This Is...21?

Friday night was date night, even though I messed up and took a shift because I completely forgot what day it was. Having a constantly-changing schedule does that to me. After I got off work we skipped dinner and hurried straight to the movies to see something I was really excited about:

(You can watch the trailer here.)

 

And I was not disappointed. It was laugh out loud funny. I was in stiches at parts and desperately sad for them at others.  Even though I'm not exactly the target audience I could easily relate to the characters. I went in with low expectations because I had read so many bad reviews but thankfully it was funny. I'd give it an 8 out of 10. We'll definitely be buying it once it comes out, though that doesn't tell you much since Chris owns somewhere around the neighborhood of 2-3 hundred movies.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

I sent out our Christmas cards super late this year. As in I mailed the last of them yesterday. #slacker. But anyway, I had really good intentions this year to have professional family portraits taken but that just didn't play out because, well, I'm broke. And a mom. And pressed for time when all 3 family members are awake and happy enough to be dragged to the mall for family pictures. So a week or so before Christmas I taped up some great wrapping paper to the back of the sofa and threw down a white sheet to cover up the garish green carpet. Here's some of the outtakes: 

 

...and the winner!

I took it over to Shutterfly and dropped it into a Christmas card and 3-5 business days later these beauties arrived in my mailbox: 

 

Then on Christmas morning we woke up to a very sick baby. She had a massive coughing fit just before this picture but she was so excited to finally rip the paper.

Gotta love matching father-daughter bed head. 

 

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I know we did, even if it was a little chaotic hitting up three different houses in one day. I bought Chris an adult-sized Captain America shield and some DVDs. He bought me a new laptop, so hopefully that means I can start chatting you guys up a little more frequently from the comfort of my own sofa.

 

Saturday Food For Thought

 

 

 

I'll be back later this afternoon with another post!

Saturday's Food For Thought:

 

I had this conversation with a customer today. She had to wait behind a particularly bitchy customer and she told me she had been in restaurant-slash-retail for 7 years and understood my pain. Why are people so hateful to people in the service industry?

Humphrey Paints the Kitchen

Well, he didn't literally paint it. I painted it. I was worried I wouldn't have enough money between the Holidays to get anything around the house done but thankfully I read over on Young House Love that if you use a CoinStar machine to get a gift card instead of cash, they don't take out their 10% share or whatever it is. Which is cool, because I shook ole Humphrey down and ran to the nearest machine with a baby wipes box full of change.

When it was all said and done, it ended up being $131.41, which I promtly spent on four boxes of tile, a can of white spray paint, an extension cord, a gallon of paint for the kitchen, rollers, a paint tray, and the remaining hinges for the kitchen cabinet doors. (Finally! Now if only I could get Chris to hang them.)
Not even an hour after coming home I had the kitchen taped and the paint poured. I finished the next day and altogether it took about five hours to paint the whole thing. Ready for the reveal? Me too!

Just a reminder, here's what it looked like before:

Obviously I didn't do any staging for you guys, huh? I'm ashamed that my house looks like this almost on the daily.

And now: Drumroll please!

 

 

I love it. It feels so much more cozy and warm in there now. I just can't wait to do more. Maybe that backsplash? Yikes.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

This Christmas is very, very exciting for me. I'm totally and 1000% into the spirit this year. Last year I was nine months pregnant, miserable, huge, and settling into a brand spanking new (to us) house. Not exactly in the holdiay spirit. So when my mom called me and asked if I wanted to go cut down a Christmas tree yesterday, I jumped. I had been itching for a tree for a few weeks already but had to resist because it would have died long before the 25th.

We went up to the Christmas Tree Farm and had a hell of a time trying to find a tree. I guess when it hasn't hardly rained all year and you have an obscenely long hot summer it doesn't do so well for the Christmas tree business. But the man there was super nice, and he was apparently open only for us, which made me sad. We've been going to this tree farm since I was nine or ten so I obviously hold it near and dear to me. Cutting down the tree was a major part of my childhood Christmases.

Anyway, now that I'm getting sappy (ba dum bum) about trees, I'll move on. We got the tree picked, cut, and netted and then hustled home to decorate it.

Bam! It's very tall, we actually had to give it a haircut just to put the topper on it. So since that was done, I started chomping at the bit to do our Christmas cards.

I bought some adorable wrapping paper at target this year and I thought it would make a great backdrop for a photoshoot/desperate attempt to get a card worthy picture.

 

 

I love the bottom, even though her arms are a little bit blurry. She's such a ham.

I have the card narrowed down to two designs on Shutterfly, now I just need Chris' imput. I'll be sure and post one when we decide!