cleaning

tonight i ventured a little beyond my normal chores.  into the guest room.

oi vey.

the guest room...is where i've been harboring all my wedding stuff.  it's so embarrassing, i can't even show you a picture of it.

oh yeah, guess what?  wedding stuff doesn't just go away.  or sell itself.  or anything like that.

nope, it stays right there.  in the tubs.  where everyone put the stuff on the night of.

siiiiiiigh.

now i have a ginormous pile of stuff in my craft room, ready to be photographed and listed on etsy!  i'd like to make some money...but honestly i'm just more excited to have a guest bedroom again.

back to it.

ps - if you happen to be in the market for some milk glass, paper straws, vintage glassware, vintage table cloths, or any other thing that happened to be at my wedding, go ahead and visit my etsy shop.

pps - there is nothing listed there yet.  check back soon.

ABC's

because i have nothing witty to say today and because i'm only sorta-kinda-not-really in the mood to think of something witty to say, i'm going to be a totally follower and join in on the Blogger ABC's that are floating around lately.

here we go...


A. Age: 27 (recently 27...although not as recent as Kyle's 29th!  BWHAHAHA!)
B. Bed size: king.  might as well be a queen though, i plaster myself up against Kyle "the Heater" Shaffer.  because i'm cold blooded.  and he's constantly running a temperature.  no lie.
C. Chore you hate: ugh, putting away/folding/ironing laundry.  i don't mind actually DOING the laundry, i like a laundry-smelling house, just the putting away of it...

D. Dogs: DAGS?  YOU LIKE DAGS!?  uh, duh, these two awesome pups: Nelson and Sly dawgs.

they're my loverbutts.

E. Essential start to your day: food.  i absolutely cannot start the day without breakfast.  and caffeine.  i recently gave up diet coke (GASP!!!!) so i've started drinking tea again.  mmmm....love me some tea.
F. Favorite color:  red.  and teal.  and yellow.  and grey.  oh, COME ON, you can't ask an interior designer what their favorite color is!!  i like rainbows.  there, you happy?
G. Gold or silver: white gold.
H. Height: 5'8"ish.
I. Instruments you play: i grew up playing piano and clarinet.  i also dabbled in guitar for a while, but i only know praise songs from church.  note to self: must take up guitar again.  it's way cooler sounding than, "i play the clarinet."
J. Job title: interior designer by day, (un)domestic diva by night.  a wanna be domestic faking her way through adulthood.
K. Kids: not yet.  i'm holding out for the "Aunt Catie" position first.  it's only fair, my brother-in-law got married first, he's gotta have the kids first.
L. Live: kansas.

i like kansas.

M. Mom’s name: mary.
N. Nicknames: yeah....don't really have any.  except my friend Ty calls me Carp (originating from my maiden name).  of course, this is the same guy that calls Kyle "Patch."  because he only has one eye that works.  get it!?  :)
O. Overnight hospital stays: none so far.  i'm willing to bet i'll eventually have one.  i'm a incurable klutz.
P. Pet peeve: i only get to pick one?!?  well, since this just happened yesterday, i hate it when people touch things on the printer at work that aren't theirs.  i had to go through and resort all my crap because someone interrupted my print job to make a copy.  not. a. happy. camper.
Q. Quote from a movie: because i'm super classy, this is my favorite:

"no regrets, that's my motto. well...that and everyone wang chung tonight."
- out cold

so true, right???

R. Right or left handed: right handed.
S. Siblings: younger brother
T. Time you wake up: 6:30 or so on the weekdays.  much later on the weekends.
U. Underwear: what about underwear?  i have lots, thanks to the pretty ladies that came to my bachelorette party!
V. Vegetables you dislike: beets.  nasty.
W. What makes you run late: um, everything?  i'm constantly running late.  i blame it on the fact that i'm constantly forgetting where i put stuff, so i have no idea where the hell my keys/phone/purse are at any given time.  true story: i left my phone at work yesterday.  did i care?  not really.
X. X-Rays you’ve had: you name it, i've had it.  see letter "O".
Y. Yummy food you make: well i think pretty much everything i make is pretty yummy.  my latest triumph was rainbow cupcakes in celebration of St. Patrick's Day/Kyle's birthday.

 mmm...cupcakes.

and then i ate some with some ice cream.

to. die. for.

Z. Zoo- favorite animal: penguins!  i even had them at my wedding....

throwback thursday: week 5

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY EVERYONE!!

this week's throwback thursday picture(s) show you exactly why my mother was never able to NOT claim me as her daughter...

catie circa 1991 (second grade class picture)

digging the double shirt with the rolled sleeves...i was stylin'!

oh and my hair isn't as short as it looks, it's back in a french braid and we focused on the bangs, as everyone did in the 90s.  duh.

mary, i'm guessing around the same age.  sooo....like 1965?  feel free to shout it out below, moms.

in case you wondered, i get my freckles from my dad.  :)

for reals, yo.

tonight i'll be making some of these to take to work:

source

to celebrate a little bit of this tomorrow:

although i'll be wishing i was drinking this:

watching these guys:

beat these guys:

(please, oh please don't let us lose tomorrow....)

wearing one of these:

source

and these awesomesauce shoes:

source

sigh....being a grown up sucks.

like, totally.

at least the game isn't until 8:30, so the majority of these can come true.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

five friday faves

how's that for alliteration!?!  duh, WINNING!

side note: Charlie Sheen is totally banana sandwich crazy {mmm...bananas....mmmm....Dane Cook....}, but i love it.  it provides hours upon hours of endless entertainment to me.

and now i know i'm not the only bat-shit crazy person in this world.  {only kyle will get that joke.}

so on that note, i bring you my five friday faves - IT'S ALMOST SUMMER!! edition

okay, okay, it's not almost summer.  but it's 57 degrees outside right now and the high is 70 today and i'm doing a happy dance about it.

never mind the fact that it will be 50 tomorrow.

and i'll be patching crumbling plaster and sanding wood floors.

nope, none of that matters.

to make up for my "poor ratio of meat to green stuff" {yes, that's a direct quote from my husband.} in last nights dinner, i probably should grill him up one of these.  how i long for tomatoes though...real tomatoes.  not that crap dillons calls a tomato.

best beer brewed in kansas!  well, kansas city.  missouri.

dammit.

ready to shred some water up this summer.

 

 i'd love to be that comfortable.  i'd pay a lot of money to be that comfortable!!

i love this entire picture.  cat on bed, awesomely huge {and WHITE!} king sized bed, graphic pillows, and THOSE FRIGGIN' SWEET paper mache deer heads.

i want to go to there.

happy weekend, all!

throwback thursday: week 4

love birds.

my maternal grandparents on their wedding day.

grandpa says this isn't their car {they didn't have one}, he's pretty sure they rode a horse back home.  they did, however, pick up the mail on the way back to grandma's parent's house.  

i love my grandpa.  :)

BWHAHAHAHA!

Katie Couric Investigates the Sillies from Katie Couric

ironically, this is usually the person i refer to when i give my reasoning for not changing my nickname to Cat or Cate or Catherine to sound more "grown up".

grown up fail.