Today is our third wedding anniversary, and although we are 1,000 miles apart, we still had some time together on Skype. My parents were really nice and gave us a gift card for Chili's to use for a late anniversary dinner after I get back to Houston next week. My husband took a week of vacation the week after I get back, which is also the week we're supposed to close.

My husband is looking forward to building things in the garage. We're going to pick up some lumber, and our first 3 projects will be a workbench for the garage, these ledges and this desk from Ana White's website.

I plan to decoupage my ledges and desk with these Captain America and Iron Man comics I won on eBay for less than it would have cost me for a couple quarts of paint in the colors I was previously interested in. I still would have had to seal it with the same stuff either way.

We plan to start building our projects in October if all goes well with the appraisal and closing. First off, though, we're going to paint the magenta room.