Day 1: Lists of a lonely housewife

So I just dropped off Collin at the armory, he has some more military training that he goes to every summer which leaves me a lonely housewife. It was nice though that he left when he did because we just got back from celebrating our 3rd year anniversary (which I'll blog about later to pass the time) so I got the whole weekend with him all to myself before he left. I'll be honest, like every time he leaves for AT, there were some sniffles and maybe a tear shed last night but no crying! You'd think after 4 years of him leaving plus 6months that he spend in basic training a few months after we got married I would be use to it, nope.

I'm not disclosing how long he will be gone (really its not long at all) as I do not want any burglars breaking into my apt (although I am armed and ready to take names) but I have been thinking of some things to keep me busy:


1. Planning on painting and revamping this hutch that I bought for $12 at DI. I found some really cute knobs and hinges on etsy that I plan on replacing with and what about the color? I found some paint samples (below) that I really like but a bright red color might look good too. What do you think?

2. Re organzing my pantry. Only 50% of it is food, the rest is just storage and junk since we are limited on space in our apt. I googled "pantry orgranization" and found this; Look at those adorable jars! The blog I found it on, the lady actually installed another shelf and painted the walls. If I had the extra money to spend, I would do the same, but maybe some cute wallpaper would do?

3. Organizing the junk that is underneath our bed and hopefully go through and get rid of some stuff.

4. Do the exact thing as #3 but my closet. I have way too many clothes that I havent worn for years. Im pretty sure I still have a good number of clothes from highschool.

5. Same thing again, just for the guest bedroom this time and decorate it a little more. Its so blah and really our throw all and everything in room.

6. Dye my hair.

7. Aside from the hutch that I already mentioned, try and put some more color in our living room.

8. Clean the car, including the trunk.

9. Get a mail sorter of some sorts. Maybe I could find an old shutter and turn it into this:

10. Make zuchinni bread before the zuchinni's in my fridge go bad.

11. Study for my other AFAA test thats coming up in July

12. Continue teaching my indoor cycling class up on campus, which I LOVE! Anyone is welcome to come!

13. Watch a lot of chick flicks. I have already re-organized and updated my queue in Netflix. Any good suggestions?

14. Oh, and run a half marathon! June 11th!

Well, alot of organizing, cleaning, decorating and more to keep me busy. If you have any fun crafts ideas, let me know! I'll probably be asking for any tips, advice and help on how to do, find, and accomplish these fun tasks, so come back and check my blog and feel free to comment, I promise to read all of them! And for those of you in Rexburg, don't be shy... call me so we can hang out.