sunburn

Yesterday was spent in York fishing with my uncle - we didn't catch much - he caught a 20" striper, a crab, a skate, and a lobster! We didn't keep any of it - we thought about keeping the lobster, but the poor thing only had one arm. The boy caught a crab, and I caught - NOTHING. Well, I did catch a sunburn. A small one, only where it seems we missed the sunscreen. The boy used spray sunscreen on my back, and it is obvious where it missed! It's not too bad - I've had worse.
Last night we went to my aunt's church for a roast beef dinner. It was delicious.

Today's plans - clean and pack some more of the apartment. Hopefully I will get to grading some of the papers I have stacked up as well.

Kitchen makeover

I bought this el-cheapo shelf at KMart the other night. We put some of our appliances on it to get them out of the cabinets, so that they are easier to reach. We rearranged some of the stuff in the cabinets from the other room, so now we have most of our kitchen stuff actually IN the kitchen. We've only been living here for two years now...geez...

poor neglected blog

aww...poor blog! I have ignored you! I didn't mean it, I swear!

I have been busy (sorta)

Last Saturday was spent with the NVCB. A parade and two concerts (including the YDDB), my lips were DEAD at the end of the night!!!

Sunday the boy and I went to church at Groveland Congregational Church, where we are going to have our wedding ceremony.

Monday I worked around the apartment for a bit, then went to the last yoga class until August. :-(

Tuesday was spent around the house, where I made a REALLY yummy tuna salad. It was totally different than normal tuna salad. It's mostly rice. Try it! It's good and light for a summer dinner! (easy to make too)

Wednesday the boy and I went to Cambridge to visit Greg (who was house-sitting for an aunt) and his gf Debbie. It rained lightly off and on for most of the afternoon, but we still had fun. In between the showers we grilled up some "rollers and sliders" as John would call them. That's hotdogs and hamburgers in case you were wondering. We also got some frisbee in, until Debbie threw it over the fence....we got it back, but the rain stopped us from continuing. :-)
We played Nintendo Wii - my arm was SORE the next day!! (btw - I STINK at Wii baseball, I'm pretty good at bowling and golf) Then we played some cards, which was a lot of fun. We ended up watching the fireworks from an upstairs bedroom (all four of us were crammed around one window, it was hilarious) because it was still raining at fireworks time, and we didn't feel like getting soaked.

We spent the night in Cambridge (and BOY was my stomach sorry that morning) and we took the T back home. We came home and spent the rest of the day hanging out in the apartment, napping and watching TV.

Friday (finally caught up to today) I am still trying to clean up and organize around here. I bought a shelf (nothing special) for the kitchen so I can put some of my appliances on it so that they are more accessible. I made a kick butt pizza for dinner. I used Pillsbury pizza dough, and made a pepperoni and chicken garlic sausage pizza. We had some pepperjack cheese that I grated onto the pizza with the mozzarella. It was yummy!

I've also been crocheting a lot too. I can't post the picture of my latest creation until I give it to the person tomorrow (I don't wanna ruin the surprise). The other things I am working on I can't put on the blog either, because I am making some gifts, so I can't put them online without giving away the surprise of it. If you email me, I'll show you pics (as long as YOU'RE not the one I'm making it for!!) ;-)

Tomorrow I'm heading up to to York to see my aunt, stopping at my mom's on the way to drop off/pick up some stuff. It should be a fun day! :-)

house cleaning

Here are some things I hung on my wall while cleaning the apartment Monday. The fan came from my mom's house, and is now hanging in my hallway. The picture I bought at a flea market in the fall, and just now got around to hanging in the dining room.

What happened to peace and quiet???

All I wanted was a peaceful, quiet Saturday after a very very long week. But no...I was woken up at 9:00 to the unending, loud, shaking the apartment construction of the neighbors upstairs. I don't know what they are doing, but they have been doing it for the past 7 hours...

It's starting to peeve me off...

grrr....

When will we be able to afford a house again?????

Our new living room

The boy and I spent at least an hour of New Year's Eve rearranging the living room furniture, and here is the result:

We moved our couch across the room, the loveseat forward, creating a space behind it to put our shoes, etc. It seems to have made our living room a bit larger.

Our Christmas Tree

This is our Christmas tree this year.

I bought it today at KMart. I dragged it into the car, and into the apartment, and put the whole thing together. I plugged it in, and half the lights didn't light up, so, I packed it all back up after spending a few hours trying to figure it out, finding the bulb that was smashed (and emitted a few sparks), and cursing a few times. I dragged the box back to my car, and back into KMart. No hassle, they brought me another one, and helped me get it into my car. Then I dragged it back out of my car, and up the stairs to the apartment. I set it all back up again, and VOILA!!!! it all lit up. The boy came home, and we decorated it. It is glorious.

In order to completely understand why I would put up with all this, you have to see the tree we had last year...

Doesn't that just explain it all????????