Updates on Life

Well, dear friends, it has been far too long. My excuse is that one of my favorite bloggers decided to take a hiatus and so I, being the great sympathizer that I am, did an unconscious hiatus. I just didn't feel the desire to post things.

In the meantime, Brent and I have been doing quite a bit. We went up to Bear Lake over Conference weekend with my parents. It was a very laid-back weekend--we cooked and ate and played games--and watched Conference, of course. We did very little else and it was a fun and relaxing weekend. I enjoyed listening to Conference and made my own little goals to try and improve myself. Of course, three weeks later, I've slipped back a bit. But hopefully I can get back to where I want to be, soon.

We've been slowly working on finishing our remodeling. Now that we're down to the little finishing projects, things tend to drag on. Brent has been working hard on getting things fixed, while I've mostly been cleaning/organizing. For those of you who didn't know, we got an extra kitchen cupboard when we were remodeling (the company sent us the wrong size and had to send the correct one later. We just kept the odd size) and one of the big decisions was what to do with the thing. I really wanted it in the bathroom for extra storage space, but it just wouldn't work. Brent really wanted it in the kitchen, but we agreed that it just wouldn't look right if it infringed upon the eating space. He then suggested putting it on various walls but I thought it would look weird and incongruous. We finally agreed to put it in the spare bedroom closet. I know it's weird, but we do have food storage, which we were putting in the spare bedroom closet ANYWAY. I thought that at least this way we can be organized. And we are. We filled up the cupboard with tuna fish, peanut butter, corn, green beans, mandarin oranges and breakfast cereal--though the later is depleting quickly. I think I need to go shopping tonight. :)

The other thing that has been taking up a lot of our time is real estate. We have been looking at rental units and made an offer on a four-plex in Layton, which we are reasonable confident will go through. I think we will hear back by Friday night, so we will keep you posted. The place in question is a little older, but structurally sound. We feel that it needs some cosmetic attention (one unit needs a lot more than some of the others), but that our experience in remodeling should help that go smoothly. I've told Brent that I would like to be done with our condo before we start working on rental units and I think that's given him a spurt of energy in the last week or two. He also wants to be done, I think.