Awesome & Awkward Wednesday

AWESOME:

-Realizing your turning into your mother.

-Love that my husband knows who Michael Kors is, but only because I make him watch Project Runway with me…so he says.

-Singing along to a song on the radio at a stoplight and looking at the car next to you and realizing their singing to the same song as you.

-A date night out that involved stir fry, home depot and shoe shopping. Best. Date. Ever.

-Finding out that they make special zombie bullets for when the zombie apocalypse happens. (In case you’re wondering you can buy them at Bass Pro) I told Cody we needed to buy a few cases to be prepared.

AWKWARD:

-Thinking that someone is talking to you and answering their question when in reality they are really talking to the person behind you. Awful.

-Riding my Mom’s new Schwinn bicycle while wearing my Dad’s new motorcycle helmet.

-Telling your husband not to get water at the restaurant you’re at because it tastes like penny’s (you know all coppery) and having the waitress over hear me before taking our drink order and say, “Can I get you something to drink… besides water?”  With an attitude like I just insulted her home made family recipe of water.

-Having our front yard look like a martian threw up green chunky slime all over it; when in reality it is just that lawn patch stuff that’s supposed to fill in bare spots…fingers crossed, hope it works!

-Having a little boy ask me in the checkout line if I can take him to go to the bathroom…and I respond with “umm let’s find your Mom…” And of course we don’t find his mom, so I take him to customer service and tell them he can’t find his mom…..fast forward 7 minutes when I am all checked out with my bags and this little boy finds me again this time with his mom in tow and lets her know that I’m the lady that made him pee his pants… 

Awesome and Awkward

So I decided to start this new tradition. It’s called awesome and awkward Wednesday. I did not think of this myself obviously, because I’m not that smart, but I thought it would be great for two reasons. One it will hopefully force me to blog more often and two I feel like I have a lot of random things that happen to me that I like to talk about and I think Cody gets sick of hearing it...so now you do:) So get excited!  


AWESOME:


-Finding out Amazing Race casting calls our coming to our area in September. You better believe my dad and I are applying. A preacher and his daughter? You know were shoo ins to fit the “religious” stereotype.

-Booking a weekend getaway with college friends that is less than a month away!

-Having the guy at the video rental place tell me for the 20^th time that I look like zooey deschanel and ask to take my picture so he can prove it to his friend he was telling…yea I felt like a rock star then shot him down about the picture. Made me feel good, but can you say creepy?

 -Spending a Saturday morning going to antique stores with your husband and out to breakfast at bob evans and realizing  you’re the youngest couple there under 70.

-Being able to sing an entire rap song that I hadn't heard since high school in the car with my husband as he looks at me wondering who he married. 

AWKWARD:

-Not being able to remember your neighbor’s name, especially when you’re trying to get their attention.

-Filling a bag up with apples at the supermarket and when turning to put them in your cart they fall out of the bag and you spend the next 5 minutes chasing rolling apples around the produce section.

-Tripping over a mound of breakable dishes that are stored on the floor of your guest bedroom while your kitchen cabinets are getting painted  just to get to the dang microwave because you really want to pop some popcorn, and having the painter guy ask if you’re ok.

 -Realizing that for the past year of my life I thought I was turning 27 instead of 26.

 -Overhearing a few Jr. High girls discussing whether they would choose Peeta or Gale from Hunger Games and letting them know I would defiantly choose Peeta because he could obviously bake you cupcakes all the time, then having them give me a look that took me all the way back to Jr. High….then I promptly turned around and continued to check out at the supermarket while I reminded myself they aren't even old enough to buy cigarettes and alchohol…of which neither were in my cart I just wanted to feel better about myself.

Design with your hubby in mind

Hopefully I’m not the only one with this problem. I love design and I love color and I also love my husband who does not love design or color as much as I do. I have always wanted our house to feel like “us” and reflect our personalities and who we are. The problem is combining our styles together to fit who we are together. I’ll be honest, if I had my way I would live in a house with orange stripe walls and bright upholstered furniture. Like this…

That would probably give Cody a heart attack.

Further proof of this would be how I painted my bedrooms when I was younger. First house was bright yellow and white stripe wallpaper. Second house was bright blue walls with daisies stenciled all over the walls, third house was orange and red plaid walls, obviously this was all done very tastefully.  This was kind of a big deal in our house when I was a kid because my Dad’s middle name should be beige, so for him to be ok with all that was a pretty accomplished fete. And I foolishly thought that when Cody and bought our first house it would be just as full of color as my childhood bedrooms were. I have since realized that it’s about compromise and finding something that we both like. Sometimes I take a long time deciding what I want to do in a room. This would be the case for our hallway. It basically runs the length of our house so it’s really long and I have felt recently like it is to blah. I thought painting it a neutral gray would be the best option since it opens up to almost every room in our home. So I decided I need to treat the hallway more like an actual “room” and I wanted more color but in a more subtle to me kind of way. I found this image online of some wallpaper that I loved.

I knew wallpaper was not an option since we have spent weeks taking it off in every room of our home. So I went another route. I found a place online that makes custom stencils, and I thought I could stencil this in the hallway. But thinking this could still be too much for Cody I thought I would install board and batten on the bottom half all the way around. Like this…

I finally felt really good about how the hallway was going to look and I was really excited to tell Cody my plan and get that stencil ordered. His reaction? Absolutely not. I’m pretty sure his words were “I do not like that pattern at all; I wouldn’t even want it on a pillow.” 

WHAT??? As my vision of our hallway crashed down I tried my best to convince him about it…I even tried “But honey I don’t like camouflage and I let you use that downstairs.” No dice. After I thought about it, I don’t want Cody living in a house that he doesn’t like and makes him think of Grandma's Curtains as he put it. So on to our new plan for hallway. Were still keeping the board and batten idea and maybe painting the top half a darker color.

Am I the only one with this problem when it comes to design? My Mom has managed to help my Dad with his beige addiction….except she would do it when he was out of town….which maybe I should try that tactic with my Grandma stencil?