Things (good, bad, and ugly).
Good:
[x] I chopped off a bunch of my hair yesterday, shaved a "party patch", and had some color work done. I fxcking LOVE it so hard. My stylist, Jimmy (out of Rock Razor Scissors), is seriously amazing. Magic hands. I feel like a stone.cold.fox, forreal. Shaving part of my head was strangely liberating. This is, hands down, the sickest cut and color I've EVER had. Love, love, love. I don't usually post pics of anyone on my blog, but today...I just want to show off.
[x] I painted my bright, sunshine-y kitchen...black. I then painted my cabinets...black (metallic, though!). My kitchen rocks the official oven/range from the sixties so it's teal and gorgeous and stands out beautifully with the black background. I ordered some skull decals in teal off Etsy, because who doesn't love skulls on everything everywhere? Right? Right?! Right.
[x] I painted Little Flower's room a soft lilac with a medium purple contrast wall (with glitter paint). It is SO cute. I love it! Once construction is over, we're going to try her out in a toddler bed. My last baby, going into a toddler bed....my goodness. Time: it is a flyin'.
[x] The van angels. OMFG, the van angels. Our renovation project went wildly astray when we found at least five years of water damage built up under the floor. Mold was EVERYWHERE. I was honestly breathing into a paper bag for multiple reasons. (Panic mode straight up. Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. Holy cow.) Unexpected debacles are expensive as hell. The van angels sent us "disaster relief" and really took the hit off of the burn we were feeling. They are so seriously amazing...I don't even know what to say. Just incredible. I honestly don't even have the words.
[x] K. and the kids took me out for an early birthday celebration this past weekend. It was awesome. We went to my favorite restaurant, went to Lincoln Park Zoo, and then snagged a mouthgasm of Black Cat deliciousness from Intelligentsia. (My multi-million dollar dream house has an amazing, ultra high end espresso machine so I can steam my own soy milk and drown myself in Black Cat deliciousness. Oh.yes.oh.yes.)
[x] The kids had a great Halloween. No shortage of candy in this house, let me tell you. They KILLED it out there. K. went as Tow Mater and Bear as Lightning McQueen. The girls and I? Ladybugs, straight up. It was really, really nice. We stopped by my aunt and uncle's house and got to chat up my cousin, N., for a few minutes as he was the only one home. It was awesome to see him. We really need to do so more often. We ordered pizza as we do every Halloween, and the kids counted up their bounty. Bear and Sunshine answered the door and doled out the candy while LF and Beauty went over their collections about a million times. SO cute. Love those four--well, five if you're counting K.--so very much.
[x] I turn 31 on Saturday. Another beautiful year I've lived. That in itself is cause for true celebration. I'm here. I'm alive. I'm healthy, K.'s healthy, my babies are healthy. This is what I live for. This is all I need.
I am grateful, to say the least. So very grateful.
I like moving into the "bad" on such a good note. Really makes the "bad" seem less, well, bad.
Bad:
[x] As previously mentioned, renovation went completely astray. It was supposed to be a simple project: take out a few windows, put in a door. Yeah, that didn't quite happen. So...yeah. *must keep swimming, must keep swimming*
[x] Consequently, we've lost use of our entire downstairs level. So two rooms and a bathroom. And about 75% of the stuff from downstairs is all.over.the.remainder.of.the.house. Yikes. I can't STAND the clutter of it all. I know the end is in sight, but I cannot wait to do things like...wash laundry on a regular basis and be able to put everything away. Or how about just being able to walk without something being underfoot? Six people and a gaggle of pets in essentially four rooms and a bathroom. Just...no.
[x] My Beagle (yes, that's both breed and name for any newcomers here) started yesterday in a terrible way. She did something to a nerve in
her neck and yelped in pain with every step. She's on anti-inflams and
has pain pills, but is expected to make a full recovery (thank GOD). But
this leads me to...
Ugly:
[x] While Beags was at the vet's office, they took some x-rays to doubly make sure she was okay. Well, she was fine...except that the x-rays show that she has over twenty pellets from a BB gun in her sweet little body. They are everywhere. Everywhere. We adopted her from a rescue in '07 (and they got her from a hoarder, so we don't know much about her past). But some sick fuck loaded up a BB gun and shot the nicest dog I've EVER known over and over and over again. The vet said they're going to leave them in since they're not bothering her (they're years and years old). But they sure are bothering the hell out of me. I honestly thought I was going to be physically sick when I heard that. WTF. The classiest, most eloquent thing I can say is basically ROT IN HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS.
So, um, there's that.
