1. landscaping: it's going swimmingly. i've discovered that i really enjoy gardening. the plants in the front are all very happy, with the exception of 2 small groundcover type things that croaked pretty fast. mom is of the opinion that i did not plant them deep enough, and i tend to agree. i've discovered that i am a bit too eager of a home remodelist. i get so excited to see the end result that i dont always stop to do a quality job. basically, i'm impatient. not a big suprise, but interesting to see it unfold in this light. so anyway, my plants are all doing very well. the butterfly bushes exploded in deep purple blooms last week. i have not taken any pictures, i should do that... yes. i have several bags of mulch leftover and will be filling it in this weekend with more mulch. i also added a lavender bush on Monday. joe and claudia told me to plant lavender for good luck, and since baby making is my #1 priority, i figured i might as well do all the lucky stuff i can. so a lavender bush it is!
2. bedroom remodel: gosh am i glad to be done with that one! it was a lot of fun though and it looks even more amazing than i pictured it to look in my head. i scraped the popcorn off the ceiling and it looks a lot better, much more clean. and a coat of paint on the walls works wonders. i learned that it's best to seal the ceilings with kilz. a lesson i put to work in the bathroom but did not correct in the ceiling. i'll regret that later, but in the mean time i'm ok with that peely odd look. the time will eventually come when we have no furniture in that room and i might fix it then... maybe.
fabric headboard made of plywood and foam/batting: a lovely DIY.com find
my sewing skillz at work. i LOVE having a curtained window, it keeps out so much light! it's the only window in the house with a curtain, the rest are just blinds. :)
i'm especially excited about the dresser. a $450 find at nebraska furniture mart. i've always wanted one of these! i just changed the knobs and viola!
3. bathroom remodel: kudos to the parental units for doing the majority of this one. as previously mentioned, i am not a perfectionist and i am impatient. luckily for me, my dad does not operate the same way. he and mom were in town for the week surrounding memorial weekend and in addition to a variety of other duties, they started and did much work on my bathroom remodel. this is for charles' bathroom in the hallway and the main one used by everyone except me. the paint is the same as the colors of the bedroom: gray. and i have repainted the cabinets and have had much help from joe and claudia's man hands with all of my projects. the fields' have built the bathroom shelf that i designed and joe put down part of the flooring, claudia helped me on some of the cabinet painting. there is still much left to do but it's more finished than not. i havent taken too many pictures of that, i'll add that to the photo run later. but it looks really cool and i'm SUPER excited for charles to see that and all of my projects since he left. he has seen pictures on facebook of the landscaping and bedroom but that's it. and he doesnt know much at all that's happening in his bathroom. muahahahaha. he's going to LOVE it!
4. surgery: mom and dad were up here to babysit me a couple weeks ago. in the ever-exciting road to fertility i had a laparoscopic procedure done on 26 May to see what's going on in the downstairs. it went well, i was extremely nervous that the dr. wouldn't find anything to fix, but alas, God is good. my innards and outards looked exactly like they should and when he shot the dye through my tubes it found a blockage but then pushed said blockage out under pressure from the dye. a perfect scenario. i go for my follow up appointment to learm more about what he saw/did and to go over the totally rad pictures he gave me of my ovaries, etc. i plan to have him attack the photos with a sharpie because to me it basically looks like a trip to the butcher shop gone wrong. so we'll see how that goes. the surgery itself went well but the recovery has been nothing short of a major bitch. i am almost back to 100% but it's been slow-going.
hmmm, i cant think of much else. i havent really exercised much since he left because of the house projects and surgery, but hopefully i'll be cleared to start again after my appt. monday. my eating hasnt slowed down in any way even though my activity has. so the pants are getting a bit tight again.
i love him!
