Can’t we overlook the human in people if we expect them to overlook the human in us?  Sheesh. 

Maybe that’s why I’m socially inept.  I don’t do well with the politics of social interaction.  I have to work at it, and most of the time, I feel like an utter failure. 

Oops, was I supposed to give them a hug?  Did I miss my cue?  Did they notice that I didn’t catch their name?  Uh, what should I say now?  Oops…that must be a sensitive topic, how do I get out of this one?  Oh my, that didn’t sound right…gotta fix it, gotta fix it!  Oh no…that didn’t help either…how do I get out of this?  Oh look, time to go…should I shake hands or am I supposed to hug them now or just do nothing and say bye?  They look like this is awkward…uh….what do I do, what do I do?  Are they going to take it the wrong way if I just say bye?  Oh no, they’re coming in for a hug…should I put my arms over or under….hope my deodorant is still working…or maybe a side hug would be more appropriate…no no no…I turned my head the wrong way and we knocked heads…how awkward….

Welcome to a small piece of my brain.  Yep…it’s pretty twisted. 

And this is one of the many reasons I LOVE my husband…he’s like the social wizard…when he’s around, I’m only half as awkward.  LOL. 

I don’t even know why I’m saying all this…confessing my faults, I guess.  It’s better now than it used to be, so I guess my hard work on this area is not totally for nothing, but it still irks me pretty frequently.  *sigh* 

So for the record, if you ever spend any time with me in person and I am acting really weird or saying the dumbest things…now you know why.  LOL. 

And this is probably the reason that I’m quite forgiving of others social misdeeds…within reason.  LOL.  If you’re obviously creating unnecessary drama, repeatedly…well, that’s a different story.  LOL.

And that’s the edited version of my last ten blogs.  It might not make any sense, but since you’re reading my blog, you probably didn’t expect to come here and get sense.  HA. =)

I’m going away now…I have the drama queen upstairs going off about her math problems.  Which brings up another point…why is everything always everyone else’s fault?  You make your own choices…own it.  Don’t be saying it’s the teacher’s fault for making you hurry when you’re the one who spent all your math time talking to your friends in class and then scribbled down wrong answers in the last five minutes and then have a weeks worth of failed math papers that you have to bring home and correct.  Yuck.  That irks me, too.  I’d say it’s an age thing and it’s not till you get older that you realize, duh…it really IS my bad choices, but there are some people way older than myself who have yet to realize this. 

Okay…putting the soapbox away for REAL now.  =) =)  The tantrum upstairs is escalating.  Gotta go. 

So Where Was I?

I seem to have gotten sidetracked again.  I don’t remember where I left off last, but we had a fantastic weekend…mostly. 

Dinner with friends (several times), Rook, KC getting called into work on Saturday, the kids hanging out with Mawmaw (which proved to be quite convenient when KC got called into work…I just rode in with him and sat there with my book while he solved the great issue of world work peace…and it was quiet because it was just me with my book and not me trying to keep the kids occupied…which helps MY inner peace incredibly…but I’m so sidetracked right now), then there was Ikea (my favorite store ever), I got a croupy cold last night and it’s continued to today, church, K-man threw up in the car on the way home, we got NOTHING done on the kitchen (except hanging up the new black and white towels that my MIL so sweetly bought for the new kitchen because my other ones didn’t match anymore…lol), and blogging one of the worst run-on non-sentences in the history of this blog…wonder how much longer I could go on, using only commas and dot-dot-dots….ROFL. 

Unfortunately, I must pause to hack up some creepy crud. 

I would say you were lucky the sentence ended…but then I had to go and ruin it with my description of why…lol…

I’m so sorry. 

Random, random, random.  Yes, I’m a goofy nut. 

I had to blog.  Sorry.  I’m leaving now…I think it’s going to be an early night.  I’m so tired and achy and sniffly.  And I forgot to give K-man more medicine before bed so I’ll probably have to get up in the middle of the night to give him something for hacking. 

So goodnight. 

Retrospect

So I’m listening to one of those morning shows on the local Christian radio station this morning as I was taking the kids to school…and they’re talking about how they were in there at 6 in the morning and the girl comes in to get the trash first thing in the morning….

And I had a moment. 

A moment where I really missed my old job. 

The job where there were dj’s just down the hall in the studio and I was in my office bright and early in the morning and everything was quiet because I was one of the few people who was ever there bright and early…and I had plenty of peace to work on my projects (and occasionally take a few seconds to blog…that was back in the day when I posted way more frequently since I was on a computer every day/all day). 

And the super sweet cleaning lady always came in REALLY early (before me, even) and would come in and get my trash and tell me good morning and stop and chat for a moment.  And then I would get back to my work and she would go on down the hall to the next office. 

Now I AM the cleaning lady.  And I’m not nearly so cheerful and sweet.  (I’m sure the fact that I have no paycheck to pick up from the business office every month has nothing to do with that…lol)

But it is really nice to be able to go back to bed if I want…and not have those afternoons where it seems like 5:00 will NEVER arrive.  And not have to drive forever and a day to get home…

Okay.  I’m good now.  =)

Moment of Truth

And now….

it’s finally here….

