Yea! We have a new couch!

Yea! We have "new" chairs- courtesy of Mom and Dad!

This is the pictue that I painted when we went on vacation to PA.

Now we need a new dining room table to go with our pretty couch!

The sunroom got some new cushions... not very exciting.

How do other people do it?

I don't understand. How do people keep up with blogs? I thought I'd give the blogging a try but it's been a week and I'm only now getting to my second (that's right... count 'em.. now there's two!) entry. I guess it would help if I was the kind of person who kept a diary. I've tried to be that kind of person and was success at one point in my life, but fear I am not the kind of person anymore. Considering that I found my aforementioned diary during our yard sale prep and read through it (oh, what a tragic life I had at the ripe old age of 20) that's probably a good thing.

So anyway, enough about that. Much has happened this week... some a little too personal to air on the open lines of internet communication, but the rest is fair game.

I got a new haircut! Find a recent picture of Victoria Beckham, undo the blonde, and you'll see my new do! My hairstylist, Heather, was funny. She asked what I wanted to do with my hair (it was already short, what were my options?) and when I said I wanted something different, but didn't know what that meant, she got all excited and said, "Posh Spice!" So now I have a rather sassy do. I'll have to have Pern take my picture later and post it in my next entry... so... six weeks from now when it's all grown out, you should be able to see it.

After several years of prodding (it's not easy being married to the commissioner of a fantasy football league) I finally got my fantasy football team started. Anyone who knows me knows how much I loathe football, so this should be interesting. The question is: Is it possible to win the championship if you just don't give a damn? Time will tell. Football. Fun.

We also spent the week anticipating Pern's birthday get-together. He calls it a birthday party, I call him "not 8 years old" but whatever... friends came over, we ate food, there was cake and candles. Call it what you will. We got many compliments on our grown-up living room. If I can figure out how to upload photographs, they will appear at the end of this entry. If not.. help me.

So what's in store for this week. Hmm... last week of summer camp before Teacher Work Week... a fun week of cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, and getting our ducks in a row before the little ducklings come back to school for another year of fun and learning. This summer has absolutely flown! Then I'm off to my parent's house to paint their living room and dining room. OK... let's see if I can figure out this photo thing...

The sale of yards

This was actually written last Sunday when I started this blasted blog! I decided to change the template- a task that proved almost impossible (I know I'm not a computer whiz, but I'm not a complete idiot either, I just couldn't get it to do what I wanted) - so I just deleted the whole damn thing and started again. So this entry was actually from:

Sunday, August 12

We finally had our much-needed yard sale yesterday! I had been creating piles of "I-don't-need-this-anymore/haven't-thought-about-this-for-years-I'm-going-to-sell-it" stuff in the spare bedroom since we moved in over three months ago! It's good to be rid of some excess baggage! OK... so technically we're not rid of it yet... it's still in the garage. BUT, it's boxed up and ready to be picked up by whichever charitable organization is willing to come and get it.

The yard sale was a success, despite our ad not appearing in the Leesburg Today paper like it was supposed to. Pern filled out the online application for the ad and then called on Friday when it didn't appear. When asked how he had submitted his request the kind lady at the newspaper office flippantly responded, "Honey, that was your first problem!" Excuse me? Turns out their website wasn't working properly and they didn't know about it until Thursday. So no ad for us. But we still had bunches and bunches of crazy yard sale shoppers. A few strategically placed signs did the trick.

So what did we do with our earning? Why, we bought more stuff, of course!! What a silly question. But, in our defense, it was stuff we really needed and stuff we are very happy with. Our new couch was delivered on Friday (we LOVE our new couch) and we needed a grown-up coffee table to go with it. Considering that Pern's about to turn 36 and I've got 30 on the radar, I think it's time to acknowledge that we're grown-up. So now we have a lovely coffe table, end table, and console table to prove it. And a couch. Did I mention that we love our couch? Well we do. We love it. It's yummy. A couple of arm chairs courtesy of the Leech Family Furniture Donation Association (read: "thanks, Mom and Dad!") that we'll be picking up this afternoon will complete the room. Just in time for a little birthday party. Whew!