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Making a tiny bathroom seem larger

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Since Chris has been home for the last few days with the flu we’ve had some time to talk about our renovation plans. I think we’ve pretty much decided that our upstairs bathroom will be the next room that we tackle.

I hate our bathroom. It’s so tiny! I mean, I have to turn sideways to get to the toilet as I pass the sink and bathtub. There’s only a foot or less worth of space between the two!

We can’t afford to tear out the whole bathroom and make it larger at this time. However, we can paint it a lighter color to make it seem larger, replace the dingy bathroom lighting and possibly get a smaller bathroom vanity.

We already have a very small vanity. It’s only 21 inches deep I believe, but we obviously need something even smaller. I’m thinking of getting a narrow pedestal and a basin sink that sits on top of the stand. Depending upon what we find that might give us 6 to 12 inches more space between the sink and bathtub.

I think I’ll spend sometime brainstorming later today on how I can make our tiny bathroom feel larger. Any ideas?





Fed up with our DLP TV

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Well I think it’s time for us to buy a new TV. We purchased our DLP (Digital Light Processor) television back in 2004 when DLPs were fairly new to the market. In fact, the first TV we got was a lemon. It wouldn’t even turn on and the second one that we got to replace that (same brand) worked for a total of 11 days before it ended up in the repair shop with half it’s parts needing to be replaced!

Unfortunately the store we bought our TV from, at a very high price mind you! It was close to $5000, wouldn’t let us cancel the sale after our disastrous experience with two sets so we replaced the second DLP with another brand (Samsung).

The third DLP tv set was working fairly well up until last August or so when it started making loud humming noises. It’s progressively gotten louder and louder as the months have gone by. Our set is still covered by our protection plan so we’re going to have it repaired, however, I’ve got to say that I’m completely fed up with DLP TV’s and I just want to get a new, less expensive set.

As I’ve mentioned before we’ve slowly been renovating our home. We started on the very first day that we got the house in June of 2001 and we’re still working on it. Well, actually we took a long break and there’s still half finished projects! I’m sick of looking at our half finished living room dining room, so along with getting our TV fixed and or replacing it I think we’d better get to work and finish our outstanding renovation project!

Hopefully the weather will start to get a little nicer over the next month. I don’t like renovating when it’s cold out and you can’t open windows to air out the house. Once the weather’s nice enough to open the door or a few windows for a short while maybe we’ll get to work, get the project done and then I can also get a few new pieces of furniture for the room.

I’ve been dying to redecorate and arrange the furniture in the way that I think it will look best once the rooms are finished. Hey, maybe we’ll get a membership at directbuy. You can get furniture, electronics, home decor and I believe even items like tiles and flooring for manufacture direct prices.

Getting our reno project finished, buying a new TV and maybe some new home furnishings while saving money sounds ideal to me. I guess I’d better start saving my pennies so I can get what I want, huh?

Time to get in shape

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Back in September Chris and I went shopping for some exercise equipment. I had wanted to get in a little better shape before my trip to Las Vegas last November.

I actually bought a lot of stuff. A balance ball, a Pilates DVD, an elliptical machine and some stretchy band type exercise equipment. I honestly can’t remember the proper name for the last stuff. I guess it’s resistance training equipment?

Anyway. My Crohn’s was acting up very badly last fall and while I did get on the elliptical several times I can’t say that it did much good or that I was able to put all that much effort into it. My Crohn’s has actually been quite bad even through the winter so getting into a routine never happened.

Oh and we got a puppy at the end of November too. Heck, even my blogging slowed down because of her arrival!

Now that our puppy is almost 7 months old and is able to entertain herself a little bit I think I can try to get back to using the elliptical again. Of course, spring and nice weather will soon arrive too so I’ll be taking longer walks with our dog too. Getting back to exercising and taking longer walks should help me get back into shape. I hope!

Have you purchased exercise equipment and then for some reason or another ended up not using it as much as you thought you would? I know I’ve done that a few times in the past with health club memberships!

I wonder what he’ll buy next

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My electronics and gadget loving oldest brother hasn’t sent any mass emails to family and friends lately telling us about about the latest thing he’s purchased.

Usually these emails are accompanied by at least 20 pictures of the object taken at all angles. A little overkill since most of the photos look pretty much the same as the next. Thank God I’m not on dial up anymore. It was killer to get an email from him way back when!

It’s been so long since he sent a “purchase” email that I fully expect to get one any day now. I wonder what kind of new toy he’ll have bought himself? Maybe a portable GPS system or something like that?

Do you have any friends or family members that are like that? They just have to have the latest gadgets and they have to tell everyone they know about it. Repeatedly!

It’s kind of funny really.

Should I upgrade or get a new laptop?

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I’m trying to decide whether I’ll buy a new laptop, my husband could use one, or simple upgrade the one I have. I know it would probably be a heck of a lot cheaper to simply upgrade our current laptop with more laptop memory, but having a second laptop around is very appealing too.

I guess since we don’t have a lot of spare cash at the moment an upgrade is more likely … still it’s nice to dream of things we could use isn’t it?

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