So I decided with the new house it was time to let go of the “college age” furniture and get some real stuff. I found a nice bedroom set on sale over Thanksgiving and got some “Black Friday” 20% off. Its the first room in the house on the way to be done. Now its time to hang some pictures. I have way more drawers than I’ll ever have clothes.
I finished the kitchen today – I’m very please to say the least. I love the fact that a simple coat of paint can change the feel of a room so easily. While the cream wasn’t bad, the new color softens the “brightness” a bit.
Now off to start cooking dinner tonight – having friends over for a low country boil!
I finally picked a color to paint the kitchen (thanks Amy). “Woodward Colonial Gray” – now just to finish cutting in around every stinkin thing in the kitchen.
Simple things like getting a bookcase and unpacking 3 boxes worth of stuff on it just really makes one feel accomplished. After Adam Byrd commented on the “typical Sam office” last week – I figured it was about time I took care of this room of the house!
oooh...books
So when I talk about having a bad day at work – when things “crash”, “go down”, “fail”, customers get angry, etc – its sort of hard to explain. I know what I do isn’t always “tangible”. Technology lives in this virtual room somewhere on a bunch of servers. Today, I found a real world example that will help to explain it thanks to Fox News…just imagine this happening inside a computer and I think you’ll get the idea…
This little child is precious. Josh and Jenny brought her to visit after going to the fair Saturday. I have this “puppet” we got off QVC a while back that looks like some alien dog. I was hoping it wouldn’t scare her. She’s learned to giggle and its really cute.
She found the vertical blinds and was so curious about them. She also like to yell out the door…
Here you’ll see she’s learned to “cheese” at the camera.
She’s so fun to watch…
She and the “doggy” are going to read a book…
Shedding a little light on the subject…whatever I’m doing in the kitchen that is. I got tired of the $10 Lowes florescent (and the shadows) so I decided it was time to update the lighting a bit. I really wanted whoever was washing my dishes to be able to see what they were doing (yes, that’s usually me but a boy can have dreams right?) and I didn’t want it to feel so sterile. Saturday morning I went to Lowe’s and started with my little project… I decide to put two 50w Halogen recessed can over the sink, replace the center light with some directional Halogens, and add under the cabinet lights to bright the counters a bit.
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Now to decide whether to paint the green you see beside the oven – I haven’t decided if its too dark yet or not. Its really coming down to one of those “paint a wall and see” decisions.
I went to Lowes this weekend to get some things for the house – I walk in the door and this is what I see. Another year or two, they’ll just leave this out all year round.
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You know you were tired when you come home to find this…
They looked the same earlier in the day...
I was watching Dirty Jobs tonight and paused it to talk on the phone. Mike is working in a smoke house where they make bologna. I turned my attention back to the TV and happen to notice how I paused it…
Mike holding Meat