Life in Color — a scrappy Log Cabin quilt block pieced in pink and green prints.
  • For all of you who recommended Nancy’s yogurt and probiotics, I thank you. Man do I feel better. Like so much better. It was rough going there for a while, especially for Bj who had to go get me everything, go to the post office for me, clean up, ah he’s the best! And now that I’m feeling better I had to get my butt in gear (as my mom would say). I spent the morning cleaning. Vacuuming, dusting, cleaning mirrors, and scrubbing the floors (vinegar FTW!) to get ready for….
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    Our new furniture!!! Oh my goodness do I love it so. Yes I do! Now hush all you who are going to say terrible things about our foolishness with white. Here is the thing. We do realize that it is white. That we are going to be careful around it. That we will not eat in here (can I get an amen, I am sick of eating in front of the telly). I do know that I have an almost two year old god-daughter, but still I believe we can keep it clean. However we do have a back up plan. We got our pieces sprayed with some kind of repellent, and we also got an additional warranty just for the cleaning part. It lasts for ten years, and if you get anything on the piece they’ll come out and clean it. If they can’t then they replace the cushion, or chair, whatever. If the fabric’s been discontinued than they will replace all three pieces. Sound too good to be true? Well one of Bj’s co-workers has Ethan Allen furniture, and has had for years, they got the same warranty and had no problem using it. Apparently the only thing it doesn’t cover is sweat. How funny is that. And kinda gross. Who sweats that much on a couch. So the only bad thing is we were not able to sell our old furniture in time. This is mainly because they were so early getting our furniture to us (which would usually be great). So if you’re in the market for some heavy duty (and HEAVY, right Brent?) pink couches let me know. They are seriously sturdy. Old school type springs, so never gonna sag, and can be recovered. Anyway I’ve been up to other tricks as well, like scrapbooking, a lot. I’m going to work on a proper light box (for Ribbon Jar) and use that to take pictures of all the layouts, eventually. I’m behind on a few things right now!

    But thank you again for all the get betters and good advice!

    What was that? One more shot of our awesome sofa, if you insist:
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    Next up funky pillows!

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  • Late last week I got a bad infection. Had to go to the doctor’s ("oh Mrs.Garrison where is grandpa?" the receptionist asked me), and got some generic antibiotic. I was feeling better. Good enough to go hang out in Portland, and visit the newest to join the just engaged crowd:
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    My dear friend Tex! This makes six of my friends engaged right now, goodness it’s great to be surrounded by so much happiness! She joins Kay, Kristen, Kathy, Sara, and Britt! Whoo hooo! After hanging out with her all day, and walking everywhere (which totally killed me that night, yikes, I am out of shape), I went out to dinner with Paula and her friend. Fun, fun. A little place downtown talking and eating. I love evenings like that. Unfortunately when I got home I realized that the combination of all the walking, plus infection, plus antibiotics was making me feel terrible. I did manage to get to sleep after much wiggling. A couple nights ago I actually slept on the couch because I felt so sorry keeping Bj up with all my kicking and not being able to get comfortable.

    But last night was the worst. It turns out antibiotics kill lots of bacteria, including the kind that keeps everything working nice, digestion wise. So I have been just UGH, like seriously. This is exactly what I feared would happen someday. I would get super sick before a jar release day, and not be able to work and get the newsletter and jars out. Well that happened, so if you are looking for them tomorrow I made a note that they won’t be available until next week. Now excuse me while I go whimper some more to Bj and make him rub my belly.

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  • Yesterday was our first anniversary. Thank goodness that year is over! Who knew it would be so insane, so crazy, sad, happy, confusing and everything in between. I really thought we would just throw all our stuff in the same house and everything would be happy go lucky. If you’ve read for a while you know that’s not how it turned out, but you know what? I wouldn’t change anything. Bj and I are who we are because of it all.

    The last two nights we spent at this little hot springs resort (thanks mom and Bill!) in Bonneville (near the dam). It was so nice, we really did nothing but go in our hot tub like eight times. It’s full of water with minerals and no chlorine (that we could smell or feel anyway), so you can get in and out as much as you like. Last night we were laying in bed talking about how we got to where we are. We were being pretty mushy about how much we like each other, and what we first thought of each other. I told him some of what I wrote in my journals seven years ago (generally, "Oh Bj is so cool, he’s so good looking… HE ALMOST TOUCHED MY HAND!") and we talking about our favorite moments in our relationship. Hands down our road trip after we graduated. 10,548 miles around the United States. We both knew after that we could do anything. We laughed about the bad campsites, and the crazy people. The weird sights, and good luck. It was so fun to reminisce. We decided we have it pretty good. Gosh I love that guy! Today on our way home we picked up our cake:
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    I thought you weren’t going to have a piece Bj? I can’t believe just a year ago I was getting married, eating this cake, and dancing like crazy. Oh and to dispel a rumor I heard, no our cake did not cost thousands of dollars (it was like $750, yes, even with all those hand painted flowers. Hello I shopped around). The bakery where we went (Joseph’s; no web page) gives you a gift certificate for a free cake on your anniversary. They are all into freshness and don’t want you to save the top (no problem, I ate the top the week after the wedding). Mmmm so good.

    As if my day couldn’t get any fantastic starting off with a hot tub and having a cake break I went to the local office supply store to see if I could get some more dividers for the drawers I’m organizing my photos into. Not only did they have those, they had all this:
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    I brought the clips on a whim thinking maybe they could order them for me (love local merchants they’ll order anything for you). But they had three dozen just sitting there. Had a total Amber freak out moment. Also I got some of those alphabet tabs (but you can change the green part). They are the same kind as the ones I got vintage and used in my Alaskan scrapbook. That long thing at the bottom is a customizable tab. Like the Avery kind, only you cut it to any length. No idea what I’m going to use that for, it just seemed to be calling my name.

    I have 9 binders all done now:
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    They are so tall I don’t have room to keep them together:
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    Time to print more pictures. But before I go through my library of photos on the computer again I had to have a little fun first:
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    After all the photos are being put in there so I’ll use them!

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