Shifting Gears   Baby Boomer…Member Life 2.0…Wife, Mother, Grammie…Bicyclist…GoldWinger…Mensan…Girl Scout…Reader…Knitter…Rotarian

I’m taking the easy way out today – stole this quiz from the blog of a friend.  It’s another quiz that basically asks questions for which no one cares about the answers.  But for my 1-2 faithful readers, they will know I made an attempt to blog today – and yes, I know it’s lame.  [...]

The bathroom is 99.9% finished and I feel like I’m living in a new home.  Same hubby, same dog – but now two rooms have been renovated.  At this rate, we’ll be done around 2030. It’s hard to remember how butt ugly the old bathroom was.  The colors were ones I would never have chosen [...]

This evening we were asked to be judges for the Pizza on Parade event hosted by the Rotary Club of Nixa.  It was their second year for this fundraiser and this club had their act together – it was well organized and they had bouncy houses for the kids and chair massages for the adults.  [...]

President Obama loves us – or wants our vote in 2012 – or both.  This week we received notice that in about a month we will each receive $250 as part of the economic recovery bill. Why? Because we receive Social Security benefits.  It’s not because we need the money or have an obligation to [...]

The bathroom project is moving full steam ahead and the end really is in sight.  No joke! The vanity went in a couple of days ago and is a perfect fit.  Of course it didn’t just slide in on its own – it managed to take a small chunk of drywall with it but I [...]

The bathroom project got a bit of a break today.  The tile grout had to cure until mid-afternoon which meant we couldn’t even walk on it – oh darn! Burl left early for breakfast with his motorcycle buddies and then they took off on a long ride to enjoy a spectacular spring day.  I did [...]

The new tile is now in the bathroom – still hasn’t had the grout put in but at least it’s on the floor and I love the way it looks – clean and bright.  The lighting in the bathroom is insufficient to do the floor color justice but it’s a very light gray and the [...]

Women of Substance met again tonight and this time we chose Gilardi’s Italian restaurant.  We figured on a Monday night it would be relatively slow and quiet.  Boy were we wrong! The main dining room is closed while the floors are being refinished so we were in the side dining room which lacks the ambiance [...]

I stole this post from Tammy’s blog and offer it to anyone who wants to steal it from me and post on their blog or Facebook 1. If your doctor told you TODAY that you were pregnant, what would you say? Alert the media – I’m about to make medical history at my age! 2. [...]

In today’s installment of “The Bathroom Remodel that Seemingly Will Never End” we learn a new dance step.  You take one step forward by installing the sub-flooring and then you take two steps back when you realize the ceiling over the shower/tub has to be completely re-done and the walls need another coat. I painted [...]