So I uploaded the pictures from my camera and realized it’s been so long since I last posted! It just seems like Neal and I have had something to do every night, and I just didn’t take the time to blog. Sorry to my fans! HAHA.
Anyway,  I was sitting on the couch watching TV after [...]

So Neal installed the shelving and clothing rods in our closets Sunday. Well, I kind of helped, but mostly it was him.

I instantly began hanging my clothes on the rack and getting things organized. It was so exciting! I couldn’t believe I was so excited. And then I started thinking – I have not had [...]

I know it’s been a while since I posted. I’m sorry! The short week went so fast and we’ve been busy since Thursday night. But it was a great weekend! I love three-day weekends.
Thursday night, we hung out with some of Neal’s coworkers, which was tons of fun.
Friday, Neal’s brother and parents came over so [...]

FINALLY!! WE HAVE CARPET!! AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
OK, sorry for yelling, but I am REALLY excited.
Want a peek?

Eeeeeeek!! I love it! Obviously, the room still needs trim and the baseboards need to be installed, which will look really cool. But for now, we have carpet!
The cats were hilarious. After about two years of pining at the closed doorway, [...]

So, I went to a wedding last night as Andi’s date, and boy, did we have FUN!! I’m definitely recovering today, hahaha. I’ll post some pics later once I’m able to go through them.
I did want to post the results of the painting of the bedroom Friday night. I’m SOOOO happy with the color we [...]

So, I’m rather anal about the paint colors in my house.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First, I usually know what color I’m going for when I decide to paint a room. Second, paint is expensive, so I don’t want to buy a non-refundable color. And third, it’s a lot of work to [...]

So, it’s late and Neal and I are ready to hit the hay. It was another long day of working in the attic for us. Friday, we completed the first coat of primer, and today we finished the second coat, plus other odds and ends. It’s seriously starting to look like a room now! It’s [...]

First of all, I have to do this – Hi Shawn! **waving** We miss you!
OK, so I had to give a shout out to Shawn, who is very, very far away, but yet took the time to leave Neal such a supportive message on my blog. And yes, I know I’m a sorry ass, haha. [...]

So, since the contractors started working on our HVAC unit in the attic 8 a.m. Sunday morning, I kind of had to get up. It was sort of hard to sleep when two men were tramping back and forth in the hallway outside the bedroom door and making loud banging noises in the attic.
I have [...]

So, are you ready for another attic update? Neal and I and his parents worked out butts off this weekend mudding and taping drywall seams.
Numerous people told me that mudding and taping was way worse than hanging drywall. This discouraged me greatly, because I pretty much LOATHED putting up drywall. Seriously, it made me angry [...]

OK, so my thoughts are pretty much consumed with our attic at this point. All I do is stare at calendar and try to figure out how much time I have available to get this stuff done.
Saturday, we stopped in at the carpet store. Turns out that was the last day for their 6 months [...]

So, Neal and I worked a little this weekend on the drywall. His parents have helped us on the majority of it when they come on the weekends, so the weekends they aren’t here, we try to do what we can with just the two of us. Which translates into mostly what Neal can do [...]

So, when Neal and I moved into our house, we observed that the previous owners had already framed and insulated the attic. We had said we’d love to finish the room and make that our bedroom. Last year, Neal’s parents bought us drywall and supplies for Christmas to get started on the room. We didn’t [...]

So, there are several reasons why I remembered today that I love Spring.
We live near a large commercial bakery, and they make a lot of desserts. Today, I got out of my car in my driveway and breathed in the sweet, sweet smell of brownies. The warm weather really carries the smell of the baking [...]

So, Neal and I added a bird feeder near our deck (bringing our total bird feeders to two) and we also added a suet cake cage on a tree in our backyard.
And if you build it (or, stock it with bird seed), they will come. We have birds  by the dozens outside. And the cats [...]

So, yeah, just seat me at the bitter table – party of one.
After waking up feeling better Saturday morning, I braved venturing out of the house to go to a friend’s to watch the Final Four basketball games. I had a really good time, but only made it through the first game before my head [...]

So Neal and I learned the proper way to make fire from our friend, Shawn. Probably one of my favorite vacations was camping with Shawn and Andi about two years ago.  I have a pic in the US section on this site, I believe. We totally roughed it. No camp sites for us! And we [...]

So, the weather was decent this weeked, so Neal and I decided to get started working on the yard.
I did some weeding (which should have been done a looong time ago, but oh well, better late then never) and Neal worked on the large garden plot in our backyard. The previous owners designated a rather [...]

So, here’s an update on my to do list:
Bake cookies, getting there, butter is softening
Bake dessert for Super Bowl Sunday to take to my brother’s house
Cry about my laptop (see post below) we haven’t turned it off since Neal got it to reboot, so I’m still using it. Good news, Neal is ordering a part [...]

So, normally I think resolutions are stupid. The typical “lose weight and eat better” always loses steam around Feb. 21 or so. I don’t even bother.
But I know I’ve commented on this site before about how disorganized Neal and I are. We can never find anything, and our house IS NOT BIG. It’s ridiculous, and [...]

So, I came home from work today, walked in the door, and promptly stepped on our tree skirt.
I told you Ferris has an unnatural obsession.

Anyone that knows my house knows that after somehow dismantling the fabric from the tree stand, he had to drag it up a step, through the kitchen and through our living [...]

