Curtains

Yay, the curtains for the living room are coming next week! On Tuesday, actually, so only four more days to wait. They originally told us it could take 6-8 weeks or something like that but it's only been about 3 weeks--hooray! I hope I like 'em once they're in; I wasn't 100% sold on them but W. and the designer convinced me to go with it so we'll see. Even if I don't like them, I will make myself like them given what we spent!

The Secret to Workout Motivation

My husband is a genious. He's figured out the secret to consistently staying motivated to work out:

That's right, play video games *while* you're on the mini home stepper machine :P You can't see it because I couldn't get the pic at an angle where you could see the stepper and the TV, but he is indeed stepping up and down on a little machine "working out" while playing Gran Turismo.

Also pardon the lamp sans lampshade in the pic that's blocking the TV. Still haven't posted a new pic yet of the living room because, as you can see, it's still not totally done. Still need an entertainment unit so the TV can stop resting on my old coffee table and so Willy can have a nightstand again instead of using it to rest all the components on. Obviously still need lampshades to go with the lamps. And we did finally order some curtains for the windows but it'll be a few more weeks before those come in. Who knew, by the way, that curtains could be so expensive! *sigh* but this home and all its accoutrements (did I spell that right?) are what we've been penny pinching for all these years so we have to indulge ourselves a little, right?

For the time being, here's a pic of the table in the eat-in kitchen area. We got a counter-height

table, which is a lot of fun. Like our dining room table, this table also has a hidden butterfly leaf so the table opens up to a big square. We wanted the option of having more seating for all my family if we ever get around to hosting them all at the house. Half the family still hasn't seen our place!

Fun toys

Our favorite new toy is the GPS system my family bought us for Christmas. It's awesome! And definitely a neccesity around crazy roads-based-on-old-cow-paths Boston. We didn't see this gift coming at all; what a great surprise. Thanks, family!

I've definitely made more use of it than W. so far, but then again he seems to have a GPS built into his brain so he doesn't need this as much as I do. We looked at some of the integrated GPS systems when we were still shopping around for a car for me, but those cost about $2000 as an add-on, which is multiples more than the stand-alone units cost. And we can move the stand-alone unit between both our cars, which is nice. Woo-hoo, no more getting lost for me!

56 degrees in Boston...in January....

Today is Jan. 4, 2007 and I am blogging from Boston. It's bright, sunny, and in the mid- to high-50s here. What is wrong with this picture? Better yet, on Saturday it's forecasted to be in the 60s (but raining)! Craziness.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone! Sorry we haven't been around with any updates, but the holidays have been keeping us busy. Lots of fun events with family, visits with old friends, etc. We've probably gained about 10 lbs. each with all the food we've been eating (but I thought there were no calories at Christmastime?).


Here's the infamous tree, all decorated. Well, somewhat decorated anyway. We depended on borrowed ornaments from my family this year since we didn't have any of our own purchased yet. Turned out OK, if a little sparse.