Two left feet

Ok seriously something is wrong with me, the second M goes out of town for a long period I turn into Miss Spastic. Couple months ago he was in China for 3 weeks and I threw out my back and crashed my car into a pole. I also broke two wine glasses over the course of him being gone.

Well now M is off in Texarkana for 3 weeks this go around and since he left a week ago I cut open my elbow and had a cutting board come off the top shelf and smack me in the face. Seriously my face hurts. I kinda wonder what is next. It is bad, this is actually to a point that M worries about leaving me cause he is worried what will happen, we just will not tell him that I had the sewing machine out tonight. At least  my fingers are not sewn together ;)

Hope everyone's Monday went well. I am hoping to finish the painting of the blackboard wall tomorrow night (that is IF  I get out of work earlier than 9 pm tomorrow night). Night y'all!

Martha with a twist

So you all heard that I went camping this past weekend. Yes this lady who loves her Louboutins put on my hiking shoes and zipper pants (they can be either shorts or pants), not really my choice for everyday style but you have to wear something right? So we backpacked 5.5 miles in Saturday afternoon, seriously blame it on love. Check out my backpack, so hot right? Well M totally thought so. It was nice though because well he carried everything heavy. Including all the wine ;).  Hey I have to get through the night somehow.

That us, "getting through" the weekend with our red cups, I think I will always have an affection for those cups, they have such great meaning behind them!

So I made it through the 24 hours in the wilderness, we hiked back to the car and proceeded to the nearest brewrey (I heart beer). Once we returned home it was immediatly to the shower. I LURRVVVEEE showers. Like I would take an hour long shower everyday if I could. Hope everyone's week is winding up and you are ready for the weekend! I have a bunch of tasks on my list for the weekend, including finishing the napkins for my sister's bridal shower, finish up my chalkboard wall, testing out some baked goods, and getting more boxes taken care of. Happy weekending!

M and I on the hike out, look at me, I am a whitey.

Just call me Martha

So this whole wedding thing (mine, friends and sisters) and the new house have me channeling my inner Martha. Last night I started sanding down the wall in the kitchen  to remove the texture for the chalk board wall and today I have the reminents in my nose. Note to self go buy a mask before I finish sanding.

Sunday night was sewing night. I saw an idea about sewing napkins for weddings and what not so I decided to take on the project for my sister's bridal shower. So here I am sewing away. Notice the machine, it is my Mom's and that thing is older than me. I know right, how is something older than my old self? I got through about 20 napkins and the lines, not so straight, oh well, its the thought right?

I am actually excited about the bridal shower because it will be the first time that I have had a party at my house. We have been too busy for a house warming party and now M is gone for 3 weeks for work, then he gets back and I am in crunch time for work. We will get there and you better believe there will be beer and probably a little beirut.

Hope everyones short week is going well.

V-Day

Remember this? Well my package came this week and woopppyyyy dooo! Someone loves me!

 

When this was on my doorstep when I got home from work I was so excited! Love mail that is not bills!So I opened up my package and yummy!

Barefoot Contessa red velvet cupcake mix (which I have been wanting to try just have not bought it yet) silicon heart baking cupcakes, a heart cookie cuter, chocolates "green" paper baking cups. So excited to use it!

I other news, I went camping this weekend. One night only as well camping not quite my thing. But M lovesssss it! So we backpacked in and did one night with some good friends. But more of that later. I am off to Michaels to frame my Christmas present so that we can get it hung up on the wall and M and I will be headed to Home Depot later so we can get my chalk board wall painted, yea! Have a great Presidents/Mayra Day!

Down with the sickness

Seriously! Sick again. Well folks I have been down and out all weekend. I did not even get to do a celebration dance for dear Summer, cause well I was sleeepingg.  And well my ears STILL will not pop. Please oh please oh pop. So while I get better I will be a little absent minded around here, who am I kidding though I am always absent minded. Toddles


"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Happy birthday to me!

Wooop Wooop! Just spent the morning at DMV now it is work and then pizza time with friends. Man what a great day I have planned! By the way I LOVE pizza.

via google images

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Phil

By the way if you didn't hear there are six more weeks of winter. Phil says so.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

The house!

We  I found it! I found my camera cord. Although apparently we took very few photos before we started changing things up. There are also the pictures pre the old owners moving out and those where we have started the projects.  This one is the old owners "baby room", well those who have been reading that is NOT what I wanted for my birthday this year. See the color? The chair rail? We vetoed those before we even moved in.