So, Saturday was a good day. A really good day.
Neal and I woke up early, had a nice breakfast and headed to a local tree farm to get a Christmas tree. We spent a fortune last year on a pre-cut tree. So we decided to save $30 and head to a farm and cut down [...]

So, as promised, I have plenty of cat pictures to show you.
Friday, I got up early, put on the Christmas music, and started carrying up my boxes of Christmas decorations. I really love decorating for Christmas. But, I sort of forgot how difficult it is to decorate with the felines in my house.
First, I opened [...]

Megan’s Weekend To Do List:
Clean kitchen floor
Vacuum
Order photo Christmas cards
Make homemade mac & cheese (I need a layer of fat to keep warm this winter)
Clean downstairs bathroom
Do Laundry
Dust
Pick up Mt. Everest-sized pile of clothes in bedroom
Annoy Neal
Take pictures of cats instead of doing aforementioned chores CHECK!

So, we finally had a weekend where we didn’t have plans or had to head out of town. The best part of the weekend? The Pampered Chef stuff arrived! I wish I would have taken pictures of all the boxes. The shipment was six boxes, and three of them were so huge that I could [...]

So, I’ve made some stuff last week/weekend/this week and haven’t gotten a chance to post about it yet.
First, Neal and I like to get Purdue’s Oven Roasters at the grocery store. They are soooo easy and not too expensive. You get so much meat out of them. I like to put mine on a bed [...]

So, I know I’m posting twice in one day, which is unusual. But I have to let you all know about this morning’s Bunny Incident.
Our lawn is ridiculously long, so Neal went out this morning in between rain showers to at least get the front lawn done (our front always grows faster than our backyard). [...]

So, I hosted a Pampered Chef party on Saturday and it was awesome! I had so much fun hanging out with friends and eating good food. Plus, what’s more fun than playing with kitchen gadgets?
I didn’t make a lot of food, because I knew the PC consultant was making a pizza. I asked my mom [...]

So, it poured buckets all Saturday. It was hard to wake up, because it seemed so dark outside. It was actually kind of nice not to have to run anywhere, or do yardwork. I was stuck inside, and loved it!
Neal’s parents came to visit, and my mom came over, too, since my dad was out [...]

Neal and I had a great — albeit full — weekend.
We spent Saturday morning working on the yard. I wanted to plant new potted plants and Neal did a whole lot of pulling weeds.
Here are the multitude of plants I bought before I planted them.

I think I got my camera lens wet, so excuse the [...]

So I’m really looking forward to this weekend. I’ll get to see my family, Neal’s family and our close friends. Couldn’t get much better than that! Holiday weekends rock.
So, I’m planning a Pampered Chef party the end of September. I’m REALLY excited about it, because it will be fun to hang out with friends/family, have [...]

So, we had a crapload of trash from our little deck project this weekend – carpet, wooden trim, metal canopy remnants.
Our spot on the curb for trash day tomorrow is a little full.

Sorry for the dark picture.
This was taken five minutes after some guy in a pickup truck took away our panels from the metal [...]

So, Saturday was an extremely productive day for Neal and I.
First, I had to sleep in. The Olympics — and Michael Phelps — has been killing me, HAHA. I was up late every night this week and needed to sleep in. Neal started making noise at 9:30, and I think that was my cue to [...]

R.I.P DeLonghi.
You will be missed.
You were with Neal and I from the beginning, back in the early days when we lived among the shag carpet on King Street. We sipped your caffeinated nectar in the early days of our marriage.
You were there for us through all those tough, early work-week mornings. I enjoyed your paper-less [...]

So, my pics were acting up last post and I got frustrated and just stopped, HAHA, so here’s the continuation of the weekend.
Neal and I stopped at BJ’s on the way home from the family reunion and then I came home and slept for TWO hours. Yeah, I love to sleep. Simone cuddled with me [...]

So, my work week was pretty busy and I didn’t have a lot of time to post. I’ll start with Thursday. My friend Amanda and I went to the mall to shop for gifts for Jodie’s bachelorette party. I couldn’t go, but I wanted to send along some fun XXX-rated goodies. Jodie couldn’t make it [...]

I cover school board meetings for a local school district, so I was busy last night attending a meeting. Nothing much happened, which means nothing to write about, which means no $$. Oh well.
I came home one night last week to this:

See, we keep all of the cats toys in a basket that fits into [...]

Some nights, the cats don’t sleep with us at all. They jump on the bed when they hear us stir in the morning but that’s about it. Other nights, they spend the entire night on the bed, moving around, sleeping near our heads, then around our feet and everywhere in between. Last night was a [...]

So I had such a great weekend that it was hard to get back to work today. My mind was still on the things I did around the house and the time I spent with my friends. Oh well. Gotta work to afford the things in the house, haha. It was hard to get up, [...]

So, we slept at the Bear house Friday night and woke up Saturday morning feeling OK, although it took a good cup of coffee to get that way.
We got home and for some reason, after a tasty egg sandwich, I was ready to get some work done around the house. First thing was to organize [...]

So, I work up at 8:10 a.m. today.
I normally leave my house for work at 8 a.m. I get there around 8:15 or 8:20. We are supposed to be there at 8:30 a.m.
So yeah, I woke up at 8:10 a.m.
I had just enough time to brush my teeth and put on clothes. I walked in [...]

I slept in again on Sunday. I was traumatized from watching the movie “Requiem for a Dream” last night. That movie was beyond horrifying. And by horrifying, I mean depressing. It was a great movie about addiction, and how said addictions affect our future, but boy was it rough to watch. Neal has been telling [...]