I Watched a TV show!

This weekend was very eventful. Saturday I went to a bridal shower for a co-worker that started at noon. I got up, had coffee, went on the internet for awhile, took a shower, went to the mall to pick up a present and arrived exactly at noon. I was home around 4 p.m., exhausted from all the talking and coughing and coughing and coughing, so I took a nap until 7 p.m. Later I read for awhile and took it easy. I'm reading Anne of Green Gables. One of those great Canadian literature that I've never read. I have a whole list of books like that. Naturally when it came time to go to sleep I couldn't because of the nap. As much as I like naps they totally messes up my sleep routine. So there I was until 2 a.m. reading, planning and writing a seven page letter to my aunt. The dark chocolate bar I ate probably didn't help with the sleeping issue as well.

What did I plan? Well, I've managed to redecorate my whole house in my mind. I just have to get it down on paper now. Our house is in a bit of a flux right these days. Ever since Bryant came back home with his dog Lexie it's been that way. She is part pit and a puppy when she arrived at our house. Cute thing but a terrible chewer. In a mater of months she destroyed our 12 ft. sectional couch, leather easy chair and all the pillows. How a dog could eat a whole couch is beyond me. It looked like it should have been on someone's porch in the Ozarks! So for now I have a couch and chair that I found on Craig's list that don't really match and no coffee table. I don't really like having company over because the house just looks sad. The type of furniture you have when you're in your first apartment not when you're established in your 50s. Bruce and I decided that we're not going to redecorate until she's gone and that could be awhile since Bryant is still in school. She's a lovely dog, a little neurotic, but cute and seriously the couch and chairs are only stuff that can be replaced. It's no different than having your house torn apart by four rambunctious growing boys. When you have kids and dogs things will be broken. Our carpet is also pretty trashed after raising four boys and 3 dogs. I don't think it will ever be beige again.

I also not been all that thrilled lately with our light blue walls. They're just too bland for me and I'm just tired of blue. I may go green or natural colours because I want to do the house all in mission style. I like the clean lines and art deco accessories these days. A long ways from the cluttered Victoria look I had in the 90s. Those rose sponge-painted walls with flowered borders. Yuck. So, I'm going to get a design book started, take some photos of things I see and have it all planned out for the day I can start. It will take me a long time to redecorate because I really want to gut the whole house when the boys move out and make our house a little couple's retreat. I'm looking forward to an empty nest. We were empty-nesters for about 4 months before the boys moved back in and it was so blissful. No dirty dishes in the kitchen all the time, no strange locker room smells coming from their bedrooms. Just the joy of being able to walk around your house in your underwear again...pure bliss.

I would have liked to have slept in this morning but my cat had other ideas. Princess was gracious though, after waking me at 6:30 a.m. for her breakfast and morning walk out in the back yard (she likes to just make the rounds while the dogs are still sleeping) she did let me go back to sleep until 9 a.m. I got up, made coffee, sat on the computer for awhile writing my blog, had breakfast and got two loads of laundry going. That's a first for me because I have a bad habit of doing laundry late and hurrying to try and get it put away before I could go to bed which naturally made me hyper and I would have trouble sleeping Sunday nights and feel trashed Monday morning. It's so easy for me to get insomnia.

Later I uploaded some photos to findagrave.com that I took at a local cemetery. I've been slowly photo cataloging all the stones at the San Marcos cemetery. It's a hobby of mine—I love cemeteries. Can't wait to go up to the famous ones in Hollywood one of these days with my girlfriend Kay. She's as nutty as me over graves. I was going to go over and take more photos while I was shopping but I forgot the stupid memory card!

Then I ran out to the craft store—had a 25% off coupon burning a hole in my pocket—and then over to Walmart to pick up curtain's for Bryant's room. By that time I was very tired from not getting enough sleep overnight but if I took a nap I'd be toast. So I sat down at the computer and watched Desperate Housewives and Brother's & Sisters while I cleaned off the desk and painted these little wooden initials (CDB) I bought at Michael's for my cube at work.

It was nice getting a little TV in but I kept myself busy while I did it. In the past, if I had bought a little project to do, it would have sat around for weeks before I got around to it. Today I worked on it the same day I bought them. I think that's progress.