What I'm Reading This Week #5

The last day of jerky January.  Let's hope for the three other people out there that like winter like I do that we'll have a flake-laden February and not of the human variety.  I finally took down our Christmas cards.  I'm still really upset I can't find last year's Christmas cards.  It had the final two cards from my friend's family that passed last year and I KNOW I wouldn't have thrown them out.  There's one other place I'll have to check.  I'm perusing decorating sites to try to get ideas for how I want to decorate our walls.  The art we have is Hawaiian and while that's fine, it's just not what our space is anymore.  I can get 75% there when I remodel a room but it's those details I have such a hard time with.

But enough of my decorating conundrums lets get to...

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15 Simple Fashion Upgrades That Make You Look Expensive  (Good tips!)

14 Pro Tips for a Stress-free Renovation   (HA!  Ain't NO such thing!)

The Secret to More Refreshing Weekends Is the Exact Opposite of What You’d Expect  (Interesting stuff.)

The Narcissistic Mother: One of the Most Frightening of All Personalities  (The signs may have been in front of you all along.)

If You're Working Out 5 Days a Week to Lose Weight, Here's What Experts Want You to Know  (Basically, if you're like me, you might not lose a friggin' thing!)

The Ultimate DIY Hacks   (Some seriously good tips in this one even if you're not doing a big project.  #17 is seriously genius and I'll be doing it soon.)

17 Ways to Assert Yourself More This Year   (I've been doing a good job at this goal so far this year because of #13.  Also Re: #7...is double middle fingers what you mean?)

'The Biggest Loser' has no winners — except people who love to fat shame others   (I really don't know why they're bringing this show back.)

3 Tips to Strengthen Listening and Communication Skills  (#3 is always so hard.)

6 Moves Every Workout Routine Should Include  (Absolutely!)

We Are the World: 10 Things You Didn’t Know  (I think everyone wondered why Aykroyd was there)

Photos Of Sleeping Pups In A Puppy Daycare Center Are Taking Over The Internet   (Mr...you know the noise I'm making.)

It's going to be a busy weekend here.  Our friend's husband is coming to take the old couches off of our hands.  I'll be spending today vacuuming them, shaving them.  giving them a good spritz with my favorite long-lasting linen spray then we'll wrap and tie them in plastic drop cloths to keep them safe during transport.  It'll be sad to see them go but I'm hoping both of our backs improve because they went to crap once we got those things.  Never again Pottery Barn...not on couches anyway.  And lest you think I'm passing off our back problems to someone else, they are currently sitting on a mattress on the floor and can't have people to their house because of it so their back problems are worse than ours right now.  Then we'll clean up and ready the house for delivery of the new couches Monday which we will promptly be Scotchguarding.

Any plans for the first weekend of February?

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