Doing Stuff #4

I finally got around to painting my room today. I bought the paint shortly after I moved to Arizona, but I never had the motivation to get it done until today. I dragged Martin upstairs to entertain me while I worked.

It was a long project. We ended up watching Peggy Sue Got Married, an episode or two of Psych, Annie Get Your Gun, and Newsies. Martin only got moderately annoyed with me when I started to not only sing along, but also to quote the characters' lines before they got to them.

Please don't be duped into thinking Martin helped at all. She mostly lounged in my bed and mocked me while I toiled away.

As punishment for this, I am posting pictures of her. I would have just posted the one to demonstrate how unhelpful she was, but this is the best picture of the finished project, so it is getting posted too.

For the most part, I like the way it turned out. (Except a teeny-tiny part of me that is convinced it I chose a horrible, terrible, awful shade of blue. But it is a small part.)

Once I get some stuff on the walls, it will tame down the sheer blue-ness of the room. Because right now, even if it is a good color, it's really blue. When my bed is unmade, the blue sheets do not help. Maybe this will be good motivation for me to keep my bed made.

But, realistically... probably not. :)



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This concludes my posts about doing stuff. I hope you have enjoyed them. Tune in next week (or month...?) for more exciting adventures! Same blog time, same blog channel!

Doing Stuff #3

Martin and I have been putting our blender to good use battling the Arizona heat. We make frozen hot chocolate and watermelon-strawberry smoothies, and sometimes random milkshakes with whatever we want in them (usually strawberries for Martin and some combination of peanut butter and chocolate for me).


The milkshakes don't get a picture because we don't have cute glasses big enough to hold them in their entirety. They always end up being enormous. And we always feel sick afterwords. Turns out sometimes our blender is bigger than our stomachs.

Doing Stuff #2

I got to babysit a couple of my nieces this last week while my brother and his wife got in a temple trip. Being the awesome aunt I am, I magically got the youngest one to fall asleep instantly. I also let the older one watch Dora the Explorer and eat all the cookies she wanted.

Turns out she wanted quite a few.

I am the best aunt ever.

Doing Stuff #1

So I've been doing some stuff lately. I wrote out the hugest, longest, most picture-filled blog post ever, but I decided to break it up into four bite-sized pieces. Please enjoy.



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First off, I threw a baby shower for my little sister. It kind of made me a little crazy, but turned out pretty awesome. I was mostly excited about making fun food.

But Martin helped me to come up with some fun games and decorations too. This is me measuring Faybe at the nail-biting conclusion of the traditional "Guess How Fat She Is!" game.


(In case you are confused by the angle of that picture, she was satisfactorily fat.)

Sunday School

What I heard: "Sandwiches on the sea shore."

What they said: "Sand which is on the sea shore."

I didn't really hear anything after that. I was too busy thinking about picnics on the beach.

We've Got Cabin Fever!

So my mom and I have been staying with my grandparents for a week now. My mom tends to get a little stir crazy when she stays with her parents, often dragging me with her so she can get out and DO something. So I wasn't especially surprised to hear her yesterday, making dinner plans with someone on the phone. I assumed it was with some old acquaintance still living in the area.

And in a way, I was right.

Me: Hot date?

Mom: Yep.

Me: Oh yeah? Who with?

Mom: Steve.

Me: ...Steve?

Mom: Yeah, Steve [Last name].

Me: ...The guy you were engaged to before you married Daddy?

Mom: Yep, that's the one.

Me: And... you're having dinner with him?

Mom: Yeah.

Me: ...

Mom: What? His wife will be there.

Me: Okay, that's even weirder.