Range Hood - CHECK!

In preparing to sell our house we had a few repairs/changes to make. If you read my last post I composed a list in order to keep us on track.

We took off Saturday to hit all the biggies: Lowes, Home Depot and Canadian Tire. We ended up crossing a big item off our list at Home Depot by purchasing a new stainless steel range hood to replace our "out of place "white one.

This morning after a fantastic breakfast and coffee - Dave got to work (and I was the good looking assistant.)

First to remove the "out of place" white hood range.

Check...

Now prepare the stainless steel range and install (repeat until it fits in place)

Admire work

Take memorial photo of the first drill use

Notice the "We've got BIG hawks" t-shirt from 4th year in University.

GO HAWKS (almost 6 years later!)

That's one thing completed - now onto the lights!

Summer Days...So CLOSE

This summer I want to do a lot, so I thought it would be best to publicly announce, to those reading at least, my amazing-super-awesome summer list.

So without further ado and in no particular order

- Paint the spare room

- Alphabetize my books

- Install stainless steel shelves in the kitchen

- Join a beach volleyball team Signed up - start in July, one game a week!

- learn how to row Hopefully getting signed up to start in July, once a week AND a Regatta!

- Paint the kitchen

- Paint all 3 bathrooms

- Extend the patio

- Frame the basement

- Complete the wedding scrapbook

- Make Europe scrapbook

- Tend to the garden

- Go visit Nicole in Kelowna

- Continue weight training 4-5 days a week

- All inclusive vacation with friends

- Read 4 books (minimum) Between July & August

- Take Kyla swimming

- Visit with Ivan, be the best summer Zia ever!

- Try a new reciepe at least ever week (one sweet, one savoury)

- Maintain the blog with photo evidence

- Get a job for September!

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I am sure I will add to this - but I think it's quite a hefty start to an amazing summer!

I hope to revisit this list throughout the summer and then once again at the end to see how I measured up!

Tackle the world

Yesterday I did a big closet(s) clean-out. A little late spring cleaning. Feels great to purge my life of some unwanted baggage. This is a giant hurdle as I usually don't like to part from clothes since I don't have many but I decided to let go and be rid of all that "extra" stuff. I had piles of clothes of "still could fit" or "wish could fit" but as Stacey and Clinton would say - this does not help and only adds extra stress. Now I am still on my own path of finding what my body can look like free from disease and I want to accentuate this amazing change even if sometimes I wish I could take a few inches off here, loose a little there - but then again, who doesn't!

I got Dave in the mix since he is also doing some serious work to change his body and had many items to be rid of - plus some extras that I felt MUST go. Now the closets are clear, organized and we have 2 Costco bags of clothes along with a few big tickets items for re-sell.

I am trying to be a little be more productive than reactionary. I want to be able to do more, accomplish more without all that "I would really like too". Even today I came home and tackled a few items off my to do list in a matter of 20 minutes. Now with them crossed off I feel like I could tackle any hurdle - perhaps even this stack of essays in front of me...or maybe I could so something else.