Confession time y’all. I’m a nail biter, yup that’s right. I’ve bitten my nails since I was a little kid and it’s a pretty embarrassing habit that’s followed me into this joke I call adulthood. I see women around me with long sexy looking nails that are all polished and perfect and I tuck my bitten and raggedy fingers into fists hoping no one will notice.

The Hotness has been trying like hell to get me to quit. Every time he sees my hand go to my mouth he startles me with an abrupt “Quit it!” But that doesn’t make a dent, in fact it only echo’s the sound of my mother reprimanding me as a child for gnawing on my digits. She obviously had no luck getting me to stop either. I feel bad on both accounts that I’m not pleasing either of these people with their small request of me.

I’ve tried to stop, in the past I’ve made it a couple of weeks at a time going cold turkey without mussing up my hands. But sit me down in front of a suspenseful movie and I’m the living illustration of why they call those kinds of movies “nail biters”. People have tried to scare me into not biting with stories of little “invisible worms” that live in my nail bed that will cause me all sorts of ills. But after 19 years or so of biting I’ve yet to contract any of the alleged diseases so I tend to brush those folks off with a wave of my chewed down hand.

For awhile I jumped on the Acrylic train and had my nubby finger nails turned into fake-tastic works of art. But that turned out to be a little too expensive of a habit for me and I ended up pulling them off and giving up the ghost.

I’d really like to stop and grow the poor bastards out once and for all. Then I’d actually have a use for the bag of nail polish that sits unused in my bathroom cabinet.

Any of y’all got some tips n’ tricks or hints on how to stop biting?

Guuuuuuuuys I keep loosing my glasses. It’s getting kinda old having to look all the time, or maybe I’m getting kinda old. Who knows. And and and, beings that I’ve been sicky-poo I haven’t kept up with my house cleaning. There’s a strange smell coming from my kitchen and I don’t know if I’m ready to find out what’s died in there. Not to mention I need to seriously take a razor to my legs becasue day-um I could sand down trees into toothpicks right now.

Is it Friday yet?

The Hotness and I bought our first house together this past June and have been undertaking the very slow and sometimes painful process of remodeling ever since. The first area of the house we decided to tackle was the hallway by the bedrooms. We re-textured the nasty orange peel walls and made them nice and smooth, tore out the cheap doorframes and then uprooted the baseboards which had seen better days to say the least. With every trip to the hardware store and every swipe of my debit card I thank god that we got the house wicked cheap *chuckle*

After all the plaster and painting we found there was one more problem. We were completely in the dark. There were no lights in the hallway, none, nada, zilch, zip. So we went shoppin’, I must have looked at 50 bazillion hallway light fixtures guys. Nothing was workin’ for me that was in my budget. I’m a picky person when it comes to the way my house looks but I’m also cheap. I work here and live here and that means I’m in this place 24/7, I want it to look perfect. I have a rather specialized taste for my decorating and the big box stores here in town just weren’t cutting it. I find myself irritated with the crowds at the home stores and every store seems to carry the same styles of stuff. I finally smartened up and resorted to the anthem of my life “Go look it up online.”

Enter Premier Lighting, a Glendale, AZ home lighting company. They have a 7,000 square foot showroom up north of me but I didn’t really want to go a-drivin’ after spending days on end working with plaster. They solved my problem in a hot minute; they do online lighting sales as well! The Hotness and I kicked back, relaxed, and split a pizza while we started sorting out things we liked and things we didn’t on their extensive website. After a couple hours of printing out pictures of their lights and holding them up to the wall we picked out the new light that would bring us out of the hallway of darkness.

We needed something medium sized that was slightly darker to accent the paint on the walls and would add a touch of decor since it would be the only thing hangin’ on that wall. Y’all, I’d like you to meet the Single Light Wall Sconce with an Autumn Dusk finish!

Ain’t She a Beaut?

I love desert inspired colors and darker hues and this piece brought both of those things together very well. After renting a house with wall scone lights in it I fell in love with this style of light fixture. They are super easy to keep clean and actually add an element of decoration to the area where it hangs. Not to mention the price was pretty good when compared to the other places I’d looked at.

The ordering process was pretty run of the mill easy-peasy. I found a hellva perk in the process, they provide free shipping on all of their products in the contiguous US! Not only was I getting a good deal, but I didn’t have to pay for shipping! ‘Effin’ Score! The next day we received an email thanking us for our business and letting us know our order had been shipped and gave me the tracking number I’ve come to love so that I can stalk my package all the way to my door. It arrived pretty darn quickly, only a couple days later I had my hot little mitts all over that light.

The folks at Premier Lighting don’t mess around with packing, I now have enough bubble wrap and packing peanuts to choke a horse. And not a single chip, dent or ding on my new light! The box also included a little booklet that explained all the nitty-gritty about the light and how to go about hookin’ it up.

The Hotness busted a hole in the wall and went to work on getting the wiring run to where we were going to install it. After the wiring was ready our new light was hooked up in under 5 minutes. If we would have had the wiring there in the first place this job would have been a total breeze. But all of our other projects take a couple days each so this 45 minute job was a nice treat.

Our Ugly Bare Wall

We put in the light bulb and flicked the switch to see the final result. Guys, I have one sexy hallway now! Lookie:

The Nice New Light all Installed

So, if you’re looking for a way to update a room with some new fixtures or are in the process of a total remodel like us go take a look at what they have to offer and consider buying light fixtures online.

I’ve got my eye on their Desert Wind Chandelier for the centerpiece of our dining room once we get to that point in the remodel. The Premier Lighting website also sports a Home Lighting Design Center for help finding what you need as well as a nifty “Build Your Own Ceiling Fan” tool so you can mix and match to your hearts content.

Great lighting, great prices, great service…I’m just…well…all lit up inside (and out for that matter) *chuckle*

Bug is still sick but working on a better post Go check out this week’s renter 3T over at her blog Stumbling Through Life With Grace…she’s got a sexy new layout for fall and is one helluva lady!

Tonight I learned a valuable lesson people. Google always has the answer. Always. It can dig your ass out of a real bind in a hurry. Love your Google, in fact go there and kiss the screen it’s on right now.

The Hotness drives a 2000 Mercedes C230 Kompressor and his battery finally ate shit and died this evening. So his daughter and I went to the auto parts store to get another one. On my way out of the garage with the old battery in hand I closed the trunk (which is where the battery lives). Little did I know that I would regret closing that damn trunk more than anything in the world.

On returning from the store with the new battery in tow we found out that the trunk will not open (with either the Key F.O.B., interior switch or the hard key in the lock of the trunk) if the battery is not present in the car. No battery=No Open. Period.

This is a major “Oh fuck.” moment for me because I was the dumbass who shut the trunk.

In my defense:

1. I’m a girl.
2. I have never owned anything even close to a Mercedes nor anything newer than 1989 which had computery/electronicy stuff in it.
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