Making Progress

Well, we really made lots of progress this week! We are working on our Frisco living room. We decided to go ahead and do the surround sound thing so we had a LOT of prep work to do. First of all, we needed furniture. Done. Then, we needed to choose our color scheme (paint & fabrics). Done. Get the walls painted. DONE. We did it ourselves. I love the way it turned out! OK, so it's not perfect but it works and it saved us a ton of money (and you'll soon see why that is so important.)

Let's think about this: We need MUSIC so...We bought an iPod. Yes, thank you, we've joined the rest of the world and are slowly becoming fluent in iTune. I downloaded nearly 300 cds totaling close to 2700 songs which is 9.5 DAYS of continuous music. We still have 70 of the 80 Gbs available. Good Grief. We need a TV so...We bought a 52" LCD which is now mounted on the wall above the fireplace. We need movies so...We bought a BluRay thing. Whatever. The satellite is hooked up, the speakers are in and my butt vibrates when the Black Pearl shoots her canons. A true HD experience.

OH! And we needed a place to put all this stuff so we built an entertainment center. This is what we started with:
Built it into this:and ended up with this:So this is our new living room:
I also got my scrap room organized:
A word to the wise: Do NOT let your husband watch HGTV or DIY. You will forever be up to your ears in projects. Good thing I can swing a hammer!

Happy Mother's Day

Hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day. We had dinner at my parent's house and the in-laws joined us. It was really nice to not have to split our time. Thanx to my sister, I even cooked a brisket. It was actually good!

I'm working on a new project called 28 Days. This is day 6 and so far all I've accomplished is creating a spreadsheet to keep up with the photo assignments and a folder to store the daily downloads. Maybe this week I can get caught up. Right.

We got a new iPod as part of our Home Theatre System so I'm learning how to load all our CDs. Kenneth said we're finally growing up. Whatever. We're gonna have to get Michael or Ryan to show us how to adjust the volume. Yeah...we've arrived.

May WHAT???

Where does the time go? I think I live in a time warp. Every time I look up, it's another day, week, month! Good Grief! How did I get this old? I had a facial yesterday and was politely informed that "Oil of Olay isn't gonna cut it anymore". I have to admit that after the glycolic peel (oooh, tingly) and deep pore cleansing (OW...you can stop now) my skin did look better but who has time for all of that? I have projects to finish and pages to create and albums to make. So, I'm obsessed. Who cares? The Arlington Scrapbooking Convention is in June and I'm going this year! Anyone care to join me?

Anyway, here is what's happening this week:
We're in Houston until Friday because Kenneth has BIG meetings with THE BOARD. We had dinner with friends Monday so he's only home one night this week. And, his old boss has invited him to some "grand poo bah" event so he had to rent a tux. I was NOT invited. How RUDE. If the other spouses show up I'm gonna be really ticked. I'm trying not to be offended but..TOO LATE. Oh well, my dress wouldn't fit anyway since I've lost 35 pounds! But still. He looks REALLY good and if any chick hits on him, I'm never letting him out of my sight again. Not in a tux anyway. "Not invited"...humph!

So I get to spend the whole week alone and scrapping. Yea! I need to finish my mom's gift. I start a 28 Day workshop tomorrow. And I need to re-focus on our Key West Album. FUN FUN FUN.

It's Wednesday and I'm lonely. Anybody wanna come over and play?