Thursday, January 31, 2013

Catching Up - changes to the house

I can't believe it's been so long since I have posted.  I want to start up again just for motivation to myself.  I am back in school for my Winter Term.  It is not going so well.  Just like with my weight loss, it has been hard to find the motivation to just do the homework. There is so much reading and writing journal entries.  

BODY CHANGES  I saw this thing on Pinterest about drinking apple cider vinegar in your water to help detox your body.  It is supposed to help with kidney function as well.  I have been doing it for about 2 days now and I think it might be helping.  It doesn't taste too great but if I'm thirsty enough, I'll drink it.

  I got a wii!!! with the fit balance board etc.
I have only done it a couple of times but it's better than nothing.

LIVING ROOM CHANGES
  My room mate was going to buy a house but she hasn't done it yet.  So I have want to make the house I do live in to be cozier.  I actually have a little station set up in the living room with my desk etc. (which freed up space in my bedroom).
It has wheels on it so I can pull it out when ever I want.  I am trying to make as much stuff as possible organized in my life so I can concentrate on my school work.  So far I have barely been able to get out of bed. 
   My next project for the living room is to sand and paint my coffee table.  It has gross stains from people's feet being on it.  I figured I could wash it off and go from there but then it would just come back again.  So I thought better to paint it a dark brown (to match the stains).
  I took down all the decorations we had in the living room before and started from scratch.  I talked to my roommate about what color palette she likes. She doesn't like light colors but we both agreed on turquoise and I am lucky enough to have tons of things that are turquoise. This is the Fireplace decor to far.  I am not 100% completely happy with it, but it'll do.

If anyone has an suggestions - I am all ears. I am still going to paint the little cage white.


KITCHEN
   The kitchen table has also been bothering me.  I stained it a while ago but the stain is coming off.  I don't think I did it right.  I bought some contact paper a while ago to go around some boxes I wanted to put in the cupboard for storing things.  Then I got this brilliant idea to put it on the kitchen table...So I did. 
BEFORE                                                                                   AFTER
I am not completely done with the table.  I still want to paint the legs white. And also re-upholstery the chairs and paint the wood white.

I bought two storage shelves for the kitchen.  We have so much stuff I can never get to what I need.  I still have some organization to do in the cupboards.  But I love the new space.  It's almost like more counter top space (which I LOVE).

BEDROOM
 I rearranged my bedroom too.  I wanted to make it more cozy and the decorations more sophisticated.  It's still a work in progress.  I have plans for it though.  I have been holding up on hanging curtains because the plan was to move out within a year but I am just gonna hang 'em now.
One thing I am happy about it the shelf.  It used to hang higher and have my stuffed animals on it but I have used Pinterest to see what else I could do with it.
It hangs right above my bed and honestly I was a bit worried it might fall on my head while I slept but it seems to be holding up.

  OK, enough about my house.  I am cutting down on my facebook to leave more room to do something like this blog.  I want to lose the weight and I have a friends wedding coming up in April.  I have a dress I want to wear but I HAVE to lose weight in order to fit in it.  So I guess we'll see.