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Archives for June 2012

Finishing our renovations

by The Shopping Maniac

We’ve been in renovation mode for a couple of months here at our house. It’s a been quite a while since my husband and I were renovating our home non stop like this. Back when we first bought our house in 2001 we did a lot of renovation – everything from knocking down walls to refinishing floors to painting and doing all kinds of repairs.

Then after about two years of constant renovations I got sick and we just stopped. We weren’t done renovating, not by a long shot, but we stopped … for about three years, then we started again for a few months and then stopped again until just a few months ago.

Now we’re just trying to finish up all the renovations that we started in the past. Finally get the house looking good. We have most of the supplies that we need. I think we just need a little more paint and maybe we might need to buy welding supplies for when we do the upstairs bathroom but otherwise we have everything we need stored in our basement.

I can’t wait until our renovations are done. I’ve literally been waiting 11 years to see how everything is going to turn out.

More than a year and a half since I quit smoking

by The Shopping Maniac

My husband and I both quite smoking about two and a half years ago, but sometime in the last 6 months my husband secretly started smoking again.

Well I say six months but I don’t know exactly when Chris started smoking again because as I said he did it secretly but I know he’s been doing it since at least last December – probably longer. Now I’m really sensitive to all smells, and especially the smell of cigarettes so I can really tell when he’s had a smoke … so I’m just waiting for him to come home after having one of his favorite cohiba cigars or something .. that will fun.

I’m just happy that I haven’t even been tempted to start again. I’m certain I’m quite for good. I can’t wait to make the two year mark!

Taping a Rizzoli & Isles Marathon

by The Shopping Maniac

It’s a rainy weekend and I’m staying indoors getting some things done around the house and catching up on a TV show that I’ve only just become interested in. Superchannel is having a Rizzoli & Isles Marathon this weekend and I’ve managed to DVR all of season 2 or at least by tomorrow I’ll have all of season two DVR’ed.

I didn’t watch the show at all last year or during it’s first season but I’ve been watching it today as I’ve been doing other work and I’m really enjoying it so you can be that I’m going to watch Season three when it starts next week.

I’m also using my DVR to tape three movies tonight. Yeah … I’m taping a lot of stuff. One of them is a scary movie, ones a comedy and the other I can’t remember quite what it is .. something about a cpa raleigh nc in vegas I think … I can’t remember. Hopefully I don’t get too busy and end up not watching all of these shows that I’m taping!

Getting the patio ready for summer

by The Shopping Maniac

It’s been raining the last couple of days but if the weather clears up tomorrow I want to get out my patio furniture and start putting it together and setting up my patio for summer. We’ve had some warm weather in the last two weeks or so, so I’m behind in getting my patio ready for summer.

I also found this great site to order some lights for my patio umbrella. They are brown wire christmas lights and they’ll blend into the color of the umbrella very nicely so you’ll only see the lights when they are turned on. I think that will work fantastically! I have to order some.

Do you have your patio or backyard ready for summer?

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