Beautification Project, Take one

This past weekend the NYBoys and the BFF descended into my town to help me put my house to rights.  For the past 2 months, since we moved to the new house, I been freaking the hell out and shouting to Tom every chance I get  “Don’t put it there, its going to be moved by the design team”… “Wait, don’t hang that there, its going to be moved by the design team”. I’m surprise he did not loose his shit completely and left me.

But this weekend, the design team arrived and we set to work.  You are probably ready to see some major before and after pictures right?

Sometimes we don’t get what we want.

The pictures you are going to see are those of “AFTER” only. Because, during the moving, shoving, painting, drinking, eating, and painting the designer toes black, I totally loss my head and did not take “BEFORE” pictures. YES, I’M a total DOUCHE-BAG!  So, yes, Internet, I’m short changing you on this one. You will not be able to see how badly the before was.  But the AFTER?  Holy sweet baby Jesus – it’s BEAUTIFUL.

Let’s start by telling you that the house has a weird layout, the stairs to access the bedrooms upstairs are located smack in the middle of the house, dividing the living room/entry into two weird, long areas. One, to the left of the front door, and the other to the right. Originally, my thinking process was that the area, closest to the entrance was going to be a library/sitting area, and on the other side of the stairs, the living room, or in our case the TV room.

After not much debate we got to work and it was decided the best course of action was place the dinning room in the original sitting/entrance area… and the living room was just going to have a major overhaul.  Here is the new dinning room:

The new Dinning Room

The table was Tom’s, the chairs were our housewarming gift from the NYBoys, as well as the carpet, both bought at IKEA(where else!) and both a super bargain, they look way more expensive that what they paid for.  The bookcases are also from IKEA, and the rest of the trinkets are from all over, TJMaxx, Marshall, Homegoods. 

I love the way the room came out, we had dinner and breakfast during the weekend and its cozy, bright and perfect.  We realized that we could actually fit two more chairs, and eventually we will add them to the set, sitting for six is always better than four.

Next up is the other side of the room, which is the Living/TV room:

The TV/Living Room

Now this room holds more meaning to Tom, mainly because there is a full wall of his drawings and he has never had his artwork fully displayed before, so he is a bit in awe that we choose to go that way.  I personally LOVE the wall with his drawings on it, its my present to him.  Here is a close up of his black and white.  The colorful painting above the IKEA chair on the other side of the room, next to the palm tree is also his work.

Artwork

Again, in this room we bought the TV stand from IKEA, the couch (my contribution to the merging of household) color is actually white, but with 4 animals in the house, it showed a bit of wear and tear, and with a limited budget, we could not go out and spend the money on the couch we wanted (at least not yet), so Target came to the rescue with the stretched furniture cover in Teal.  The white pillows will be covered with a print fabric that we got in IKEA and I can not wait for that, since it will give it an extra punch.

The next room was the kitchen area.  Since we placed the dinning room in the entry way, we needed to fill up the nook in one of the corners of the kitchen.  Let me tell you, this is my favorite room in the house.  I love to have people in the kitchen with me while I’m cooking, and naturally most of my family and friends gravitate towards this room anyways.  So it made sense to have a sitting-get-together area in the most beloved spot of the house.

Here we did major overhaul on a piece of furniture that Tom brought from his bachelor days.  It use to be his bedroom dresser and I sort of took it and converted it to a kitchen cabinet, where it holds our dishes, platters and other kitchen stuff.  I originally wanted to paint it bright RED, but then opted to use a dark green color.  This is what it looked like before we started:

Say Cheese!

After 3 coats of paint, lots of wine drinking and no paint fumes (the new BEHR, paint with primer, totally worth it - we love, and I mean LOVED that paint and of course saving the step of priming before hand) this is what it looked like:

Pretty!

This is how we dressed it up:

All Dressed up for the ball!

The mirror was a previous present from the NYBoys, and they got it at TJMaxx for peanuts!  The lamp is my favorite lamp in the whole house and it looks great in the corner.  The fish was the BFF contribution, we saw it in Z Gallerie and could not pass up the 40% discount.  And it looks like it was made to be there.  The coconut cake was for Saturday’s dinner party and I’m sorry to say, its all gone.  This ensembles makes part of the Kitchen nook, as I like to call it, and the finish space ended up looking like this:

My spot

Out of all the areas decorated, this is by far my favorite (do I keep saying that?).  The love-seat is comfy and I love to sit on it and browse cookbooks, plan dinner parties or chill while Tom is in the kitchen cooking.  It’s again bright (the best part of this house, there are windows in every room) and cheerful and a great place to just relax.  As you can see the designer and Maggie took a snooze when we completed the project:

snooozing...

