Tara's Profile

I'm in the "if it looks better painted, then paint it" camp...and these look better painted. That said, the cushions look...er, uh, not so hot in a print, still kinda grandma-ish. I would've gone with a solid...maybe a vintage French grainsack look. DEFINITELY do away with that rug. YIKES!

Before our most recent move, I noticed that our dryer was taking 2-3 cycles to dry & our laundry room was getting really humid when it ran. I was perplexed (& more than a little irritated) because it was only about 3 years old. One weekend, I finally got my husband to disconnect it, pull it out from the wall, take the back off & vacuum it out. Hmm...not much lint there...that's odd. Let's take the ducting out of the wall & see what's going on there. Y'all will never believe what we found. A HUGE BIRD'S NEST. The builder (very conveniently) put our laundry room on the 2nd floor, but inconveniently did not put any screen on the vent to prevent critters from getting in. The little birdies found their way in & built a massive condo that went well into the flexible silver ducting. We had to replace the ducting (luckily it's cheap at Lowe's) and then get a stick to poke evict the birds from the wall. I'm not even gonna talk about the bird pee that was all over the floor behind the dryer. Ew. Thank GOD we were renting that house & didn't have to worry about figuring out how to put screen on that vent. Now the dryer works like new, the house we're in has laundry on the first floor & the ducting has screens so no critters can get in!

Yeah, having casters on furniture is great...until one gets lost from your coffee table during a cross country move & it's a totally non-standard size & virtually impossible to replace. Tons of fun.

I kept my phone in my purse until my husband deployed. When he went to Iraq I never knew when he would call so I kept it on me at all times including, work, sleep, bathroom, etc.

I did that. We're military and moved from GA to TX May 2009. I couldn't look at every single house that I was interested in when so when I'd find a house on the MLS, I'd look at it and the neighborhood on Google Maps. Saved me and my realtor a TON of legwork. I knew I loved the curb appeal & neighborhood of our new house before I even flew into TX for my house hunting trip. :) It's a must for anyone doing a long distance house hunt.

I can't read with music playing that has words. It's like the words coming at me from 2 different sources get all jumbled up in my head. Oddly, I can do math with lyrical music on and (back in college), I could do Russian with it on as well. Weird.