Change of Scenery

Happy Friday! Its not a great day... cold, windy, snowy. Blech. Started the day at work. Drove home and napped with Oscar, then met my mom at the gym to log some miles on the treadmill. 3.2 miles today.

This summer I plan on following this running schedule. I used it last fall, just to challenge myself. It'll help get my speed and endurance back up, which is important if I want to run a 10K in the fall and participate in the Warrior Dash!





Let's brighten up the day with some pictures!


My husband and I moved at the end of March. We moved from an upstairs one bedroom apartment to a two bedroom duplex. We are pretty settled by now. There's just some boxes and bins that I need to organize yet. I'll get around to that... sometime :)

When we first looked at the place, I thought it was ugly. Haha. The main problem was the way you were hit over the head by bright pink once you walked in the front door.







Thankfully, the landlord painted for us. He is very nice and let me choose paint colors. So I gave him three paint samples. I found out that he only really meant for me to pick one color for the living room and bedrooms. Whoops! Communication error. But apparently he's too nice to tell me 'no,' so when I handed him three different colors, he just went along with it.


I may as well give you a quick tour. These are panorama shots from my phone so they're a bit blurry and a little wonky but you get the idea.

When you walk in the front door:

If you come in through the garage:

The bedrooms were a dingy off white color. Here they are now:

Probably the best part of the house is the fenced in backyard. We were really lucky to find a place with such a nice backyard. Oscar can run around out there to his heart's content.

We're going to have to learn how to take care of a yard... starting with buying a lawn mower. But there are also random plants growing in very random places. Apparently a previous owner had severely over planted the yard and our landlord spent years clearing out hedges and other plants.

We are happy to get the benefits of living in a house, but also the perks of having a landlord to call when things like this happen. Water in the basement, running in through a window!







Luckily it was an easy fix (gutters were clogged which led to water building up in the window well) and there's been no problems since. Which is good with all the rain we've been getting.


So my projects for the house include finishing up unpacking and organizing, getting some stuff to hang on the walls, and cleaning up the yard- there's dead plants and sticks and stuff like that.


Well, the snow seems to have stopped for now and the sun is peeking out!! I hope everyone has a great weekend! Not much on my schedule this weekend except a hair appointment and grocery shopping tomorrow, and a gym date with my husband on Sunday. Maybe the weather will cooperate enough for a cookout? We'll see!

Adios~