My Extra Bedroom

OK so I'm a day late on posting my extra bed room but oh well! I have two extra bed rooms. One is Sean's hunting room and it will have a bed but it isn't finished yet. The other one I have converted into a "closet" this is the room I am featuring today since my extra bed room isn't finished. Below is my "Closet". My bedroom has a tiny closet so I converted the extra bedroom into a bigger one. I also painted the "closet" red because the previous owner had painted the bed room purple for her little girls and had a big tree painted in one corner and grass and flowers around the baseboard. I had to use a dark color to cover the dark color that was already there so I chose this color-brick hearth.

This is my computer desk. I like that you can close the doors, otherwise it would look like the picture below this one all the time.

Below is where I get ready every morning. I got the Mirror at the Resale shop for $20! The table is where I put on my makeup in the morning. I got it at the resale shop too for only $15 dollars. It's an old sewing machine table. I'm pretty sure this mirror was the best idea ever! I love being able to see what I look like in the mornings before work, plus it makes the room appear bigger.

Just in case you didn't notice, I like clothes. My actual closet in my "closet" filled quickly so I set up clothes racks and hung my t-shirts and work clothes on them.

This is a zoom of the shadow box above my jewelry box. I made this right after we moved into the house because I wanted to display all our wedding keep sakes.

I found this pants rack and shoe rack in a magazine and thought it was pretty neat, it only cost 30 dollars for the pair!Can you tell I like shoes too!?

Well that's my "closet." I really hope we don't have children anytime soon because I don't know where I'll put all this stuff!

Track Star

I have nothing of importance to blog about today. Oh wait yes I Do! My youngest sister who stands at barley 5 feet tall and about 105 lbs give or take is a track superstar! You'd think by looking at her she was just a tiny little distance runner but no, not Melissa. She was smokin' last night at the 4A State Track Meet. She came in second overall in High Points, behind another girl on her team who is a Senior. That means next year, Melissa will probably get High Point at the track meets. I do realize that the picture below had nothing to do with a track meet, but I don't have any track pictures, I just wanted to show you how little Melissa was compared to us. She's the second from the left. I'm 5'3" and I was wearing 4 in heels. Melissa was wearing heels too! (Melissa, if you read this, don't get offended. I'd love to be your size!) Her size just makes her accomplishments so much more impressive!



Melis placed second in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 16.23. She placed second in the 300 hurdles with a time of 47.28. She help her relay team win second in the 400 meter relay with a time of 49.99, she also helped her relay team win the 1600 meter relay with a time of 4.09, barley missing the State Track Meet record of 4 minutes .04 seconds. She was also second in the Long jump, 16-10 by one inch (winner was 16-11) Melissa actually jumped 17 feet but her butt hit two inches behind her feed, barely. And last but not least she was third in the high jump, jumping 9 feet 8 in. Lets add all that up, 1 first place finish, 4 second place finishes, and 1 third place finish, Wow, pretty impressive for a shrimp. It's amazing how long her strides are with those short legs, she's all muscle though, it makes me jealous! Why didn't I get the athletic genes??

I Wish I was a Dog

A poem by Shel Silverstein

(I found his book in my closet last night and thought I'd share a few)

Lazy

lazy

lazy

lazy

lazy

lazy

Jane. (Banjo)

She (He)

wants

a

drink

of

water

so

she (He)

waits

and

waits

and

waits

and waits
and

waits

for

it

to
rain.

This is How I Feel

This is how I've felt the last few weeks...

Rain

I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.

I step very softly,I walk very slow,
I can't do a handstand--I might overflow,
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--
I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head.

Shel Silverstein