Blogging twice in one day...now that's a first in a LONG time!! I'm up late and WIDE awake. Mar was off today and we slept late...it was pure heaven!!! :) It feels like it's about 9:00 pm. Mar on the other hand, is fast asleep on the couch behind me. :) He always calls me his little night owl.
So, I got a smile makeover on Monday and Tuesday. I had 4 veneers on my top teeth for the last 10 years and liked them a lot but at the time the whitest shade they had was A1 which was not very white. Mar's been wanting to redo my teeth for awhile but I was just dreading the whole process. Over the years, Mar's done most of my family member's teeth and they all look great!!! In all our pictures together, here are all these gorgeous white smiles next to my yellow smile. I finally gave in on a whim last week after seeing my niece, Abby's, gorgeous new smile. Well, I am looking at this picture of me and am like, "WHOA! My teeth look WHITE..maybe a little too white". I'm thinking it's the picture and my lipstick, though, because I don't think they look too white in person. Matter of fact, nobody in my family has even noticed so I think that's a good sign. :) I do have to say that I feel like I've been recovering from surgery this week. I know that sounds dramatic but for some reason the shot (which didn't hurt at all when he was giving it...his shots never hurt.....he's known for it) swelled up my left side and my cheek has been so sore. Also, I have always gotten ulcers from dental shots so I have to sleep with prescription Kenalog on all the places where I get shots so I wake up with a mouth full of sandy grit. :) It's not been fun but today I feel like me again!! YAY! My cheek is still sore but my teeth feel normal now. I had all my upper and lower teeth done. No more "picniking" my teeth! HA! :) I didn't do that much anyway but when I did, I was always shocked at the difference between my yellow teeth and the new "picniked" white teeth.
Recently, I was given a little monetary gift from a family member...so kind, special, and sweet. Anyway, it wasn't a ton or anything but a little bit and I had been trying to decide what to do with it. I wanted to do something special with it. My sister is taking her husband to the beach and I must say that after our recent Colorado trip, I was VERY tempted to go to Colorado again!! I am STILL thinking about that trip every single day and wishing I was there looking at that incredibly gorgeous view. Anyway, at first I was going to invest it but then one morning I woke up and immediately knew what I was going to do with it.....get new wood floors for our living room! :) I decided it was a good investment because we'll get that money back when (IF) we sell our house one day. Right now, we have gray carpet and it just stands out to me every time I look at it. The first thing I said when we bought our house almost 3 years ago was, "First thing we need to do is replace this gray carpet". Well, it turns out replacing carpet with wood floors is REALLY expensive so we haven't done it. I'd like to replace all the gray carpet in the house but that's just too expensive, so for now, we're just going to do the living room. My dilemma right now is trying to decide whether to buy the floors online or in a store. Look at the price at the wood floor above??!!! What in the world? Okay, first of all, the wood floors we have to get (to match the other wood floors in the kitchen and dining room) is not even the easy kind to install...it's the nail kind and it's not my favorite color, either, so I'm really wondering why it's SO expensive!! The beautiful colored wood floors that is easy to install is half this price. I don't understand BUT online this exact same flooring is $3.25. It's so much cheaper!! However, I'm a little nervous about ordering online especially after reading reviews. It just worries me a little bit. I just don't know what to do. I think Mar and I are going to install them to save a little money. We'll see. If I order them online, I can hire someone to install them.
