Random.

- I realized today that I'm addicted to Diet Coke.  I tried going all day without it and got really antsy, moody, and just plain cranky by the end of the day.  So I had a Diet Pepsi at dinner.

- I hit the 74 pound weight loss mark today.  Strange... especially since I feel so frumpy lately.  Funny how your mind plays tricks on you.

- Tyler and I have been married for 1,035 days today.  Despite our tense relationship recently due to stress, I was reminded today how much I love him.  I cannot wait to spend the rest of our lives together.

- It makes me sad that people love to gossip, especially about situations that do not affect them personally.

- I learned today that fertility peaks at the age of 22.  Tyler's exact words when I told him that were: "That's nice." 

- I also learned today that it costs the Feds 8 cents to make one penny.

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That's all.  Aren't you glad you just wasted 2 minutes of your time to read this?!?  :)

Status: pending.

I guess I'm retarded and JUST NOW noticed that our home listing says "PENDING" instead of "active"!!  I told Tyler that and he got a huge smile on his face.  We both just seriously screamed out loud.  Woooohooooo!!!

I also just noticed that our neighbors home is also pending, which is exciting since they are asking soooo much more for their home.  That is good news.

Swee-ta!!!!! :)

Moving dates.

Even though a lot of my readers live far away and I have never met some of you, I still thought blogging our moving dates/times would be an easy way to let everyone know when we are planning on making our move.

We close on the 16th (in the AM) but we don't technically get possession of our house until 5:00 on the 19th (Monday).  Therefore we'll be in the house at 5:01 on Monday night (hehe) starting to paint, and all day Tuesday (the 20th) painting.  Hopefully we'll get most of it done, or at least the bedrooms, before we move the rest of the stuff in.  We are going to plan on moving our big furniture and boxes during the evening on the 20th, around 6:00 pm-ish.  We really don't have that much furniture to move so we are thinking we should be able to get it done in a "quick" evening.

If you want to help, send me an email or text and I'll give you more details!

Paint colors are stressing me out.

Here's a quick run-down of what I'm thinking for color choices.  The problem with our house is that every wall is white.  In all of the other houses we looked at, I liked most of the colors of the walls and knew I'd leave a majority of the paint colors the same.  However, in our house, I literally have  blank slate.  There is nothing, nada, on the walls. 

The kitchen

   

I am doing a striped accent wall with these colors, with the second color as the "base" and then using the other 3 colors as stripes.  Then I'll use the base color throughout the kitchen as the kitchen wall color also. 

Living Room

 The walls will be this color
 And then the wall that has the fireplace I'm going to do a couple shades darker, so something like this.  I would rather do a color, but I can't figure out what color to do without it being so permanent that I can never change my decor.

Office



Blue!!!  Crazy, huh?  This isn't the exact shade, but I'd like to do a slate blue of some sort. 

Basement



I'm not completely sold on this, but we want something light and airy since the basement is so open and bright.  Any other suggestions?

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So, what do you think? Likes/dislikes?  HELP!!!

Weekend recap.

It's Monday morning, and I feel like my weekend didn't exist.  I hate that feeling!  It comes from having an extremely busy weekend, and even though it was a great weekend, it was just very busy.

Friday night after I got off work I headed to Columbia.  I love going to Columbia - I seriously feel like it's a vacation everytime we go.  I love the town, the atmosphere, and being with my parents.  It's a 2 hour drive, which I dread, and it started the same way it always does.  Me taking my phone out of my purse, placing it on my lap and hoping that someone, anyone, will call me and talk to me for 2 hours to make the time fly by faster.  I tried calling my sister, my best friend from college, and neither of them answered.  Okay, now what?  I started texting a few random people, but after those "conversations" died down, I was bored.  I put in one of my New Life CD's and started singing along with my favorite worship leader ever (Ross Parsley), and then it hit me.  Why do I always have to be doing something?  I turned the music off, shut my phone off, and sat in silence.  To be honest, it was awkward at first.  It was weird.  So, I started praying outloud.  I went on and on and on about everything in my life that is going on, cried, sobbed, laughed, screamed... I probably looked like a whack-job to anyone passing me.  But it was the most rewarding and fulfilling 1.5 hours I've had in a long time.  You see, even though God already knew the millions of emotions I am feeling in my heart and mind, He still desires and wants me to talk to him about them anyways.  He knows why my heart feels broken, why I go from feeling discouraged to feeling ecstatic in a matter of moments... He knows it all.  But He also desires and craves times where we just talk to him.  I arrived in Columbia and felt refreshed.  It was absolutely amazing.

Saturday we woke up at 6am to start the garage sale.  This wasn't your typical garage sale, it was NUTS.  The subdivision Mom & Dad live in was completely packed out, they estimate that 10,000 people go in/out of that subdivision on garage sale day.  It was nuts.  It was totally worth it though, because Tyler and I made $220!  I expected to make around $100, so that was a nice surprise.

Sunday we had church, I went to the gym, and then we spent our afternoon at Home Goods, Pier 1, and Home Depot.  We are getting sooooo excited to be in our house, it was fun going around to different stores and talking about what we want to do with the house.  OUR house.  Our very own house.  :)  We are so excited.  If you have any paint color ideas, feel free to throw them at me.  I think I finally figured out the kitchen/dining room colors, so now I'm stuck on the living room and basement.

Sorry to ramble on and on about nothing... blogging is such an "outlet" for me, I truly enjoy writing and I hope I don't bore you to death.  Thanks to all my faithful readers.  You are loved!