I'm pooped!

I didn't realize how long it's been since I posted. Work was crazy last week & when I got home I was tired & I still am. This was one of those weekends that we didn't have a lot of plans but we did a lot. Make sense? Friday when I got home we went to eat at a new little place called The Purple Goose. I had BBQ Nachos which were good but overall I don't expect this place to stay in business. Couyons BBQ was there before & they were great so if they closed I can't imagine a place that just sells pub food to stay open. Anywho, afterwards we went to the LSU game. They won so that was good.

Saturday, we had errands to run. We went to Sam's, Academy to get Logan's birthday gift, Home Depot & Lowe's to price dishwashers. When we bought our house it was 2 years old & all the appliances were stainless except the dishwasher. It was black. The guy that built the house had a Viking oven & cook top so the only thing I can figure is he was trying to not spend much on the dishwasher since he'd upgraded to Viking on the other things. It's always bugged me. I like things to match. It didn't bother the other person that lives in my house & it worked so there was no need to replace it. Men really don't understand. With all the work going on in the kitchen I finally convinced Dean to upgrade it. After all, I lived with the unmatching dishwasher for almost 7 years. We ended up buying a KitchenAid from a small appliance store not far from our house. They deal mostly with builders so they have great prices. The dishwasher we bought was on sale at Lowe's & it was still $144 more than we paid. What a deal! It's so nice & quiet & pretty, shiny stainless. The inside is stainless too. I love it! Our garbage disposal broke. Well, not break as much as it started leaking so we upgraded that too. It's a Waste King & supposedly will last a really long time. It has a bigger motor than what we had so I'll really be able to grind up some stuff. It's quiet too.  We were able to take it all home Saturday & Dean started installing. Saturday evening we went to Mass & Dean went to the LSU game & I went home. My sinuses were bothering me. I got caught up on my DVR.

Sunday morning I was up bright & early at 7:00. Seriously, what's up with that? I went for a run which completed C25K! They claim that at the end of the program you'll be running a 5K in 30 mins. I've completed it twice & that hasn't been the case either time but that's ok.  I'm running about 2.5 miles. in 30 mins. My plan now is to continue to run 3 times a week. The last couple of weeks of the program the run increased by a minute everyday. I'm going to continue that until I'm running 3.1 miles.

The rest of my Sunday consisted of grocery shopping, folding laundry,  planting some plants I bought Saturday. Yes, I do think I have a sickness when it comes to plants. I really have no other place to plant anything unless I start making new beds & I think Dean would have a heart attack if I suggested such a thing. Sooo, I think I'm done for this year. I sealed the back splash. I ironed. Apparently, I iron different than a lot of people. I don't iron everyday or before I wear something. I iron a bunch of stuff at the same time. I had A LOT of ironing to do yesterday. I also treated myself to a snoball. It was HOT when I was planting those plants. 

Needless to say, I could use a day off to recuperate from my weekend.

Toodles!

Weigh In Wednesday

I've gained 1.4 since last week. This is really starting to annoy me. I only ate out once too. UGH! I was experimenting with increasing my calories to see if that's why I was staying about the same. I didn't stuff my face & I didn't eat a bunch of junk, well, except for the Cadbury eggs but they're gone now. The last 2 nights I've had a great dinner. I've been craving eggs for whatever reason. Basically, I made an omelet except it doesn't look like an omelet because I'm not a cook & have no idea how you cook the egg & put the veggies in & fold the egg over & make it pretty. Mine was more scrambled eggs with veggies mixed in topped with salsa.

I used broccoli, green onions, red, orange & yellow bell peppers, black olives, grated cheese & I topped it with salsa & avocados. YUM!! Loved it. Although, I didn't find it to be hugely filling. Of course, I'm not finding a lot of healthy food to be filling. I definitely notice that since I'm exercising so much my appetite has increased. I was hoping my stomach would shrink with the dieting/eating right/change of lifestyle. So much for that.

