The construction in my apartment is underway. We had to remove almost everything from the kitchen, including my dishes and all appliances. They took down the track lighting and put up new drywall on the ceiling, so now I don't have a big hole there anymore. They just painted it and put the popcorn texture on it on Monday and left it to dry ( Read more... )

I am back at my apartment now after six months of house sitting. It has been very busy at work and I’ve been in and out of the office a lot at courses and meetings. I have completed my annual requirement of corporate learning goals now and I am glad that is over with ( Read more... )

I missed the event last weekend due to BF and I both being sick. As boring and disappointing as it was, it was probably better for our health that we didn't go and end up even worse. I had to take Tuesday off work too as I was barfing all morning. Lovely. Wednesday at work was a write off because after going through my emails and organizing my ( Read more... )

I finally managed to find not just one, but TWO duvet cover sets (that include the two pillow shams) at Winners for an actual decent price of $60 per set. WOW! I have been going into Winners outlets to find a new duvet cover for months now and was about to give up. I went into a Home Outfitters store to look and the average price was around $200 ( Read more... )

I wrote this on Tuesday at work and planned to post it on Tuesday evening if it were not for LJ being down all night. I haven't been able to use the computer until now since BF's been on vacation and playing his video game most of the time ( Read more... )

I think my nesting instinct is rousing. Not just the usual “OMG I HAVE TO GET THIS PLACE CLEAN!” feeling, but I really want to upgrade some furniture (eventually) and better organize the apartment and get rid of a bunch of junk ( Read more... )