Happy weekend! I am so excited that we go to settlement on our house in FIVE days!!! That means my honey do list is about a mile long for today and tomorrow.
This week went by really quickly but man was it busy. The "short weeks" at work always seem to be the crazy ones. Probably because we have to cram five days of work into four! Every evening this week hubs and I packed. We also made our first home depot run for paint and paint supplies!!!! Because hubs is new to his job, he can only take off Monday for our pre settlement meeting and then Wednesday for settlement. Luckily, I have an awesome family and a super fly bff so they are heading down Thursday to help me paint and move my fragile (must be Italian!) things. Ha, I couldn't resist the Christmas Story line. I seriously cannot say fragile without adding that in. I even wrote it on some of our boxes.
Because we bought a townhouse and it's new construction, they recommend not painting the bottom floor or the stairwells due to nail pops over the first year. We decided that we wanted to paint the main floor before move in, which is set up great room style. We have an open kitchen/dining room that has a half wall into the living room. We are going with a rustic/Tuscany theme in the kitchen so we bought a orange/terracotta-ish color for the kitchen. It's so hard to explain, so I'll post pics next week. Then I got some inspiration from blog reading. I loved how Wendy over at The Shabby Nest did her living room. So classy yet modern. I am using her living room as inspiration. We got a mix between charcoal and slate color paint for the longest wall in our living room. We plan on mounting our t.v. to that wall and then hanging white large framed pictures on either side (over time). The other three walls will be an almond color. We have a cut out in the living room next to the steps. We plan on getting a small desk and making it our office space. I haven't decided yet, but I may paint the cut out the same charcoal color. We'll see next week!
In other news, I met with a personal trainer the beginning of December. My gym was offering a free session so I took them up on the offer. I've been a runner since my freshman year in college and run several days a week. However, it wasn't keeping the weight off post wedding so I knew I needed to spice up my work out routine. I started adding in a half hour of weight lifting three days per week using the techniques the trainer and I went over. I've definatley noticed a difference and feel much stronger in just a month! Now I know I need to change up my eating habits. We eat way too many carbs (granted, they are whole wheat) and not enough protein. This coming week, I plan on starting a low carb, high protein diet. We'll see if that gets off the last fifteen pounds.
We'll I'm off to the gym, grocery store and home depot for more packing supplies while hubs is off to drill for the day (one weekend per month military obligation). I hope to surprise him with a few packed boxes and a nice dinner this evening.I WILL be back with a holiday post as soon as I unpack my memory card reader next week! Enjoy your weekend ya'll!
Cheers!
Caitlin
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