(okay, if you don’t count that the plumbing for the sink still needs to be tweaked a bit, and the pantry cabinet door still needs to be repaired and painted and hung)

Thankfully, I artfully snapped these photos to hide those little details.  Haha. 

Too bad I had to tell ya and ruin it, huh? 

Oh well…get on with it, right?  So I can go back to posting normal things again and not crazy remodeling rambles? 

Okay okay

BEFORE:

And AFTER:

and from the other side of the bar….

This entire project kinda went like that kids book “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie…”

Only ours sounded more like, …and when you buy a new light fixture, you have to take the old fixture down, and when you take the old fixture down, there’s going to be no box to attach the new fixture to, and when you buy a box and put it in the ceiling, it’s not going to fit in that spot because of a beam that is already in that spot that you couldn’t see when you cut the hole for the box, and when you move it over, there’s going to be a hole in the drywall that you have to patch.  Then when you get the box installed and patch the extra hole and sand down the patch, it’s going to knock another little random indent in apparently someone else’s patching from times before, so you have to patch that.  And THEN, when you get it all patched, you have to paint the spot for the light to go, but when you go get your paint, it doesn’t match the rest of the ceiling, so you have to paint the rest of the ceiling and then when you start painting the rest of the ceiling, you run out of paint, so only half the ceiling is painted but that’s okay because at least the part that is in the picture is painted.  So you go back to hang the light fixture and it still doesn’t hang tight against the ceiling, so you take it down and tighten the box and rehang the light (and then you do it again…and again…while holding the thing up in the air the entire time because it’s wired to the ceiling).  And then when you get all the lights hung up and turned on, it’s going to be too bright and…..we haven’t fixed that yet….we just wear sunglasses and sunscreen in the kitchen. 

That was just the light….such is the story of this entire kitchen remodel….but I won’t keep going because it would take ENTIRELY too much time.   LOL 

PS For the record, it’s the hubby who thinks it’s too bright…I actually like it bright.  =) =) And not ONLY because I want to be done….hahahaha

Anyway, it’s beautiful even if it’s not quite finished yet….and now I really really really need to get caught up on laundry and housecleaning (which has suffered to an embarrassing state during the remodel, since all my time has been devoted to…well…I don’t even have to say it, it’s so obvious.  LOL)

I don’t know how people remodel in such giant ways and still keep the rest of the house clean.  I’m going to hope they just have smaller houses so that I don’t feel like such a slouch.  hahaha

Why am I still talking…?  Yeah, I don’t know either.

Oooh

Sneaky peeky....

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We put the hardware on tonight and it looks SOOO much closer to finished....will hopefully have "after" photos to share REALLY soon. =)

Still Working

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"Definitely a work in progress. Note the ONE cabinet door on...and ONE drawer has hardware...and the light fixture which you can't see has to be reinstalled because the ppl who built this house didn't put a junction box there so it's sorta dangling a bit.....and there's no backsplash....but it's getting there....slowwwly....I will post REAL pictures soon. :-)"

Washing Dishes...

This is my world today....I woke up at 4:45 with a splitting headache which didn't go away with medicine, and made me nauseated, and then I got up and took the kids to school and set right into it.

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"Hand washing every last dish in every last cabinet....gives me new appreciation for the term "dishpan hands" yikes!!!"

Amazingly enough, I didn't fall over in exhaustion....until now....(8:35pm) lol.

Oh yes, and when KC got home tonight, we put the second (and hopefully last) coat on the kitchen cabinet doors. YUCK.

So we're tired. Happy Valentine's Day...I had no time to do anything other than help the kids get their school valentines ready...oops. I had great plans...but the kitchen interrupted. Oh well.

Oh yes,...almost forgot....that is our lovely new kitchen sink and faucet....made dishwashing JUST the slightest tinge more fun...put it a step above...say....getting a root canal....lol.

And I'm so rambling. Goodnight.

Granite....!!!

It's being installed as I type!! Woohoo!!!!

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"Yaaaaaaaay!!! Our granite countertops are being installed!!!!! I'm not excited at ALL! Ok so yes I am!! "

Thanks,
The Instagram Team

I’m So Dead

OH boy…I hurt….

So technically, if I’m in pain, I’m probably still alive. LOL.  But I hurt…everything hurts.  From my fingers down to my toes. 

For reference, this was the kitchen last night:

This is the kitchen tonight:

Okay, it doesn’t really LOOK like much has changed but please note the backsplash is all one color and no more nakey plugs… 

And the stove is back in it’s rightful place.

And there is a notable absence of dust particles. At least large quantities of dust particles anyway. 

And I hurt.  I’m not complaining…I’m sure no one wants to hear that anyway. LOL.  =) 

I see an early bedtime in my future.  =) 

New App...

So I've discovered a new app...Instagram...

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"Crockpot chicken night....K-man is the last one at the table...tacos are so not his favorite!!!"

You'll probably see more of these appear...because it's SO easy to send them from my iPod now....*grin* And then just bear with me until I can get on here and edit the post to have a title and not have the "alwaysfaith has shared a photo with you" message....hahaha.