Closet DONE!

It's done!  I am so stinkin' thrilled with how the closet turned out!  It feels so fresh and clean and I can find stuff and did I mention clean??  I no longer walk in there and feel my blood pressure rise.  Now I feel totally calm and actually say, "Ahhhh".  Such a great feeling.

Yes, yes I do color code my clothes, doesn't everyone?

 The dressers that we got at Ikea, Hemnes, also come in black which my husband originally wanted but I'm glad I stuck to my guns (and won) with the white.  We bought both the 6-drawer chest and the 8 drawer dresser.  

His side - apparently no, not everyone color codes.

My beautiful dresser!

At the last minute, we decided to also get the Brimnes 4-drawer chest.

It matches the Hemnes pieces perfectly, fits that small space by the door and is perfect for both our towels and my sports bra collection of approximately 9 bazillion.  We swapped out the handles for those little silver numbers to personalize it a bit more which I really love.  I have to say that all three of the pieces are really nice.  They look way more expensive (especially the dressers) than they were.

It feels so bright and big in there even though it isn't a huge closet.  I still need to hang the bar for my necklaces but other than that, it's totally complete!  At this point, the only thing I would have done differently is to have had my husband hung his shirts higher.  I don't love that they kind of brush the top of his dresser but whatever...now I'm just gettin' picky!

Once we got all out clothes back into the closet, it made me take a hard look at our bedroom.  Holy clutter batman.  I have 9 million books on a shelf by my bed and in a basket on my nightstand AND on the floor in between.  90% of them I have already read, several more I started but didn't like. So why do I still have them all?  I don't re-read books so it is time to donate.  I purged like a mad woman and now, I get that same, "Ahhhh" feeling from my closet when I look at my side of the bed.  I wish I had taken a before picture of that mess...you can kind of see it in this picture (can't see the bookshelf but you can see my night stand with the overflowing basket-o-crap):

And now:

Yay!  When Purple Heart comes on the 17th, whoever is driving that truck is not going to like me.  I have so much stuff ready to go.

All those brown bags are books!

Totally not closet related, I got my Sweaty Betties sprint challenge done yesterday (that's a first for this week...4 more to go)!  I'm loving this challenge.  It forces me to get on the treadmill when I really don't feel like it.  My mojo has been non existent for a while now.  Yesterday I did the challenge plus a few more intervals along with some lower body strength training (squats and lunges).  It was a short run but with the sprints and intervals plus the squats and lunges, I felt pretty good after.  Today I get to go to Body Pump again - second time since Sunday, I feel so spoiled!  My plan is to get there a little early so I can do the sprints.  Five times in a week remember!

Operation Closet Re-Do Part II

The mess in my bedroom is getting worse by the hour.  There are clothes and shoes and crap covering every surface including the floor.  I'm a bit of an organization freak so this is making me totally crazy.  My husband just keeps saying, "You are a bit out of your comfort zone, eh?" with a smirk on his face.  Ugh.  Fortunately my youngest has a full size bed so we slept in his room last night kicking him to the futon in the playroom.  This shit better get done fast because getting dressed after my shower today was crazy difficult....lots of digging.

This morning I decided to get my Sweaty Betties sprint challenge done at the beginning of a regular run.  The plan was to run 7 miles with the first 12:30 being the challenge.  Got the challenge done (even increased my sprint speed from 9.0 to 9.3) but then started running out of steam.  I think it may have had a little something to do with yesterday's happy hour:

Sun and sand and a live band just makes beer go down easier.  That and thinking about the mess in the bedroom....I may have been drinking to forget.  I felt totally fine this morning until I got to the end of those sprints.  Blah.  I managed to get 4 miles in but felt like I had run a marathon.  Apparently I'm getting really old.

Look what arrived in my mail this afternoon!!

I'm super excited to give this a try.  I've read a lot of positive reviews on J Core.  There are 6 DVD's.  The idea is to do a 20 minute workout 4 days a week.  I really like the shortness of the workouts especially now when I'm not getting to the gym very often.  I figure I can squeeze his workouts in when the kids are still half asleep in the mornings before we make a plan for the day.  I plan on writing up a review after I've done at least 2 or 3 of the DVDs.  Between J Core and the sprint challenge which is getting my ass back on the treadmill, I should be feeling much better any time now.  As long as I ease up on the sandy happy hours!