Model Home

Well ... after all the hoop-la of my birthday, I don't have much to post today!

I will say though that things at work are 500% better... I feel so much more relaxed and happy and ok about being here. They made my day very special yesterday (we celebrated all August birthdays yesterday) ... we had an ice cream social, my friend Sherry got me some bath salts from Pier One that smell SO good and then the girls all got me the cutest doggie card and a Master Card gift certificate - I've decided to go on to Amazon.com and get me some more books with it ...

Other than that, the next model home picture I have came out of a master bedroom - they apparently had a recessed ceiling which I generally like- and they went over it with some dark wood molding. It's very striking when you're in the room and I think this would be SO easy to do in your house, if you already had the recessed ceiling. It really adds some nice depth and sort of a "higher-end" feel .... I say try it- shoot, you could probably do a room for less than $50 if you stained it, cut it and installed it yourself ...

Oh and WHOOPS- I guess some pretty important news ... our Spain trip has been cancelled. The fuel costs are soaring and so the company doing the trip decided not to allow people to go on the trip that had not earned it 100% - Conrad got REALLY close, but he wasn't 100% and we were going to have to buy in for the remainder. We were totally ok with buying in - but they have cancelled that portion- no buy in's for this year. So ... I'm not as upset as I thought I would be. I wasn't looking forward to that CRAZY flight ... so now we're looking at other options. I'm keeping my vacation for now ... on the books ...we're talking about a cruise or a nice trip somewhere that has a beach like Mexico or Belize or somewhere like that ... it's going to end up being FINE ... so no sadness here... a little disappointment, but really we have a GREAT life and this is not worth complaining about ... so we're looking for a nice deal somewhere ... maybe offseason deal ... and next year this Spain trip will be the Dominican Republic. So if Conrad gets 100%, we'll be heading to D.R. next year!

Kah