So after 4 days, that is what was done to the downstairs of the house.  We love all the changes and the feeling we get when we get home now.  Everything has a place and the feeling is amazing.  We are not done yet.  We are planning on painting the kitchen cabinets, and the back room needs to be completly organized, right now its pretty much the dumping ground of everything that still has to be placed on the outside shed.  We still have our master bedroom to do as well, but we are now super confident that we have the chops to complet it without the help of my lifeline – the NYBoys and the BFF.  Now I know why those people cry when they see their finished projects.

And if you ever wondered why Interiors Designers get paid the HUGE chuck of money… I can tell you it’ss because they ARE TOTALLY WORTH EVERY PENNY.

Down the rabbit hole of redecorating

Our summer has been pretty spotty so far with lots of rain and instead of cooler temperatures, we have gotten a lot hotter ones. Right now, as I write this (in the office) the weather outside is gray, and wet (rain, rain and more rain) and it’s HOT. As in sticky, uncomfortable, yucky HOT. Oh my god, the hotness is unbearable. And this unbearable hot weather makes you want to do one thing and one thing only… hide under the A/C and sleep it off.

If only we had the luxury of doing that… but we don’t, because we are still in the middle of getting the house ready. Has this become a broken record? YES IT HAS, but there is NOTHING else happening in my life, so suck up my peeps.

But, we are so hating the weather down here south, because, most of the project that we have going at home need major cooperation from the weather gods, since we need sunny, non-raining days in order to work in the backyard by the shed. And those plans have gone to hell, due to the inconsistent weather patters we have been experiencing of late. We had put on hold at least 4 projects that we cannot do inside the house – And it’s driving me up the wall (actually “bat shit crazy” would be a better term) since these projects will give me:

a) shelf’s! So I can put my collection of cookbooks away
b) A finish vanity to store the makeup, jewelry, and knickknacks in the bedroom, making room for my underwear/sock drawer in the already limited bedroom closet.

The projects that have been completed center on the mass building of IKEA furniture we have done. Side note, we have become such experts on this that we no longer look at the instructions; we just KNOW how to build the damn thing.

But all that building has paid off since we have made progress in other areas.

Living room: Sort of done, or at least the component that holds the TV, DVD, Wii, games, and all the other crap that fall into the living room.

Kitchen is 90% done.

Entrance of the house or “foyer”: we decided to turn this small area into a sitting/library area and MY GOD, we just can not come up with the layout that we like, we have moved the furniture a thousand times around the room and we are still NOT happy with the way it looks (NYBoys do you hear that???).

Dinning room is off the kitchen and we have plans for that one, but they are on hold, because we need to build something and of course we need to be OUTSIDE to do it.

The ROOM: There is a room that we are totally on board with and that is the back room, which we named “the room”, because if there is a multifunction room, this one is it. It’s the Laundry room, the music room, the office, the art room, the dog room and god knows what else it’s going to end up being used for. But this room, is done*, (well maybe not the laundry that we put there yesterday).

The Bedroom: The 2 most important things are there, the bed and the TV.. ‘nff said

We of course are not finished; we have not put up any painting, frames, or anything that can be placed on the wall. We have not set out lamps, or any decorative stuff. We have not even painted a wall! We decided to wait for our Design Helpers/insperation (NYBoys and BFF) to arrive and lend a hand in finally whipping the whole house into shape. Because we all been there, any type of redecorating will start with something new needs something new needs something new and before we know it we are down the rabbit hole, into parts unknown.

*I would show you photos of our progress… just as soon as I find the digital camera in the mess!

Power tools, electronic stud finders, and super duper wall anchors, mean nothing when you have a cat with superpowers.

This weekend we took a break from unpacking. Yes, we are STILL UNPACKING – don’t judge!

Tom decided he needed to finish a DYI project that he started last weekend and I decided that since I was working on a side job this weekend, I was going to vege-out and not open another cardboard box and put things away. I was going to take a fucking break.

