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  • It’s Nice To Share

    As you probably know already, David and I are relatively new homeowners. We bought our house in December 2008 and moved in this past January. It was in great condition, but since it was built in 1983 and an older couple owned it before us, not everything was quite to our taste. Eventually every room will need to be redecorated, but right now we’re just starting a little at a time.

    Although I’m not 8 months pregnant, I have been feeling the nesting instinct. Maybe it’s just a female thing? I don’t know, but lately I’ve been addicted to watching HGTV and scouring the internet for home decor and furniture ideas. I wanted to share just a few of the resources I’ve found with you.

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    1. Young House Love – I’m addicted to this blog because it is written by a young married couple (John and Sherry) almost exactly my age who have totally redone their 50-year-old ranch house after two years. The blog has become Sherry’s full-time job and they now offer design services for others as well. Every Monday there is a great giveaway, and they are extremely responsive to readers. I love their taste and know that I’ll be using tons of their ideas in my own home because they are young and know what it’s like to be on a budget!

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    2. Bower Power – Katie writes about life in general but focuses on the home. She is also young and a somewhat newlywed, and it’s always great to connect with other people in my similar walk of life. Her blog is full of ideas, and I especially love her humor. I think that we could be BFFs if we met in person, but unfortunately she lives in Atlanta. That, and the fact that we haven’t even met online yet, considering I’m not extremely assertive in my blog reading habits. Hmm, hope she isn’t creeped out by this!

    3. Houzz – You really just have to check this out yourself. It has tons of pictures and ideas, and if you set up an account you can save pictures to customizable “ideabooks” of your own. They have a feature where they interview design bloggers and show pictures of the blogger’s home. At the end of each interview there is a giveaway, and I’m excited to say that I am the most recent winner! I won this:

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    Wouldn’t it be super cute to put in an office, or eventually a nursery? I’m so excited! This giveaway was chosen by…

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    4. Ish & Chi – I just started following this blog after I saw Vivian’s interview on Houzz, and I am hooked. It has a perfect mix of pictures, ideas, and inspiration. Plus, she lives in Sydney, so that makes her extra cool.

    I hope you enjoy these links! Let me know what you think, and if you have any similar blogs that you stalk, please share!

  • A Clean Slate

    I’ve obviously changed the look of things around here, and the reason is that my old design was entirely outdated. For one thing, I was sick of looking at the picture of myself in the header. Also, it said “engagement edition 2008” when I’ve been married for six months now. And finally, the look of the site didn’t really reflect my preferences anymore.

    So my brother is working on a new design (which I love), but since he does have a real job I am not his top priority. I don’t know why not, but try as I may I could not get him to change his mind. Anyway, instead of bugging him to death, I just decided to mix things up myself until he has the time to finish the redesign. Right now it’s pretty boring, but I’m working on it. I’m anything but a web design master, so bear with me.

  • Back and On the Attack

    Hello again!

    Did you miss me? I missed you. Seriously, even though I’ve been blogging for about 8 years now, I didn’t know how important it was to me until I had absolutely no access to my blog. I don’t consider myself a writer, but apparently I like to write. If you consider this writing.

    Anyway, most of the technical difficulties have been worked out, and now my brother is very diligently working on a long overdue redesign of this site, considering how the header still says “engagement edition” and I’ve been married for five months now. I can’t bug him about it TOO much though, because he does have an actual job that he has to do. Somehow, I’m not the priority. Hm.

    Obviously, life has been happening to me during this forced blog fast. Some of it I will be talking to you about soon. But now, it is past my bedtime. One more thing though: my husband is having surgery tomorrow on his hip, and it is very important for a number of reasons. So if you pray, please pray for him. If you don’t pray, well, give it a try – you might find that it changes you.

    I’m so excited to be back. Thanks for hanging in there with me.

  • Technical Difficulties

    Please bear with me as this website undergoes some changes. I’ve been having some difficulty in the technical arena and as a result I am migrating from one hosting company to another. Once that is resolved hopefully the software issue can get fixed and then I will be able to post pictures again. THEN the new design will go up, which is way overdue! I am very excited about it, but until this all gets worked out posting will be light. I’m not anticipating that it will take TOO long, but who really knows?

    There are some good things and bad things happening in my life right now, and I hope to share them with you soon. In the meantime, my birthday is tomorrow and I would love for you to give me the gift of commenting and letting me know that you’re still there! Or, comment and let me know that you’re reading if you never have. It would make my day! Thanks, friends.

  • I Guess They Trust Me

    Well I’ve been trying for days to post pictures from our new house and our wedding. After trying on three different computers and three different browsers and still getting faced with a blank page, I called my brother, my web-design guru. Turns out something has gone wrong with my software, so he will be fixing it soon hopefully!

    So I decided that just because I can’t put up pictures doesn’t mean I can’t write about SOMETHING. So here is something. I have been a nurse for about eight months now, and my director has asked me to precept (train) a new employee. Some have told me that I must be doing a great job to warrant this trust, but I personally think it’s more the case that we are running out of experienced nurses that can precept – we have had a lot of people leave for other jobs lately, for various reasons.

    My director had told me the nurse’s name that I would be training, that she was younger than I, and that she had graduated around the same time as I did and had been working at another job up until this point. Today she let me know that the nurse would be coming by the unit tomorrow and I’d get to meet her.

    Well, she showed up today, and as soon as I saw her, I recognized her! It’s an acquaintance I went to school with, recently married with a new last name, who is extremely friendly and who I always thought would be a really great nurse. This relieved a lot of my anxiety, because I am unsure of my ability to make a good first impression. Also, she is really easy to talk to. We’ve already had a phone conversation, which is crazy for me because I’m a chronic phone avoider.

    So the moral of the story is that I’m actually kind of excited about this now instead of nervous. I’m still not that experienced, but I know that the rest of our staff will help me whenever I need it.