I get very excited about home improvement projects. At this point, we've been living in our house for more than 2 years. The number of things that I want to change is slowly declining. One of the biggest things I've wanted to get done finally got accomplished this weekend, and get this, it was SO EASY.

Closet doors for our guest bedroom. They look so awesome. It's very silly to get excited about such a thing, but after looking at an empty closet for so long it looks great. It feels like a complete room now.

Why did it take so long, you ask? We thought we had an unsusal size opening for the closet. None of the bi-fold door kits came in the right width. Brian had it stuck in his head that they should be bi-fold doors. He even wanted to order these custom made ones on the internet for over $500.

I put my foot down.

Dragged Brian into home depot and showed him my idea of buying 2 of the six-panel doors and the little sliding rail kit. It took a while to hunt down the doors in the exact width that we needed, but hey, the home depot came through!!! It didn't take long to sell him on the idea since it was considerably cheaper than the custom doors.

Now, what can I get Brian to do next???

Cat came to visit me. It was so great to see her. It's hard to put into words how thankful I am that I have her in my life.

We decided to go to Salem, since it is so close to Halloween. It wasn't all that exciting, but we spent the afternoon hanging, which is all really matters. I had to be talked into the photo with the ghostbuster guy. Cat says that photo is going in her xmas newsletter. Yippee!!!

Our trip to Italy was amazing. I finally got around to putting our pictures online. Enjoy: photos

Today I turned 31. Not very excited about that. I wasn't too keen to celebrate it this year. Brian took me shopping for a new outfit over the weekend, so I thought that was all that I was getting.

But WOW, did this surprise me!!!!

My video Ipod is WAY cool. After using an ipod shuffle, this is a major upgrade. We put an episode of Veronica Mars on it just to see what a video looked like. Pretty neato! Now Brian just has to configure Freevo to convert our tv shows into ipod format so that I can copy them over and watch at will.

What a fun thing to get on your birthday!!!!