July In A Nutshell
July.
You’re a sneaky one, oh you merciless July – you missed me by a hair – but close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. I survived.
Though I must admit I’m feeling the affects.
July turned out to be one of the busiest, most disruptive months of the year with big changes at work and our home. Job training and furniture moving do not a happy camper make.
Speaking of camping. If I had known that July would be so crazy, I might not have signed up for Camp Nano.
But, nah, I probably would have BECAUSE WHY HOLD BACK WHEN I CAN JUST PILE MORE ON MY PLATE AND RUN AROUND LIKE A CRAZED MONKEY WHICH I SO LOVE TO DO? When in doubt, double the schedule, that’s my motto.
So let’s crack this crazy nutshell, shall we?
Business
Huge changes at work, big picture and small picture – busier for everyone – and busier for me. Lots of doors closing and doors opening, new schedules, new training – all make for some um . . . changes.
The 4th of July
Over the Fourth of July weekend, my twin and I ‘took’ my brother to see Cars 3. (Note from the Author: I forgot to mention in my June Nutshell that my twin and I went to see Cars 3 in theaters – aside from the fact that I loved it, this movie will always be special because it is the first movie that just my twin and I went to see together. #twindate.) It was fun to ‘show it to him’.
By odd circumstance, I spent most of the 4th of July proper with just my big brother (not that he isn’t completely fabulous) and we had a nice day playing games – specifically Star Wars Imperial Assault where my Jawas and Imperial Forces squared off against his Jedi and Droids.
Jawas beat Jedi – (street smarts beat the Force, apparently ‘smirks’). Though I have to admit, I surprised myself with that win. I was pretty happy that the Empire Struck Back – as it should. #EmpireFan #likesplayingthebadguy
Afterwards we had a Star Trek fest in which my brother showed me some episodes and fan films I had never seen and kept pretending like he was going to turn off an episode right at the middle of an exciting part. ‘folds arms’.
So while not exactly patriotic, we had a nice day.
Furniture Moving
Lots of fun bonding time there.
Nearly every room in our house has been turned topsy-turvy and it seems like every piece of furniture in our house has been moved – and piled hurly-burly and higgledy-piggledy around us.
Literally the only time our house and its contents has been so disrupted is when we were moving.
Fortunately, any injuries we suffered are not permanent. Extreme tiredness is only a phase. . . .
Furniture shopping . . .
Because suddenly my clothes and junk are everywhere instead of being crammed into rarely unearthed hidey-holes. Somebody is seriously disturbing the nesting grounds . . . .
After hitting a string of furniture and thrift stores in a intensive afternoon of shopping, we finally turned to the mighty Ebay. Gotta love shopping on the Internet.
No, that beautiful setting for that armoire is not my actual room – that’s a glamor shot, what your room is SUPPOSED to look like.
Took about 2 hours to build this puppy, since all the pieces came in a huge, flat box (I pity the FedEx man who had to carry it to our front door). Fortunately my brilliant engineer brother was sweet enough to tackle it with physical and mental muscles, while his Minions (my twin and I) assisted.
A new bookcase – excuse the slight messiness and no laughing at the stuffed pelican, he’s sensitive. My big sister and I put this one together TWICE because we got it wrong the first time (we are NOT engineers), but we finally succeeded in erecting it.
And this is just MY furniture folks – we had to build bookcases for my sister too. Definitely got a lot of practice in with my screwdriver this month.
DIY Projects
A pseudo-DIY project. A Pseudo-DIY project means you did it using your own money.
You’re a sneaky one, oh you merciless July – you missed me by a hair – but close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. I survived.
Though I must admit I’m feeling the affects.
July turned out to be one of the busiest, most disruptive months of the year with big changes at work and our home. Job training and furniture moving do not a happy camper make.
Speaking of camping. If I had known that July would be so crazy, I might not have signed up for Camp Nano.
But, nah, I probably would have BECAUSE WHY HOLD BACK WHEN I CAN JUST PILE MORE ON MY PLATE AND RUN AROUND LIKE A CRAZED MONKEY WHICH I SO LOVE TO DO? When in doubt, double the schedule, that’s my motto.
So let’s crack this crazy nutshell, shall we?
Business
Huge changes at work, big picture and small picture – busier for everyone – and busier for me. Lots of doors closing and doors opening, new schedules, new training – all make for some um . . . changes.
The 4th of July
Over the Fourth of July weekend, my twin and I ‘took’ my brother to see Cars 3. (Note from the Author: I forgot to mention in my June Nutshell that my twin and I went to see Cars 3 in theaters – aside from the fact that I loved it, this movie will always be special because it is the first movie that just my twin and I went to see together. #twindate.) It was fun to ‘show it to him’.
By odd circumstance, I spent most of the 4th of July proper with just my big brother (not that he isn’t completely fabulous) and we had a nice day playing games – specifically Star Wars Imperial Assault where my Jawas and Imperial Forces squared off against his Jedi and Droids.
Jawas beat Jedi – (street smarts beat the Force, apparently ‘smirks’). Though I have to admit, I surprised myself with that win. I was pretty happy that the Empire Struck Back – as it should. #EmpireFan #likesplayingthebadguy
Afterwards we had a Star Trek fest in which my brother showed me some episodes and fan films I had never seen and kept pretending like he was going to turn off an episode right at the middle of an exciting part. ‘folds arms’.
So while not exactly patriotic, we had a nice day.
Furniture Moving
Lots of fun bonding time there.
Nearly every room in our house has been turned topsy-turvy and it seems like every piece of furniture in our house has been moved – and piled hurly-burly and higgledy-piggledy around us.
Literally the only time our house and its contents has been so disrupted is when we were moving.
Fortunately, any injuries we suffered are not permanent. Extreme tiredness is only a phase. . . .
Furniture shopping . . .
Because suddenly my clothes and junk are everywhere instead of being crammed into rarely unearthed hidey-holes. Somebody is seriously disturbing the nesting grounds . . . .
After hitting a string of furniture and thrift stores in a intensive afternoon of shopping, we finally turned to the mighty Ebay. Gotta love shopping on the Internet.
No, that beautiful setting for that armoire is not my actual room – that’s a glamor shot, what your room is SUPPOSED to look like.
Took about 2 hours to build this puppy, since all the pieces came in a huge, flat box (I pity the FedEx man who had to carry it to our front door). Fortunately my brilliant engineer brother was sweet enough to tackle it with physical and mental muscles, while his Minions (my twin and I) assisted.
A new bookcase – excuse the slight messiness and no laughing at the stuffed pelican, he’s sensitive. My big sister and I put this one together TWICE because we got it wrong the first time (we are NOT engineers), but we finally succeeded in erecting it.
And this is just MY furniture folks – we had to build bookcases for my sister too. Definitely got a lot of practice in with my screwdriver this month.
DIY Projects
A pseudo-DIY project. A Pseudo-DIY project means you did it using your own money.
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