Factual Friday

So today's post is going to be all over the place, just a heads up...

Happy Friday the 13th!!!

• I found this awesome quote:

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.
-- Author Unknown

-it speaks to me on sooo many different levels!!

• The weather is GORGEOUS!!! I am absolutely in love with it!! Although there are chances for thunderstorms.. it is sunny and shall I say HOT!? It is supposed to get up to 26 and feel like 33... which means it is humid and that would be why we have the chance for storms! (Oh and remember American readers, that those temps are in Celsius... otherwise you might actually think I am a crazy Canadian!)
• The floor is more than 1/4 of the way done in the mudroom! Poor M is working long days and then continuing to work in the mudroom when he gets home! But it does look super awesome!! I am hoping the mudroom reno will be complete by this weekend! Then we just have to make a plan for that closet!
• I cannot seem to find/pick a fabric for curtains in the mudroom or a wardrobe that I love. I will also be needing a long bench! But at least the renovation will be done right? Shopping would be considered the easy part!
• Um how hard was it to watch Private Practice last night?! Just sayin'.
• Hopefully M will be playing ball tonight, weather depending once again!! This time the game is scheduled in our village, which is super awesome!!
• Want to talk about savings? Okay, twist my arm!! Guess how much money I saved by calling Bell one more time? $40 more dollars a month, plus I am now getting 1500 minutes free long distance to Canada and US, plus 60GB of bandwidth extra per month, in addition to my extra savings previously mentioned! I signed a one year contract to staying will Bell, because I will be honest, I don't plan on switching!! How awesome are those deals!?
• I am soo happy Blogger is finally back up and working!!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!

So What Wednesday/What I Am Lovin'

Yup, totally combining two great things today on one blog post!!

Here is So What Wednesday:

So What:

• if I left my good edging paint brush outside and it got rained on! It wasn't supposed to rain!
• if because I left that brush outside, I was not able to completely finish the second coat edges... I did what I could with what I did have!
• I called up Bell last night and ripped into them for taking away my CW11 channel right before One Tree Hill started...  and they did nothing about it!
• I called Bell back and change my whole programming, got the channels I wanted and ended up paying less!! You really just have to talk to the right people!
• if because I was on the phone pretty much all night, I was unable to watch any of the shows that I wanted to! But I did get the CW11 back!
• if I managed to PVR all of my shows last night, except for Glee! I will have to watch that one online!
• if I need a hair cut, but just have not found the time to do it!
• if I am sick of my house looking like a bomb went off it! Thank you renovation!
• if my dining room has turned into my closet right now! Easy access I suppose!

Okay I am done.... now let's move on to the things I am loving!!!

Pop on over to Jamie's blog and tag up!

I am loving the weather today!!! It is getting warmer and warmer!

I am loving the guest post I have planned for tomorrow!! Make sure you check back!!

I am loving the signs of spring, soo many trees have started to blossom already!! Truly amazing!! (Although I am allergic)

I am loving the progress we are making in our new mudroom/walk-in-closet. M is doing such a good job!

I love the new paint colors!! I cannot wait to reveal the room when it is done!! I am picking up the flooring on my way home from work tonight!

What are you loving today?!

Topics on Tuesday (With Tail Wagging)

I think I will start this post of with:

The topic this week: TREATS! (a word that you cannot say or spell in our house)

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In this picture, in order to get their ears to perk like this:

we used LIVER treats! Those are HOT commodities in our household! In fact when we take them to pet smart they forgo the toys and hit up the treat isle and sit in front of the liver treats!

But normally we give them milk bones! Every now and then they will be spoiled with a pigs ear... (EeWW) or a rawhide.

We do not feed our dogs table scraps at all! They will get the odd fruit and vegetable, but away from the kitchen/dining area.

Now on to the topics on Tuesday:

• I am reminding everyone to watch The Voice tonight! You will not regret it!! Loving this show!
• Also One Tree Hill is apparently a new one!!
• Our mudroom is almost completely painted! I just have to do the second coat on the edges, but the rest of the walls are done!! I will be working on that, while M preps the floor for the flooring coming tomorrow. He is hoping to take down more of the false wall in the closet!!
• DWTS: I love Mark and Chelsea!!! But Hines and Kim are sneaking up there too, along with Romeo and Chelsea!! I am kind-of getting sick of Kristie, but I love Maks.
• Did anyone watch the new episodes of Quints By Surprise? This show is too cute and waay better than Kate +8!
• Loving this WARM weather!!! It is pretty awesome!!

Have a great Tuesday!!!

Manic Monday

It's a manic Monday again bloggers!! This weekend was jam packed with sooo many things!!

Operation: Renovation is well on it's way now!!! What is going on? Well... we are moving the office downstairs to where the laundry room is and the laundry room is moving to where the office was!! We are creating a mudroom in the old office because we have double doors in there, and let's be honest, my husband works in mud all day and tracks it into our great room right now, so it would be nice to a have a room designated just for him!!