On Sunday, I came back from my overnight job (no it’s NOT THAT) and needed to chill out, because I had not gotten much sleep the night before (NO IT’S STILL NOT THAT!). So, here I was chilling in the bedroom and reading, enjoying the wonder of not DOING ANYTHING AT ALL, and solving a murder in less than 500 pages.

Then I heard a noise… sort of like something shifting on the wall in front of me.

I looked up…Not sure that I had heard anything. Side note here: I suffer from profound hearing lost. While I use to wear hearing aids at one time, the lost has been so deep, that not even hearing aids help me out. So, most of the time, I really do not trust the noises that I hear – because every so often the noises that I DO HEAR are inside my head and not really happening.

But, this time I was not the only one hearing the noises, because I notice that the cat looked up as well… and I don’t need to tell you who has super hearing powers around the house, do I?

The noise stopped and I went back to reading.

The cat went back to licking herself.

Then I heard it again, this time a bit louder. Apparently so did super-ears.  Because, the cat looked up and then at me and then she concentrated on the front of the bed where our beautiful bright RED Wall shelf unit was located – which, held our beautiful NEW 42” LG Flat-panel TV, my Apple notebook, the iPhone and the cable DVR. (I know, it sounds like I’m bragging, but I needed you to know understand fully what was at stakes here). Tom and I had installed the unit about 2 weeks ago after much bitching and fighting over power tools and the right anchors and were in the hell were the stubs on the house. 

So where was I? Oh, yeah the noise, the cat looking up, and me not trusting the noises in the first place.

But, alas, the noises came again, and trust me, I have no idea what made me get up from the bed and get close to the wall unit, but something did. And as I got closer, the noise came again, a bit louder and this time I reached out and put my hands on the TV, and in a split second the whole unit came crashing down, drowning the cat’s terrified “MEOW” and Tom, screaming from down below “WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPEN UP THERE???”.

If you cannot picture it… let me help you a little in getting that mental image going:

After the smoked cleared, the beloved RED unit was on the floor, the DVR box landed (SAFE AND SOUND) inside the laundry basked (that was holding the freshly washed sheets) located below the unit.  The iPhone flew to the other side of the room and landed (SAFE AND SOUND) on the floor, next to the stunned cat (thank good for the plastic case that protects it!) The notebook, inside one of the unit’s cubby was miraculously intact. And the star of the show, ME! Was standing up, holding the most important household item – oh wait let me type it again and clarify – HOLDING THE 42” FLAT PANEL TV WITH MY BARED HANDS!

Tom ran up, and we put everything back on the floor and as I sat on the bed and hyperventilated.  He shouted ”WHAT HAPPEN? HOW DID IT HAPPEN? HOLY SHIT WE ALMOST LOST THE TV!!!”

In which I responded: “Yep, so much for power tools, electronic stud finders, and super duper wall anchors, just let’s give thanks to the cat, for alerting us to the impending collapse, because I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING.”

And to set the record straight, the cat is getting extra nibbles for the rest of her life.

We have reduced to live “THE LIST”.

We have been tackling the unpacking little by little, because honestly after an 8 hour-work day, who wants to come home and work another 3-4 hours – anyone? Anyone?

Yeah, I thought so.

So in order to feel like we are moving forward, we promise that during the week, we would tackle one project, during the weekend, at least 3-4… depending on the amount of work each of those projects takes us. And in order to keep us in track and accountable (because if we want, we can be very lazy people), we have made up “THE LIST”.  The all powerful list that will consume our lives for the next couple of weeks – Trust me on this.  You just watch, I will be posting and referring to THE LIST every chance I get.

Now a bit of a background story…The new house has been recently remodeled. And of course, the closets, bathrooms and most cupboards do not have any storage systems in place. Meaning: we have to create one, and before we do this, we have to find a systems, fight about it and then buy a system, probably assemble the damn and thing and install it.

And this means one thing only – a trip to IKEA – god help me!

And a trip to Home Depot – god help Tom!

While we have Home Depot under control (we know this store like the back of our hands).  Tampa just had the pleasure of welcoming a new IKEA store (good for me, bad for my bank account!) and like any new IKEA gran opening, mayhem follows.  Because, most of the visitors to the store are IKEA newbie. They don’t know how the system works, they only come for the cheap meal and stop the flow because they are walking thru the store in total confusion mode. For a season IKEA shopper, like me, it’s enough to annoy the shit out of us. So a trip that normally can take 1 hour tops, would take about 3 hours just trying to crawl your way around the curious lookers.

