Beds, Haircuts and Living Life!

So, today was the day that I decided I had to get on with the next item of my to-do list and that was go bed shopping. We NEED a new bed, this one is getting soft spots in it. My husband has given me the "I will be happy with whatever you chose, dear, just go do it" speech, so I decided that I must get this crossed off the list. So, I rambled around the city today, looking at beds, listening to salesmen talk to me about beds, laying on beds, and trying to make a educated decision about a new bed. I would personally like a king size bed but unfortunately, our bedroom isn't set up for one. There are many kinds of beds out there!!! I did come to a decision however, based on information given to me and keeping in mind our budget that we had for a new bed. Sears has a sale on right now and I think we got a good quality bed, firm but comfy and we have 60 days to decide that we really like it and will keep it. So that was done, crossed off the list! I had an appointment to get my hair trimmed, to me a trim means just alittle off the ends, however, to a hairdresser, it seems to mean, cut off as much as you can get away with!! I do like my hair alittle shorter but it always seems to be just about where I like it when it becomes alittle unruly and I think, just alittle off the ends would be good, so I go for a trim and almost always come away unhappy. Thank goodness, hair grows!!
We have windows that have wooden frames, that was the thing to get when we built our house, now there are vinyl clad windows, they would be so much better, but when I inquired about how much it would be to get our windows done, it was very expensive, we could amost put in new windows for what it would cost, so today I went to the paint store to find out what I could do with them. I found some stuff to paint on them, after I wash them with bleach and the tsp! It's going to be alittle bit of work methinks, to get them looking good!
I started my fall housecleaning this week, I am almost through all my cupboards, washing, re-organizing and purging! I have a few boxes to go to community living. I have been through most of the closets too. I am really thinning things out. I am being ruthless!
I have been trying to get some scrapbooking done as well. I have picked up Stacy Julian's PhotoFreedom book again and am trying to organize my photos as well as get a few pages done. I am not getting much done for either task!! I signed up for a class on-line at Big Picture Scrapbooking, doing a book about myself. My dh and I had a road trip to Lethbridge this past weekend to see his brother. We had a few hours on the road to discuss alot of things, we were just about at Lethbridge when we realized we had gone the entire way without the radio on or any other distractions!! We had alot to talk about! He has been so busy this summer that we haven't had our usual times to relax and enjoy each other's company. We did have our little vacation to Niagara Falls, but that was different, there were other things to talk about and we were doing the "tourist stuff" as well. anyway, I digress, we started talking about leaving our stories behind for future generations and of course that lead to my scrapbooking and how I scrap our kids and our vacations but I don't really do anything about us and our childhoods. so we thought we needed to do something about that. He really doesn't have alot of photos of him as a child but he has lots of memories that we could write down. We are going to try and get something done about that this winter when he has alittle more time. It has been put on the to-do list. The one for both of us!! We are working our way through a bucket list too! We have our trip to Europe booked and sort of planned for March 2010. That was close to the top for the bucket list and I am quite excited about going.
Well, this post has become quite long and if you have stuck with me this far, I thank you. If you got bored and left, well, I do understand. I just needed to get some of my thoughts down, if you know what I mean. I am doing a mini photography course on the Flickr site and I need to do a study of light for this week so I must go think about that now! It's cloudy and cool outside so today might not be ideal for this little assignment! But I can plan.