Medicmom, (defib64) to answer your querey; Almond Breeze is almond milk and you find it in the same place that you find the tetra packs of soy milk (bad stuff that soy milk). Here is a visual for you for next time you go shopping.
Now that that is out of the way I have to tell you I must have burned up a gazillion AP's today.....without walking or pumping iron. I've been de-dusting our house. Don't get this confused with ordinary dusting because it is not. I have been removing gargantuan amounts of sanding dust from every nook and cranny in my house..........just the downstairs mind you....I still have the upstairs to tackle. Yay, burning more calories again!
I've not mentioned this before, but we are updating our home that we built 12 years ago. I call it architectural coiffing because it's kind of a fancy upgrade to an already beautiful home. We decided to remove all the carpeting from the living and dining rooms, hall and my library/office, and stairs and remove the granite floor from the foyer and replace it all hardwood . Very 2010! From there we decided "while we're at it" (the famous last words) we should do some special wall and woodwork treatments. In came the design team to help us decide which way to go. The woodwork, which there is a lot of, has been striaded and glazed.....this is a process of 6 to 7 layers.
The new wood stairs treads are spectacular so we needed to upgrade the stancions on the railings from wood to iron. Our living room is two stories high so we added beams that ended up getting antiqued. Our dining room which has a ceiling height of 9 feet got the royal treatment; coffered ceilings and beams that are being antiqued with silver, bronze and washes of burnished browns and crackled smokey sea pine colour. This is also a multi layer job. Similar ceiling in the powder room but this time we are using a bronze verdigre with silver undertones.
We just couldn't leave it there could we? No. The walls had to be treated to a multi layer process as well. Enter the plasterer who specializes in Venetian plaster. So here we are today, 7 months from when we started and the plasterer broke his knuckle this morning before he started our job and is in a cast! Falling back to my British roots; I have to shout......... Bloody Hell! Anyhow, he said all is under control and he has a couple of people starting in the morning to do the initial 3 layers. By the time they are done, he should be healed enough to do the final "what you will see" coats himself.
When will that be finished you might wonder....4 - 6 weeks. When he's done, the covers come off of the hardwood floor that were scraped and sanded during the past 3 weeks so that they can be stained and given 3 finish coats of some new and wonderful type of finish that I've never heard of before. If everything goes as planned we should be ready to roll out the area rugs and return the furniture to there places in say 2 months. That adds up to 9 months. 9 months for a reno!!!! OMG what were we thinking?
I really don't believe it will be finished then and today I overheard the Christmas word spoken this morning, at which time I decided to bury myself in my art studio and have some fun for a change. I'm done with it all, it has about driven me to distraction, my DH and I have had "words" on several occassions so I'm going to my "happy place" and having a glass of wine. When it's done, it's done and I'm not going to let it get the better of me or worse still cause a rift between my DH and myself. O H M!!!!! Zoning out now.
Moral to the story: Drink yummy protein shakes and DO NOT renovate your house!
Hey Yvonne........tomorrow is shopping day so thanks for the visual!! Will pick some up if it is in my local store...
ReplyDeleteI hear you about renovations..we had our entire kitchen redone 2 yrs ago ~~3 small rooms (DR, LR and tiny kitchen) into one huge open concept kitchen and love it. But still finding dust.....and hate it!! Oh well, love love love how it all turned out!!
Cheers!! Lizzie
why is soymilk bad stuff? its a core staple in my diet.
ReplyDeleteThere was a very large study done a few years ago about soy products. They found that people who used a lot of soy in their diet had a high incidence of memory problems. Now if you are only having one glass of soy milk a day and not eating tofu etc as well I don't think there is a problem. I know it's true since my very close friend was using a lot of soy and having some serious memory problems. Her Naturpath told her to cut out the soy and lo and behold, no more problems. He was the one who told her about the study and said he was advising his clients to limit the amount of soy in their diet. Another problem is most soy products are made from geneticlly modified soy, so if you use it look for NGM on the lable.
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