My dear readers I am OUTRAGED. Cookie monster is going on a diet. No it’s not the chocolate chippy carb fest we grew up with. Details are still sketchy but the blue fuzzy monster has been spotted around town with fruits and veggies. Cookie Monster was my strong hold as a child. When faced with something brussel sprout like I would pretend I was cookie monster eating cookies.. Now how is one to avoid those awful moments when faced with a nasty buffet and a beaming hostess eagle eyeing every move? Normally I’d go to that happy monster place in my head, but these days all I can imagine is Cookie making out with a tomato or caressing a carrot - a rather disturbing thought. Instead I’ll have to gag down something unidentifiable and skidaddle off to the potted palm to retch in peace.

List update: I have emptied the girls bedroom to be of most furniture, worked on the mural today and am close to completion in that arena. We bought the paint for the livingroom (which will eventually be a dinning room) as well as special paint for the kitchen cabinets. DH also made a large purchase to screen in the porch (but we wont talk about that… it involved a downpour and the screen/storm door flying out of the box and getting damaged, much cursing ensued). Tonight we are going to sand bunkbeds and maybe even paint them if we can.. Oh yeah revving my engine! Anyone who hasnt put in a guess yet may do so in the post below. If you guess how many things i’ll finish on my to do list in the next 10 days i’ll devote a whole post about your sites awesomeness