Workin', workin'

I have been SO incredibly busy lately. John and I have been working on several projects around the house:

• We finally broke down and got ourselves a Blu Ray DVD player and got it installed in the living room. What was the first thing I bought? Supernatural season one, of course! LOL! Now if I just had time to sit down and WATCH it, especially that new Devil's Roadmap feature, that would be nice!

• Our entire kitchen is white. White tile floor, white appliances, white cabinets, white walls. So we decided to paint one wall a terra cotta color, as a feature wall. The color turned out beautiful, but it was a pain to paint. It took three coats and John managed to get more paint on the ceiling and adjacent walls than anything. [shakes head]. So it took me two days of work to go back with a small brush and primer to clean everything up. Finished on Saturday and now everything looks really sharp.

• We've been having problems with our front door and screen door. The screen door doesn't close properly and the weatherstripping around the front door is completely shot. So we spent the weekend running around to every Lowes, Menards and Home Depot in the area trying to find a new bottom for the screen door (it's cracked, which is causing it to not close properly) and new weatherstripping. But guess what? The door is so old that they no longer make replacement parts for it. Just freaking great. Nice of my landlord to leave us with a piece of shit door. There's nothing we can do about the door bottom, but the guy at Menards sold us a different kind of weatherstripping that should work. We'll see. It's three different pieces, two of which we got installed yesterday, but the third needs to be sawed down to the correct door height, which John's going to do today.

• The heat here in Chicago this summer has been BRUTAL. The humidity is so high that it's like trying to breathe through water outside. And the temperatures themselves are ridiculous, up in the 90's for several weeks now and it'll hit 100 by Friday. The upper floor of the house, where the bedrooms and my office are, is so hot, even with the air conditioning running non-stop. John got up in the attic on Friday and realized that there's about zero insulation up there. So off we went to buy several rolls over the weekend. John started installing it this morning and he called to tell me he got two of the five rolls installed before he had to stop, the heat was just too much for him up there, even at 7 o'clock this morning. Hopefully he'll get the rest up this weekend.

• My office is in need of some straightening up and cleaning, especially the multiple CD holders that I have. They're all full and I've been putting new ones I've been making up on top of my computer center. It's a mess and the cats keep jumping up there and knocking everything over. So I sat down on Friday night and took every CD rack and went through every disc. I found dics in there I made back in 2003! LOL! Yeah, it was time to clean things up. :-) I ended up throwing away so many old discs that I didn't need anymore that I nearly broke the trash bag from the weight. :-) I also found about a dozen DVDs that I'd made on my printable DVDs that I never got around to actually printing on, so I got all those taken care of. In the end the office looks more organized, even if I've still got more to do.

I just feel that I've been running non-stop like a chicken with my head cut off lately and I'd really just like to stop and take a breath. [sigh]

Summertime TV

Sat down last night to watch TV with a bowl of a brand new flavor of ice cream I picked up at the store. See, my favorite cake is red velvet and I nearly fell over when I saw red velvet ICE CREAM on the shelf. And oh my God, is it good! It's seriously like eating a piece of cake! Yum!

So here's what I watched...

• White Collar - another great episode! Thankfully my fears about what happened at the end of last week's episode were put to rest at the beginning of last night's. Whew. I was hoping something different was going on from what we were led to believe.

"I've never lied to you." Wow, awesome scene there with Peter and Neal.

I LOVED Neal and Diana paired up and Peter and Mozzie. "That's a no to the champagne bath?" Ha!

I'm so glad that Diana is back on the show. I really liked her and couldn't stand Lauren. And finding out about Diana's background last night was unexpected, but really nice. I hope we get to meet her girlfriend someday. Great scene where both she and Neal opened up to each other. And the secret art? Neat!

"Aww, you were worried." Ha! Man, those were some wicked boots Diana was wearing!

And the end, where Diana gives Neal the photo, much to Peter's horror? ROTFL! Yep, she got him back for the hooker thing. :-) Man, I love this show!


• Thanks to my lovely friend adelheide, I got to see Jeffrey Dean Morgan on the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson yesterday. And OH. MY. GOD. I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe! And then it got even wilder when Jeff decided to stay when Mary Lynn Rajskub came on, and the next thing you know, she and Jeff are just chatting away, leaving Craig sitting there! LOL! Then it turned into a "three-way" and got even crazier. I seriously haven't laughed that hard in AGES.


• Watched the second episode of The Glades last night that I'd recorded. Thankfully the main character, Jim, wasn't nearly as much of an ass as he was in the pilot. But on the other hand the writing was much weaker. I figured it out pretty darn quick. The bright spot in this show for me has actually become the intern/reptile kid, Daniel! He's awesome! A total geek, crazy smart and just really darn likable. LOVED it when Jim gave him the handcuffs at the end. :-)

I wanna know about you!

Snagged from sprnaturalgrl 

I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my flist, so let me know with whom I'm friends!

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?