This weekend we started off with 2 shopping list. (which are part of THE LIST):

SHOPPING (IKEA)

Bathroom Cabinets
LACK Wall Shelving Unit
Cubes or Shelving unit (Idea?) for Master closet
Power Strips (outlet plugs)
Light bulbs
Kitchen towels – Knife magnetic strip
Hallway closet Panels
Track rails (Bedroom, Laundry Room, and hallway closet)
Single sheet set for D’s room

SHOPPING (Home Depot)
Stripper for vanity
Stain & Pain for hardware
Broom & Dust Pan (for outside)
Drywall for under the stairs space (need to measure!!!)
Dowell and brackets for bedroom closet
Hardware for Kitty Door (1 magnetic strip, 2 hinges, 1 door handle)
Wood shelves for Kitchen bookcase 13”x31¾”
Wood strip (to hold shelves)
Crazy glue
Outlet adaptor
Bathroom (master) outlet
UF Cable (electricity outside)
Peg board hooks
Solar outside lights (price check)
Screws for washer brackets
Saw horse
Paint (White) for Bookcase shelves

Here is THE LIST we had for this past weekend projects

Got to Ikea & Home Depot (Friday night?)
Strip Vanity (and stain)
Stack Washer and Dryer
Install dowel & shoe rack in closet (master)
Built shelves unit for Laundry space
Do LAUNDRY
Sort clothes/shoes – get rid of unused (goodwill!)
Master – install the LACK shelve unit on the wall – organized TV, Cable Box
Built Shelves for Kitchen bookcase & Paint them
Organized Laundry/office space
Built and install Bathroom cabinets
Kitty door – install!
Wash Dogs
Throw out boxes by front door!!
Post couch/love seat in craiglist (take pictures!)

We were able to accomplish almost half some of the list projects. Including the two huge shopping trips to Ikea and Home Depot. Somewhere between Saturday night and Sunday morning we sort of lost steam and had to force ourselves to just sit still for at least a couple of hours. We promptly feel sleep and woke up 5 hours later!

We now have to kill the rest of the stuff off the To-do list. While continuing to unpack boxes and not go crazy in the process.

The house is taking shape, and its beginning to form some type of order.  Now, the only thing we needs is magical power, where we tich our noses and Boom! everything is done and in its place.

mmmm, maybe that should be added to THE LIST.

The project that was NOT planned came early – Part 1

This past weekend was the start of the PROJECT LIST.  Which is BIG… Since we I’m way organized, we decided to tackle the little projects first (Laundry room, closet: built one, etc) and work our way up to the big ones (knock down the walls, Kitchen, Bathroom, Master Room, Floor, etc)… This weekend we had schedule to work our butts off on Saturday and tackle the Laundry room.  Now I know that posting a before and after picture will give you the visual needed for you to follow the post.  But people, the laundry room as SOOOO nasty, that I could not bring myself to even take a BEFORE picture – because I wanted to FORGET what it looked line in the first place, and NOT record it in any way.

The laundry room was basically the catch all room, meaning that my boyfriend would throw everything in there, and the forget about it, and you know what happens when you forget about it? it creates dust and dirt and things that I cannot even describe here… Just to give you an idea of the nasty stuff? I totally refused to use the washing machine, because it has stuff in it that I could not even recognized in the dirt family.

The game plan was to basically tear the room down, wash the washing machine down, with a HOSE and a Nozzle attached to it that sprayed hard water at it… I was going to peel the dirt off that washing machine… it was my goal for the day.. that machine was going to be cleaner than when it came out of the box!  Then we were going to lay down the floor and tear out the old looking (falling off) cabinets on the wall,  and replace with new shelves and storage unit that we bought in our last IKEA trip.  It was all planned out and nothing out of the ordinary was suppose to happen, except maybe a projected trip to Home Depot for I don’t know… a screw or something.  Because I been planning this for over 2 weeks and I had lists! and time tables! IT.WAS.GOING.TO.GO.SMOOTH.SAILING.

*Sigh*

Until I opened my mouth Saturday morning while brushing my teeth:

Me to Tom (over the sink cabinet): How hard can it be to fix the cold water? (side note: the cold water was not working, so we been brushing our teeth with HOT water for the past 2 weeks, it was getting to me)

Tom: Not hard, I just have to change the valve and something, something (I tuned him out – it was PLUMBING for god sake… !)

