Holiday Tour of my Home

Posted by kim on December 8, 2008

My house was featured on the Holiday Parade of Homes this past weekend that raised funds for the Lied Pierce Public Library Foundation.  The committee had asked me two years ago if I would open my home for the event, but this was before I had my furniture from Nebraska Furniture Mart.  I promised I would the next time they held a tour, which was this year.  The two year delay helped me acquire a lot of my Christmas decorations for 90% off after the holidays!

My Aunt Squeak did an awesome job of decorating the twelve Christmas trees and the rest of the house!  Besides Squeak’s talent of remaking all of my wreaths with what I had on hand, I did borrow some decorations from her, my mother and my friend, Dustie.

I was going to hire out the cleaning, but the first gal I called was too busy with the holidays.  My hands are extremely dried out and cracked from cleaning now that it almost hurts to type!  And I have great friends, Chris and Tracy, that offered to help (my stovetop now looks brand new)!

Since I may never have my house this clean and this decorated again, I took a lot of pictures!  Check them out on Flickr.com.  Now we’ll see if we can keep the house clean for a couple more weeks as I’m hosting the Sutter Christmas!

P.S. I should have saved 400 of the Diet Mountain Dew cans I consumed to make a Mountain Dew Christmas Tree!

How to Prevent Hangovers

Posted by kim on September 19, 2008

When Squeak gave me this “anti-hangover recipe” per se, I admit I was a bit leery.  But I figured I’d have a wee bit too much to drink on my birthday so gave it a whirl… 

To avoid the after-effects of alcohol (including massive headaches), stock up on Vitamin B12 (and it’s cheap). Take 2 pills right before your first drink, and then 2 pills with every fourth drink.

Mind you, I don’t normally drink over four drinks at one setting, but people bought me a lot of shots (Three Wise Men is nasty) for my birthday.  You would have thought it was my 21st birthday at the bar. I was pregnant with twins back then when I turned 21 and didn’t even drink caffeine – well my “29 and still holding” birthday this week more than made up missing it.

Kudos to Squeak for the bottle of B12 that my posse and I devoured.  I felt fine the next morning – not even an itsy bitsy headache!  I was a tad tired, but getting only a couple hours of sleep will do that to you, and nothing a nap after the kids go to school can’t help. Actually I had to take my daughter to the dentist yesterday morning so my siesta had to wait until after lunch.

So, if you know you are going to drink too much, I suggest you stock up on  Vitamin B-12, as it’s only $2.99 for 100 tabs! And would Squeak and I steer you wrong?  Okay, don’t answer that.