7 posts from June 2009

nashville skyline

tomorrow morning i'm headed to nashville for 4 days for work.  i've never been to nashville and i'm hoping i can see some of it while i'm there.  the hotel i'm staying in is right next to opryland which sounds like a fun place, haha.  when i get back i'm home for 8 days before kicking off to europe for 2 weeks.  i'll be cruising around italy to monaco, croatia, greece and montenegro with my family and i couldn't be more excited.  the day after i get back it's back to nashville for another week and then home.  i'm home for about 5 days and then it's back to the airport to head to des moines to help bart move.  whew!  i can do this, and it's going to be great.

the cruise

i'd consider today a good day.  i had a delicious brunch at one of my favorite restaurants with my wonderful family, i finished painting my living/bed room, i scrubbed my bathroom to a shine and i'm all done by 6:30PM.  i'm caught up on my bills and i have food in the fridge.  these things are all good.

father's day brunch

scout kitty

hurry deep ellum station, you cant get here soon enough.  september seemed a long way off but the way time has been flying by i now think it's right around the corner.

my new green line station

my new bike?

me and my best furry friend

dance with me

What Have You Done For Me Lately

Janet Jackson

so it's nearly 1AM and i'm on a conference call doing my vzw duty.  i got enough of the loft painted today where i can move furniture to it's proper place.  i moved a few things but then i realized it was 11 o'clock at night and moving furniture that late is a sign of a bad neighbor.  so i'm at a stand still right now just waiting to go to bed.  at the rate things are going currently who knows when i'll get off this call.  i think i'm going to skip painting the kitchen until bart gets here and can help.  i've just had enough and it's not too smart loading myself up with all these projects while work is so busy.  i'll finish the final wall this weekend but only if there's ample time for the pool.  i've going to dust off my coolers and go hang out in my courtyard for once.  no one is ever out by the pool and i need to change that.

i'm still living in complete chaos in my apartment.  everything is still in the middle of the room and i didn't really get as much painting done today as i would have liked.  i decided to stop around 8 because i had finished another can of paint and it seemed like a good stopping place.  i worked last night and was back in the office bright and early so i decided i was going to take it easy tonight anyways.  i'm going to visit my granny tomorrow after work so i won't be working on it tomorrow.  thursday should be the day i can actually start moving furniture back.

my place gets painted

for the last two days i've been totally rethinking the loft.  it started with the decision to bite the bullet and paint.  i invested in a ladder since i have 12' ceilings and borrowing one from the grounds keeper seems to be a lot like passing the LSAT.  with this ladder i'm painting the whole apartment, changing out two bulbs, replacing the battery in my smoke detector, changing my AC filter and getting rid of the dusty cobwebs that were previously too high to reach.  my windows are being replaced soon and since i'm having to move all of my furniture to paint i'm also scrubbing every last inch of everything.  note to self: ditch the swiffer mop because apparently it's worthless.  i got out my trust dr. bronners and a rag today and, to my dismay, discovered just how filthy my floors were.  ick!