Bathroom Ideas

I love visiting people’s home and seeing how they decorate. My BIL’s new home is so nice. It’s in a housing development and it is brand-new. The houses are too close for my comfort, but they are certainly beautiful. The master bath is especially nice! It has a garden tub and a separate shower with a glass enclosure, double sinks, porcelain tile, and such a clean, modern look. His girlfriend decorated it very nicely too. So I’ve been thinking of things I can do to update our bathroom. The full bath downstairs has no window and we painted it a dark green, which I think was a mistake. At some point I would like to repaint it a light color. Maybe a light eggshell blue or even just plain white and then accessorize with silver. Drew has other areas he wants to paint and repaint first, though so I’m not going to get to my project anytime soon. Unless he goes on a business trip — then maybe I could surprise him with it!

Camper v. Motorhome v. RV

When we were driving down to NC last week, Drew and I were trying to discern the differences between campers, RVs, and motorhomes. We decided that a camper is something that is towed by a car or truck. An RV is a sleek-looking bus-type vehicle. And a motorhome looks like a cross between the two. We saw a few on the side of the road with problems and I couldn’t help but wonder how much motorhome towing costs. It has to be pretty expensive. I mean, some of those vehicles are large!

Drew still says he’d love to get an RV someday. I don’t think I’d really like that. I don’t love driving around, so I’m not sure I’d really enjoy it. Maybe we’ll rent one at some point to compromise, but not while we have three little kids, that’s for sure! In cramped quarters, I can only imagine how loud it gets

Inferiority Complex

So a person that Drew went to college with has had a book made into a movie this summer. Naturally as a writer I guess I’m a bit jealous. I’m sure if I buckled down I could write a book too, but the time… Where to find the time? I get paid to write and shouldn’t that be enough? When I worked for the magazine I opined about call center outsourcing, unified messaging, and VoIP (before it was hip). And even now I write stories for the local paper and churn out web content and I get paid for that. Shouldn’t that be enough? I guess I just feel like I should be doing something more… creative? Worthwhile? I don’t know. I need to do a little soul-searching, I think, and figure out what I want to do and how I can actually do it.

Birthday weekend is over

This weekend we celebrated the boys’ birthdays (Jake is 7 and Noah is 4) as well as Laura’s baptism. Needless to say there has been a lot of cake and ice cream! I wish there was a safe, all-natural diet pill that works to help me cut my cravings for sweets, but I think that next month I’m just going to have to buckle down and get on track with eating and exercise. I got a copy of Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred so I am hoping that working out will help a lot. My diet actually isn’ that bad, but I do need to get moving to lose these last few pounds.