Would you conisder these furniture??

I got a gift card to Home Goods for Christmas and I responded just like a kid would on Christmas day!  That was the ultimate gift in my house obsessed world!  It is possible I was running around doing this.....

Well consider yourselves lucky!  I was going to try to upload a video of myself doing the hillbilly happy dance but it is hard to videotape myself on my own on my lunch hour in my office so...YOU'RE WELCOME!!! 

And in usual fashion it was burning a hole in my pocket.
SIDE NOTE:  My dad on the other hand NEVER spends his gift cards and you can often find several lying around.....maybe I should start looking through the house a little better and see if I can help him out by spending a few!!

Sooooooo a couple days after Christmas I couldn't take it any longer and mom and I took a road trip to Home Goods (for the record there weren't any dudes trying to get us to "go drinking" with them that day).   Back in the day I wanted these to go on each side of our bed over the night stands but they were pretty effing pricey!

 However I found these at Home Goods and fell in love.  Not only were they only $30 bucks each but I also had a gift card to offset the costs!

Good lord, could somebody (ahem Denny) find me a Groupon for some photography classes?!?!!

They are very simple and just plain perfect!  Soooooooo now to my point.  When Ryan came home that night he said, "I sure hope those are your mom's lamps in the loft."   Uhmmmmmm nope those are ours honey.  He followed that up with, "I thought I told you not to buy anymore furniture until the house is done."

So, my question to you is this.  Do you consider lamps to be furniture or is it a dude thing???

What do Larry the Cable Guy, dirty rice, and travel size Hamburger Helper have in common?

Well the Dollar General.....OF COURSE.  Duh!! 

Little buddy had basketball practice in Blissfield last night and I decided to drop and run  take him into practice and then go peruse the Dollar General down the road.  For the record (I know I've said it before) Dollar General is no where near as fun as Dollar Tree.  True statement. 

Anywho I was really wandering aimlessly as I didn't really NEED anything but was sure I could kill some time instead of sitting on the hard gym floor for an hour. 

Then I found THIS!

Uhmmmm really?  Ok.......

Uhmmmmm as tasty and CLEAN as that sounds, I am gonna have to pass!

Finally I came across the "travel size" hamburger helper box that, according to Mrs. Crocker, serves about 3.  Well apparently she has never seen buddy eat Hamburger Helper cuz if she had she would have thought about that statement.....serves 1 growing 9 year old.

I am such a sucker for the dollar stores however I did NOT buy any of the above 3 items.  I did however buy some iced animal crackers, 4 deodorants (for a dollar of course), and some cleaner.  I got so caught up in the magic of The Dollar General that I ALMOST bought these!

Don't you fret, thought, this fashion disaster was avoided!

Grandma Peg is banned from buying beer!

Apparently when my mamacita buys beer, the dudes start coming out of the woodwork! 

Grandma Peg and I made a pit stop on our way home from work the other night to pick up some steaks.  Well I bought mom a couple things the other night and in her usual fashion she was insistent in buying something of mine to make us even.  Sooooooo she grabbed this out of my arms to pay for it.....

As we were walking out there was an explorer full of questionable dudes that said to my mom, "you ladies lookin' for somebody to drink with?'  Bwwhahahahaa I am soooooooooooooooo sure!!

Annndddd here is mom locking the door as fast as she could.  I really wished I could have captured the looks on our face when they said that. 

As you can tell I was rather amused by the situation and told mom that she needed to stop trying to pick up random dudes while we were out and about.

All I know is mom is not longer allowed to buy beer......she better stick to the white zin!

I am back to granite....

I've gone from granite to quartz, and quartz back to granite!  Who knows, I could still change my mind yet but I think I am back to being sold on the granite.  I have passed this place called Royal Granite several times on Michigan Ave. in Ann Arbor.  I decided I was going to hit the showroom today and see what they have.  It seemed like an especially good idea since we were under a winter weather advisory (I don't often think things through).

The place is very small and I didn't know what to expect but I was very pleasantly surprised.  I believe the guy I was working with was the owner and he was very knowledgeable and helpful.  The thing I loved the most about this granite stop (believe me I have priced MANY granite places) was that they had full slabs onsite.  Believe me, that makes a HUGE difference.  You can really get a good feel for what the actual full size counter top will look like.  Adrian sold me on this color.  It is a premium granite but since the distributor sells alot of this color he can get it for the same price as the cheaper granite.....installed of course.

This is the color I picked out for the kitchen:

They also carry marble and that is really what I want for our master bath and he had just what I was looking for:

I don't love the veins in this slab but I could pick out my slab.  Then for some reason the owner was trying to talk me into this granite color for our bath instead of the marble.

Eh, it is pretty but I really want the marble.  This picture makes it look pretty light but it was a bit darker in person and I was worried that it would be too dark with the gray slate floor and black vanities.
HOWEVER, those of you that know me well enough know that money talks....soooooo if that granite was WAY cheaper I might be able to be convinced.

Anybody have any experience with the carrara marble?  He said it was a little more fragile......

Get your saws fired up.....

I went to Lowe's a couple weeks ago to price out some marble for our master bath and I stumbled upon a screamin' deal!  I know, I know hard to believe right?  (Ryan is really tired of me stumbling onto deals).  My bringing home deals days are numbered.....since I REFUSE to pay for another storage unit. 

Ok, back to the point.  While I was at Lowe's I noticed these granite composite counter tops that were all one piece.  They had the sinks nicely molded in and I loved the look.  As you know I already have the kids' vanities ( I don't think I ever shared a picture though) and I have just been waiting to buy the tops until I found a good deal.  Well, while my Lowe's BFF (Eric) was pricing my marble he saw me eyeing the other vanity tops.  He then kindly pointed out a $1,200 special order granite composite double vanity that had been returned.   As I got closer I realized that they were the perfect color.....

Here is the wide view:

Now here is an up close and personal view of one of the sinks:

Obviously I was NOT paying 1,200 bucks for this double vanity but the clearance price of $150 was my kind of deal!  However there was one little catch....this baby is just shy of 9 feet long.  The kids' vanities are each 30 inches wide sooooooo that means get your saws fired up b*tches!!  Now Eric told me what kind of saw I would need to use, but do you think I could actually remember?  Eh, that's Ryan's department.

Since I couldn't fit it in my Jeep I had to wait for Ryan to get his truck and come back with me.  Of course they told me they would put it on 2 pallets and shrink wrap it and have it waiting for us on Saturday morning.......

I'll save the trip to pick it up for another post ;)

Any infinite wisdom on what kind of saw we should use?????