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Name: Kelly
Birthday: 4/21/1977
Gender: Female
Interests: Um... I feel so shallow... reading, rally cars, martial arts, not being at work
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Member Since:
3/8/2007
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| If/when we have a kid, I think I would totally have to decorate the baby's room around this. Those prints are absolutely too cute for words. She does sheep, horses, pigs, cows... Not that I would have children solely on the basis of being able to decorate a nursery, but cute animal pics do sweeten the deal.  | | |
| My husband has promised to take me here when I lose all the weight I want to lose. I was careful not to actually express this amount in poundage, since I don't want to be held up by that last pesky 10 lbs that I would be happy if I never actually lost anyway... This way, I have wiggle room and can claim my promised vacation extravaganza more easily. I'm pretty sure he also promised to take me to Ireland. Yeah. Yup. Pretty sure. I'm lobbying for both. Colorado resort in winter, Ireland in spring or fall. Will this give me the incentive I need to never eat again? Maybe I should print pics and staple them to the fridge... and pantry... and the door of my favorite bakery... I mean, look at that place!!!!! GORGEOUS!!!!! And in between sitting in majestic mountain-lodge splendour, you can even go dogsledding (although I would be all about the snowboarding - once I lose the weight, that is...) Exercise, here I come! | | |
| Yes, that was a barely-veiled nod to "Hot Shots - Part Deux." I have no idea why that reference popped into my head. For those of you who do not have the hyper-Googling thing going on (bythelbs read about the song in the post, looked it up, and found it before I even had a chance to locate the thing online yesterday!), the song I was referring to is here. I have no idea if I'd find it so compelling had I not seen dance choreographed to it. Anyway, another bit of randomness pulled from an e-mail yesterday: Btw, did you know that spell-check recognizes "Wal-Mart"? I had taken the lazy route and just typed "Walmart"... I usually don't bother spell-checking, but "guttural" looked weird so I ran it, and what did it pick up on? "Dustbunnies" (it prefers "dust bunnies") and "Walmart." Yeesh.
What has our society come to? Spell-check has an entry for Wal-Mart. And no, this is not one of those where I added the word - I never (ok, well, this one time) use spell-check, much less add words to it. I should add that just for giggles and grins I ran Xanga's spell-check on this post, and it does not recognize "Wal-Mart" (nor, apparently, "I'd" or "spell-check," ironically enough). It also does not recognize or offer alternatives for "dustbunny." I just thought you'd want to know. | | |
| I'm back! Sort of. I'm getting ready to go on vacation and I have high hopes of actually managing to keep up a nice blogstream, so blogging has been on my mind. I also have high hopes of catching up on the last three months of blog subscriptions that I'm behind on. I was emailing a random side note to a friend and thought, "Hey, this is as good a blog as anything I've managed to not write lately..." Plus, this kind of eases me back in gently, without the pressure of blog-specific creativity.  Ok, so I'm fixated on a new song. I must confess, I actually heard it on "So You Think You Can Dance" and I spent like half an hour trying to figure out what it was and who sang it. (Side note: This is the first season of SYTYCD that we've watched, and I must say it's fascinating. The judges are irritating and the people's personalities sometimes less than riveting, but the dancing is amazing.) Anyway, the song is "Belief (Stripped Version)" by Gavin Degraw. Oh. My. Gosh. It's not a Christian song or anything, but the guy packs some incredible raw emotion into his voice. I listened to the original released version (I bought the whole "Chariot - Stripped" album on the basis of this one song, and it comes with all the originally-produced versions PLUS all the stripped versions) and it was just sappy and pointless, but the stripped version... Oh, wow. Not that I do that sort of thing or anything, but it's one of those songs that would totally make you want to jump the guy. Have you heard it? If not, I bet you want to now, don't you? Muahahahahaha.
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| Wow. It has been almost a month since I blogged, and it's been just about that long since I've read any blogs... Yeesh. I've got some catching up to do. Anyway. Just to give you guys an update: We've been in the process of adding a garage and bonus room to our house - a project that was supposed to take two to three months and is now going on five. The problems it solves are well worth it (I keep reminding myself), but honestly - I. Cannot. Handle. Much. More. Of. This. Grad school + work (tax season, to boot) + chaos and construction at home = stress. The good news is, once this is complete it will solve virtually all of our minor issues with the house - we really like our house (I built it about four years ago, just before TBear and I got engaged), but it's fairly small. Don't get me wrong - it's a great starter house and was ideal for a single gal, but if/when we ever decide to have kids things would get cramped. We considered buying land so we could eventually build something bigger, but we really like living here - so this addition is adding a nice big garage (storage!! room for TBear's man-stuff!) and a nice big new living room so that TBear's big TV has a lovely nice home where it won't look like a 2-ton elephant squeezed into a child's playhouse... AND I won't be running into speakers all the time AND the fireplace will be noticeable again AND no more scraping ice off windshields in the winter AND the washer and dryer will be moving to the garage so I get a PANTRY IN THE HOUSE!!!!! YAY FOR STORAGE!!!! Plus we were able to get the living room, dining room, and spare bedroom painted as part of the reno and the colors are gorgeous (previously everything was kind of an ugly yellow, due to an incorrect color-match by person or persons unknown when the house was originally built/painted). HUZZAH! PLUS, now we will have a nice back porch (previously pretty much just an oversized landing) and a back deck! And did I mention we now have a real, honest-to-goodness concrete walkway instead of a narrow little DIY deal (that was painfully obviously inexpertly done by yours truly)? So, while things have been crazy-hectic, at least the end is in sight and glorious wonderfulness awaits (LOL - kind of like life...) So here are a couple of before/after pics (reno isn't done but most of the exterior stuff is): 
House before. 
House after. 
Ugly paint before (hard to see color - just trust me on this one) (Oh, and btw - the TV takes up the entire corner between the window and fireplace) 
Pretty paint after (the fireplace wall is an accent wall, so the color on it is a bit darker, then everything else is more of a putty color). HOORAY HOORAY! | | |
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