Horror of Horrors!

I have nothing to read! I only have 2 novels in the house, and I just read both of them during the Washington trip. The other book I have is a career-related advice book, which I'm not finding particularly useful, so I'm not really reading it.

And I have a few magazines, which I've already read.

GAH!!!!!! I miss my books!

*whine*

La Maison

( Just rambling on about our house...blah blah blah )

Okay...enough rambling about something that only Lance and I really care about.

I bought a couple books today, although they won't last for long. Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (which I had never heard of before, but the cover and description of the book intrigued me) and Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which I know front, sideways, and backwards, but is always worth a re-read.

Signed up for the Da Vinci Expo trip next Saturday, but I have a feeling it will get cancelled. I'm #15 to sign up, and they need 30 people. But I was assured that my refund would be timely, and in cash, in case it is cancelled, and Andrea and I have plans to go there on our own just in case.

Anyway, I now have some housework to do (I always have housework to do) and Lance needs to get out and rake leaves. Our yard looks ridiculous right now, but I don't think either of us cares very much.

Know What's Fun?

Making a Target wishlist full of stuff we want/need for the house!

Kitchenaid mixer
Ice cream maker attachment for said mixer
Patio furniture
CD storage

Etc. etc. I'm still looking.

ETA: OMG...Home Depot has one too! Made of win!

If only I could figure out towels, bath mats, kitchen mats, shower curtains, etc. They have a great world traveler theme bath set, but it doesn't quite go in our hallway bath with the pink tiled countertop. I mean, the bath set is ivory and white, but it doesn't go with the pink and seafoam green geometric linoleum floor and the pink tiles (things we intend to change eventually).

And what is with the roosters? So much kitchen stuff with a rooster theme! We already have a rooster wallpaper border in the kitchen, and that is the first thing that will go! Our stuff isn't scheduled to arrive until December 21 and we close on the 14th, so we have a week to tear down wallpaper and paint before our stuff arrives. Unless our stuff arrives a bit earlier.

I want to paint the kitchen a light green color, but Lance thinks green is a weird color for the kitchen. He prefers all the walls to stay white. Boring, I say! Although I am willing to compromise and leave some of the rooms white. I was thinking about repainting the guest bath with white paint anyway. There is very little I can do with pink tile countertops. I was thinking of doing burgundy accents, because that's the color scheme used by the previous resident, so I already have some idea how it will look, but I'm not sure I like it with the floors.

Oh...and apropos of nothing...

But HEY BUCKEYES! HAHA! You're kicking some Badger ass! Once again, we rock!

Woot! Game over! 38 to 17!