Note: I’m hosting a twitter chat with ForRent.com tonight at 8p EST about making moving easy (or easier) and cheaper! RSVP here to be eligible to win one of 4 $50 gift cards! Excited to chat it up with y’all about #MovingMoments! 

The Dorobeks’ got a house! We’re working on the turning it into a home part! I know I’ve told y’all that lots of times now, but the whole house thing still does not feel real! I guess the cardboard boxes all all over the place, empty rooms, and boring beige walls aren’t helping. We’re still in the figuring-out-how-things-work stage of this house. You know things like, where are you naturally going to kick of your shoes and throw your keys? Where are the water hoses hiding? Are we really going to use the garage for our cars or to store crap? How do you turn on the sprinkler system? Why do all the plugs only have 2 prongs? I could go on and on, but I think you get the point!

You know you live in an old house if…

You know you live in an old house…

1: If you have to work on your computer in the bathroom because it is the only place with a desk and a 3 prong outlet. Yep. True. 2 prong outlets are priving to be very annoying. We did finally get some adapters, so we’ve moved the computer out of the bathroom and into the living room. But, the whole grounding of the wire situaion is going to be expensive. We’ve had multiple estimates done, and they range anywhere from $75 to $150 outlets. We have 50+ outlets in our house : /

2: If you can’t make the mortgage you can dig up your sprinkler system. It’s made of copper. Note: Please don’t come dig up our sprinkler system. That would not be nice.

3: If you find a wallet from 1940 with a folded piece of paper inside that says: “Special orders for German-American Relations.” Andy actually found it in a cabinet, but I was super excited about this find! I have big plans to make a shadow box and let the shadow box live in this house forever. Look at those pictures

4: If you’re only allowed to take 4 minute showers. After that, the toilet starts bubbling, the drain starts backing up, and it’s time to get out. : / #OldHouseProblems

5: If your bathroom tiles are chipping and there is mint green peeking through! Now, this is exciting, and super scary. I mean look at these mint green hexagnal tiles. Oh my cuteness! (That’s an instgram picture… follow me if you’d like!) Anyone know how to get old paint off of a floor? #Help

Anyone else live in an old house? What can you add to the list? Oh and don’t mistake this for complaining, I love our old house. It’s charming and fun… I’m just stating the facts here, folks. What I really wish is that the magic house fixer fairy would appear and do things, like drains and outlets and while the fairy is here, maybe she’ll scrape the paint of the tile.  So, do you know how to get paint off of tile? Do you think it’s as easy as pulling it off? Who paints tile anyway?! Is that a thing? Have you found any fun, old things in your cabinets? What are you old house problems? #OldHouseProblems I’d love to hear…

Yep! That’s right I do lunges while I brush my teeth. I call it multi tasking my BlissDom (blog conference) roomies called me nuts. I seriously assumed it was normal practice to stretch in the bathtub and do squats for a 2 minute teeth brush session, but after a little facebook post, I realized that not everyone does that. After a few emails and tweets I learned that some people DID want to know more about my my exercise practice I call: Easy exercises to do at home.  So, I’m here to tell you how I exercise everyday and don’t run or have a gym membership or really even spend any extra time exercising.

So, love is a little strong. But, I don’t want my gymnastics muscle residue to turn to fat and I don’t want to pay for a gym membership, not to mention I wouldn’t know what to do with weight machines even if I did go to the gym! I choose to do my old school gymnastics conditioning moves throughout my day. Note: I don’t do all of these things everyday, I just do them as they fit into my every day life.

1: Park far away at Target. And it’s not just Target, any big box store in a crowded parking lot. So this exercise trick does 2 things for me. 1) I don’t get angry in the parking lot, I just go to the back and park. 2) I walk (usually really fast) into Target and get a few extra steps in for the day.

2: Stretch in the bathtub. I don’t take tons of baths, but when I do, I always stretch. This tip probably won’t work if you’re over 5’9, because you won’t be able to fully stretch out your legs. Here’s what I do: Pike stretches, pull my flexed feet back, try to touch my head to my knees. I think the bathtub is the perfect place for stretching since your muscles are already warmed up!

3: When I talk on the phone, I walk around the block. If I know the conversation is going to be longer than 15 minutes, I just step outside and start walking. Walking around the block also provides privacy! No snoopy Andy wondering what I’m talking about, ha!  #multitaskingpro #gettingintheextrasteps

4: Exercise while I brush my teeth. I have a sonicare toothbrush with a built in 2 minute timer. So, while I’m brushing I pick an activity to do. I don’t count, I just do the named activity for 2 minutes. I’ve been on a lunge kick, but I’ve also been known to do wall sits, calf raises, or squats while brushing my teeth. I like lunges because they allow me to move around. I like to lunge up and down the hallway, not just in one place… go figure, ha!

5: Counter push ups in the kitchen. This happens for most often when I’m baking cookies and staring at the timer. I usually pick a number, let’s say 50. Then I tell myself I have to do 50 counter push ups before the next batch of cookies comes out of the oven. I might do 2 sets of 25 or whatever… oh and switch it up with wide arm and arms close together.

6: Commercial exercise. Andy and I have a few TV shows we really like, like Parks and Rec and Seinfeld. So, while we’re watching, I will sit in the straddle on the floor and then on the commercials I’ll do 30 crunches or something of the sort. I like to have goals, like by the end of the show I will have done 100 sit ups. Then I don’t feel guilty about watching TV and wasting time!

7: Squat and pee. (I can’t believe I just typed that!) So, in public restrooms or even sometimes at home… I do the “hover” for 30 seconds or so. Talk about multi- tasking, ha! Come on, I know y’all “hover” too! And it’s good exercise!

8: Kid toys. Hula hoops, jump ropes and trampolines are fun. There’s are a lots of bars and restaurants in Austin these days that  have hula hoops for patrons to play with. Guess who always hula hoops? Me! Me! Here is Andy hula hooping recently… you have to watch his moves, ha!