These are a few of my FAVORITE things

So I see cute blogs with favorites lists and I always discover new favorite items through them so I decided to make my own 'FAVORITES' list:

Food:
Junky ---
mmmm, there is nothing that can't benefit from the addition of kraft singles!


Interactive --
Wes & I have learned to make pasta. mmmm, so much chewier and satisfying than the dried stuff


Professional Courtesy --
Let's here it for the veggies


Activity:
UnLazy --
Love to dust, by far my favorite chore. I like chasing down the dust balls and zapping them with my magic feather wand.

Every pretty weekend we try to ride, this year we're hoping to do a couple of 40-50 mile rides

Lazy --
See my last post

Ultra Lazy --
Anything better than a bath with bubbles? Especially this bubble stuff, nirvana


Beauty Items:
My Arsenal





Store:
I'm a very predictable shopper, so I only occasionally vary from this store, but from their discounted Joe's Jeans (great for those of us who don't like showing bum cleavage)to their quirky bags... you always look unique in their clothes and they fit me better than any other store. I don't like spending a lot of time shopping (15 minutes and I'd better be done) so I go with what I know and this store is it!



Person:

The happiest, funniest, greatest guy who makes me the luckiest girl! Very convenient that I get to spend all my days with my favorite, FAVORITE!

Designing a Man Cave

Good grief will it ever be warm and sunny again? Not the point of this post but I'm just saying....

On to the Point:

I like to read in bed, lots, until 3-4am if I can do it without becoming grouchy Jen the next day.

So I have one of these


Which works until you fall asleep... and then you wake up with dents in your head from the straps, and really who needs the added forehead wrinkles.

So I thought, lamps. Genius!! I will buy some today!

I picked these:



I was quite surprised when I was met with a decided lack of enthusiasm from Wes. Quote: "Your going to make our room all girly aren't you?" Apparently these lamps are too reminiscent of a perfume bottle and don't make the man cave cut.

Wes picked these:



Which I have to admit, manly or not, are pretty cool.

Just wait till he sees what I ordered for our bedspread:



What do you think? Will it make the Man Cave cut?

Reader's Poll

So my big Christmas present this year from Wes was a painting for the mantle. I found a Pink Flloyd record cover that I thought was really cool and had Wes base a painting off of it. I think it turned out really good, and after a while I think it grew on Wes as well....at first he was not a fan????!

Anyway, I'm taking a reader's poll as to where to put the painting, I think it looks great against the red wall in the dining room, any thoughts out there in blog land?

Plus, if I put it in the dining room then Wes will need to paint me another painting for the mantle, win, win :)!

Look Mom I Can Write...or Edit as the Case May Be

I bet my mom is rolling that I edited anything! All those hours she spent proofreading my papers and correcting my there/their/they're and were/where's. She would sigh and say 'Don't they teach grammar at your school?'

So last year I spent a nice chunk of time on this project and was SOOOO happy when it was sent to the printers. Its cool to see it all complete and glossy and to see people buying it!

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BORED....no, Avoiding Charting, YES!!

I got this email from my sister-in-law and decided since I didn't have anything exciting to share that I would do one of these for your reading enjoyment!

1. What time did you get up this morning?

1am, then 2am, then 3am...Wes has the flu or something so was upchucking all night, poor guy!

2. Diamonds or pearls?

Neither! Pearls are kind of stuffy, and I read a book in high school about the inhumane diamond mining practices, and the total rip off that is DeBeers, and promised I would never wear one, and I haven't. Wes wasn't too sad when I said NO, NO, NO to the idea of a diamond engagement ring.
3. What was the first film you saw at the cinema?

First one I remember is Cinderella at the Sandcastle theatre in Bountiful, UT

4. What is your favorite TV show?

It was 'Pushing Daisies' now it's a History Channel show about underground worlds.

5.. What do you usually have for breakfast?

Kashi GoLean Crunch bar and a lite activia yogurt

6. What is your middle name?

Don't have one....seriously, Jennifer Thornock was enough of a mouthful

7. What food do you dislike?

I find peppers, cantaloupe, honeydew, celery, pickles and mustard very disturbing.

