Happy New Year
I am going to really try and make time to Blog more this year. Whether it be a top 5 list or just saying what is going on recently. Happy new year everyone! So far this has been a fantastic year full of lots of fun times and few bad times. Also, it has not...
Be Kind
To say that the month of December sucked is an understatement. The fact of the matter is I still don’t understand how it ended up that way. First the insomnia hit me like a freight train, then the anxiety about not sleeping… it has became a vicious cycle. My Doctor put me on drugs that...
Suddenly Insomnia
It all started a few days ago when Gabriel woke up in the middle of the night as he is sometimes wont to do. After getting him settled, I crawled back in bed only to realize that I was unable to fall back asleep… for the rest of the night. Exhausted, I barely made it...
Resurfaced Stairs
A couple of years ago, I resurfaced the stair risers going up to the second floor with some 1/4″ oak panels. The riser surface was painted white and I couldn’t manage to keep them from getting impossibly marred up with black kick marks. Plus there are knots in the wood that bleed through the paint....
The Master House List
Last night I sat down and typed up a spreadsheet that included each room in our house and a list of all the projects I’d like to do for those rooms. A lot of the projects are of a “someday/maybe” nature, but nevertheless I wanted to write down all the things I’ve had floating around...
Ombre Lamp Shade
Ok, so I took a stab at dying my living room lamp shades and there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is, the dip dye didn’t work well for me. I’m not certain why; maybe the fabric on my shades is synthetic and wouldn’t hold the dye or maybe the dye solution was...
Lamp Fetish
I started writing today’s post and realized that I might have a problem. Hi, my name is Vanessa, and I LOVE LAMPS. Ok, now that we have that out of the way, on with the blog post. First, I have to announce the arrival of our dining room lamp. It came from the same place...
Idiot String
If I had a dollar for every time Mike said to me, “Hey where’s your lens cap?” I’d have many, many dollars. While he drove me crazy with his incessant (and often annoying) pestering, I admit that I am extremely careless when it comes to my camera’s lens cap. I would misplace it in a...
Amateur
I consider myself a hobbyist photographer. I like to take pictures, but don’t want to be bothered by tinkering with the manual functions on my DSLR. However, I loathe crappy direct flash pictures and I’m fairly picky about photo quality. I do realize that I’d get more professional-looking results if I actually took the time...
Halloween 2011
I can’t believe it’s OVER… although I know that some neighborhoods have “postponed” the festivities until Friday for safety reasons. My parents’ neighborhood is one of these. They got so much snow that power lines and tree branches came down! YIKES. Meanwhile, we didn’t see so much as a flake, thank GOD! So anyway, we...
Beertender Mini-Review.
For my Birthday this year, Vanessa got me a beertender! (Yeah, my Birthday was in July… sue me.) Here are the basics: No, it doesn’t MAKE beer. It just keeps tiny little kegs (roughy a case) of Heineken, Heineken Lite and Newcastle Brown cold. It has a tendency to be picky about the glass that...
Nap Fail
So Gabriel has been phasing out his two naps a day, which is fine by me because it seems he’s been sleeping longer at night. Woot! Just another step closer to sleeping through the night consistently (it’s about bleeding time!) But for some reason I thought he needed two naps today. He took an early...
