Did you all have a good weekend?
Mine was spent doing some physical labor around the house. Josh and I cleaned up the front yard a bit and I carried bricks from the front of the house to the back garage – today my arms are even a little sore! : )
To be honest I’m not big on doing yard work. So, after the bricks were all moved, I went back inside and gave my kitchen pantry a good clean out (and if you look very closely, our cat Lucy was helping me – she is tucked in next to the baskets on the right, with her face turned away).
I don’t have any before photos. But I did get rid of alot of little things and a can of something that had expired a while ago. Funny how you can buy a canned good and the expiration date is so far in the future and you laugh and think:
“Ha! Like I’m still going to have this in 2005!”
Ah,…yeah.
Anyway…. I love to cook and try new foods. When Josh and I were house hunting and we found the house we are in now (our first home!) I immediately fell in love with the large kitchen and pantry. I even have a few drawers in my kitchen today that don’t have anything in them – can you believe that?!?
Neither can I.
So, I have been tagged by the wonderful Ginny and Mrs. Kwitty to list 7 random facts about myself. Hummmm. These will probably be pretty random.
1. I have naturally red hair.
(Growing up I think Charlie Brown from the Peanuts comics was in love with a “little red haired girl”. If my mom was reading the comics and came across that phrase, she would always read it out loud.)
2. When I was about 5 years old I sang a solo song in church that was recorded by a local radio station. Years later, when I went home to visit during college, my mom said that she had been out driving one day and heard that song on the radio.
3. I will try just about any food once.
This, however, is not one of those foods.
4. Do you want to talk about a poor sense of direction?
I can’t find my way out of a room that only has one door in it!
5. I’ve shaken hands with Henry Rollins.
(Whew! What a relief to be able to cross that off the list! Haha! I don’t actually own a single cd of his. Although I do own the dvd of Johnny Mnemonic – which he is in.)
6. I love sci-fi movies. LOVE THEM!!!
7. I once sent an email to my husband’s boss asking that my husband be excused from attending a Sexual Harassment Awareness meeting at his job.
I told him that he was already a good sexual harasser and I needed a rest.
8. I’m not afraid of snakes.
9. Nutella on a plain croissant – to die for.
10. I don’t actually know how to spell croissant. I had to look it up here.
11. I have always wanted to visit England. It calls to me.
12. In the past few years I have started to want to have a goat – so that I can make my own goat cheese. I love goat cheese and I saw a woman making her own on FoodNetwork.
Boy, was I jealous!
13. I can’t work a packing tape dispenser. I end up mummified (and cursing) wrapped in about 3 yards of mashed up tape. So I just peel it off the roll and cut it with scissors.
14. I get a little thrill of excitement each and every time I see that someone’s left me a comment on my blog.
Really.
Each time. : )
Wow! I did it!
And now I’m going to be a party pooper and not forward this list to 7 other people because, frankly, all the people I would have forwarded it to have already been tagged!
On Saturday my illustration board and paints arrived! Whoo hoo! So I will be painting sometime this week.
This morning I was over at the post office mailing out this custom order that I worked on last week. It’s travelling all the way to New York state (the state that I grew up in!)
Hope you all have a great Monday!
Jenn : )
