Growing Up

I'm not a neat person by nature.  Eventually I get around to cleaning and I like having a clean house, but I'm not neat by nature.  What I am is lazy, but I digress...  With my tax refund, I picked up something in an effort to attempt to help me with my laziness neatness.  As a effort to grow-up, I purchased a 2 drawer lateral filing cabinet. 

The cabinet, which I got on "sale" at Office Depot and with a coupon, is supposed to look like the one pictured above.  Instead when I got it home, it looked more like this...

A million pieces ALL over my floor.  I've put together a ton of furniture before in my life, but this one was CRAZY!  I broke a sweat putting this sucker together, but in the end, I succeeded!  Then came the truly rough part, filing about eight million pieces of paper.  I select the paperless option on everything I can in an effort to streamline my life, but I still seem to be drowning in paper.  Ugh.

I had a random file box, hey, it was cute, and a plastic tub that housed all of my junk.  Now it is finally labeled and sorted in two really cute drawers and when closed, doesn't scream file cabinet.  I'm thrilled!

Sooooo much better

My hallway, with the addition of the caulking on the trim is almost finished.  I still have plans for can lights running the length of the hallway, but...  Anyway, as you can tell, when I moved in, the entire house was painted an awful shade of mint green.  AWFUL!  They painted everything, ceiling, trim, walls and part of the carpet.  While I might not be the best painter (I'm well known for cutting in my cut in.) I do know that ceilings, walls, trim and floor shouldn't all be the same color.  What do you think of the before??

 

And now the after...

Thoughts?

I have a peeping tom...

Last week I happened out back with my parents and it was pointed out to me that someone has been watching me!!  I never even noticed him.  Now, before you call me a fool, can you spot him?

See?  Not so easy is it?  There he was, all day lazying around watching me.  Now, if you don't believe me and think I'm making it up, here he is again.  Stretched out and eying me.  Hmmmm, what to do...