Yesterday was my second favorite day of the year, after Christmas. It will be known as "Unloading Of The Spring/Summer Furniture and Decorative Elements for the Gardens and Yard" day. Long, but it paints the picture. the yard took on a bit of a transformation, and Laura got busy planting more vegetables as I dove in head first to the island garden along the left side of the house. The Krupps are up so they lended hands accordingly.
Yuula got involved with the watering efforts and we had a nice dinner of burgers and "weird" hot dogs. Topped it off with Maryann's just 10 minutes before they closed for the night. Let's do it again.
I've lost my closet space, again. When Laura and I first lived together she booted my ass outta the closet before I even knew she lived there. Then bought this house and one of the first things I did is tear apart the closet and go buy all new shelves and poles and even hangars so we could get the most out of the space as you may or may not remember from this here post entitled Furnishing Frenzy. Neither here nor there, it was all for naught, because late last night I got the boot again, to make way for her ever-growing wardrobe. Next Christmas I'm not getting her any clothes at all. Just space bags.
Luckily my parents had a lovely cedar armoire that was no longer in use and a set of drawers that my vagrant clothes could pile up in, so all was good. Yeah, I know I gotta paint that dresser. But I'll be damned if our bedroom is the hardest room to get furniture into. Getting this thing upstairs last night was like squeezing a handful of water. It wasn't even close to going up our bedroom stairs and our other staircase was the exact width of the thinnest measure of it. I had to remove the bathroom doorand once I was inside there the bathroom itself poses it's own little Pablovian challenges. Cubism Loo. That's a good name for a band from the early 90's, maybe from Omaha.
Don't hate on the sunnies.
We decided to reward ourselves with some summer icees and a little American Idol, which was underwhelming to say the least. Come on Boston, where's your spirit? Maybe Atlanta will be better. It's gotta be.
Well, Christmas has come & gone. We have been enjoying our gifts and gadgets thoroughly. One came in the mail yesterday.
I guess Christmas isn't over yet. There's a few more things en route.
But we're pretty much back to the ol' routine. The new year is coming and I can't help but feel like it's gonna refresh us a little. We got some plans for 2010 ya see. Little things here and there. Maybe a road trip, maybe an air trip. Maybe a new driveway. Maybe a bunch of zero balances on credit cards. Maybe all of it. Maybe none. It's all very exciting. I can't wait to see what happens. I do know we are gonna eat healthier this year. We've already started...
Plus we got out new Wii to help us along. According to the Wii I am obese and Laura is 62, so we've got some work to do. And I suck at balancing on an iceberg and catching fish in my mouth while dressed as a penguin so.....
We got plans for the house too. Like this little nugget I drew up last night.
I saw it on some While You Were Out or Trading Spaces episode a bunch of years back and never got it out of my head. Now I want one.
But mainly I think we plan to take the year's end in with a quiet smile. Relaxing around the house, cooking from one of the four cookbooks we got for Christmas, or just playing Shut the Box for jordan almonds. It's our favorite new game, besides Mario Kart, but that's not really new is it?
And a game that Laura cannot cheat at, therefore she has to play fair, therefore she loses. Every so often.
It was that 6th round where she got a whopping 125,789 points. The idea is to get the lowest score. That didn't help. And cats have been enjoying the new cushions we got for the dining room chairs more than we have, but our warm butts appreciate them on those chilly mornings that are soon coming.
Whatever it is that 2010 brings, I'm sure it's gonna be amazing. Why wouldn't it be?
Where have we been? I haven't posted anything significant on here since last week. And of course the significance of said posts are deemed questionable as well. Ok what no-good have our souls been up to.
Last Wednesday I photographed a lovely winter sunset, may be the last one this season.
And then Thursday night Laura & I moved the toaster into the living room so we could enjoy some toaster strudels and not miss our television program. I wonder if the design you make on your toaster strudel tells anything about your personalities. Can you tell which strudel is whose?
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Friday was relatively uneventful, in that we saw no relatives. Ha! But no really, we didn't do much. I did however learn how to set my camera to take black & white photographs. Madness ensued.
Saturday was Saturday. I had planned on being out of town but plans got pushed back. Highlight of the day: probably this delicious salad and watching Man On Wire. Great film about the other day everyone stared up at the World Trade Centers and one you should definitely see, if you can, again, stand French subtitles. Aren't we such movie snobs?
Sunday. Now Sunday was a big day. We have been making big plans. Big plans that involve windows, toilets, stackable washer/dryer & sledgehammers. But we needed to do some clearing of a mess that's been accumulating since May 23rd, the day we moved in. I say we made a ton of progress and are quite pleased with where we are in these developmental stages, even tho it meant throwing out my favorite found couch.
We also discovered the sepia setting on our camera and used it on some close-up photos.
Oh! And Laura made bread. It's gone already.
Monday was back to the grind, but I had a free moment and pretended to play stalker. I think I freaked out some old ladies.
Yesterday was a whole new adventure, but I'll have to get to that later on. I got stuff to do.