Friday night: Our piano was moved from the office out to the hobby shop!! It made it there pretty safely, we only lost one caster!! M didn't end up playing ball, but they practiced, while us girls drank strawberry limeade and played dominoes!

Saturday morning M and I got up and headed right into town in hopes to pick up the stuff he needed for plumbing the washing machine and to order our floors. However, they did not have our floor in stock, but will be here on Wednesday, but they did give us a sample and they had everything Mike thought he needed!!

We also stopped in town to get gas. I am telling you that they need to start lowering the gas prices because people are CRANKY!!! Here is what went down:  We pulled up to the pumps (no lines or anything) and the old man gets out and says to Mike "hey dickhead, there is a line you know) Mike just looked at him and ignored him, I went in the store to grab some Sprite and then I guess while I was in, the guy said "what you got nothing to say... good I'll beat your face in if you did" so Mike said "if that is what will make you feel better, come on over here and hit me, go ahead, I won't stop you!" The guy looked at Mike like he was crazy... I came out of the store and he was still cursing, so I said " You know what, if we knew there was line, which I don't see one, we would have waited in it" and he says to me "well that is all he had to say" I respond with "well there is no line... and as for him responding to you, why would he respond to someone who started a conversation with "hey dickhead"... I know I wouldn't!" they guy says "well that is what makes him a dickhead" so I said "takes one to call one" he looked at me and shut right up.

K came out and helped M with the electrical work. They didn't get the plumbing done, but no big deal! We decided we should lay the floors first anyways!! After K left, we decided to take a stab at the closet. I am going to have to take pictures of this to explain it. Basically, we have a stair case between the new mudroom and our master bedroom. Our master bedroom does NOT have a closet right now, but the mudroom does, so we got looking and realized there was a false wall in between the closet wall and our bedroom wall. We decided to make a walk in closet from our bedroom by just putting a door in and keep access to the mudroom! So that way when I take clothes out of the dryer, I can just put them away in the closet if that is where they go! 

Saturday night we went and picked up our paint!! Soo excited to see these colors on the wall!! Purple and light lime green, almost the color of the inside of a lime). We went for dinner afterwards with M's parents and then hit up Dairy Queen! I would have to recommend the new rolo blizzard, DELICIOUS!!! When we got home M did some mudding on the walls and then we relaxed!!

Saturday night I slept like hell, yet still managed to wake up early on Sunday morning, so M and I got started on painting!!! Yup the walls are Lime Twist and Purple I LOVE it!!! It looks great! We only managed to get one coat done throughout the whole day! We left for brunch at my sisters around 11:00 to celebrate Mother's Day! I even managed to snap a few photos!

We did some groceries and bought a new light fixture, which M installed in the mudroom and wow, it is soooo much brighter!!!

The weather was fantastic this weekend!! And it should be today too!!

I will be painting the day away again today and will be hosting girls night tonight!

How was your weekend?

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Factual Friday!

Wow, never thought I would see Friday this week... it has been one long busy week!! I have worked a full work week and I can tell, not that I am complaining, but I was kind-of getting used to having 2 days off!! Oh well, the weekend is here and it is going to be just as busy!!

But let's start with today! Today it is freakin' raining AGAIN! It is such a tease to have nice sunny days only to be followed by more rain! M was soo excited to have worked a full day yesterday, instead of being in the shop! In case you forget, we have a family business that does farm drainage and it is around this time now that M works CRAZY hours, but this rain is preventing that for now. Usually he will be gone from dawn till dusk!

Hopefully the rain will clear up for this evening, we have a piano to move so we can get started on our mudroom reno! We will be moving it to the hobby shop! We went to pick up our flooring last night and sure enough they were closed!! Soo frustrating!! So I guess we will get that this weekend now! M is also supposed to play his first ball game tonight in the men's league! I love watching him play ball, but I also can't wait to get started in a couple of weeks for our co-ed lob ball!

Saturday M will probably work in the morning and then he will get started on operation mudroom in the afternoon. He is hoping to get the plumbing done for our laundry hook ups! I will empty the closet in the morning because we will creating a master walk-in closet, which I am thrilled to bits about! As much as I hate the actual renovation process, I love the finished product!! I am just a planner and I am not the one with the plans for these rooms, I just come up with ideas and M does it (I try to help out where I can, like with painting..)! That is how we work well together! Then Saturday night we are taking M's parents out for dinner to celebrate Mother's Day and Ron's Birthday!!!

Sunday morning we have brunch at my sister's for my Mom and that is all we have on the go!

Oh and Monday....... I am off and super pumped about it!!

A few other things on my mind:

• Why the heck will my music on my blog not play in Canada! That is just sooo stupid, which also means that I cannot hear the music others have on their blogs either! Does anyone know of another site/widget that will work?
• My grandma is back in the hospital!! She is battling too many things at once!

• Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's and Mom's To Be!
• My thoughts and prayers go out to those who are struggling to become a Mom. May God bless you and your hearts and give you strength, as you are reminded of your struggles on Mother's Day.
• I will be hosting my very first Guest Blogger soon!! Stay tuned!!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!