{Cooking} Nerd Alert

Excited about these bad boys coming to town soon. Thanks, Mom!!!! 

PS They won't match my kitchen and I don't care. Because. They're. BLUE. BLUE!!!

PPS  After writing this post, they arrived at my Mom's house!  One step closer to me!

PPPS  Apparently you can't put things surrounded by "<" and ">" because they get mistaken for HTML and Blogger just eats them.  Title fixed!

Our Office Space

The crown jewel to our winter break was finishing adding popcorn to the ceiling and then painting the room.  AND adding this spiffy new ceiling fan.  It's quiet.  And effective.  And pretty.  And I'm done rambling about a ceiling fan now.

When I went to bed last night (why yes, we did take this project up to the last minute...thank you for noticing!), this is how the office looked.

Very important side story:  Do you see that glass and metal desk behind Jon?  What about the drafting desk at Jon's feet?  It turns out that those are not very useful when you have no hardware to them.  Jon finished painting Sunday night and we were excited and ready to move furniture in.  We brought in the glass desk, unpacked it, and realized that the hardware had been packed elsewhere when we moved.  Over a year ago.  We had NO IDEA where it was.  We spent that whole night looking and did not succeed.  Jon found it in the early evening of Monday.  Then we got to continue on our project!  I was very, very excited.

Another picture!

Office stuff!  In the OFFICE!

Winter Break for me

I was away from work from December 20th through January 1st.  I thought today would be really hard, but it really hasn't been.  Highlights with pictures...because everybody loves a multi-picture post, right?  Amiright?

This may not have been during break, but it cracks me up.  Lyka stole "his" spot and he didn't know what to do with himself.

Pajama pants were made after my only 2 pairs of pajama pants died.  I salvaged the waistband, pocket, and cuffs off of both pairs, but a strange size difference kept me from adding the cuffs to this one.

I was able to put the cuffs on this pair.  Oddly enough, I wasn't feeling this pair as much and it took me longer to get motivated to finish them.  It was like they were not playing nice with me.

So, of course, they split the day after I make them.  They are currently in my "think" pile.  Angrily.

Completely unrelated, this is Lyka's "worried" face.  She is the most sensitive dog on the planet.  You can see how Phaux is affected by things.

"Worried about what?"

I don't mean to end this abruptly, but...well...that's it!  More pictures to come! Office project in separate post.

12

Gotta show off my lame-ness.  Happy triple dozen day!

I was at lunch, just for the record...

Picture Explosion!

Thank goodness I'm a photo-taking-fiend or else I would not know what I have done in the past few weeks!  Or maybe I would, but it wouldn't be as entertaining.  My world:

New bath towels and hand towels happened sometime in November.

Memories of the sickness...round 2 for this season.

Barefoot in mid-November...no big deal...

Someone has the middle initial pi.  SO JEALOUS.

One of my brilliant ideas.  Works like a charm!  (And it's festive...double win.)

Pink garbage truck!

Tackled these bad boys on the 1st of December!  But now they're back...le sigh.

Okay, I guess those were mums behind the garage.

December has been and will be pretty wild.  This is just my work calendar.  (Family/friends birthdays not listed...)

Pie my coworkers and I won for winning the Halloween Costume Contest.  It was pretty good!

Same coworkers plus more decided to decorate for a decoration contest.  These are "post-it" sized squares that we taped to our windows.  I designed the Kwanzaa candles, penguin, and dreidel.  And I actually put up most of the penguin and half of the dreidel.  Festive to the max!

Oops, I lied...NOW it's festive to the max!  My "ugly/tacky Christmas sweater" submission.  It lost.  :-(  Ah well, I still got lots of remarks on it and showed it off around campus as our company broke into groups and did a campus-wide scavenger hunt....which my group won!!!!!  (Yay, $5 Starbucks gift card!)  PS, I sewed this after designing it.  I literally searched Google for visual ideas after thinking that this is what I wanted to do and I found zero.  None.  That is very rare for Google.  I think this was a true original!

Alright!  Seeing as the costume thing just happened today, I think I'm caught up!  See you next time!