A Little Sprucin' Up

During this downtime at the new job, I have been thinking a lot about the house and projects that need to be completed. I believe I am going to attempt a couple of these projects tonight. I have stumbled upon a couple of really good blogs lately and one in particular has inspired one of my projects for this evening. Life in the Fun Lane is one of the better DIY blogs I have found, especially when it comes to anything white or having to do with distressing furniture. I plan on making one of these tonight:

These are called ghost lamps and her blog entry can be found here. Assuming it turns out as planned, I will be putting the lamp in my bedroom hanging off my oddly sloped ceiling where I plan to move my gigantic chair after I purchase a replacement. It is a bit premature to make this tonight but I'm in the decorating/creating mood and these just look like fun! Plus my good pal Tara is willing to assist. :)

I've also been tossing around the idea of painting. One of the main reasons I settled so quickly on this house was due to my not having to paint anything because I loved the colors. The colors are fine but I've since learned that I find myself saying "they painted; they did; they whatever" and I don't like it. It's my house now and I want to make it mine! Plus some of the colors are dark and make rooms look smaller than they really are. This whole idea will likely pass but I'll be picking up some paint samples tonight no doubt.

I still have one wall in the living room that needs a little character. I decided today to make a photo wall. I plan to do this in my room also but these things take funds and I'm close to fresh out of those! I'm really liking the idea of this type of arrangement: Image found here

I like that it's more compact and the images pop. If I stumble upon lots of perfect frames, I would love to put one like this in my den with old pictures of my grandparents and parents growing up:

Image found here

My next task will be filling the frames for the one in the living room. Either my camera sucks at taking quality pictures or Walgreens sucks at developing them. Probably a combination of both. Regardless I'm not really one to take pictures of landscapes or things that would make something like this more attractive. I'll have to work on that I suppose. Or maybe someone will just lend/give/not-know-I-stole pictures. Gotta love Facebook! ;-)

I will attempt to remember to take pictures of the house this weekend and share. It's still very much a work in progress but nevertheless, something to be proud of! Happy Friday!

It's a Twi-hard Life

Tonight, I will be viewing that new movie you might have heard about called Eclipse. I've read the books. The movies are okay. That's my opinion. Like most movies, the books are far better. I took the pleasure of getting my dear friend LShep addicted to the series. I gave her the first book (Twilight) for her birthday almost 2 years ago. Her birthday fell just about a week or so before the release of the first movie. I needed a fellow Memphian to go see the film with and she seemed like a good candidate. Holy smokes. This pharmacy student became a Twihard (or whatever the heck they call them) in like 2 days. She finished all 4 books in literally a week or less, and possibly reread the first one before going to see the film. I am surprised she didn't make us t-shirts to wear to the movie!

When New Moon hit the big screen, my excitement had subsided. New Moon is the worst book. BORING! Did that mean LShep wasn't revved up for the flick? No sirree! She reread the whole series for the 3rd time? Maybe 2nd but still. And the movie was as expected. Boring.

Eclipse should be better. I've heard good things.

Upon completing the Twilight Saga, LShep has read damn near every series based on vampires available. She even watched/watches that Vampire Diaries show. Obsessed :)

Off subject but I think I have recently lost that gene in my body that creates excitement. You know that feeling you had when you were younger before Santa Claus came or before you left on vacation for Disney World? So excited you can't sleep. Well, that feeling has vacated my body. Maybe this is all part of growing up. Whatever it is, it's stupid. I want to be so excited about something I can't sleep! I could do work with a time machine.

Huh?

Maybe I'm the only person in the world who feels this way but the word "texted" drives me bananas. Maybe it is proper terminology, maybe not. To me it is somewhat like beer. Beers might be correct when used in a plural form but it sounds ridiculous. Again, this is all just my opinion but when the word "texted" comes out of mouths, I cringe. I will text people in past, present and future tenses, occasionally adding the ever popular "-ing" when necessary. Happy Tuesday!!

Additional information - as I was about to post this blog entry, I hit the handy dandy spell checker and to my suprise, the only word mispelled on the screen???? TEXTED!! Slam bam thank ya ma'am! :)

Beat That...

I have recently established I have zero summer blouses. Everything I own is dark and gloomy. While bored at work, I shopped around on one of the only websites I can actually access, Banana Republic. Before I got this job, I wasn't sure what line of work I would be getting into or what the dress code would be. Here at TVA, we're business casual. Some folk rock jeans and Hawaiian shirts. I'm guessing they are IT of some sort. Us business services people know business casual. My point is when I moved and began making purchases for my house, I put EVERYTHING on my Banana Republic card (and paid it off of course) so I would receive LUXE rewards (large amounts of gift cards to spend in any Gap, Ltd. store) in case I needed to spruce up my wardrobe for some fancy job. Clearly this was not the case. Today I purchased 2 shirts.

This one:

And another one. I obviously got the very last one of the other shirt because it is no longer even listed on the website and I seriously placed my order 20 minutes ago. The original total for this order was somewhere around $90. I weasled myself out of shipping and an extra 25% off this sale item listed above. I ended up paying a whopping $1.35. Success.

Every now and then, you just gotta get right with the shopping gods. Happy almost Friday!

