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Gonna trade this weather: For this weather: It is hot as balls out. Gah! - mobile blog post. spelling irrelevant.

As a spur of the moment thing I decided to have a few peeps over for a summer dinner party. I'm going to TRY to keep it simple but with a flair for summery times. The weekend is mellow so far, I think we do so much during the week we forget about weekends. Don't forget it's the weekend.

On Tuesday we checked off something on the summer checklist. We owed dad a Father's Day so we took him to the California Science Center so we could check out the Endeavour  in person.  I didn't know anything about this museum and the majority of it seems like it's a hands on place for little kids to check out experiments and stuff like that but it had a cool flight and space exhibit including a special section just about the Endeavour and the space shuttle program. They had this incredible moving footage of all the launches for all the shuttles playing in tiny little squares around the same times they would have taken off. Of course, there is a heartbreaking element to it since we lost the Challenger during takeoff and that's part of the footage. There's a video of bringing the Endeavour to the California Science Center and when it was paraded all over Los Angeles for few days to set you up. And then there she was. Beautiful as all get out. After the shut...

Next week begins the month of July and with the month of July comes a special anniversary that began last year in Colorado. Yup, I've been playing golf for a year now. We don't go out weekly or even monthly. Lately, with copious amounts of free time we've been hitting the course pretty frequently. It's pretty easy to golf when you have a permanent built-in golf buddy but golf has opened up our world to new friends to play with. Work friends even! I'm at the point with the game where I'm hitting the balls in the air and moving along faster than when I started but I'm still in that honeymoon phase with the sport and am happy to just go out and play and get a solid hit or two in. Any day on a golf course is a good day as far as I'm concerned, regardless of how I play. Right now my technique is based completely on reading Golf Digest and watching people play and seeing what they're doing and trying to imitate it and the next step will be prope...

The other day we went to the driving range up near where we live and it goes up the hill that overlooks the city of Burbank. The sun was setting and I took this panorama shot. I had no idea there was such a neat little spot for a view of our town. Have we mentioned enough how happy we are here? It was scary to leave behind the place we loved so much but this is home now and we wouldn't have it any other way. This weekend is all about golf. At 1pm today a gal pal and I are doing 9 holes and tomorrow Fatz, Dan, Matt, and myself are doing 18 holes up in Lost Canyons Golf Course. I'll be breaking in my new golf shoes today so they can cut it with the boys tomorrow. Wish me luck! Have a great weekend everybody.

As you know, I take summer very seriously. It's like a religion to me. Because of all the outings and activities, the house hasn't gotten the lovin' it's been needing which is kinda the point of this blog.  So... after me and Jillian do our thing, today we're planning on tackling the shed since it's a crazy mess out there and doing some yard work. The bush in the front turns out not to have been dead and is actually all pretty now. Do you guys want posts of my summer activities? I'll recap the wedding and other things if you want.

The reason for the big guest closet organization was because I wanted to take care of something else... BAM, painted it.  I wanted to surprise Ambre who was coming to town with a newly painted guest room. And then she couldn't come into town so surprise Am, here's the room you were gonna stay in! Here's the thing though. After I'd prepped it and everything and started cutting in the paint, I had a freak out about the color. Holy crap what am I thinking?! Did I just make a huge mistake? The paint color is purple-y gray and the furniture is gray. And the bedding. Gah! Freak out! By then it was too late, I had to just keep going. It's actually just light enough to contrast with the furniture so it's not as bad as I thought. Don't get me wrong about the paint color itself, I freaking lurve it. It feels a little drab but maybe, that's okay since I wanted to de-girlify the room and having it muted like this sorta works? There's so much I put o...

In preparation for summertime guests, I finally spent some time in the guest closet. It's a LOT better. I can see! Things! I have a boatload of stuff for the nieces so they all ended up in here. Blocks and such, a telescope that sucks butt. My mother in-law retired from teaching and she donated stuff to the niece pile too. Especially a MASSIVE collection of books, which I unboxed and put into this bookcase that was formerly in the office and I learned that I'd been using it wrong and it was leaning on it's side.  Anyway, there they are on display.  Please don't ever buy me children's books. I'm seriously set for life. Plus the ones in the cabinet! And again, the best thing is being able to see the floor again. Woo hoo. We did something else to this room too...