Wow, May has been a busy month for us! At the end of April/1st of May we went on our yearly family beach vacation:
Our Beach Rental
After that there was tons of work to catch up on at home and at work, but then two weeks after that we watched Eddie’s sister reach a long awaited milestone in her life. She graduated from college!
Little Sis Graduates from College! Oh, and she's having a baby in June too!
May went like a whirlwind, and it may seem like we are busy, busy, people, and we are, but Eddie and I have become quite addicted to our Netflix streaming video…not to mention our DVR. Netlfix streaming is great, because we’re watching whole seasons of TV series we never get to catch while they’re actually on. We’ve watched all seasons of The Office, and our favorites right now are 30 Rock and Jericho. You can also watch movies via Netflix Streaming video, but you can’t get new releases. BUT for $8.95 a month you get the streaming and one DVD at a time, and that’s quite a deal. No, I’m not being paid to advertise for Netflix, but I believe if you like a product or a service you should tell people about it!
Oh, and I’ve finally been sucked in by the Jon and Kate Plus 8 phenomenon. Will Jon and Kate make it? We’ll see, but personally, I think the only way they can is to step out of their fishbowl life. The new season starts tomorrow, so my DVR is set.
Well, back to our lives…we’ve sort of started a tradition of sorts…if you can call working on a holiday a tradition…Memorial day is our working holiday meaning that we tackle a home improvement project that desperately needs tackling. Last year it was constructing our mailbox flower garden…
2008 Mailbox Flower Garden
…which I’m happy to say still looks okay a year later considering the fact that I’m a notorious brown thumb. I just need to take out the Winter Pansies and let the summer perineals flourish. I also need to weed out all the evil Bermudagrass that would desperately love to take over the WHOLE GARDEN! I think Bermudagrass is what Satan uses for his lawn. It’s EVIL AND THE GRASS EQUIVLENT OF KUDZU!
Well, this year it was well past time to get rid of the nasty carpet in the cat’s room and the upstairs hallway and put down hardwood-style laminate like we have downstairs. Carpets and cats are just a nasty combination, and our cats had literally clawed the carpet to the baseboards at the door of their room. It was hideous! Also, when we moved into this house back in 2003 I still did medical transcription from home, and that room was my office until I went back to work in the outside world in 2004. The bedrooms desperately needed paint at the time, and I remember being stumped for a color for my office and the guest room. Somehow, what I thought was going to be a more beigey color turned out to be pink, but we lived with it for 6 years. Let me tell you pink is not a good color in a room where you keep animals. No matter how much you clean (and we clean a lot) the walls just get dirty, and at some point Mr. Clean Magic erasers…as good as they are…just don’t work anymore. So, here’s the room after we tore out the gross beige carpet and right before we began painting yesterday:
And this is the cat room after paint, and some flooring. We were exhausted…especially Eddie…and the flooring work will continue tomorrow:
I just love that wall color! It’s official name is “Delta Sandbar”, but Eddie calls it “Wendy’s Frosty Brown”. After six years of doing home improvement projects I have finally gotten the hang of picking out colors for a room. The room has a south facing window, so I knew I could go darker and not make the room feel too boxed in by dark color. However, I do find myself craving chocolate every time I walk in there.
So, that was our May! June will be busy too. We have a new nephew scheduled to make his appearance in the world, and of course, Netflix Streaming will continue to demand our time!
Happy Memorial Day and thanks to to all the troops, past and present, living and deceased who have made it possible for folks like me to enjoy doing anything I want on this weekend and every other day of my American life.
SALUTE…AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!
