Y’all, these final couple of days have been tough on the Linauer home, so I’ve gotten nearly nothing accomplished on our bed room suite. Sunday was Matt’s birthday. We had been planning a enjoyable day to rejoice Matt’s 51st birthday, however he had a horrible day. I imply, horrible. It was, by far, his worst day thus far this yr. (If you happen to’re new round right here, my husband has M.S., so he has good days and unhealthy day, a some unhealthy days are far worse than others.) It was a kind of days the place issues began off nice, however because the day went on, he obtained progressively weaker and weaker to the purpose that I feared he would possibly find yourself within the hospital by the top of the day. Fortunately, that didn’t occur. However what that did imply is that I needed to stick shut by in case he wanted something.
However because it was his birthday, I had bought a few treats for him. I didn’t purchase a cake as a result of I knew he wouldn’t eat a lot of it, after which I’d be obligated to eat the remainder on my own. 😀 As a result of that’s what sugar addicts do. So as an alternative, I purchased him two of his favourite candies — peanut M&M’s (only a small, particular person package deal that you just get on the grocery retailer checkout) and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (they usually solely had the king dimension package deal with 4 cups in it). Since he doesn’t do nicely with plenty of sugar, I used to be going to offer him his selection between these two quite than giving him each to eat. And since he was getting a candy deal with, I additionally used that as an excuse to purchase myself a candy deal with, so I purchased a millionaire for myself. It simply comes one to a package deal at HEB, so I believed I may deal with that with out dropping management.
However I purchased them early within the day when he was feeling fairly nicely. By the point dinner rolled round (I had made him selfmade chili, which was his birthday request), he was feeling so terrible and weak that he didn’t even need to eat chili, and he absolutely couldn’t eat something with sugar in it. And I used to be feeling so pressured due to the horrible day that he was having, and the worry that we’d wind up on the hospital by day’s finish.
So in my stress, and with that sweet in the home that he wasn’t going to eat, I did what sugar addicts do. I sat at my desk and ATE ALL OF IT. I child you not. I ate each final little bit of that myself. A complete package deal of peanut M&M’s, a king dimension of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (4 cups), and my millionaire. Multi functional sitting.
Y’all, I felt horrible. I imply, I felt bodily horrible, and the impact was instant. After going final yr with consuming nearly no sugar (that was my 2024 New Yr’s decision), and going this yr with little or no sugar, consuming that a lot sugar in a single sitting nearly did me in. However I believed I may simply go to mattress and sleep off the destructive results and get up to a shiny new day yesterday morning.
Nope. The results of that sugar had been even worse yesterday morning. Do you bear in mind once I had that sciatic nerve challenge that put me out of fee for every week again in October 2023? It was again. I used to be in a lot ache yesterday that simply strolling was troublesome. Matt had a greater day yesterday, however nonetheless not nice. So all of that mixed meant that I used to be just about out of fee for 2 days straight. It was such a silly, short-sighted choice on my half to eat all of that sugar, and I paid the value. Play silly video games, win silly prizes, proper?
So as an alternative of truly getting work accomplished yesterday, I sat at my desk and did some mockups of our bed room. 😀
I began with the mockup that I did approach again. It’s humorous to see how totally different my imaginative and prescient for our bed room was again then.
After which I swapped every little thing out for the current alternatives I’ve made.
These aren’t the precise bedside tables I’ll be making, however the one I need to make didn’t have a front-facing image that I may copy and paste into my mockup, so I used the same one. And that mattress body can also be not one which I’ll be utilizing, however I simply wanted a mattress to repeat and paste in entrance of the headboard. However at the least it offers the overall total really feel of what I’m going for.
After which I began on the lookout for desk lamps that may go together with the brand new alternatives. As I used to be scrolling via, all of them appeared to look the identical. Gourd lamps, fashionable lamps. Every part appeared to blur collectively. After which this one stopped me in my scroll. This was it! This was the one. It was good.
In fact it was. It’s $989! I swear to you that I don’t do it on goal. I don’t deliberately hunt down the costly stuff. It simply all the time appears to occur that the issues I like essentially the most are costly and out of my worth vary. There’s no approach I may justify spending nearly $1000 every for 2 desk lamps. However oh my goodness, it’s so fairly, and so good. Don’t assume for a second that I’m not already planning how I may DIY such a lamp. I don’t assume it might be troublesome. Simply look how good these are for our bed room.
I additionally discovered this lovely artwork glass lamp. This one was way more my worth vary at $129 every. Whereas I like the artwork glass look, I don’t assume this may work as a result of (1) I would like gold accents, and (2) I believe the colour will get misplaced in opposition to the darkish teal of the partitions and curtains. However I do love a novel artwork glass lamp.
As a lot as I like these, I do assume they get misplaced, simply as I suspected.
So far as worth goes, these lamps are even higher. These are $140 for a set of two! I do love that sea glass look, and there’s quite a lot of this mild blue-green coloration within the headboard material and likewise within the rug.
I believe these look actually fairly, they usually do stand out in opposition to the teal. However they do appear to get misplaced with the daring colours.
And at last, these fairly lamps additionally come as a set of two for $340.
I actually like these, too. They’ll additionally maintain their very own in opposition to all of that teal, they usually’re a bit bolder in type, so that they don’t appear to get misplaced like the ocean glass lamps.
However my favourite is the orange. I like that it appears to carry steadiness to the general design, bringing that coloration from the rug and the accents within the headboard.
However there’s no approach I’ll be spending $2000 on a few desk lamps for our bed room. So I’m going to should discover a technique to get that look on a price range. Maybe I can begin with a visit to a thrift retailer and see if they’ve one thing equally formed that I can paint and rework.
Anyway, no extra sugar for me. I’ve discovered that lesson the exhausting approach. Yesterday was painful and depressing. I fasted yesterday in an effort to purge all of that sugar from my system, and I awoke this morning feeling good. The ache in my hip is gone, and I’m prepared for a productive day. I hope I’ll bear in mind yesterday’s distress the subsequent time I’m tempted to gorge myself on sugar.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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