Nursery, Chapter 2: Faux Board and Batten = Success

This past weekend, Josh and his little brother Jordan got to work on the faux Board and Batten, with help from instructions provided by the wonderful Thrifty Decor Chick.

As you saw in my Monday post, our walls started out plain white before Josh painted them with Valspar's "Homespun Linen" and a high-gloss white on the bottom.

Saturday, he and Jordan cut and installed some chair-rail-esque wood to put between the taupe and white paint, separating the two colors.

Which took a lot of strength from both of them considering Josh is a perfectionist with his level and Jordan is a little more handy and can usually just eyeball stuff.

Notice how Josh turns away in the pic below as Jordan hammers haha

Here the room is with chair-rail in place.

Then Jordan went hunting and left Josh to do the hard part - putting up the vertical lattice boards, specifically measured to be 14 inches a part. This would have been a LOT easier if our walls didn't have a few sag spots, thanks to their age.

And here's the finished product! I love it and it makes me so proud to consider how much $$ we saved and that my hubby and brother-in-law did it all by themselves.

Josh also installed a closet organizer in the nursery, so now it's time to fill it up!!

Wordless Wednesday: Our next-to-last home game

Just a few pictures from our next-to-last home game of the season (the real last one will be Friday, Nov. 26th against SMU).

Hubby and his rice beer (Gluten free!)

Josh & I

LP, Laura & Me... it was reallly cold.

Hello baby bump and pregnant face.

If you look really close, there are actually two rainbows in the picture above :)

Also, I swear my nose is also pregnant. It is spreading all over my face!

OCD: lyrics

I will be the first to admit that I am just a tad OCD (and by a tad, I mean just enough to drive me and the people around me crazy), and one of the many things I am obsessive about is song lyrics.

Yes, song lyrics, and yes I realize how silly it is to obsess over such a petty thing. And yes, I know that nobody likes to be corrected.

I hate to hear people just make up their own words to songs or completely butcher the words written by the song-writer or artist.

For example, Rascal Flatts (who I am not that fond of) had a song last year or the year before called "Summer Nights". My husband, who is KING of getting lyrics wrong and also king of the "we hate when lauren corrects us while we're singing" fan club, kept singing "let the igloo cooler rock your piece of paradise.".
1) that makes no logical sense, how does a cooler rock your piece of paradise?
So I just made sure I sang "let that igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise" loud enough that he knew he was wrong.... yes I am THAT girl.
We got into a very heated and albeit dumb, argument over the lyrics even AFTER I pulled up the correct lyrics on the internet (thank you, BlackBerry).

Or the song "39-21-40 Shape" by Chairmen of the Board. People are always going "youuuuu, with your 39-21-46, yes you got me going ape-ity ape over you..". It's definitely "yooooouuu with your 39-21-40 shape...". I mean General Johnson makes an obvious "P" sound at the end of that lyric so you know he's saying "shape".

Another thing about song lyrics that drives me absolutely berserk is when people don't know the lyrics so they just make weird mouth movements and musical-like noises. Seriously? You're ruining the songs for others around you, just sit there and listen or head bang or hum or something.

I think my main issue with wrongly-sung lyrics is that as a writer I can only imagine how pissed off I would be if someone miss-quoted something I wrote or didn't care enough to try to say it correctly.

Yes, I know how annoying it is to be corrected, and if I am wrong about a lyric I will admit to it, but come on people, use your brain when you sing. If the lyrics sound completely off-the-wall... you're probably singing them wrong.

So, I apologize in advance to anyone around me singing lyrics incorrectly. I usually TRY to keep my mouth shut, but by the time you've sang the same line wrong several times.... my insides want to explode and I feel so anxious I want to die, so you will probably be corrected after I find proper documentation of the correct lyric... sorry.