What you’re waiting to see.

#171

Still Working On These Projects, Secretly Hoping It Doesn’t Snow Too Quickly

1. Kitchen walls.
2. Guest Bathroom.
3. Ripping out basement fireplace.
4. MK’s office walls.
5. Reframing garage, moving utility room, making new bedroom.

Let me break it down.

#170

From Cute And Harmless To Over It:

1. First, a blog post is written, forever ago.
2. Then you see a big spike in blog traffic.
3. You realize the traffic is due to more recent news.
4. You consider updating the post to make it relevant.
5. You realize that would be horrible since you liked the original post but are not as big a fan of the person anymore, and that contradicts your post about being less involved in pop culture.

Breaking barriers is scary.

#169

Five Crazy Things I’ve Done For/Because Of Yoga:

1. I’m eating quinoa, even though I’m still not sure what exactly it is.
2. I’m trying to invert my body into poses I can’t believe.
3. Adamant about hiking the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim.
4. Letting so much not stress me out it seems foreign.
5. Trying to keep putting myself out there and taking giant leaps of faith.

But sometimes ignorance really is bliss. 

#168

Five Things I Really Don’t Understand:

1. There’s a guy that wants to burn a what?
2. It’s how cold here already?
3. The cable said it was going HD, then cut off, then some stuff came back. Huh?
4. Ron Artest.
5. How I’m so lucky!

But then you would have robbed me.

#167

Five Reasons I Was Too Busy To Blog All Week:

1. We went on vacation!
2. We were in San Diego! 
3. We didn’t do any house work!
4. We were having too much ‘fun in the sun’!
5. Happy hour lasts 24/7 here!

Reality check. Tell you more Monday.

#166

Five Embarrassing Thoughts After Seeing Yourself ‘Acting’:

1. You can’t act. It’s just you being you.
2. How do they do it?
3. You are a goober.
4. Where on earth did those facial movements come from? 
5. Do I really sound like that?!??!

About the reality of housework.

#165

Five Things They Don’t Tell You To Pay Attention To When Working Outside, That They Should, But Instead They Make It Look Like Light Easy Breezy Work:

1. Ants crawling in your paint.
2. Bugs crawling on you if you sit still too long.
3. Freak storms messing with your work.
4. Forgetting you’re outside in the sun getting cooked.
5. What to do if a Momma deer and her two babies walk through your back yard, and you think how lovely it is, and then suddenly they are going to the bathroom in your back yard, and your back yard stinks. Because that can happen.

Similar theme to last week.

#164

Five Ways Nothing Says August Like:

1. Buying a fireplace for your house.
2. Dumping and selling your hot tub.
3. Planning Christmas vacations.
4. Cold nights. 
5. Breaking out the sweaters already!

But it just started.

#163

Five Signs Summer Is Going By Too Quick:

1. My parents wedding anniversary always reminds me it’s about to be fall.
2. Getting ready for ski season already.
3. Labor Day weekend plans.
4. People talking about Halloween!
5. The kids getting ready to go back to school.

Somebody’s been a lazy blogger.

#160

Five New Things (Mostly Silly House Crap) I’ve Done This Week:

1. Real wall repair.
2. Mountain biking.
3. Complicated fancy mail stuff.
4. Relocated an entire living room.
5. Designed a kitchen the way they do on TV.

#161

Five Small Town Things To Get Used To After Living In A Big City:

1. Choosing between three places for a night out.
2. Horrible drivers.
3. The WalMart renovation being the big news.
4. Everyone knowing everyone.
5. Neighborly neighbors.

#162

Five Ways To Distract Your Husband From Housework:

1. Good tv.
2. Food.
3. Puppy eyes.
4. Trips to Vegas.
5. Yard work.