Prepare Yourselves

Major updates coming soon! First of the tax refund money has been spent on bedroom furniture and is on order. Finally broke down and purchased wood hangers. I need some more and have a few other small things going on in the closet, so I'll post the makeover when that's done as well. I'd say I've had a pretty great birthday!

Bonus Post!

Have you ever been to a baseball or perhaps football or basketball game that goes into overtime and the announcer gets all excited because "you paid for (insert appropriate time here), but now you get FREE (insert sport)!!!"? The announcer for the Lexington Legends does this. Well, y'all are getting FREE BLOG POST!! Wait...I don't think that counts.

This post is just a few snippets.

* We got a new DVD shelf. It looks really good, doesn't feel like it's going to fall over at any moment, and was pretty inexpensive from Target.com (free shipping and we bought during the home event so it was something like 15% off)!

*I've discovered a few great blogs. I'm a little OCD when it comes to organizing so anything along those lines are great! I've recently added Totally Together Journal to my Google Reader and LOVE the cleaning tips. Totally manageable after a long day hanging out with kids. I discovered Literally Organized just today, so I'm still working through the old posts, but I'm loving what I'm reading so far.

*My best lady friends and I love a coffee shop close to our former campus. It's the meeting spot whenever we all happen to be in town (or country as the case sometimes is) and are free. It's funky, it's local (gotta support the small business), they make the BEST lattes, and they only use fair trade coffee. "What the heck does that mean?" you may be asking. Even if you're not asking, I'm going to tell you anyway. As with many imports, coffee is often imported from poor countries and workers are paid very little for their hard work. And harvesting coffee is HARD work. Fair trade works to raise the standard. Workers are paid a fair wage and work under improved conditions. Importers face tougher standards, which can mean higher prices for the consumer, but with a lighter conscience knowing the hands are not being abused to get me the coffee. That's at the store though. Our place has comparable prices to Starbucks (again, made even better by the civic duty we perform supporting Fair Trade AND local business) Plus, our coffee shop does a Happy Hour and all drinks are 1/2 price! Another option to fair trade is a program called Crop to Cup. It's similar, but instead of a co-op (essentially what fair trade is), farmers are paid a certain percentage over market value. Find more info about it here. Just passing along potentially useful info!

Realization

I've made a shocking discovery. Are you ready? Are you sitting down? Probably. I don't know too many people who use the computer standing up. I digress, but what else is new?

My discovery: My life is pretty mundane. Let me see your shocked face! Don't get me wrong. I love my life. I love that I'm in a position right now to not do much of anything. It just makes for a boring time in the blog world! As I catch up on blogs in Google Reader, I just sit in amazement that everyone seems to have some kind of decorating project going on. How does THAT work? Maybe I should sign this blog up for Adsense. Even the other "life" blogs I read update almost daily without a day-to-day run down of what the writer ate for breakfast (I didn't) and how often they frequented the bathroom (about 3).

What's the point? I'm not much of a writer, so I choose not to blog day to day. We haven't done taxes yet, so we're not swimming in extra money, so I can't do a lot of projects I have cooking up in the ol' noodle. Therefore, please excuse my long absences.

Update

I fixed it! I had to export, delete, and import. But it's fixed to my liking! Unfortunately I lost my followers in the process, so if all 3 of you would be so kind as to re-follow, I'd be much appreciative! If anyone else would care to follow as well, I'd let ya. It'd make me feel special!

FYI

There's a remote chance I will be switching blog hosting sites. If you actually come to the site regularly (instead of just reading on Google Reader), you may have noticed a background change. That was accidental. I don't HATE it, but it's not was I was intending and I canNOT figure out how to fix it back. I'm also missing some gadgets, which upsets me. I have a question posted on the help forums and if I can't get it figured out, the web address will be changing slightly. I'll be sure to let everyone know.

No Title. Not Creative Today

Just a quick update, since not a whole lot is going on with us. I haven't started substituting yet. The economy has hit FCPS hard, apparently, and NO ONE can find a job. That makes me feel better about my situation at least. Anyway, there are so many substitute applications, I haven't been entered into the system. Hopefully sometime this week though. In the meantime, tutoring will be a regular gig. I had 2 sessions last week and was asked if I'd be able to pick up an extra one on that day and possibly one or two more on another day. At $15 each, heck yeah! Specials at CCCS are fun, too. The kids crack me up since they will all call out my name and wave whenever they see me not in the classroom, like they haven't seen me for a year or something. So funny!
Husband is keep busy. He should be interviewing for a promotion position at work sometime in the next month. Otherwise he's putting off buying that lawn mower ;) Not that I blame him though. I mowed grass once in high school as part of a service project. I'm good.
In other news, non-feed readers (if there are any) may notice a new badge. I'm pretty excited I figured out how to add that thing period! Way easier than I thought, by the way. Not worth the Google search. Anyway, it comes from My Happy House, a blog I recently started reading. She's on Week 2 of a 10-week cleaning challenge. Since that was part of my New Years non-Resolution, I figured a mid-year boost was in order. Obviously I'm starting a little late, but I think I can catch up. I think she's basing most of her steps on FlyLady. I've checked that out as well, but she just didn't do it for me. Here's to keeping this house cleaner than our apartment was!