ORC UPDATE

<script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17695208-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have participated in 3 One Room Challenges and I went in kicking and screaming all 3 times.  Yes....I am THAT person.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I commit and then get anxious about doing it....you know </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>will I be able to finish</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>what if I do a crappy job</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>what if they hate it</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">blah blah blah.  </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">#demons </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">#insecurities </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">#creativity is subjective </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">#budget constraints </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">#time constraints</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">#pressure</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then it's over and I am all excited thinking <i>that wasn't so bad.  </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Like the time I rollerbladed <b>84 miles</b> in one day from Athens to Atlanta.  In the rain.  During....pure HELL.  </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>After....fun!</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i style="font-size: xx-large;">It's always the unknown that gets me going.</i></div><div><i style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></i></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/02/one-room-challenge-now.html"><b><i>Linda, our fearless leader</i></b></a>, is having a "where are they now" party.  You know is the room fat and bald?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I am happy to say that the first room I did has not changed.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAe8rBbDLoc_84Q1PHUPbMG1e2-dJakTzNpwKhjdT5bE_v5_bSfVnuBnL90gZ5RveNoCweexIFTBPWFA8gEGlgK8XYDkGgwU6rM5fl2dIsaYAlSLR0z_Qstakvy1U5hH95apTDQdGuw/s1600/IMG_8163.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQAe8rBbDLoc_84Q1PHUPbMG1e2-dJakTzNpwKhjdT5bE_v5_bSfVnuBnL90gZ5RveNoCweexIFTBPWFA8gEGlgK8XYDkGgwU6rM5fl2dIsaYAlSLR0z_Qstakvy1U5hH95apTDQdGuw/s1600/IMG_8163.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do you remember how I blogged about it even before I asked my client if she would be OK with my plan?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibZYL6CBas7rLA2jniaW7Ahe0y46qklQ40llPSBPWoKZc3IbwlxoyEUiOrRD4g2F8gwE75tTACLDYumBo4Byl5m2Onrs2DaJJIHQPeVNUmcNRw2dZyud0naU50K0BbTF_Dvn5KmZFmgw/s1600/IMG_8196.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibZYL6CBas7rLA2jniaW7Ahe0y46qklQ40llPSBPWoKZc3IbwlxoyEUiOrRD4g2F8gwE75tTACLDYumBo4Byl5m2Onrs2DaJJIHQPeVNUmcNRw2dZyud0naU50K0BbTF_Dvn5KmZFmgw/s1600/IMG_8196.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thankfully she was a real sport:)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEi4bUfYhZjaOQn4DQvx2ckIlh3GD2Ltl3yz9ctmhmNryWmL3NmX4BiOFFgsrh2VvDCOLDJz70rMKcWvhKf9mB_3XJougw_egsh8jEC1noWnbShZhmdRnoJEMWuSpjsh3quKXT7fstQ/s1600/IMG_8222.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEi4bUfYhZjaOQn4DQvx2ckIlh3GD2Ltl3yz9ctmhmNryWmL3NmX4BiOFFgsrh2VvDCOLDJz70rMKcWvhKf9mB_3XJougw_egsh8jEC1noWnbShZhmdRnoJEMWuSpjsh3quKXT7fstQ/s1600/IMG_8222.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Any way the second ORC was my own guest room and I am proud to declare that I have not changed this room at all.  <i>Not even a pillow.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">SHOCKING right!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXP4evZIZkLeEljX02VTF-6NW3C96FQ9LZsjeB8J-Z_mbhcB0QXhc0bW8lLLB0DAf06i_ZoW_-Ua_c19uSYhlt4AtdkjhDRiNEZvs1CXImHxUxOIt5Nl8JbFhhzywRlyyIhwy6UZoDTQ/s1600/IMG_0300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXP4evZIZkLeEljX02VTF-6NW3C96FQ9LZsjeB8J-Z_mbhcB0QXhc0bW8lLLB0DAf06i_ZoW_-Ua_c19uSYhlt4AtdkjhDRiNEZvs1CXImHxUxOIt5Nl8JbFhhzywRlyyIhwy6UZoDTQ/s1600/IMG_0300.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I think it's because I don't have to look at it everyday and tear it down in my mind.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pBlpgkv8F7n0fr3WeFTJAuvdnERqor7HyRhD43JA4frpaF2aFFsQoXly7IjdxJ0PpUg0dT4lK5YDLwnaBjPW5eyzNuVG6RyCXuPGgcrS_4P2jpLAKno59OthXt-NvxSx9y46XiCPVQ/s1600/IMG_0476.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5pBlpgkv8F7n0fr3WeFTJAuvdnERqor7HyRhD43JA4frpaF2aFFsQoXly7IjdxJ0PpUg0dT4lK5YDLwnaBjPW5eyzNuVG6RyCXuPGgcrS_4P2jpLAKno59OthXt-NvxSx9y46XiCPVQ/s1600/IMG_0476.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">The third ORC was for my sister's family room</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">How the room looked 25 years ago when she moved in....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXle_Bg77UbVLxSH1mMarQ1-_h3lOGwNBmcJFxmkW6Yz3oy-vxdjYMQnlY94_nLKI6glWQpU87X9tyCFuzE-FiTzxHask6r1nkTU1IYKPUVjgYdk7Xhf4GAgMsvX6Mrh0fOImp9gxTCQ/s1600/Image+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXle_Bg77UbVLxSH1mMarQ1-_h3lOGwNBmcJFxmkW6Yz3oy-vxdjYMQnlY94_nLKI6glWQpU87X9tyCFuzE-FiTzxHask6r1nkTU1IYKPUVjgYdk7Xhf4GAgMsvX6Mrh0fOImp9gxTCQ/s1600/Image+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">To this</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3q1x18Z6nl1FxydUBZ1v6tS0gKTRhjyo8hUqKh8mLevzazBG9Ir3iRh_CmFqCuoLLN-3yl1OO6OZg3vXsRs4ShotmS53Tp4nCnRq8UHtIaadIP-8bZeyTJkbooGJIlWU0KzuprTM7ow/s1600/Image+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">After</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVQ9jpHPHMXdXk2aiZtqj53GK9JzWMGabU4sWuWcZroxYr9jMlauFWO5drdWIGEsDUWsDS5ntm0Uz7pgxWC5uNq5QBdigoSXVWpimklS9Nc3cjejOxwd4LYWsQVO53uMs2pv26dZcEvw/s1600/IMG_2962.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVQ9jpHPHMXdXk2aiZtqj53GK9JzWMGabU4sWuWcZroxYr9jMlauFWO5drdWIGEsDUWsDS5ntm0Uz7pgxWC5uNq5QBdigoSXVWpimklS9Nc3cjejOxwd4LYWsQVO53uMs2pv26dZcEvw/s1600/IMG_2962.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">And it has not been changed either!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jump over to <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/02/one-room-challenge-now.html"><b><i>Calling It Home</i></b></a> and see who has changed their rooms....</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today is paperwork day for me....I think I would rather have a root canal.  No never mind that is a total lie.  But then again drugs are involved.  Still....no.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shascaredycatofthedentist</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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