Here is the room as the process started. The chair rail gone and the painting getting ready to go.

Our least favorite paint job had to be the kitchen. Country kitsch anyone?

Yeah blue walls blue counters, ugh. now I do not have a before before. So this is AFTER we took the chair rail off in the kitchen, it was like they tried to match the chair rail to the cabinets but did it really poorly, I mean I could pull off the base boards and chair rail with my hand? Really? So country kitsch no more (well the blue counters are still there but one day they will be replaced) and I am actually looking for a zebra print rug that can fit into space that is not shown here.

We still have another month before our bedroom furniture comes in :( but at least things are cleaning up a little. Finally the baseboards were put in the kitchen last night! woop woop, now they just have to be painted, but things are coming together and looking a little better. My focus get it together so we can have a housewarming party wooohoooo, who is in? Home brew, some of my uncles award winning wines. Yep my Uncle is the Assistant wine Master at Schug and the Best of Class, thats his! woop woop!!! Alright well this is getting long and I need to start my birthday!!! Woooohooooo 8:36 a.m tomorrow and I am 29, yikes, I am getting old.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

February!

It's here!! Cheers to Bananas and me! I have a feeling she might have some issues because its my birthday month too, but you know what mine is FIRST! yahahaha. Two days and its birthday anniversary time! I went a little overboard this weekend with the shopping cause M told me I wasn't getting any presents :( Booooo to him. I guess in his defense we did just buy a house and bedroom furniture and a new mattress (bowchickawowa). But still a girl only has a birthday once a year!

In good news this weekend I think I found my camera cord! Well I found the box this weekend which means I still have not looked in it to determine the cord is in there. Maybe tonight I will get there. The baseboards for the kitchen/eating area are showing up tonight so hopefully those will be in this weekend and the "construction" part will be done.

Oh I am also taking inspiration from Mayra's bag studding and going to stud up my new converse (yes I love my all-stars). Now if I could just finish the other DIY tasks I have at hand. I also went and bought myself a cricut. I hope I actually use it...

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Happy B-day to me..

So the clock has not even struck midnight on January 31st and I have already started. wooppseee oh well you are only 25 once, or in my case 4 times, hehehe.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Birthday month is coming!!

So T-minus 6 days until my birthday and 3 days until the month of my birthday! For those who do not know it is also Mayra's over at life is BANANAS birth month too! Go Aquarious'!! So in honor of my birthday I figured I would show you all what is on my wish list year. So here we go...

First off my favorite shoe artist Mark Schwartz, I really want this one. Image is from Mark Schwartz's fantastic website, and you can check him out here.

A new pair of red soles. Maybe something like these. Oh humenah humenah

A new handbag, somewhere around here

Oh and this awesome bowl, since we have a backyard now.

source

And last but not least, I REALLY want one of these. I mean come on look at that face!

via google images

Alright so that is just part of the wish list, man I wish I didn't want so much! Also on a great note, found out yesterday I get a bonus and raise this year! Woooohhooo, 3 years with nadda! About time.

Also in amazing news so very happy for Mrs. KLaw, go check out her amazing news.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Firefighting

So this was me yesterday.  I was fighting fires all morning (of course not in the literal sense) but yesterday morning was quite a morning at work. I then got home and took care of two more boxes and got them up off the kitchen floor and two loads of laundry done so that we can almost see our bedroom floor.

It is starting to look a little more like home and less of a storage facility, although the garage, well we have a longggg way to go with that. Currently wandering around on amazon, etsy and so forth for little decorating ideas. We found a bed frame and one bedside table (I do not want to match them) at Room & Board. If you like the simplistic, clean lines, no frill this place is awesome! M spent last night under the house doing some minor fixing to our HVAC since the seller gave us the money in our closing costs instead of fixing it, whatever M likes those projects.

Oh we also set a date! June 3, 2011, I will become a Mrs. and M and I will be throwing probably our biggest party we will ever have (not a large wedding, 100 peeps, but a great big party for us!).

I am also feeling a bit of beautiful KLaw's pain, although mine came in the form of Conjunctivitis, thats right all, I found myself at the doctor Monday night getting eye drops because of PINK eye. Pink pretty right? In your eye not so much, I blame the work stress.

Alright I am out, back to the thing they call work. Miss you all!