My work outs this week have been: C25K Sunday & Wednesday & Yoglates Mon. & Tues. I plan to go to Yoglates tomorrow too. This is my last week of C25K. Today I ran 28 mins. straight but I'm still not up to 3 miles. I'm slow. Slower than I was last time when I did it. I tried to pick up my speed a couple of weeks ago & when I finished my hip was hurting. I believe I discovered how I hurt it to begin with. I did the same exact thing the week of the 5K I ran & that was the day that my hip starting hurting. Apparently, I meant to be slow. That's ok with me. I figure eventually I'll speed up.

My kitchen project is coming along. The only thing I've done this week is let the island & drawers dry & order 2 more corbels. I got an email yesterday evening that said they're sorry but the inventory was wrong & they're sold out of the corbels & will refund my money. Figures. Today I'll put the drawers back in the island & put all the stuff back in the drawers.

Today is Administrative Professionals day. My boss always takes us out to lunch but there's a lot going on in the office so he's taking us next week. One of the other guys that we do a lot of work for always brings us a gift of dessert liquor & chocolate.

 

I think I'm going to need a lot of this while working on the kitchen project!

Toodles!

Weekend Randoms

Friday night I was digging around in my closet that I keep all my gift wrapping & craft supplies in & I found this.

What is it you ask? Dean's Christmas gift that I lost before Christmas! It's a DVD about the history of LSU football. I have no idea why I hid it where I did. I'd completely given up on finding it. I really thought that I'd thrown it away by accident.

I went to Yoglates Friday for the 4th time last week. Yay me! I was relieved (I guess) to see this 

I'd just shown the pic of the empty box the other day. Maybe the powers that be read my blog?? Doubtful. At first I was thinking it was good that it's right by my spot so if I suddenly have a heart attack it's right there but now that I think about it I'm not so sure. What if someone else has a heart attack & I'm the closest one to this thing???

When I got home Friday this was waiting for me.

It's the corbels for my island. I have 2 & I'm trying to decide if I should get 2 more. The plan was to just have them on each end of the island. We'll see.

I was planning to run Saturday but it was raining & cool. I sanded, primed & painted instead. We did go for Mexican Saturday night which  I'd been craving all week. It was really good! There was also a Lowe's trip thrown in. We should really buy stock in that company.

Sunday we got a lot done fairly early. We went to Mass, did our grocery shopping for the week, I got my run in (Week 7, day 3) & got some painting done by lunch time. For lunch I tried this. 

It's from Peas and Crayons. I made a few changes because I don't like black beans & I didn't have any plain greek yogurt. This is how mine looked.

Sorry for the blurry pic. I used black olives, an avocado, green onions, salsa & a grated cheese mixture that I had. This was so good!!! I had a large sweet potato so I didn't eat anything with it. I like sweet potatoes a lot but I'm never sure about what goes on them. The sweet part throws me off. I normally just put a little butter & eat it. This was DELISH!!! I love how the salsa & sweet potato mixed. I'll definitely have it again.

Then it was back to painting. I may have to do a few touch ups but I think for the most part the island is finished.

Toodles!

IT'S FRIDAY!!!

YAY!!!!  I'm ready for the weekend. Not that we have anything good planned. Well, except for Mexican food Saturday night! Other than that, I'll be painting. I'm almost finished with the desk/bar area. Next up is the island. Crossing my fingers that I can get it completed this weekend. Working full time isn't conducive to a kitchen painting project. Yes, I could go home everyday & work on it but I have to go to Yoglates. That's not negotiable & that means 3 days a week I don't get home until 6 & being that I go to sleep for 9:00-9:30 & I have to eat & bathe it doesn't leave a lot of time for painting. I may end up taking a couple of days off work so that I can get it all done but that's an issue too because of a new operating system we're getting at work. Lots & lots of training is scheduled which means no vacation time can be taken. I'll figure it out but it may be awhile before the kitchen is completed. It's a little annoying.

Something else that is annoying is the ridiculously expensive taste I have in EVERYTHING! Seriously, for once in my life I'd like to love something & not have it be the most expensive. I've been scouring the internet for cabinet hardware. I finally found something that I love AND it's reasonably priced & guess what? It's sold out. UGH! The search continues.