Anyway, enough of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The kids are doing great (two are at school, two are home today) so I'm going to get this day in full swing and rock it out. Be cool, my friends. Love each other and have an amazing beautiful moment in this day, even if you're not really feeling this day overall, okay? Okay. <3
[x] I chopped off a bunch of my hair yesterday, shaved a "party patch", and had some color work done. I fxcking LOVE it so hard. My stylist, Jimmy (out of Rock Razor Scissors), is seriously amazing. Magic hands. I feel like a stone.cold.fox, forreal. Shaving part of my head was strangely liberating. This is, hands down, the sickest cut and color I've EVER had. Love, love, love. I don't usually post pics of anyone on my blog, but today...I just want to show off.
[x] I painted my bright, sunshine-y kitchen...black. I then painted my cabinets...black (metallic, though!). My kitchen rocks the official oven/range from the sixties so it's teal and gorgeous and stands out beautifully with the black background. I ordered some skull decals in teal off Etsy, because who doesn't love skulls on everything everywhere? Right? Right?! Right.
[x] I painted Little Flower's room a soft lilac with a medium purple contrast wall (with glitter paint). It is SO cute. I love it! Once construction is over, we're going to try her out in a toddler bed. My last baby, going into a toddler bed....my goodness. Time: it is a flyin'.
[x] The van angels. OMFG, the van angels. Our renovation project went wildly astray when we found at least five years of water damage built up under the floor. Mold was EVERYWHERE. I was honestly breathing into a paper bag for multiple reasons. (Panic mode straight up. Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. Holy cow.) Unexpected debacles are expensive as hell. The van angels sent us "disaster relief" and really took the hit off of the burn we were feeling. They are so seriously amazing...I don't even know what to say. Just incredible. I honestly don't even have the words.
[x] K. and the kids took me out for an early birthday celebration this past weekend. It was awesome. We went to my favorite restaurant, went to Lincoln Park Zoo, and then snagged a mouthgasm of Black Cat deliciousness from Intelligentsia. (My multi-million dollar dream house has an amazing, ultra high end espresso machine so I can steam my own soy milk and drown myself in Black Cat deliciousness. Oh.yes.oh.yes.)
[x] The kids had a great Halloween. No shortage of candy in this house, let me tell you. They KILLED it out there. K. went as Tow Mater and Bear as Lightning McQueen. The girls and I? Ladybugs, straight up.
It was really, really nice. We stopped by my aunt and uncle's house and got to chat up my cousin, N., for a few minutes as he was the only one home. It was awesome to see him. We really need to do so more often. We ordered pizza as we do every Halloween, and the kids counted up their bounty. Bear and Sunshine answered the door and doled out the candy while LF and Beauty went over their collections about a million times. SO cute. Love those four--well, five if you're counting K.--so very much. [x] I turn 31 on Saturday. Another beautiful year I've lived. That in itself is cause for true celebration. I'm here. I'm alive. I'm healthy, K.'s healthy, my babies are healthy. This is what I live for. This is all I need.
I am grateful, to say the least. So very grateful.
I like moving into the "bad" on such a good note. Really makes the "bad" seem less, well, bad.
Bad:
[x] As previously mentioned, renovation went completely astray. It was supposed to be a simple project: take out a few windows, put in a door. Yeah, that didn't quite happen. So...yeah. *must keep swimming, must keep swimming*
[x] Consequently, we've lost use of our entire downstairs level. So two rooms and a bathroom. And about 75% of the stuff from downstairs is all.over.the.remainder.of.the.house. Yikes. I can't STAND the clutter of it all. I know the end is in sight, but I cannot wait to do things like...wash laundry on a regular basis and be able to put everything away. Or how about just being able to walk without something being underfoot? Six people and a gaggle of pets in essentially four rooms and a bathroom. Just...no.
[x] My Beagle (yes, that's both breed and name for any newcomers here
) started yesterday in a terrible way. She did something to a nerve in
her neck and yelped in pain with every step. She's on anti-inflams and
has pain pills, but is expected to make a full recovery (thank GOD). But
this leads me to...Ugly:
[x] While Beags was at the vet's office, they took some x-rays to doubly make sure she was okay. Well, she was fine...except that the x-rays show that she has over twenty pellets from a BB gun in her sweet little body. They are everywhere. Everywhere. We adopted her from a rescue in '07 (and they got her from a hoarder, so we don't know much about her past). But some sick fuck loaded up a BB gun and shot the nicest dog I've EVER known over and over and over again. The vet said they're going to leave them in since they're not bothering her (they're years and years old). But they sure are bothering the hell out of me. I honestly thought I was going to be physically sick when I heard that. WTF. The classiest, most eloquent thing I can say is basically ROT IN HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS.
So, um, there's that.
Anyway, enough of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The kids are doing great (two are at school, two are home today) so I'm going to get this day in full swing and rock it out. Be cool, my friends. Love each other and have an amazing beautiful moment in this day, even if you're not really feeling this day overall, okay? Okay. <3
Posted by courtney at 11/3/2011 10:18 AM 
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