April 2012

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Home Improvement store, here we come

April 28, 2012 in House and Garden, The Great Outdoors | Permalink

Okay, I am totally getting into this home improvement stuff.  I had no idea how much fun it would be to fix this place up.  When you have lived in barracks for several years, decorating is the last thing on your mind but I’m rather enjoying this.

Got the windows measured in the living room for the blinds, want to check out some paint for just about every room and even going to price some lumber for the deck.  Probably won’t get to the deck until a little later in the spring though.  Nothing like a nice cup of coffee in the mornings out on the deck.

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Cooking and cleaning

April 22, 2012 in Eats, Family and Friends, House and Garden | Permalink

Since the weather is so bad today, we spent most of our time cooking and cleaning. I am sure that it was the last thing I wanted to do, but we got a lot done. The house needed a good several hours of work. It was made a little easier by the fact that we had a nice roast in the Crockpot that gave off an appealing aroma.

Now that everything is done we are relaxing and getting ready for the week ahead. At least we will have a nice clean house to come home too.

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What a great weekend

April 16, 2012 in House and Garden, The Great Outdoors, Travel | Permalink

Decided to take my lady away for the weekend.  Spring is popping out pretty nice now and I thought a weekend get away might just help.  I think I finally made it out of the dog house too.  This time, I asked her what she wanted to do and where she wanted to go.

Thank God she came up with a beach trip.  Yeah it’s too cold for swimming or anything like that but nothing beats spending time at the beach.  We did some shopping and even picked up some things to help decorate the house.  I must admit, it did need a bit of a ladies touch.  Especially now that there are two guys living there.

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Good news

April 9, 2012 in Employment, House and Garden, The Great Outdoors | Permalink

Well we all got some good news at work today.  Seems things are picking up a bit and there will be no more layoffs.  I love the sound of that.  I did have a list of things I was planning on doing around the house like painting the bathroom, installing some mini-blinds in the living room and building a deck out back.

One thing I love about my landlord, she is willing to pay for any materials I need to fix the place up.  Since she told me that, my list got longer.  Looking forward to that deck for sure now.

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No April Fools here

April 1, 2012 in Family and Friends, House and Garden | Permalink

Well just because it’s April first doesn’t mean there’s an April Fool around.  Spent all day yesterday unloading my buddies belongings from the trailer he rented and now trying to get everything situated.  The only problem is he has as much stuff as I do if not more.

Leave it to a woman to come in and try to direct where everything should go.  Yeah I know she means well but guys have a different approach to home improvement and decorating than women do.  If we put it down somewhere, it usually ends up looking just fine right where it is.  Well until we finally decide to put it away that is.

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