Office Picture Wall

It's FINALLY finished -- my office looks girly (in a house of boys) and filled with things I like.  Hubby hung the pictures.  All the mirrors in the middle are leftovers that wouldn't fit in the Asheville house.  Maybe I'd have dropped a few of the things lower as it kind of looks like a stripe across the wall, but it works.

The BEFORE:

Best tip I ever heard was to do a
mock-up in paper first.

The AFTER:

He also hung a couple of things over the pinboard on the desk wall.  I forgot to take a picture.  Two walls are "busy" and two are simple.  I like the balance.

In other news ... I had bookclub yesterday (BTW, finally a nice backdrop to a video call).  One of the women in our local chapter is hosting a Legacy fundraiser for Jen Hatmaker and her organization.  B.T Harman and Jen will be at the 60 person dinner -- outside at the lake at this women's home.  What?!?!  So exciting.  It was opened to our bookclub chapter first and it's already almost sold out.  A few of us bought tickets.

I was on the fence -- at night, drive to the lake, hubby out of town so dog issues.  Outside, but probably with a sided tent.  Pandemic concerns, but then I thought -- why not.  Be a little brave to go out in the evening.  I'm vaxed and masked.  It's mid-November so I have lots of time to worry be excited.  Absolute worst case is I donate my ticket to someone.  For now, I'm going and looking forward to it.  Choose the bigger life.

Jen is also trying to fit in an Atlanta bookclub chat while she's in town.  Not super likely, but maybe (!!)

I also went over to the kids' new house to drop goodies and pickup the stuff we loaned them for the move. I brought the leftovers from the picnic (everything was in a cooler so nothing went bad).  Hubby and youngest stayed and watched football.  I took the dogs home for bookclub meeting.

Their house looks amazing.  So happy and proud of them too.  

My mood was in full swing though.  Our dogs were marking a little (ugh!!) over top their dog marked and also taking my grand-dogs toys to chew up (which I took away from them).  I couldn't relax.  My son was a bit grumpy about the toys and that made it all the more uncomfortable for me.  My DIL reminded him how much their dogs have done over the years at our house.  It makes me concerned for Thanksgiving.  I might need to belly band them.  That set off my mood and thoughts about "how much I do for his dogs" etc, etc.  

The good news was I held my ground about going home for bookclub instead of using their office.  It gave me an excuse to leave early since it I wasn't having a good time.  Food that I couldn't eat, hyper vigilant about my dogs and football.  Not a good combination.  I could tell this upset me more than it should have -- hormones are a bitch.  I'd like to say I'm over it, but it still stings a bit.  Best to not problem solve this until my mood evens out again.  BTW, I think SUGAR is becoming another culprit in escalating my mood.  I don't eat a lot of sweets, but when I do, I notice a correlation.  Dang.  I ate A LOT of carrot cake.

Headed to a vintage market with a girlfriend today.  Something different than coffee.  Cleaning crew this morning.  Timing is a bummer (they're coming early today) but can't complain about a clean house. 

Have a great start to the week.  Later gators.