Me: Do you think we can get the stuff you need on our trip to Home Depot today?

Tom: Sure, let me take a look and see and take what we need to replace.

Me: ok

He went the way to his tool box.. I went the way to the bedroom to change and get the purse… the next thing I hear is “OH SHIT”… I walked to the bathroom to find the following:

Tom swearing like a sailor

The pipes under the sink… leaking.. as in WATER!  And Tom holding a thing that look important on his hand and not were it was suppose to be.. as in attached to the pipe!

Plan “WE ARE SCREWED” went into action… he ran to turn off the main… I ran to get a bucket to catch the dripping…

IT WAS UNDER CONTROL… until it wasn’t.

Because, Tom came back and wanted to turn the valve off (the way its suppose to) and when he touched it it came away from the wall! and the dripping turned into full blown water rapid… as in, WE ARE NOT SCREWED anymore.. but totally IN FUCKING TROUBLE…  so we went from cool under pressure to total panic mode.  Tom, running around, trying to still located the main outside of the house that controlled that bathroom water lines (his house has 2 main water lines)… and at the same time I was furiously trying to scooped up the water that was FAST flooding the bathroom.

And you are all going to love this one… while all of this was going on? It started to rain OUTSIDE, because you know, we did NOT have ENOUGH water around us!

Finally, Tom was able to shut the water off… and I was in the middle of the flooded bathroom with a mop that was NOT going to be able to do the job and as I was thinking to myself: “well, the floors are finally clean”… I hear from Tom “Well you got clean floors now”

… got to love him

Part 2 coming tomorrow – Unless Fay makes a touchdown and then we will have to deal with BIGGER flooding issues!

The one where “I’m not Monica, from Friends”

I been packing my house like a wild person. I’m up to boxes, and newsprint paper, and tape and tape dispensers and markers that work and sometimes no so much. Pre-printed stickers for box identification, color dots for … ah, screw it, all this means one thing:

MY.HOUSE IS.A.MESS!

Now for those that know me… you know that this is driving me nuts. (Ok, ok.. more than nuts – I COME CLEAN PEOPLE – I’m ready to call it quits and walk out of the mess) See, I thrive on a orderly house… I’m not anal about it (ok, ok… maybe a tiny bit, but not like Monica in Friends) but, when my house is in order, all is right with the world.  It’s my center, some people paint, some play music…. Me? I love having my house tidy and clean and the towels all stacked up just right, facing.. ahh, where was I? O yes, the point is that this disarray is causing the world (at least mine) to be very chaotic, and NOT in a good way.

To make matters a bit worse, the weather gods, apparently, have decided to throw in another curve ball and have sent our way rain, upon rain, upon rain (People it has not STOPPED raining for the last THREE DAYS!). This pisses me off, since I cannot pile up the packed boxes to my car and place them in the storage. My living room is now an obstacle course that can make the Wipeout show producers proud.

My cats know that something is up and have begun to retaliate by leaving me presents around the mess, which of course I end up finding days after, when I move this box from there to there, in order to put the new box THERE, so I can walk to THERE.

*Sigh*

I’m at my wits end.  And poor Tom has been a trouper. He basically has smarted up and constantly uses the excuse that he needs to “prepare” his house for my arrival (he has a list from me) and has made the sane decision to stay the hell away from me until I’m properly moved. He knows that if he stays, nothing good will come out of it.

The thing is that this feeling of relief will not last very much once I settle at his house, because THEN we will start on the remodeling of the master bedroom and bathroom, and that folks is another whole mess!

The only highlight of all of this? The light at the end of MINE tunnel?

No, Its not cake…or ice cream… its not even the knowlege of a brand new pair of shoes (that I really, really deserve right now) its not even the peace of mind that is it will soon be OVER… its the fact that a trip to IKEA in the near horizon.

And we are back!

