The Ring

I can still remember the day when I took my wife, then fiance, to go ring shopping. I remember looking at all the different rings, their different styles, their shapes, their different sizes of certified diamonds. They make it seem so complex and confusing to buy a wedding ring. I guess if you are planning on wearing the same ring for the rest of your life, you need to find the one that you would be happy with the rest of your life.

Measure First

I started measuring the other day on how many square feet occupies our front room and the kitchen. We're not planning on a huge remodel next year. Nothing that would involve replacing the sinks with copper sinks or anything. We are planning on just replacing the carpet in the front room and the linoleum in the kitchen with new hardwood floors. Both of those rooms have the same flooring as they did when the house was built 15 years ago. If there is any money left over after the tax return, we are hoping to replace the carpet in the rest of the house, too.

Back To The Grind

I swear the weekend always seems to take it's time getting here and then once it is here, it can't seem to get over fast enough. It reminds me a lot of when my aunts and uncles on my dad's side would get together on Memorial Day every year. They would take forever to get to our house. Then, in the mix of a couple of hours, they would hurry to the graveyard and then hurry and have a picnic, and then take off again. the weekend reminds me of that. We wait and toil for the weekend to get here. Then, once it is here, it's gone. There should be more weekends and less work.

Ah, The Teenage Years

I had terrible acne as a kid. I still have scars around my mouth where the acne was the worst. I have patches around my mouth that can't grow facial hair as a result of the acne I had. I was told as a kid that the best acne treatment is to wash your face every day. As a teenager working in a fast food restaraunt, I had two things going against me as far as not having a greasy face. I think no matter how much you wash your face as a teenager, you are still going to break out. Dang hormones.

Commercials

We recently killed our satellite subscription. We were down to only watching about 10 channels on a regular basis and paying for 50. Plus, we get most of the channels we watched for free because they are broadcasted. One thing we have noticed and love to listen to are the drug commercials. Their nothing like a phenphedrine review or anything, but I think they come close. They spend about 10 to 15 seconds stating what the drug fixes and then the rest of the commercial talking about what the drug may break. My wife and I just think that is too funny.

Remodel Needed

We really want to remodel our kitchen someday. When that day comes, it's going to be a major remodel. The kitchen hasn't been updated in years, outside of some new paint. We really want to replace the flores and the counter tops. We're not going to do anything really fancy like zero radius sinks or anything. We just want to update the kitchen and get it into the 21st century. Most of the kitchen is still in the 80's.

Family Moving, Sort Of

The last couple of days I have been helping my father-in-law move some of his stuff out of his house. He is losing his house and just wants to find a place for him, which will probably mean an apartment. He needs some space to store some of the stuff that is at the house. So, I volunteered to store all his tools and camping gear at our house. He said we can use any of it we want. What I worry about is that we will be holding onto this stuff forever. Beleive me, I don't want to have a packed house unless the stuff packed in the house is all mine or my family's.