9. What kind of car do you drive?

2004 Honda Civic

10. Favorite sandwich?

Mozzarella, tomato from Panera

12. Favorite item of clothing?

Fat pants

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?

Thailand

14. Favorite brand of clothing?

Anthropologie stores

15. Where would you retire to?

The beach

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday?

My 15th. I got a bronchial infection and couldn't breathe and spent 5 days in the hospital.

17. Favorite sport to watch?

basketball

20. When is your birthday?

March 3rd

21. Are you a morning person or a night person?

Night!! 6:00am comes so early....and now I can't sleep much later, even on weekends :(

22. What is your shoe size?

6 or 6.5

23. Pets?

Our monkey Chester and his banana friend, Chiquita

24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us?

If I did I would be posting something else and not filling out this questionairre!

25. What did you want to be when you were little?

A historian...but then I figured out that I like money....

26. How are you today?

Wiped out

27. What is your favorite candy?

Don't really like candy.....Kraft singles are where it is at for me


28. What is your favorite flower?

Dahlia's

29. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to?

February 11th

30. What is your favorite pastime?

Filling out random questionairres :)


31. What are you listening to right now?

White noise, they pipe it in so we can't hear what the patient in the room next door is saying


32. What was the last thing you ate?

chicken noodle soup

33. Do you wish on stars?

When visible

34. If you were a crayon, what color would you be

Pink

35. How is the weather right now?

20 degrees and SUNNY

36. The first person you spoke to on the phone today?

Wes, to check on the status of his illness

37. Favorite soft drink?

Diet Coke

38. Favorite restaurant?

Red Iguana in SLC


39. Real hair color?

Yellow

40. What was your favorite toy as a child?

My little sister Kiersy. I could dress her up, cut her hair, put my mom's makeup on her....hours of fun!

41. Summer or winter?

Summer for sure


42. Hugs or kisses?

Kisses

43. Chocolate or Vanilla?

Chocolate

44. Coffee or tea?

Saturday morning tea w/ Wesley


47. What is under your bed?

Monsters

48. What did you do last night?

Went to gym w/ Wes, cooked dinner w/ Wes and sat w/ Wes while he was so, so sick.

50.. Salty or sweet?

Salty!

51. How many keys on your key ring?

5

52. How many years at your current job?

3

53. Favorite day of the week?

Monday, Tuesday, Wednsday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

54. How many towns have you lived in?

15

Now you know a little more about me. Feel free to copy and paste your own answers and share them!

Pics N Stuff

Night View to the tree and banister.

Night view of my fabulous lighting job.

I had these cool poinsettias framing my front door at one point....did you know they die when frozen? Who knew, so I replaced with something that will never ever disintegrate :)

Wes's Masterpiece! It started out a joint venture, but I wasn't seeing the vision. I got to be the ornament hander/chronicler instead :)

I'm not sure what happened here..? I tried to photo shop and ended up making my handsome hubby look quite devilish!

We got SNOW!! This must be a record accumulation for Nashville. This was 7am, it was melted by 10am.

My masterpiece, 1/2 completed. It was so much fun to decorate our own house. This is the first year we've stayed in Nashville for Christmas so we really got into it. See that space above the door? Next year I'm gonna figure out how to get up there to put some kind of obnoxious Santa/Snowman/Homer Simpson with a Santa Hat, etc!

So I have a BIGG wood featurey thing above the fireplace begging for art...and I just happened to have married an artist. So for Christmas I get a green canvas! J/k this is the starter coat the painting comes next...it is a fascinating process for me to get to see how a painting comes to life.

Said space above mantel w/ canvas prior to its greening.


Naked tree getting scoped out by our minions. They love sleeping under it and trying to drink the Sprite out of its feeder. I'm taking a poll: Do Christmas trees really drink Sprite, or was the Christmas tree guy full of it?

Cuz Everyone Else Is...Merry Christmas Luv the Garlands

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