How I Spent My Labor Day -- By Linda

For months and months and months and months I've been running my heiny off waiting tables, not taking any weekends off, except for maybe a total of three weekend days since December. Five and six day weeks: for a "part-time job," I sure have been spending more time there than at home with my family. Which sucks. If it weren't such an easy gig that pays very well, I'd probably have returned to an unemployed status a long time ago. Alas, I march on.

On top of my servitude I give to the fine folks of Fishers, Fortville, Geist, and McCordsville, I also am a part-time caregiver of three extra children for a brief couple of hours in the mornings until the wonderful yellow bus comes 'round the bend. Because of the long holiday weekend, I was going to be relieved of my indentured servant, er, babysitter duties for a few days. Why not take the entire weekend off, right? Genius!

I love it when a good plan catches on! Aaron is home, too! Okay, so maybe my exact order of events is a bit off, but just play along. The point ends the same. Anywhoo, here we are, home! Home, home, home. Home-ity home home. Never a better opportunity for becoming junior DIY-ers. First stop, master bathroom! Small enough to tackle on a tight budget with one semi-pro painter and one (me) who has never been afforded the opportunity to wield a roller. Can you imagine?! Anyway, especially with my newbiness, it was a good room to start. My bathroom is now Terra Cotta! Like? We trimmed out in high gloss colonial white, and will be using a slate green/blue as an accent color. We thought Necco wafer green at first, but it came out a little to minty and the bathroom suddenly took on the role of Thin Mint. Not for us. Though we did kind of enjoy the momentary craving for some mint chocolate chip ice cream that I blame entirely on the fact that the bathroom had absolutely zero ventilation for about an hour while we were forced to shut the door. Yikes. Okay, anyway. Here's what I want for the trim:

And that's not all!! Aaron spent most of Saturday (at least, I think it was Saturday) sealing the driveway. Now I have the prettiest driveway on the block! Okay, it is really cool, though, because it's shiny, and Linda loves shiny things!

Best of all, tis really nice to have him home. It's been a great weekend, just hanging out, going for walks/sprints, hotboxing paint fumes in an unventilated bathroom together. We've been so busy, though, we haven't had time to just "be."

Monday was the celebration of the end of the long weekend (can I get a few more "of the"s in there?) with swimming and cooking out. Aaron made a new friend and I good-naturedly took the bulk of their teasing when the vegetarian forgot to buy hamburger for the grill. I mean, really, aren't 3 cornish hens (complete with Guinness can sodomy show!), twelve brats, and 24 hotdogs enough for sixteen people? Let us not forget all the cold salads! Sheesh. So, yeah I did. I totally skipped out on buying burger for the grill. My bad. Save a cow. Eat a squash. Hehe.

So there you have it. My glorious weekend.

XOXO
Linda