Growing in to Grown Up

Feb-boo-ary Update | February 23, 2011

I haven’t been inspired to blog recently because my life just doesn’t quite seem to have any blog-worthy stories as of late. Best friend Jenn visits this weekend so maybe something exciting will happen then and I can tell you all about it.  This is what I’ve been up to recently though, in case you were wondering:

1. Painting furniture – When the apartment burned down a coworker gave me an old beat up dresser that she’d had in her basement for years. I decided to paint it cranberry. It turned out fuchsia and I affectionately referred to it as the “Barbie Dream Dresser.” I got really tired of the hot pink mess and painted it a warm gray with little bits of the pink showing through.It’s beautiful and I love it.

Side note: I bought a small sander and it is my favorite purchase ever!  Let me tell you, trying to sand a dresser by hand is probably the worst decision one can make.  I even redid a bookcase because I love that sander so freaking much.

Next project: wallpapering furniture.  This is beautiful, right?

2. Being Brainless -  Let’s talk about the day I did many-a stupid things in a row.  I went to a drive through carwash and got screamed at because I had the car in drive instead of neutral on the conveyer belt with my foot on the brake. Then I couldn’t tell what they were yelling to me so I rolled my window down to hear. In. the. carwash. Hello soaked car!

Then I came home and freaked out because the kitchen sink was clogged again and the disposal wasn’t working so I put in a work order.  Only to have my roommate tell me later: “Uh, Erin? You know the stopper is in there, right?” Duhhh no wonder the water wasn’t going down!

I did something else dumb that day but I just can’t remember what it was.

3. Spent FOUR hours getting home from work (which is less than 10 miles away) because of an inch and a half of snow. At least I finally got home.  Most coworkers ended up pulling over and staying at friend’s places or getting hotel rooms because they were too afraid to drive and fed up with the traffic. I didn’t even slide once – people here just freak out over the tiniest bit of white precipitation.

4. Went Ghost-Hunting – This one is actually worth writing about. Full report coming next week.  I attempted to spend the night in this awesome house built in 1902 in Lawrenceburg, TN.  It’s haunted. And creepy. I only made it til midnight then I had enough and was outta there!  A real paranormal group is coming to check it out next week. Maybe it will be on Ghost Adventures! And just for the record, this was ghost hunting for real – in an old abandoned house (but we know the owners so it’s not trespassing) not some kind of tour you sign and pay for. How’s that for adventurous?

Here are the people that lived there back in the day.  They might be some of the ghosts.