Day 121 - Guest Room

June 9 - JE's parents arrive in two days, and the guest room is finally ready!  We have had some challenges with the bedrooms and there has been a lot of moving things back and forth.  Today this room is cleared out, clean, and ready for guests.

I think that I want to paint this room, but there wasn't enough time before our first visitors.  I'm pleased with it though. 

Day 120 - Movie Closet

June 8 - One of my many "quirks" is that I like all my movies to be organized alphabetically.  JE and I have a BUNCH of movies, so it was a large task to get them all together and organized.  But, today was the day.

We have a room in the house that we call the "dungeon" and it had the perfect space for our collection.  I have shows together, then all the movies, then games, sports highlights and combo movies in baskets.  JE has several disks that have multiple movies on one, so I created a spreadsheet for all of these.  I was excited and proud to have this done!

Day 119 - Smells like home

June 7 - I've been here about a week and am still unpacking stuff.  It seems to be never-ending.  Most of the stuff is JE's and just gets put on the pool table for him to go through.  But, today I unpacked this

 and was ecstatic!  My  mom gave me this for my birthday a couple of years back, and I love the way it smells.  I don't burn it very often though because I don't want it to run out.  Thankfully my amazing boyfriend bought me another one a few months ago, so now I can burn this one without fear.  Things like this make it feel more like home here.  Interesting that it's "Hawaiian Pineapple" that makes me feel like home.  If you've never smelled a Circle E Candle, you need to smell and buy several of them.

Day 118 - S'mores

June 6 - JE grilled tonight which immediately puts me in the mood for s'mores.  So after dinner we went out back and made them in the chiminea.

Because of all the rain over the past days, the wood was wet, so it was difficult to keep a fire going.  We were able to make it work long enough for us to each to get a wonderful s'more.  Yummy!

Day 117 - Beer Fridge

June 5 - JE's parents are coming next weekend, so we went shopping today.  We've already been to the grocery store, so today was a trip to Walmart for last minute stuff and then to Sam's for beer.  When we got home, JE put all the beer in the refrigerator downstairs.

A good variety and plenty to go around.  Bring on the parents!

Day 116 - Rumi in the Dark

June 4 - The thunderstorms have continued, and tonight while watching tv, the power went out.  Thankfully we knew where a flashlight was, so we were able to get downstairs and find some candles.  We watched the lightening show from the back patio for a little bit, and then we decided to pass the time by playing rumi by candle light.  I lost, of course, but it was a fun way to wait for the power to come back on.

Day 115 - Delicious Breakfast

June 3 - When I came to visit JE a couple of months ago, he took me to breakfast at Koa Pancake House.  He had been telling me about the fantastic breakfast that he'd had there and said I had to try it.  So, we did.  And ever since then, I've been looking forward to going back, and today we did.

I should have taken the picture when we got the food, but I was too excited.  We had banana pancakes with coconut syrup, scrambled eggs, Portuguese sausage and fried rice.  I know what you're thinking, fried rice for breakfast, but trust me - it is DELICIOUS!   Just typing this makes me want this meal.  Maybe I can talk JE to going this weekend.  Yum!