Hello Again!

Howdy,

I'm back in the USA!  How exciting is that?  It's really great to get to go home after work, to get weekends off, and to take a shower in my bathroom and not have to wear shower shoes!  I also love having my dog, Scout, around to play with.  We also recently adopted a beagle named Lady.  She is a sweetheart and even though she is sick with a bad chest cold she caught at the shelter, she is getting more energy every day.

I love that I get to go home everyday to my beautiful house, and I love all the gorgeous furniture that Curtis and I bought to put in it.  We bought a beautiful leather sofa and loveseat, an entertainment center, these awesome end tables and coffee table that look like trunks, we bought a formal dining room set and a china cabinet, and we bought a gorgeous canopy bed, dresser, chest, and bedside tables.  Now we just have to look for a breakfast room table, until then we eat all our meals in the formal dining room.  We also got a great new TV. Before, we put the little 27" TV in the entertainment unit that was built for a 64" TV and it looked a little silly.  But now we have something that is a little more proportional.

I bought a couple of Blu-Rays when i got the TV, because even though I had a Blu-Ray player (a gift from Dad), I never had any Blu-Rays.  So my first ever Blu-Ray movie was "Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows" and it was so crazy good!  I mean, I thought I could reach out and touch the actors!  I now must buy all my favorites in Blu-Ray.  Also, I need to get a 3D Blu Ray player and 3D Blu Rays to go with the TV and my awesome 3D glasses.  I need to go get the super collector's edition of Gone With the Wind on Blu-Ray... it would be SO GOOD.

I got my office organized last weekend and now it is the number one spot in the house for reading the mail or the newspaper, or people watching.  Curtis was so sweet as to give me the front study (the actual office in the house) for my office/sewing/knitting room.  (He really just wants a back bedroom to be his super secret man cave) I am setting it up with my computer and sewing machine at the desk, and the two armchairs at the window make my knitting area.  There is a little more room in the corner and I intend to buy a dress form for sewing.  My goal is to make it a beautiful space conducive to creating and also to possibly having a crafting business (which is a lot easier thanks to the great credit card reader I bought that comes with a cash register app for my iPad).  Speaking of iDevices, I am so ready to get an iMac... I love my MacBook Pro and I know the iMac will just be wonderful in my office and make some of my favorite activities so easy (hello, video games and photo editing!)  I am trying to hold off until Apple maybe releases some new cool updated products in the fall???  That would be great.  Especially if I could get an iPhone 5 in the fall.

Well, now I am watching the end of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and I thought it was great!  My favorite part was the Queen's corgis!  I love corgis.  My brother's favorite part was Rowan Atkinson.  He was really funny, but he is no corgi!

So long for now!