TGIF ..... finally

Thank goodness it's Friday ... whoever came up with that phrase was on the money about the feeling this day brings to the work week.  I like my job even though the drive sucks (1.5 hrs/day) but it is nice to get a break.  I have not forgot about adding more pictures of my den ... I just can't seem to find the time to write on weeknights.  It will get easier as I go along but I still get flustered because I cannot figure this whole blogging thing out yet. 
Anyway, I hope to completely finish the room tomorrow because I need to paint .... it is therapeutic for me and keeps the joints moving.  Plus I just joined loseit.com which is an online weight loss program and I can work off some of my daily calories painting......up and down the ladder is a good exercise.  The program works like another popular online program in that you can eat whatever you want but you have to stay under your daily caloric intake.  When you join, you enter your current weight and your goal weight and you choose how fast you want to lose and it figures up how many calories you can have in a day.  You then add in what you eat and most every food you can think of is on there and you also add activities that you do .... I just joined yesterday but if I stick with the program, I will get to my goal weight by June.  It is not healthy to lose too much too fast.  Now if I can stay away from cupcakes and cookies I will be good .... or else I can eat two cupcakes a day and I would probably be done. I can have 1470 calories a day, that is not bad. 

Now for a few more den pictures .... as you look at these my goal is to have the room look coastal because I do like the beach (though I like the mountains MUCH better) and the room was already decorated nautical but it was a little boring.  It needed some personality and I think that Anita and I have managed to add that nicely.

As you know, I love thrift stores and yard sales and anything that is shabby chic.  Anita brought me a present the first day we painted ...... the perfect addition the the room to give it :the look" I was going for.  Check out this chair.  I love the chipped paint, the look of the beach and that is looks weathered.  Funny thing is that when my husband saw it, he was like "That is nice, it will look good once you sand it and paint it" ..... so not happening.  LOL 


I will post the rest of the pictures tomorrow.