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At our choir special Sunday morning they had us put scarves over our heads to look the women in Biblical times.  I had a very pretty red color and a very nice man in our choir was trying to compliment me that it looked nice…because we were all feeling pretty dorky.  The conversation was pretty funny though.

Very Nice Man: Your scarf looks nice.  You look like a Scarlet.

Me (confused–was he referring to an adulteress wearing the red A or a harlot very close to sounding like scarlet): You mean a harlot?

VNM: Yes!  A harlot.  I got confused.

Me (putting my hand on his shoulder and saying in a whisper): You know harlot means a whore?

VNM: Oh my gosh!  I got confused!  You don’t look like a harlot!!!

We had a nice laugh about it.  Poor guy.  He was just trying to be nice.

Hop over to java-girl.org to see some scenes with Britney on How I Met Your Mother. Finally. I see 30 seconds of the old Britney in there somewhere. Sane. Orderly. Cute. Funny. Blonde (ish–anyone else hate her hair dark?).  At least we know she’s capable of acting like that again.

I’m not a big holiday person really.  Emma has mentioned on more than one occasion we need more decorations for whatever holiday it was.  I have exactly zero St. Patrick’s Day or Easter decorations out as we speak.  You know, I have some Easter towels I need to get out now that I think of it.  Anyway, for some reason I made sure we all wore green today.  I even went to Wal-Mart at 9 last night to buy the girls new green t-shirts to wear today to school.  I guess the thought of getting pinched was just too much.

I was listening to the radio this morning and she had a little St. Patrick’s Day story that I thought was cute.  Her husband homeschools their children (I have never, ever heard of a husband doing that…anyone?) and he gave their daughter the sentence “I saw a rainbow in the sky” and she had to finish the story.  This is what she wrote:

I saw a rainbow in the sky.  I followed the rainbow to the end and there was a pot of gold and a leprechaun.  I pushed the leprechaun and grabbed the pot of gold and ran away. 

They always did say homeschooled children are pretty smart.

This weekend we completed the painting of the dining room, living room and hallway.  We didn’t repaint the sunroom.  We decided to repaint that green because it’s a brighter color and I really like the green and that’s where I spend most of my day.  I do like the taupe/sand color in the living room though.  It makes it feel warmer.  Here are the before and after pictures.  Now just imagine all the rooms you see with walnut colored hardwoods…oh, I can’t wait!

(Moved around some wall hangings.  Still want a clock above the tv.)

(got a new picture above the recliner)

(moved the rug into the dining room.  planning to get another lighter, plainer one for the living room.)

More after:

(just bought that metal tree on the table)

(Closeup of the new picture)

OK, here’s step one of the kitchen makeover.  Walnut colored hardwoods and a some sort of new countertop are coming (and hopefully maybe sometime in the future cross your fingers a new stove).  Sorry the pictures aren’t the same, I took the before ones and Scott took the after ones.  If you can’t tell, the after color is a sand type color.  It seems to really change it’s look depending on the lighting though.

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It’s quite entertaining to listen for the phrases.  Sometimes it’s the only way I can pay attention.

OK, so I’ve been following Ree’s Lodge posts and I’m beginning to understand her panic.  When I came home yesterday, I found my baseboards missing.  It looks a little like this:

and this

and this

…all in the hall, foyer, living room ,dining room, kitchen, hall closets and sun room. Yikes. 

I know I said there was going to be a lot of work coming our way but I’m just not sure I was ready for the mess.  But I’m trying to concentrate on the fact that that carpet and laminate flooring will soon be beautiful Walnut colored hardwoods.

I do love me some clothes and shoes but a purse person I am not.

I find a very boring, brown or tan purse and use it for months on end.  Well, my mom ran into this purse at a local gift shop and decided to pick it up for me (thanks, Mom!).  Honestly, I would never have picked it out but I think it’s super cute.  And apparently so do a lot of people (but not everyone, I realize).  I have never, ever gotten so much attention from any piece of clothing, pair of shoes or purse than I have this one.

At Harris Teeter, I was coming around my van to get Lexi out and the second my purse made it around the corner with me, the lady next to my car was like "I love your purse!"

The ladies in my church choir saw it sitting by itself in the robe room and were talking amongst themselves about whose purse it was.

Two ladies at the ATM yesterday were having a fit over it.  I think I may have heard a comment similar to that stopped me mid-sentence.

And then the kicker, a (straight as far as I could tell) man behind me in line at lunch saw it and said, "Wow, look at that purse.  That’s so cute!"

So I’m figuring no one has ever seen a purse quite like this.  So here you go, purse people, ooo and ah over it if you like.

I certainly wish I knew where to point you online to get it but if you are really interested, email me and I can give you the local store info I got it at and maybe they can ship one to you or point you to where to get it.  I think it was pretty inexpensive as far as purses go…like $30 or something and they come in lots of colors, green, red, purple, brown and pink as far as I know.

And now I can not believe I just wrote this much about a purse.  That is all, you may go.