Road Trip!

Tim and I are leaving our crime scene of a kitchen behind and cheering on the Giants as they take on the Phillies this weekend. Cheesesteaks, The Liberty Bell, and a baseball game starring two of the best pitchers of our day. We're Philly bound tomorrow morning! Have a beautiful weekend!

Goodbye Masking Tape Chair Rail!

The cabinet project that just won't die...

Busy Busy

We were busy little bees on this beautiful fall day. We finished spackling the hole...
Attached the new drawer pulls on my refurb dresser...

Hung this...

And shopped for this....

Tim is napping on the couch and I'm settled in to watch the Giants. Let's go SF!

Yay and Boo

This is the Yay. The sample of granite is what our new kitchen counters will be made of! We're having the templates made 1 week from Thursday, and the completed counters will be installed the following week. I'm in love with the granite and Tim is thankful that it was such a good price! We're trying to choose the paint color now.

Close up

And the giant Boo. This is the last you'll see of our refrigerator. It started making an obnoxious clicking sound last week, which turned out to be the throes of it's death. Tim had the thankless and smelly job of cleaning everything out of it today. We're shopping for the replacement now.

Saturday in the yard

Tim digging out the flowers...er weeds.

Cleaned out and edged. Waiting for next spring's plantings.

Check out the beginnings of the changing leaves. I love the fall.

Look Ma, No Beams! We finally took the terrifying plunge and cut out the beams in the way of our breakfast bar. We also have two fantastic new lights that were installed today. It's starting to come together! The next steps are to cover the beams with sheetrock, break out the joint compound and smooth it all out.

Then we can finally paint the kitchen and get rid of the fake chair rail.

Ultimate To-Do List Status

At the beginning of the year, I created the list to the right, things I wanted to accomplish before the end of 2010. There are some easy things and some long shots. Now that summer is winding down and the air is becoming the tiniest bit crisp, I figured it was time for an evaluation. I don't have photographic evidence of all of them, but you'll have to take my word for them. :)

Item #9: Remodel our kitchen. This is clearly still a work in progress but we hope to have all the elements completed by Christmas. Here is Tim working hard on the hole for our breakfast bar.

The first half of the cabinets. This project alone

is a time eater.
Item #2: Attend a Red Carpet Event! I was fortunate enough to be the date of a dear friend at the Writer's Guild Awards in NYC. There was enough star power to impress a celeb stalker like me and I got to cheer on Shannon as she won an award! It was an amazing night.


Item #10: Complete a CF run/walk. Tim and I signed up for the Middlebury Half Marathon Relay without knowing that it was benefiting Cystic Fibrosis. I was thrilled when I found that out and I'm convinced that the air in my lungs that allowed me to complete the run that day came from Amanda, one of the loves of my life who has battled CF for 31 years and coming out on top. She is an inspiration.


I've completed Item #1 last week when we saw Tom Petty in New Jersey. The man is amazing. Our Italy photobook, Item #7 arrived two weeks ago. #20, Read Voraciously has been successful. See the list to the right! I just started working on #19 and am hopeful that I can keep up the training and run the Manchester Half Marathon in November.



I still have some things I want to do in the last quarter of this year but I'm proud of all I've accomplished thus far. On tap for the fall and winter: Visit the Bronx Botanical Gardens, see an opera, and start in with my yoga and meditation. That is more of a cool weather workout for me.
I missed the 5 Boro Bike Tour but I was with our family celebrating Mother's Day so that was a great trade off. We have yet to go camping, but have been doing so many other fantastic things that I don't mind skipping that one. And I once again missed out on the Shakespeare in the Park.



The big two on the list though were to live a full and happy life and to build my relationships. Both of these have been great successes and the two things I feel the most proud of. I am so in love with my life and the people that I am surrounded by. Tim and I are beyond lucky to have so much support and love around us.