Oh yeah T-minus 7 days until I celebrate the 4th anniversary of my 25th B-day! Yea!!!

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Fist pumping

Got my bubbles and Little Debbie Nutty Bars. Ready to watch the season finale, tear.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Still settling in

So the internet is up and working, as far as everything being put away it is FAARRRRR from there. The garage is still full of boxes, or garbage cans have not arrived so well it is also full of the beer bottles from Saturday night. Yea, we were those people, Saturday we move Saturday night our house was full of people drinking beer. So much fun.

So we technically moved in Saturday and we are still sorting through boxes and every morning our closet is pretty much the garage. It sucks, nothing can be worse for my anxiety than boxes everywhere and things not having a home.  There is still stuff at the old place and on top of it all I am working like crazy right now and lets just say that at this point of the night and just getting home I MUCH rather be here on blogger than actually doing something. Oh and M and I set a date this past week, June 3, 2011 I will become his wife.  Yep it is a long time away but right now, we kind of have a lot going on.

Ok ok enough of that I should probably get moving along, I swear pictures to come, now if I could just find the cord for my camera... Miss all you lovelies!

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Making V-Day fun

Yea! Thanks ladies for putting this together! Now I am not one for enjoying Valentines Day, never have, which makes M sad because he loves it. So here is to the fabulous ladies for putting something together that will help make it fun. It is also my first time doing this sort of thing with the blogger world so yea!

Here is the scoop:

easy rules:

1. Please send an email to bisforbrownbreathebelieve@gmail.com with the subject line, SWAP, by Thurs, January 21st. Include your name, email, mailing address and 3 of your favorite things.

2. Packages will need to be sent out by Thurs, February 4th (give or take a day or 2), so you and your partner both have something special to open just in time for V day.

3. If you would like to, please spread the word on your blogs. Copy and paste the button and link back to this post.

4. This swap is open to all single and taken bloggers, lurkers and non-bloggers.


"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Yiiippppppeeee!

So I have been a little MIA, well the reason is this key over there -> Well ladies and gents that key is to my new house! Yes finally we have a home, so excited and this week has been crazy trying to prep to move, furniture buying and everything. This weekend is moving weekend! I am so excited, now to add the white picket fence and dog.  Well probably not the white picket fence but definitely going to be checking on the dog!

More details to come once the moving actually starts and we are actually at the house longer than a half hour.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

WOW!

Seriously this kid is awesome!

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Tooodddooollloooo 2009.

Peace out, no looking back.

Christmas was fantastic, my parents had a very full house this year. M's brother was up this year since he now lives in southern California and was not going to fly back to NY.  Of course the sisters, M and the sister's fiance and her dog. Poor Layla (the dog) still has bars in her leg from her surgery. All she wants to do is play and she cannot. Hopefully next Christmas will involve me having a house and a puppy.

New Years was spent at a friends house. M and I have never had a great new years 3 years ago there was a skydiving accident and he lost a good friend (Tommy D - R.I.P). Last year we were apart because we were supposed to be in NY together but I never made it out to NY the day after Christmas due to the passing of my Pa. This year we were actually together and had a great time.  I never got a picture with M but here are two great ones of me with the IronMan couple who M and I will be standing next to at their wedding in July.

Thats me and the to be groom mugging the camera, and also me and the soon to be bride. Seriously they are going to have the tallest kids ever! I mean I am a little short but I believe at 5'4" I am an "average" height. Ok well yes they are tall and I am short, oh well. I cannot wait for their wedding as these two have become such great friends to M and I.

Well here is to 2010! A year that is going to be very busy with many things to come.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Pure awesomeness

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Boiled over

I am feeling a little boiled over, not mad but overwhelmed.  I have been sick (including leaving work early today) more times this year than all the years combined since the day I left college. I honestly believe it could be my body telling me to slow down and try to stop stressing. This year I have had a plate full, not necessarily bad just too much.

Work (thank goodness I still have a job) but with layoffs my work load doubled, literally. We laid someone off and I now do both our jobs.

House Hunting, for some reason I decided now was the time to try to find my own piece of something.

CPA, seriously will I ever pass you?!?

Wedding, not that I am not excited and love M, but really, is now the time to try to plan this thing?

Sorry for the lack of me around here and no beautiful shoes around these parts, just trying to get through the rest of the year, no more crazy stuff added to my plate please?

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel