A New Member of the Family

Meet the newest member of the family.  (There I go with the deceptively exciting post titles again, sorry.)

Scott spotted this little guy for one dollar at Lowes and thought we "needed" him.  I didn't really want to care for yet another plant even for free, but lo and behold, the plant was purchased and now sits next to our bathtub. 

We sometimes argue over how to best raise this plant.  I think it's kind of flimsy and needs a good shaking and Scott thinks it's dainty and just needs some love.  So, while my back is turned he feeds it more water, and while Scott is away I torture the plant by forcing it into the sunlight and shaking its branches.

If plants are any indication, this is probably how we'll raise our children.  Me: torture them for their own dang good, and Scott: love them and feed them treats behind my back. 

I think we might make a really good team.

Oh yeah remember how we have a new house and I've refused to post decent photos?  We're still working on projects everywhere, but today I can show you our little front room since we've run out of decorations and furniture to put in there!

We just got our carpets cleaned and therefore refuse to walk in this room to preserve the beauty of cleaned carpets.  As you can imagine, getting that piano bench back in there without touching the carpet was a challenge! 

So, if you come to our house I hope you can jump from the wood floor to the couches.  Not that I'd make you do that or anything...

Goodbye Speed Queen

I need to document some special details about my old washing machine.  We got it for like twenty dollars from a random person who we were buying a TV stand from.  They happened to have a washing machine that they were also getting rid of, and Scott didn't have one at the house.  Perfect!

 

Well, the washing machine (model name: Speed Queen) was not the best.  It typically got stuck on the rinse cycle and it kind of leaked out the bottom.  And  yet, we were very capable of switching it to the spin cycle, and there was a drain right next to the leak, so we decided it was good enough. 

 

3 years went by, and we moved to the new house.  The new house had everything we ever wanted.  Except for a drain right next to our leaky washer.  So, that was a problem.  Why all houses don't have built in leaky-washer drains, I don't know.  So that was the end of the Speed Queen right there.  It never even got hooked up. 

 

Now let me tell you about the new washer.  It is fancy.  Actually it is not fancy, but compared to the Speed Queen, it's SUPER fancy.  It tells me exactly how many minutes are left in the cycle.  It has a bedding cycle.  The knob can turn clockwise or counterclockwise (blew my mind).  It sings a little song when it's done.  I can read all of the settings on the dial.  It doesn't leak.  It can complete a cycle all on its own.  What I'm saying is, my quality of life drastically increased with this new washing machine.

High Fashion

I follow some fashion blogs, and sometimes I like to check out what the celebs are wearing.  I'm not much of a fashionista (I am wearing Bermuda shorts from the 10th grade right now), but I like to see what's out there. 

Sometimes I especially like to see what's out there.  Like this T-Swift/Carly Simon combo:

Wow, what outfits!  Taylor is wearing Mickey Mouse shorts, and Carly Simon...I think I know who Carly Simon's doppelganger is:

Am I the first to make this connection?

All this doppelganger talk reminds me of my all-time favorite celebrity doppelganger:

Sadly the Ben F. comparison was not my creation.  It's something so brilliant I never would have thought of it.

These are the things in my life that make me laugh every time I see them.  Every time.