Eventful Day!

Whoa, this is weird. TWO posts in TWO days - whaaaaaa?  Today was just fun, random and jazzy cool.
Last night, the hubs and I didn't go to bed until 4am because we had come home from school/work totally exhausted and slept from 3 - 6:45 pm.  Then we drank Diet Mountain Dew. Dumb.  So needless to say we slept in a bit this morning.

When we finally got motivated enough to get out of bed around 10am we brushed our teeth and headed up to Ogden to pick up my shelf!  My brother is letting us use his expansive, beautiful garage to store it in and to work on it in, because in an apartment you have absolutely NO places to do the work of destruction.  When we got the shelf in the garage we talked for about 45 minutes on the things we were going to do to it - basically, tear it to pieces and rebuild it using a few of the decorative pieces.  I'm stoked!  I am going to learn a TON and can't wait to get started!

On the drive home, we stopped at my great aunt-in-law's to pick up our tickets for tonight's game (HUGE disappointment...) While there, I saw this pile of trash furniture at an apartment complex next to the aunt's house.  Guess what?! I snagged an ugly little chair that I'm going to make-over for our new office chair.  I was jazzed because I never thought I would find a pile of furniture for the taking.  Little did I know luck was on my side.

Two minutes later, we were driving down the road: the hubs questioning my sanity and me glowing with trash collector accomplishment.  I glanced out the window, and what did I see?  An AWESOME headboard just leaning against the wall of an apartment.  I squealed out and begged Mason to turn the car around so I could knock on the apartment's door.  He thought I was crazy, but sweetly turned the car around.  I practically bolted to the apartment and knocked; a cute girl answered the door and I blurted out, "I know this is weird, but is that headboard yours?" Then the most beautiful words left her mouth: "Yes, but we're trying to get rid of it!" Whaaaaa?  I snatched it up .... and then spent a good half hour trying to squish it into the car.  (It didn't fit, so I exclaimed, "Mason! I need a minivan!" He calmly replied, "totally, if you keep picking up trash!" Luckily, we have a friend with a truck so we won't have to splurge on a minivan quite yet)

I scored TWO (kinda three if you count picking up my shelf) trashed beauties that will make our home so cute and homey in a matter of hours!  It was incredible and I am still elated at my luck.  Poor Mason.  He's stuck with a "trash" collecting fanatic :)

(I don't have any pictures of my finds yet, but I will upload some as soon as I get them)