I love Valentine's Day. We had Molly's bridesmaid's luncheon at my house last Friday so I got to put up all the "love" early. :)
Okay, I am having a serious problem....see lower right hand corner of picture above. See that heart bowl...well, there are M&M's in there and I KNOW BETTER than to put them in that bowl (and, even worse, by my computer) but I can't seem to stop buying them and eating them!! I got so excited the other day when I finally finished them off because the temptation was gone. Well, what do I do when I go to Target tonight? Buy those M&M's...they are just so cute in those pink, hot pink, and red colors (the packaging is even cute)...they make it harder to resist. M&M's just make me happy. I like to eat the candy off of them and then suck on the chocolate. I have got to stop, though. After I finish writing this, I am moving the candy dish to the pantry where all the other candy is...for some reason I don't eat the candy in the pantry....I guess it's because it's behind a closed door. I don't know. Anyway, I am mad at myself. Not to mention the fact that we went to a Japanese steakhouse tonight. UGH!! I did bring home half my meal, though, to enjoy and savor tomorrow. :) The calories I didn't eat at the restaurant, I made up for in M&M's tonight, though. :s
See that brass fireplace thing that frames the doors to the fireplace in the picture above? I have no idea what it's called but the brass has bothered me for a long time now. I've wanted to update it but didn't really know how to go about it. I saw on a blog one day that you can actually spray paint brass. That gave me hope for my fireplace. I even bought some spray paint but Mar didn't know how to get the door off so I tried to spray it while it was on and realized that wouldn't work so I just left it alone. It's been real noticeable to me this week because all our furniture has been moved out of our living room (we had tables brought in for Molly's shower). I decided today that where there's a will there's a way. I googled fireplaces and how to remove a door. I printed off the directions to give to Mar and found my spray paint. I was ready to go!! :) Mar got the door off and then said, "You have to come see our fireplace!". So, I go in there and this is what I see:
That beautiful brick was being covered by that shining brass!!! I love it!! We decided to just leave the door off and buy a fireplace cover. BYE BYE ugly brass!!! I love that brick and didn't even have to spray paint!! YAY!! Now, once that gray carpet is gone, our living room will be updated!! WOO-HOO!!!
By the way, here's the living room before we bought the house. It's not ugly by any means but I felt like it needed an update and it wasn't really my style. We removed the transom's (sp?) and the french doors (we had to remove them to remove the transom's), removed the ceiling fan and replaced with a light, painted the walls, trim, and mantle, and now we've removed the brass from the fireplace and are about to replace the gray carpet. :)
UPDATE: Saturday night: I am so excited!! I got my wood floors today for $3.99 a square foot! The owner said those floors haven't been that price in 10 years! The neat thing is that last night Lamar said we needed to pray about the floors and that we would find a deal here in town, so we prayed about it and look what God did! :) He's just waiting on us to ask! I love "winks" from God! :) We got everything we needed and I had money left over!!! WOO-HOO!! Thank you, Lord!
So, I got a smile makeover on Monday and Tuesday. I had 4 veneers on my top teeth for the last 10 years and liked them a lot but at the time the whitest shade they had was A1 which was not very white. Mar's been wanting to redo my teeth for awhile but I was just dreading the whole process. Over the years, Mar's done most of my family member's teeth and they all look great!!! In all our pictures together, here are all these gorgeous white smiles next to my yellow smile. I finally gave in on a whim last week after seeing my niece, Abby's, gorgeous new smile. Well, I am looking at this picture of me and am like, "WHOA! My teeth look WHITE..maybe a little too white". I'm thinking it's the picture and my lipstick, though, because I don't think they look too white in person. Matter of fact, nobody in my family has even noticed so I think that's a good sign. :) I do have to say that I feel like I've been recovering from surgery this week. I know that sounds dramatic but for some reason the shot (which didn't hurt at all when he was giving it...his shots never hurt.....he's known for it) swelled up my left side and my cheek has been so sore. Also, I have always gotten ulcers from dental shots so I have to sleep with prescription Kenalog on all the places where I get shots so I wake up with a mouth full of sandy grit. :) It's not been fun but today I feel like me again!! YAY! My cheek is still sore but my teeth feel normal now. I had all my upper and lower teeth done. No more "picniking" my teeth! HA! :) I didn't do that much anyway but when I did, I was always shocked at the difference between my yellow teeth and the new "picniked" white teeth.