I'm going to Yoglates today for the 4th time this week. Yay me! I don't normally go on Fridays because the class is at 4:00 but I've been in the office early all week so I'm leaving early. I took this picture the other day at Yoglates.

This is the floor near "my spot". I'm not sure what is more disturbing. The fact that they have a spot for a defibrillator or the fact that it's empty???

Happy Weekend!

Toodles!

Weigh In Wednesday

Is back, I guess. I weighed this morning & I'm where I was before Easter so I guess that's good. It could be better though.  Of course it could also be worse. When we did our grocery shopping Sunday I picked these up.

It's a Mmmmmocha Trufle Bar by Skinny Cow. I just saw on their website that this is a limited edition flavor. It figures because I LOVED it! I had one last night. I have to admit that I wanted just plain chocolate but they were out so I just got this. Mocha is chocolate right?? Well, not exactly. It has a coffee taste. That's ok though since now I'm a coffee drinker. In fact, I'm thinking I need to try an iced coffee since this was so good. Years ago, my mom & I were in Barnes & Noble & they were giving samples of iced coffee & I didn't like any of them at all but I'm living proof that your taste change. My friend Vicki only drinks iced coffee. I'll have to ask her for suggestions. Do y'all drink iced coffee?? What do you like?

So far, I've been to Yoglates twice this week. I plan to go again tomorrow. I started week 7 of C25K on Sunday & I did day 2 this morning. It was a 26 minute run this morning & I did it. I knew it was going to be cooler this morning but it was cold! 54 degrees! I know that's not cold for a lot of the country but when it's been in the 80's for the last 2 months, it's cold. Trust me. I had to wear my cold weather running pants. When I started my warm up walk I was wishing I had on long sleeves. That didn't last long though. It's really windy too! I don't like wind when it's cold. I had to fix my head band thingy over my ears. The last thing I need right now is to get sick. Of course with the weather change that's likely to happen anyway. My sinuses & changes in the temp don't go well together.

I've said before that I've never been a run to music person. I decided to change that since I'm doing longer runs now. I know 26 min. isn't that long but it's long enough to get bored. My friends keep telling me how much faster the time goes with music. I only downloaded a few songs because I did it at the last minute before I ran Sunday. Here's my play list:

Anna Begins - Counting Crows: This song is sort of slow for a run but I've always loved it.

Good, In the Blood & Desperately Wanting - all Better Than Ezra: For those of you that don't know, Better Than Ezra was started at LSU. LOVE them & their music! I've seen them in concert several times. Desperately Wanting is a live version from the House of Blues in New Orleans. I like the longer versions because that much more time is passing!

Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys:  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!! This song is from way back in the day, like when I was in middle school. I specifically remember me & my mom going to New Generation to buy the cassette. They didn't sell Beastie Boys just anywhere. It wasn't explicit lyrics or anything but you couldn't get it at Walmart.  Of course, buying a cassette for a song about an alcoholic beverage for a 6th or 7th grader may be a little questionable to some but at the time I didn't even know it was a drink. Yes, I know the song talks about "tilt your head back & finish the cup". I was young & naive, what can I say! This song was also part of the mix during our "going out" days. Yes, it's true, I had a friend that was the DJ at one of the bars we frequented in our 20's & he had a mix that he played of all the songs we always requested.

Shimmer - Fuel: I've liked this song for a long time too. Before I even knew who Fuel was. Yes, I know these aren't the typical running songs but I like them.

On the Way Down - Ryan Cabrera: I have no explanation for this one. I just like it.

Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms: This one is from their album New Miserable Experience. It too is from sometime in the 90's. It's a great CD. I almost didn't put this in my play list because it's one of those songs that every time it comes on I want to sing it at the top of my lungs. I didn't want to get carried away while running.

It did make the time go faster. I need to download more songs. Any suggestions?

Toodles!

Productive!

Definitely the best way to describe this weekend. Saturday morning my plan was to begin painting the desk/bar area. I'd bought everything. Or so I thought. Turns out the roller attachment thingy we have isn't the right size for the rollers I bought. These were special foam rollers made for cabinets. I didn't have time to go to back to Lowe's & come home & start painting so I just blew it off. My parents came over & my daddy helped Dean install the faucet & do everything they had to do with the plumbing. We finally have water in the kitchen again. YAY!!! You really don't realize how much you miss something until you don't have it. Here's the faucet installed.

