"Houzz" it going?

Today's been one of those days when I despise being a female! For some reason, the Good Lord blessed me with a double-dose of "woman problems" once a month. I was pretty much in bed 'til 6pm...talk about a drag! On one hand, it was nice to kinda have a day to chill out, but on the other hand...kinda sucked big-time as far as the pain I was in!
Besides the fact that I did catch up on some rest, one other good thing came out of my sick day: I planned my house. Now, I'm not buying for another 6 months at least, but it's never too early to start planning, right? A friend of mine introduced me to Houzz app for my iPad. Oh. My. Gosh. I have spent the entire day today on that app...looking at furniture, drooling over houses, and picking out wall colors and window treatments. I pretty much have my entire house planned to a tee!
I'm big into modern homes - never been into Southern Living or Pottery Barn...I don't want to walk in my own house and feel like I'm going to break something if I breathe wrong...and I hate gardening and cooking. Those are the "biggies" in both those magazines, so no thanks! My housing magazine of choice would have to be DWELL. Love it! Anyway, this Houzz app has a ton of cool modern homes and designer decorations. I've had the best time just scrolling through and wiping drool. Can't wait to have my own place!!!

Summer Sweep-away: Bath Junkie Edition.

About 2 weeks ago I decided it was time to clean my bathroom...and by this point, it was more like PURGE my bathroom. See, usually I do this kind of thing once a year. Nope, it's probably been a couple of years now. Sad.
Well, anyway, I got to work. I cleaned out every stinkin' drawer, wiped it down, threw half the contents away, then organized what was left over very neatly back in that clean drawer. Then....I ended up in the cabinet above the toilet. You know the one...with all the shampoos, bubble baths, lotions, etc. Yeah, this is where my story gets interesting.
You see, both Mallory and I have shared a bathroom growing up. Since we've gotten older and periodically moved out of the house, we would come back, bring our bath junk, and usually end up leaving it. Both she and I would also buy some bath product, see a commercial for something better on TV, and buy that without finishing what we started using in the first place. We're just girls like that I guess.
During my purge I counted (are you ready for this? Sit down.): 15 shampoos and conditioners, 13 lotions, 6 bubble baths and body/face scrubs, 4 foot creams and 2 self-tanners. ...and go ahead and throw in the partridge in a pear tree for cryin' out loud! Yeah.
So I'm now on a mission: No buying anymore bath crap until the crap I've got has been used up! It's probably going to take until next Fall, but hey...I'll be saving money, right? This past week I used the last tiny bits of a couple of my shampoo/conditioner sets and a small B&BW lotion bottle: Moonlight Path. It's probably one of my favorites...even though that store can sometimes give me the stink eye. Whatever. Right now I have so much stuff on me I could slip-n-slide a la carte down a gravel road! No joke...

Word to the wise woman: USE YOUR BATH JUNK BEFORE IT BECOMES JUNK!