So, just a quick update on our currently crazy lives. We have officially moved all of our stuff into the new house. On Sunday we cleaned the apartment and took a big load of stuff to Goodwill and turned in my keys. It feels so wonderful knowing that we don't have to do apartment life for a long time. Also, they already found someone to rent my apartment so I will be getting some of February's rent back and possibly get out of paying my lease break fee or at least get a discount. I hope that's the case. I would rather not pay the lease break fee and let them keep my week of rent, but I doubt they'll do that.
We did manage to get some pictures of the house before we started painting and such and will post those as soon as we get the place clean and organized. We want to give you some before and after pictures. It's amazing what some paint can do.
Hank loves his new yard and dog friends on the other side of the fence. He ran so hard playing with us yesterday that he had sore muscles last night and was being a whiney baby. Of course he waited until 2:30 this morning to "patrol" the house and realize that his muscles hurt, so he made it to the bedroom door before he stopped and whined. Needless to say, he kept me up the rest of the morning.
We climbed on the roof Saturday and cleaned out gutters and I raked the leaves out of the flower beds (well part of them, we filled the bin already). This weekend is my birthday weekend and I get to spend it at a PE Conference Friday evening and all day Saturday. WooHoo!
Promise we'll get some pics up soon. Until then!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Paint Colors
The paint colors we picked out are Glidden brand paint. If you are interested in seeing them you can go to the Glidden website. If you go to Color and then Color Pallette then you can find them. The name of the blue we picked is Sea Spray, the green is Soft Sage, and the tan is Water Chestnut. We may not use Glidden paint because Ryan's uncle owns a painting business and gets a discount with Miller, but those are the colors we found and liked initially. I think we may take the samples to the Miller store and find their versions of the colors we like. Also, you would be amazed at the amount of "different" white colors. I thought white was white, but apparently it's much more complicated than that.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Life is Good
Well I made the Balsamic Glazed Chicken dish and it was only okay. It was not bad by any means, but it definitely didn't wow me. I don't plan on adding it to our regular rotation, but at least we tried something new. Also, I have realized that Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals take longer than 30 minutes. I think it only takes her 30 minutes because she knows the recipes by heart and doesn't have to keep referencing the cookbook and because she is much better at multitasking than I am. The glazed chicken took close to an hour to cook. I have made some of her recipes that take real close to 30 minutes, which is nice. I just think that I take a lot longer preparing the more complicated ones because I do have to keep looking at the recipe.
Other recent news is that Measures 66 & 67 passed. Although these measures passing has upset many people, Ryan and I are obviously very relieved with the result. With the measures passing we get to keep our jobs and get our house. So, I apologize if you feel that these measures passing is going to cause the world to end, but Ryan and I, it kept our world together.
Onto the house. We will close on the 8th of February, which is just a bit over a week away. Today we went to Home Depot and picked out some paint colors that we liked for the bathrooms and bedrooms. All of the colors are nice neutrals. The color we picked for the majority of the house is a light tan called Water Chestnut. It will cover all three bedrooms, the hallway and eventually the living room. I say eventually the living room because we are planning on knocking out a large portion of a wall in the living room, so it would be silly to paint that wall. We have two colors picked out for the bathrooms and don't know if we will do the Master bath one color and the main bath the other, or if we will do both bathrooms the same. We picked a blue color called Sea Spray, which is very soft and neutral and a green color called Soft Sage, which is a very soft, neutral green. I think we will paint the trim white, but we have also considered replacing the trim as well. I believe it is in good condition, but it's just not all that modern. We also looked at some outside doors because our entry door is hollow and could easily be kicked in. All in all, we are getting really excited to move into our own place and to have a yard for Hank.
And now to revisit a topic in a previous post. Hank turned on the TV again today while we were out. You can once again see the slobbery, nose smears all over the corner of the TV. Ryan refuses to believe that Hank is doing it, but deep down he has to know that's the only way it's happening. Our doggy is so smart. Also, Ryan had to carry Hank home on the last leg of our walk. Hank started limping and walking really slow and then not wanting to walk. We checked his paw and it appeared that he had cut his pad, not a bad one by any means, but one that annoyed him. Usually he wiggles away when you try to pick him up, but he just let Ryan do it this time. Poor guy, at least he is inside on the soft carpet now.
Other recent news is that Measures 66 & 67 passed. Although these measures passing has upset many people, Ryan and I are obviously very relieved with the result. With the measures passing we get to keep our jobs and get our house. So, I apologize if you feel that these measures passing is going to cause the world to end, but Ryan and I, it kept our world together.
Onto the house. We will close on the 8th of February, which is just a bit over a week away. Today we went to Home Depot and picked out some paint colors that we liked for the bathrooms and bedrooms. All of the colors are nice neutrals. The color we picked for the majority of the house is a light tan called Water Chestnut. It will cover all three bedrooms, the hallway and eventually the living room. I say eventually the living room because we are planning on knocking out a large portion of a wall in the living room, so it would be silly to paint that wall. We have two colors picked out for the bathrooms and don't know if we will do the Master bath one color and the main bath the other, or if we will do both bathrooms the same. We picked a blue color called Sea Spray, which is very soft and neutral and a green color called Soft Sage, which is a very soft, neutral green. I think we will paint the trim white, but we have also considered replacing the trim as well. I believe it is in good condition, but it's just not all that modern. We also looked at some outside doors because our entry door is hollow and could easily be kicked in. All in all, we are getting really excited to move into our own place and to have a yard for Hank.
And now to revisit a topic in a previous post. Hank turned on the TV again today while we were out. You can once again see the slobbery, nose smears all over the corner of the TV. Ryan refuses to believe that Hank is doing it, but deep down he has to know that's the only way it's happening. Our doggy is so smart. Also, Ryan had to carry Hank home on the last leg of our walk. Hank started limping and walking really slow and then not wanting to walk. We checked his paw and it appeared that he had cut his pad, not a bad one by any means, but one that annoyed him. Usually he wiggles away when you try to pick him up, but he just let Ryan do it this time. Poor guy, at least he is inside on the soft carpet now.
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