I meant to take a better pic & I forgot. I should've waited until dark so there wouldn't be so much light coming through. The faucet is oil rubbed bronze & it's a pull down with a sprayer. I LOVE this thing!! What I love even more is that this faucet on the Lowe's website was $500 & I bought it through Amazon for $165! The EXACT same faucet. The brand is Pfister.

Saturday afternoon I went to Emily's birthday party. Em's mom is my friend Wendy. She's 2 today. Em, not her mom. Happy Birthday Emily!! Her party was at a place that has all the bouncy things. She looked like she had a blast!

Emily wasn't much on smiling for the camera Saturday! She's so cute & petite. I was shocked that she actually let me hold her. I don't get to see her too often but she actually left her mama's arms to come to me. Looking at this pic, it's really time for some surgery. I need something done to my eyelids. They droop & I swear I have decent lashes & you can't see them. Sigh.

After the party it was off to Lowe's. I got a roller attachment thingy & bought some face plates for all the electrical outlets in the kitchen. I don't think I like the plates either. I want something to blend in & I'm having a hard time. There were some that had a stone like texture to them that I loved but they were only switch plate covers. Very frustrating. I've scoured the internet too but it's really hard to determine a color from the computer. Any advice?? I bought almond color but they I'm not sure about them.

Once I made it home I used a deglazer on the cabinets in the desk area so they'd be ready to go Sunday morning. We went to Mass & grocery shopping & then I went for a run. Day 1, week 7 of C25K! Once I got home I took my socks & shoes off & got directly in the pool. I was really hot. The pool was fairly cold at 81 degrees. I figured it was warmer than an ice bath that a lot of runners do after a run. Anywho, it cooled me off so I was ready to paint. All ready, until it was time to put the roller on the attachment thingy. Wrong attachment, it wouldn't work. UGH!!! WHY???? I decided to take a big ol chance & go to Walmart instead of Lowe's to see if they had what I needed because it's more convenient. Thankfully, I was rewarded with a basically free from aggravation trip & they had the proper equipment. Back home & I got to work. I don't have pics because I'm not finished but I don't have a whole lot left. Everything that I could paint with the roller is painted with a couple of coats including the inside of the cabinets. Next up will be the areas that are too small for the roller. Not sure when that will get done. I'm hoping for Wednesday because I plan to run that morning  so I'll go straight home from work. I would love to get the island painted next weekend. We'll see.

While I was painting some friends stopped by for a few minutes to see the new counters.

Dean's been friends with Owen & Charli's dad for years now. He's our dentist & we've gotten to be good friends with his wife since they got married. Owen will be a year old on Friday & the little chunk already weighs 29 pounds! You can't really tell in the pic but he has the prettiest curls!! When I pulled my phone out to take the picture Charli immediately starting posing. So cute!

Dean is feeling better but he's definitely not 100% yet. He went back to work today. Thanks for all of the well wishes!

Toodles!

Happy Friday!

My counters & back splash are all finished & I LOVE it! Here are a few pics.

The drawers are all back in now but that's about it. I'm going to use this time to wipe down the inside of all the cabinets before I put everything back in. I haven't put the face plates back on yet because I'm getting new ones.

This is where the cook top normally is. None of these pictures are great because of lighting issues.

This is the desk area that I'm making the bar. It's really hard to get a good picture because it's in the hall that's off the kitchen. The glass tiles were an extra thing that the tile guy did. There was extra tile so he said he'd do something in this area. I really like how it looks. My plan is to paint these cabinets this weekend. Then the hard part, all the rest of the cabinets & choosing a paint color for them. I'll post more pics once more progress is made.

In other news, poor Dean is home with pneumonia. He hasn't felt good all week & he finally went to the Doctor Wed. afternoon. After a couple of shots & some antibiotics he's feeling a little better. 

Have a good Friday & a great weekend!

Toodles!