Pot stickers and Pepsi

Yesterday hit GREAT on the Richter scale.  My house is almost completed besides the laundry, office, library, and bedroom.  Woohoo!!! I was given an amazing dining room table that is absolutely gorgeous and can't wait to use it.  It is solid wood and hand crafted with two drop leaf sections.  No scratches and oh so glossy! So now I'll have more room for starters and I didn't need the huge monstrosity of a table I had unless I was entertaining.

  Speaking of entertaining, I'm pretty excited about my annual Christmas party.  My house has never looked this good.  My bathroom is only one color now (instead of three) and a pretty color at that.  I'm a terrible paint picker outer, and by terrible, I mean absolutely horrendous colors.  Baby poop green and gag me peach. (Those were my names for them).  They were supposed to be Sage and Toasted Almond.  Hahaha...They really suckered me there!  My bathroom now goes by the color Applesauce Cake and Espresso for the trim work.

I'm watching the sun rise this morning through my living room window.  Sitting here in my flannel p.j.s and snuggie, I'm quite cozy.  Sometimes it's nice to tune out of the hustle and bustle and watch something that is bigger than all of us. Colors spearing through the sky and slowly spreading!  My favorite part of beach vacations is watching the sun rise and set.  Those are absolutely breathtaking.

I'm trying to ponder just where I want my day to take me.  I could crank up the music and knock out this laundry and clean my library.  I really need to start on my craft projects.  Hmmm....who knows.  The day is early yet.  Oh geeze!  Talk about some major A.D.D. I just glanced at my title and completely forgot to tell you the best part of my day yesterday!!! For dinner, I dined on pot stickers and Pepsi, and homemade too!! They are quite an ordeal to make and I was tickled that I got them.  I froze some and put a few in the fridge for breakfast! (Oh another note about me:  I don't eat typical breakfast food unless in an odd mood or having a wild hair. I like that type of food but for lunch or dinner.  I love BLT sandwiches for breakfast! Or if I am feeling chef-esk, I toast bread and cut Havarti cheese chunks, crush up basil, drizzle honey, and slice a tomato.  Combine the ingredients together and the sandwich melts in your mouth and your eyes roll back in your head.  So good.  Better for summertime breakfast though, when you can use fresh from the garden tomatoes).

So I paid my property taxes yesterday, and that got me thinking.  I am always going to be paying the government, long after I pay off my house.  This sucks.  Plus, in the great state I am located, you also have to pay property taxes on your vehicle, new value too, until it hits the 10 year mark.  So, my awesome lil Toyota Tacoma that I just couldn't live without, costs me 300 a year for another six years on top of my payments. But oh, it's a pretty truck.  I call it my dream truck.  As does everyone else in my family, even Gran.  That's all I would talk about, back when I was driving my little '02 Grand-Am and cursing the automatic windows that always broke! Those dreaded windows made for some interesting times though.. Imagine driving down the highway in the gushing rain and praying that the duct tape didn't start to say adios...and then when it did, taking your crazy roommate out and putting almost an entire roll back on it.   So, I guess I can't complain too awful much.  But I could move a state over and only pay taxes on my vehicle one time!  Crazy!!! Ugh.

That's all for now folks.  Have a great day!