This and That

Ok, so when is my return to blogging celebration??  An intense red wine and hunk of dark chocolate is really all I need... but, feel free to order salad and pizza for yourselves!   I do still like a lot of 80s music so can you play some old Aerosmith and Duran Duran, please!?  Hey, the party might give me some incentive to keep going because blog glitches are on my last nerve. 😂 Getting photos to the post in the order and size I want is challenging.  My sidebar doesn't always update right away, and that is where I look to see who has a new post up.   Various pages I can't comment on like before.  I'd sign in, 'CrystalChick' user name ready to go!  Now, the only option on some is 'Anonymous' or putting name/URL in each time.  I've checked settings, cookies, looked for help online,  tried another browser, taken ibuprofen, and chanted with some monks.  🙏 Technology... 😖🙄  On my cell phone 'CrystalChick' seems to pop up for commenting without me doing anything.   Ok, what's the problem you ask... just use your phone.  NO!  I'm a laptop person, that's why.  Obviously, I use my cell for calls/texts, and have an iPad for other things, but cell phones screens/keypads are just too small, etc.   Ok, I'm whining.  Let's move on .... 

Here's our lovely Luna.  She was 3 last month.  Sweet, sassy, and SPOILED! 

You'd think that since my husband is a painter by trade I'd have him painting all the time.  

Not so.  We'd had that salmon color in the kitchen for maybe 11 years.  I'm not a yellow person really (accents, fine.. I did paint a small table for our bathroom a mustard color) so am a bit surprised I chose this.  Love it though!   

Before the kitchen was painted, Ron changed our living room too.   It also hadn't been done in many years, and blue is another color I wasn't always fond of.  So to have chosen cobalt for a big room... I surprise myself at times. 😏😍   Also loving how it came out. 

Taking care of the mini jungle is almost a part-time job!  Weird how we didn't have any plants inside before the Fall of 2020.  In the Spring that year I started a small patio project that just took off.  Our winters in NJ are too cold for succulents/house plants to stay outside, so it was nice to have an enclosed front porch to move most of them to.  

These require no care!  😂. I only put them on the sideboard yesterday to get a picture.  Bought them on clearance (80% off and using rewards dollars only paid $21 for the whole group!) to put away for next Christmas since one can never really have too many trees.  Even in our bungalow... I'll find places to put them! 

Happy Friday the 13th.  Have a nice weekend, friends!!

~Mary xo