Recently, I was given a little monetary gift from a family member...so kind, special, and sweet. Anyway, it wasn't a ton or anything but a little bit and I had been trying to decide what to do with it. I wanted to do something special with it. My sister is taking her husband to the beach and I must say that after our recent Colorado trip, I was VERY tempted to go to Colorado again!! I am STILL thinking about that trip every single day and wishing I was there looking at that incredibly gorgeous view. Anyway, at first I was going to invest it but then one morning I woke up and immediately knew what I was going to do with it.....get new wood floors for our living room! :) I decided it was a good investment because we'll get that money back when (IF) we sell our house one day. Right now, we have gray carpet and it just stands out to me every time I look at it. The first thing I said when we bought our house almost 3 years ago was, "First thing we need to do is replace this gray carpet". Well, it turns out replacing carpet with wood floors is REALLY expensive so we haven't done it. I'd like to replace all the gray carpet in the house but that's just too expensive, so for now, we're just going to do the living room. My dilemma right now is trying to decide whether to buy the floors online or in a store. Look at the price at the wood floor above??!!! What in the world? Okay, first of all, the wood floors we have to get (to match the other wood floors in the kitchen and dining room) is not even the easy kind to install...it's the nail kind and it's not my favorite color, either, so I'm really wondering why it's SO expensive!! The beautiful colored wood floors that is easy to install is half this price. I don't understand BUT online this exact same flooring is $3.25. It's so much cheaper!! However, I'm a little nervous about ordering online especially after reading reviews. It just worries me a little bit. I just don't know what to do. I think Mar and I are going to install them to save a little money. We'll see. If I order them online, I can hire someone to install them.
I love Valentine's Day. We had Molly's bridesmaid's luncheon at my house last Friday so I got to put up all the "love" early. :)
Okay, I am having a serious problem....see lower right hand corner of picture above. See that heart bowl...well, there are M&M's in there and I KNOW BETTER than to put them in that bowl (and, even worse, by my computer) but I can't seem to stop buying them and eating them!! I got so excited the other day when I finally finished them off because the temptation was gone. Well, what do I do when I go to Target tonight? Buy those M&M's...they are just so cute in those pink, hot pink, and red colors (the packaging is even cute)...they make it harder to resist. M&M's just make me happy. I like to eat the candy off of them and then suck on the chocolate. I have got to stop, though. After I finish writing this, I am moving the candy dish to the pantry where all the other candy is...for some reason I don't eat the candy in the pantry....I guess it's because it's behind a closed door. I don't know. Anyway, I am mad at myself. Not to mention the fact that we went to a Japanese steakhouse tonight. UGH!! I did bring home half my meal, though, to enjoy and savor tomorrow. :) The calories I didn't eat at the restaurant, I made up for in M&M's tonight, though. :s
See that brass fireplace thing that frames the doors to the fireplace in the picture above? I have no idea what it's called but the brass has bothered me for a long time now. I've wanted to update it but didn't really know how to go about it. I saw on a blog one day that you can actually spray paint brass. That gave me hope for my fireplace. I even bought some spray paint but Mar didn't know how to get the door off so I tried to spray it while it was on and realized that wouldn't work so I just left it alone. It's been real noticeable to me this week because all our furniture has been moved out of our living room (we had tables brought in for Molly's shower). I decided today that where there's a will there's a way. I googled fireplaces and how to remove a door. I printed off the directions to give to Mar and found my spray paint. I was ready to go!! :) Mar got the door off and then said, "You have to come see our fireplace!". So, I go in there and this is what I see:
That beautiful brick was being covered by that shining brass!!! I love it!! We decided to just leave the door off and buy a fireplace cover. BYE BYE ugly brass!!! I love that brick and didn't even have to spray paint!! YAY!! Now, once that gray carpet is gone, our living room will be updated!! WOO-HOO!!!
By the way, here's the living room before we bought the house. It's not ugly by any means but I felt like it needed an update and it wasn't really my style. We removed the transom's (sp?) and the french doors (we had to remove them to remove the transom's), removed the ceiling fan and replaced with a light, painted the walls, trim, and mantle, and now we've removed the brass from the fireplace and are about to replace the gray carpet. :)
Well, it's LATE!! Wow!!! How is it that I'm still not tired? I promised Mar we'd read together tonight, too.....uh-oh.
Just a side note...whenever I do spellcheck on here, my signature disappears...wonder why. Oh well. Night everybody! More later! :)
UPDATE: Saturday night: I am so excited!! I got my wood floors today for $3.99 a square foot! The owner said those floors haven't been that price in 10 years! The neat thing is that last night Lamar said we needed to pray about the floors and that we would find a deal here in town, so we prayed about it and look what God did! :) He's just waiting on us to ask! I love "winks" from God! :) We got everything we needed and I had money left over!!! WOO-HOO!! Thank you, Lord!
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