The house is on the mend

So I tore it apart - the living room has been "revitalized" as the would-be-designers of the world might say. We bought a rug and I like it a lot. And I moved all my pictures around on the wall so they made more sense - I didn't realize how stupid it really looked before, but now it's just lovely. And we're going to have the living area (living room/dining/kitchen/entry) painted next week by a guy who paints - yes, that would be....a painter! Hallelujah. He told us it's going to be $500 bucks if he only has to do one coat - so we're pretty well going to paint the same color (not because of the $$, but because I like it - just the previous owner did a shit job of painting and it needs to be freshened up a little).

Some think we're crazy for not picking a new color if we're going to get it done - but really it's a nice sagey green, it goes with everything we have, so why rock the boat now? Not to mention the last time we picked a color we (okay, I) picked pink - and it looked like someone's dusty rose carpeting puked on our walls...so I'm not going there again.

We also bought a mirror for our main bathroom - which is a big step up from having no mirror, then a tiny 5 X 7 mirror...so this a MONSTER mirror and is pretty nice although everytime I walk into the bathroom in the dark I see movement reflected out of the corner of my eye and it freaks me out.

So that's it on the house for now...more changes to come I'm sure, but I'm happy with it so far.

Yesterday we bought a universal gym - eep! I hope it gets its use. We could've got a gym membership for the two of us for a year and a bit for the same price, but honestly, we wouldn't make it to the gym near as much as we could make it downstairs - mostly because then we'd have to find childcare, etc etc and it's much easier to make excuses about "going out" then "going down"..the stairs. Uh, yeah.

Welp that's it for now - off to wake the kids and get this day moving!