Hot Dog!

GOSH! It's hot today. But mom spoils me and she brought me to her office today. Now I just need to find a cool place to rest.

Maybe under mom's desk. Oh yeah, that feels better.

On second thought . . . maybe I'll just sprawl out on the floor!

Stay cool everyone! Woof!

-Sydney

Wonderful Husband!

Yeah, so I never came back "this weekend" to blog about our life. I'll catch up, someday. But life doesn't seem to stop long enough for me to blog about it!

So, last Wednesday Ryan had to go down south somewhere for work. On his way home he stopped in Seattle and picked up these!!!

Does my husband know me or what?!?! There is no faster way to my heart than with a cupcake! These ones happen to be from my fave cupcake shop, Trophy Cupcakes. The one in the lower left is Snickerdoodle! I had never had that one before. It was delicious!!!

Boy do I love him!

Then I came home yesterday to this . . .

How domestic is it of me to get excited about a new sink?!?!

Ryan's plan when I left yesterday morning was to replace the faucet. The old one was leaky and falling apart. Well, the old sink was just about as bad as the old faucet so he just replaced them both. I love them! The new sink is way deeper than the old sink which is really nice for washing big pots and pans. And the nozzle on the new faucet detaches to rinse and spray in all directions.

Cupcakes and a new sink! What more could a girl want! :o)

Post-It Love!

Happy Friday!

(via A CUP OF JO, via Le Love)

I love this! It kinda reminds me of my own office romance! :o) Sorta. Kinda.

I'll be back this weekend with a few posts on our lives lately.

Power is good!

Since buying this house in 2005 I have had many "happy homeowner" moments.  Some not so happy.  The electrical panel and wiring are a bit suspect thanks to the previous owner.  Every electrical project I've done has turned into an ordeal and way more work than anticipated.  As much as I would love to rewire the entire house, I don't think it's on the current list Tiffany so often refers to. The cost is just too much at this time.

Well, we were able to do part of the job this week.  Today the service panel was replaced along with changing the meter and mast location.  This is a good starting point because now this house is upgraded to 200 amp service, has a good panel with new breakers, has organized wiring inside the panel and not the pile of spaghetti that was there before, and the work has been done by a professional - something the old panel obviously lacked.  From here we can rewire the house as we can afford it since we have fixed the main hub of the system.

Behold the nastiness of the old panel.  Tiffany commented that today the electrician could be heard numerous times wondering aloud "what's going on here?" and "why is that going there?" along with "what is that doing there?".  Those are all terms I don't really care to hear a guy say as he's fiddling with the wiring on my house.

And here's the shiny new panel install.  You can see the big conduit at the bottom of the box heading off to the left towards the outside.  That's where the new meter location is, about 3 feet from the panel as opposed to the 30 or so feet away where the meter used to be.

This is the work that was done outside.  The meter used to be on the opposite side of the house from this spot.

And this is a picture of our super ferocious watchdog as the strangers were here working on things.  Clearly she's on high alert.  I sure am glad our house is safe!