… from a great, lazy weekend… we did what we set out to do… be lazy, totally and happily lazy.  It was the best weekend on many levels… first we found out that we do mesh as travel partners.. meaning that we could could actually travel on a car listen to each others horrible bad music without waiting to jump out of the rental car.  We also found out that we are both on the same page when it comes to the principle of a vacation… A vacaton full of Schedules… what the hell is a that?.. we are on vacation people, the schedule is made up by the mood one wakes up in!  And the mood was just to be lazzzzyyyyy.  We actually made a bet with each other in who could be lazier.  (It was tied at the end)

The hotel did not dissapoint, it was fancy and smashing and the lazy river pool?.. a huge hit.  With the Florida sun beating on you and trying to melt you, the fact that you could give the finger (at the sun above) by being on an inner tube with a tall cool margarita on hand and slowly making your way down the pool under a canopy of tropical trees… sure as hell beat anything that I could have planned on a “schedule”.

The show was just as good as the first time (when I took the BFF for HER birthday) and the BF loved the music and the whole goofyness of it.

And the BF first experience with Ikea… Overwhelming (his words, not mine)… he did get hooked on this pear drink called Kopparberg Pear Cider… I have to agree with him, the stuff was great!  Apparently we were not the only ones liking the stuff, because when we wanted to get more, they were all out.

If I have to choose the best part of the weekend? Knowing that there will be so many lazy weekend to come.

The rest of the week, I hit the airport, and I will be in Phoenix for a work related conference… they tell me the temperature is over 100 degrees down there now… I’m just wondering if the hotel has a lazy river pool.

No I have not been kidnapped

by the mickey mouse in O-town.

I actually been kidnapped by WORK

I barely been back and have clocked a total of 23 some odd hours at work and its TUESDAY… as in I have 3 more days of work left!

OT good.. long hours.. BAD!

Since I’m not going to bored you with what I’m doing at work to be clocking hours upon hours.. because you know its WORK and some of us may get sick just by reading the word WORK… I’m going to recap the weekend.

Which was filled with FUN and more FUN.

Friday we opted to visit IKEA, because you know I have not been there enough time in the past 3 months, seriously I getting embarrassed just by typing that I been there AGAIN. But, well… as some of you know, when one has an addiction, its hard to just stop trying to get it. So off to IKEA we went, where I promise myself, I would not get anything, I mean I have bought everything that I needed, so when I saw the container that would be perfect for storing my frosted flakes so they would not go stale on me I just could not stop myself and plucked the $3.95 at the self-served register. To balance things out, I also plucked down the $.50 for the cinnamon roll that had apparently just finished coming out of the oven, the whole cash register area smelled of cinnamon buns…and who in the right mind would pass up a just-out-of-the-oven-cinnamon-bun for fifty cents? Not me and apparently not the other 30 people making the line to get one. Those IKEA management guru know what they are doing.

So since the smell of those buns opened our appetite up, we jumped into the car and ended up at this place: BRIO and I cannot recommend it highly enough and that is saying a lot. I’m Italian, I don’t go to Italian restaurants for a very simple reason, the authentic stuff? We cook it a home. No need to go and sit and eat something that looks like pasta but taste like crap.

But this place? can we say wow! We sat outside in the veranda and after looking at the menu we finally settled on ordering the Bruschetta Quattro, which was a combination of their 4 types of bruschettas – Delish! We followed it up next with a Lobster Bisque, which was creamy, full of Lobster and just with the right amount of seasoning, the perfect part? The right size too. My sister ordered the Mushroom Ravioli al Forno – yum, yum.. and the BFF the Lobster Risotto. Of course after stuffing ourselves we ended up ordering dessert and since we could not pick just one, we ordered 3… again perfect, since they were the right size. So, if you are in Orlando… head over there and have yourself a great meal.

Saturday, we played with these:

Of course then we found the most funky strawberry ever:

and after a while we wanted to do a bit of this:

Afterwards we headed to the hotel to pretty ourselves up for a night about town (more on that later).

Because now I can hear my bed calling me and if there is anyone I love to kidnap me its my bed.

On hold

I know.. I know… I will be back.

In the works:

1. Surprise party for a friends husbands – Games! Food! and a Piñata are the main components, so you know that is going to be good.
2. Planning birthday weekend get-away for BFF celebration – HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHICA, how it feels to be OLD?
   :::ducking down from the daggers she is tossing my way as she read this::::
3. Baby shower is coming!
4. Date prospects in the horizon.
5. Major home re-decoration project in the works
6. which can only mean one thing
7. IKEA

Addited

Because I just did not have enough of Ikea in Miami…last week
I needed to continue my addited nature and have to visit the Ikea in Orlando.

Today

Because you know, I need stuff.

For the closet

I’m so full of crap