Odds & Ends

I felt the need to update...but don't have much to say!

Sarah, thanks for updating your blog! :)

We got our new A/C unit a couple weeks ago and have even enjoyed using our heater 2 nights! (Did I mention last winter we couldn't use ours for fear of carbon monoxide poisoning from a cracked heat exchanger in our 30 year old unit? So we used space heaters which would then make our breakers flip due to old wiring, thus cutting off our alarm clocks, thus making me late to work on multiple occasions.) It's no fun to pay for stuff like that, but a 1975 unit to a 2008 unit is a nice change!

We watched UT beat the pants off of Mizzou, which was an awesome game to watch! We were supposed to go but opted out as Jeremy has been working until 2am regularly the week before and until 3am the night/morning before the game, and from noon until 5pm right before the game. It was nice to watch it from home (though I am sure Jeremy disagrees!).

Last weekend Jeremy went to the UT-OSU game in Austin (yeah, we won that one too!). I went to Dallas with Sarah and Pam to visit Becky for her birthday. It was only one night, about 24 hours, but it was such a great trip! We got to see Becky's condo she bought last year, which is ridiculously cute; we went to dinner with Becky and her old friends to Mi Cocina then saw High School Musical 3. It was amazing! So cheesy, so silly, and so fun! We laughed really loudly in a lot of parts and Becky even (very loudly) whispered "Yesssss!" when Zack & Vanessa finally kissed. We're hoping they do a High School Musical 4: Freshman Year in college. I can't wait to get the soundtrack and start learning some moves!

Here's a birthday picture for Becky!

Hope you had a great birthday weekend! Love you!

This weekend: hand out candy to my 2 trick-or-treaters, rock Kevin & Tracy's Halloween party with our amazing costumes, and cheer on UT at Tech Saturday night. I will reveal our costume pictures after Halloween! It's going to be amazing.

Happy Birthday, Tony!!

Hope it's legend...wait for it...dary!
Love, Meg, Jeremy, Dixie & McL

#1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Texas is #1 this week! The game was amazing and I am in love with Colt McCoy (sorry Jeremy!). We had a blast watching with friends at our place, even though I am sure my sister had the time of her life in Dallas. Some pictures from game-watching:

Sean & McLovin having a moment

Pam & Jeremy

Me & Sarah

UT Barbie signaling one of many touchdowns for the Longhorns!!

OU Barbie threw herself off our table, courtesy of my mom

Also - big news! Effective yesterday, I was promoted to Regulatory Specialist from admin of our group. I'm getting my own areas and wells, a Blackberry and my very own office with 2 windows and 2 guest chairs! I'm kind of a big deal around here, what can I say?

Check it.

I did mark off a couple things from my DIY list this weekend! Saturday I painted our guest room and hallway for about 7 hours. Our walls are kind of textured, so it really takes some elbow grease! We are SO thrilled with the result - all the yucky green is officially covered up now! I also rearranged our guest room and it looks way bigger now, and for a small 11' x 11' room that is a big deal. My hands are so sore but it was totally worth it. We also purchased a little mouse sander and some glossy black spray paint, so sometime this week I will attempt the bar stools again. My camera is dead but I will post "after" pictures soon!

...and how about those Horns???? Hook 'em!

DIY

I am feeling very DIY lately. I usually come up with ideas and never follow through - waiting to be able to save money to pay someone else to do something for me. No more! I've been reading this awesome blog and the moral of it is "it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful." That is really speaking to me! So last night I grabbed a red, rooster bar stool I inherited from my mom, sanded it and primed it with spray paint. Somehow this weekend those bar stools are going to become black! I tried spraying a small patch with the black spray paint I got and I don't think I like the look of it...not sure what else to do, but hopefully my friendly neighborhood Ace owners can help me out with some other paint selections.

My other BIG plans this weekend:
-Paint bathroom (yep, it's time for the dark brown to go!)
-Paint the hallway (it's tiny but we just never got around to it, so it's still the previous owner's green)
-Paint the guestroom (same story as the hallway)
-Finish bar stools
-Paint some Christmas gifts
-Finish making our 'Team Julianne' Dancing with the Starts t-shirts (I used to be an iron-on letter pro and now I can not for the life of me get these letters to stick!!)

Eventually, we will paint the kitchen neutral, paint the kitchen cabinets white, and paint our bathroom vanity cabinets black. Those are later weekend projects though! Fingers crossed on paying someone to paint the kitchen?

Also, since I now officially have 2 pregnant friends, I am calling the sex of their babies:
Tracy - boy (but they're not finding out, so we'll have to wait until February!)
Carrie - girl
We'll see if I'm right!

I'll try to capture some before and after pictures in case I actually accomplish all the stuff on my list this weekend...

And I bought this adorable little tassel from my new fav blog's online shop. I think it's my inspiration for my kitchen colors - roosters but not in black, red and white. Greens and blues with some darker accents (like my counters and stools).