On the Job

So I started my job recently. Okay so it was yesterday. So far so good. Except for a few things. I am assuming I am not the only person this has happened to, twice, but when you begin a new job you are typically given someone else's old desk/cube/area (as I prefer to call it). and it generally needs some tiddying up. Upon my arrival yesterday, I was introduced to my team and my area. Since I am new and this is a government job, it will take some time for me to have "access" to the programs I will be using so I am basically constructively killing time until then. My team is great and I'm certain this will be a great job!

A few weird things did occur on day one, however.

Since I really have nothing to do, I was told to do some "housekeeping." You know, get my area in order and what not. Boss tells me, "whatever you don't want, just put in that empty cube over there." So here begins my cleaning. My area is much bigger than the area I occupied at Bill's. I even have the actual cube material on the "walls" so I can pin things up and such. Bill didn't allow anything on the wall which sort of made for a dismal looking area. Any who, I discovered a few things I didn't need and just before I walked them over to the empty cube, I took a closer look at the CD-Rom I was about to toss to make sure I didn't need it. Title: Girls Gone Wild.... Bible Edition. Excuse me? Is this for real? Not looking much closer, I speed walk this CD-Rom/DVD over to the empty cube and hope it is what it says and my finger prints aren't traced back to some kind of corrupt watching of porn here at Tennessee Valley Authority. Whew.

After that scare, it was off to be fingerprinted (probably so they can trace me to Girls Gone Wild.... Bible Edition.) My coworker drove me over to the TVA Police station and Officer Billings greeted me. Then he asked me if I had any tattoos. Random. Just met the coworker here with me and now we're getting a bit personal. I say yes, unfortunately, I have a tattoo. Coworker chuckles in a they-totally-didn't-ask-me-that-question-I-feel-like-I-should-leave-the-room kind of way. Then Officer Creeper asks me where the tattoo is located. Part of me wanted to make up something ridiculous like having a spider web on both knee caps or something but I answered and carried on. Coworker then proceeds to come back and tell my whole team about the question (and of course I am the only one that got that question). The way he described it made me sound as if I were a walking billboard for tattoo artists around the world. He clarified and I am no longer thought of as a devil child. In fact, I think they even like me. After his revelation I felt the need to disclose the Girls Gone Wild.... Bible Edition. Lucky for me, they knew just who it belonged to.

The new career looks promising even after the odd first day. Bright side----- LONG WEEKEND AHEAD!

Killing Time

It's official. I am bored out of my mind. I do not believe I could ever be a stay-at-home anything. I feel so worthless it is unbelievable. I am sure this will all change when I am back at work daily and scrambling to get things done after work each day once again. But on the bright side, I did get to see the entire USA vs. Algeria game today. I watched every bad call, missed goal and yellow card from my bed. I am also a lazy bum but I plan on getting out of bed after I finish this blog. I, along with most others who had watched the USA get poor call after poor call, had all but given up on another early morning game when the Algeria goalie took a tumble and set up the perfect finish for Landon Donovan. I jumped from my bed and did a little ditty around my room. And then got back in bed. Naturally. Another bright note. Just received a call from TVA and I should be set to start on Monday. Yippee for no more boredom, hopeful gym membership and most importantly, paychecks!

I am hoping my life takes a turn for the exciting side so these blog posts are not tearfully boring anymore! :)

Recently...

Almost a month and no new blog. I know, I'm slacking. BUT what a month it has been! I moved into the new house May 22nd and it has slowly taken control of all my time which is so much fun! I've learned to love gardening and making yard improvements. The interior is coming along though I still need to make a few purchases which will have to wait until I start MY NEW JOB! I'll be starting my new job with Tennessee Valley Authority (better known as TVA, or those people who are raising our electric rates yet again which is more than likely being done to pay this really cool new employee they have hired :) ). I will be a Financial Consultant with the Nashville Financial Services Department. Woo hoo!

Also in the past month I have gone on vacation to PCB and also braved Bonnaroo. Both were extremely fun! I will have to post pics from Bonnaroo later when JED or RB post theirs. I didn't take my camera because I have HORRIBLE luck! We began our Bonnaroo adventure just a few miles down the road and D & J's humble abode in McMinnville. We thought this was a great plan since we could sleep a little later and not be in traffic so long. WRONG! 10 hours after departing on the 25 minute trip to the grounds from their house, we finally made it to our campsite. We could have been to the beach and half way back! That was just about the only downfall. Front row of DMB was pretty ridiculous and made battling the heat and walking 2 miles uphill both ways to and from our campsite well worth it. Somehow we managed to avoid most of the madness which, looking back, is sort of sad. I feel like I have no crazy Bonnaroo story other than the running of the bulls moment to get into the pit for Dave. No we didn't see any show after 12pm. No we didn't get sprayed with acid from a squirt gun (believe it or not, this was actually a fear I had!) No we didn't board the sketchy Farris wheel or slide on the giant slip 'n' slide my parents diligently looked for us to be doing on the news. Yes we did see naked, sometimes painted people. Yes, Jay-Z was pretty ridic!! Again, pics to come later...

Oh and about that cleanse, I really liked it! I did not however lose 10 pounds in 7 days. Big surprise there!