Month: August 2012

Closet II

Turning A Spare Room Into A Dream Closet (Or Why I Have The BEST Husband Ever!)

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(I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and I was going to put this in my last post about my husband being a handyman, but figured it needed a post all by itself.)

The seed was planted when I was a sophomore in college and visited a friend living in another state. While I was there, she took me to visit two of her other friends. They were sisters and lived in a very nice house with their parents. They shared a room (which I found odd for a seventeen and nineteen-year-old). The reason they shared a room though was they’d turned the other bedroom into a dressing room! It was filled with racks of clothes and had a huge mirror. I remember it was a mess in there but the fact that they had an entire room devoted to their clothes and shoes and purses and stuff was pretty awesome to me.

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My Husband, The Handyman

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Right now, I’m sitting in the house writing and my husband is outside mowing the lawn. It’s been six months since our wedding and I am really enjoying calling him “my husband”. I still say sometimes: “I can’t believe we’re married!” and I mean that in a good way.

He’s like one of those husbands on TV…well the good type not the “Everybody Loves Raymond” type…he does all the stereotypical husband things like takes care of the lawn, take out the trash and build stuff!

My dad wasn’t the manual labor type at all. He wasn’t lazy in any sense of the word, but he would much rather buy something than build it. He always said his time saved was worth more than any amount money he would spend paying someone to do it for him.

My husband is the complete opposite in this regard. He loves building things! It’s something I never really valued in a man because I didn’t know any better. I’ve never known anyone to put this much manual labor into their life for fun. Now, I think it’s one of the best things about him. Continue reading →

#30in30 Blog Challenge

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I haven’t written anything on this blog in more than a month, but I don’t feel as bad as I should because I HAVE been writing! Every day as a matter of fact. (Check me out on MadameNoire.com!)

I’ve been writing for other publications too and I’m planning to write for many more. I’m still pursuing a job in broadcast journalism but writing is my other love and I feel so blessed to write for a living. Of course, I’ll be even more blessed when it’s a lucrative living!

The reason I’m back to this blog is that Aliya S King inspired me to do a challenge called #30in30 or #WriteLikeCrazy and basically that means I’m supposed to update my blog every single day for the whole month of August. I realize this is August 3rd so really this is my #28in28, but hey it’s better than 0 in 30! I may write two extra to make up for the past two days.

I want to improve as a writer and the way to do that is to a) read ridiculously good writing on a regular basis and b) to write often.

So this is the first of many blogs I will write this month. I won’t write them all here because some blogs won’t fit the theme of this space. My Tumblr page is severely neglected so I may show some love over there by writing some celebrity posts or other random things. Doesn’t matter as long as I write every day!!

Wish me luck! And come back tomorrow :-)