in addition to being an awesome show with Tim Allen & JTT (jonathan taylor thomas for those that were never jr. hight girls), home improvement was also the theme of the past few weeks around our house.
we started with painting. when we moved in (as most of you saw), the walls were blah. i mean really blah. well, we finally got around to adding a little color! we started in the kitchen, painting the one open wall a deep red color. then we moved on to the living, or at least a portion of it. we painted that a deep caramel color. painting goes pretty quickly with two people!
at first i was panicked about the caramel color. it looked pumpkin, which is cool for fall, and not so cool for the rest of the year. but we plowed on with a second coat and thankfully it became much more tan and much less orange. success.
then last night, we added some decor while improving our kitchen's functionality - we hung a pot rack! we have very little cabinet space, and until last night we'd avoided getting our new pots out of their box because we had nowhere to put them. well now we do!
it was a bit of an adventure to get it on the wall (smaller than ideal drill bit = alex guestimating the correct size of the hole and me fretting in the corner that he's going to destroy the wall/lose a finger), but eventually we did it and it looks awesome!
pictures of our home improvement efforts to come...now we're anxious to keep going!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
2 months of wedded bliss :)
as of today, alex and i have been married for two months! it seems like it's been longer and shorter than that at the same time. however, it's been plenty of time to start learning funny things about each other, so i thought i'd share a few insights :)
1. sleeping in the same bed can be treacherous. for me, most of the pain has been physical - poked in the eye, elbow to the shoulder, etc. for alex, it's emotional - i have an unfortunate and startling tendency of sitting up in the middle of the night and carrying on conversations, all while sleeping away.
2. we have very different cleaning styles. i'm a "make a mess and clean it all up at the end" kind of person. alex is a "clean as you go" kind of person. unfortunately for him, this means he's often cleaning up after my messes along the way because i just haven't started cleaning until i'm all done making the mess!
3. grocery shopping for two people with different tastes can be tough. particularly when he's shopping for me, as i am admittedly picky about stupid things, like the thickness of my deli meat. i like it falling apart thin - he likes buying whatever's on sale that the deli has pre-sliced. i can't help it - it's how i was raised.
4. our TV tastes are more aligned that i expected. or at least we're patient with each other. we spend a lot of the weekend watching football (or researching, as alex calls it, for his new blog StarBust Football Inc) and then during the week we unwind to Glee, House, and all my/his other favs.
5. we really love being married. and i think we're gonna keep doing it for a really really long time :)
1. sleeping in the same bed can be treacherous. for me, most of the pain has been physical - poked in the eye, elbow to the shoulder, etc. for alex, it's emotional - i have an unfortunate and startling tendency of sitting up in the middle of the night and carrying on conversations, all while sleeping away.
2. we have very different cleaning styles. i'm a "make a mess and clean it all up at the end" kind of person. alex is a "clean as you go" kind of person. unfortunately for him, this means he's often cleaning up after my messes along the way because i just haven't started cleaning until i'm all done making the mess!
3. grocery shopping for two people with different tastes can be tough. particularly when he's shopping for me, as i am admittedly picky about stupid things, like the thickness of my deli meat. i like it falling apart thin - he likes buying whatever's on sale that the deli has pre-sliced. i can't help it - it's how i was raised.
4. our TV tastes are more aligned that i expected. or at least we're patient with each other. we spend a lot of the weekend watching football (or researching, as alex calls it, for his new blog StarBust Football Inc) and then during the week we unwind to Glee, House, and all my/his other favs.
5. we really love being married. and i think we're gonna keep doing it for a really really long time :)
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