Monday, October 31, 2011

Renovations!!!

After talking about it since probably day one, the renovations are about to start at my house!  I'll try to post daily update pictures... Today they are going to start on the dining room - ripping off the faux tudor and trying to grind all the crap (sorry, texture) off the bottom half of the walls and once the walls are done they'll put down new floor.  Other rooms getting updates are: the kitchen (everything), the living room (ceiling and fixing the fireplace wall), the bathroom (bath surround, ceiling, bath wall, toilet, and some lighting), and my bedroom (2 walls, part of another wall, and install a ceiling light).  Gotta go finish packing up the dining room and taking "before" pictures before they get here!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Fall

With the arrival of my farm box today from the CSA, I truly felt fall was here.  I made use of several items in the box to make my dinner, which took me about an hour and a half to cook and about 15 minutes to eat.  But it was worth the wait.

I made candied butternut squash, which I then topped with mustard greens cooked with apple cider and sauteed shallots and garlic.  To cap off the whole thing I fried up 2 very fresh eggs from a local farm.  I love their eggs with the orange yolks.  Yummmm....

Maybe tomorrow I'll get some chicken or a ham steak and have that with my leftovers...

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Procrastination

Well, today has actually been a pretty productive day!  (aside from the fact that I didn't work on my 15 page paper which is due in a week)

What did I do instead?  Let's see...
1) I snuggled with my puppy
2) I worked on my cross stitch which I really want to have done in time for Christmas, since it is Christmas themed
3) I snuggled with my puppy
4) I broke down and turned on my heater even though the furnace guy hasn't been out for its check-up yet - but when your house is 52 degrees inside it's time for desperate measures
5) I got out my puppy's sweater so she'd be nice and toasty
6) I caught up on the tv shows I've been wanting to see - New Girl (pilot episode, the 2nd one won't be on Hulu until Wednesday), How I Met Your Mother (the first 3 episodes), and last night's Saturday Night Live
7) I took pictures of my puppy in her sweater
8) I made chocolate chip cookies

Pretty much the day involved me and Ellie just hanging out... since it was cold and rainy outside it was nice to spend time with my puppy...

Perhaps I'll work on that paper now....