Monday, February 15, 2010
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Mid Holiday Update!
For anyone who may be wondering, Thanksgiving was a success... for the most part. The food turned out wonderfully, the house was fully prepared, and we somehow had enough table space and chairs for the amount of people who showed up. Mr. Williams was not one of these people, he "had to work". Well, that's okay, saved us from some holiday meal, families meeting for the first time awkwardness right? Right. It wasn't horribly awkward or anything, in fact it was quickly overrun by a swarm of teenage girls home for their first college Thanksgiving break. Dan's mom was preoccupied planning out her black friday shopping trip and was disappointed by the fact that she was missing the pre-black friday sale at Michael's. C'est domage. My parents pretty much just stayed in the kitchen helping me cook and then hid in a corner at the table and retreated upstairs as soon as dinner was over, coming down once things quited down to help me clean up. All in all, a not so interesting version of the evening that I had compiled in my mind, filled more with cooking and cleaning up than any sort of holiday joy. I guess that should have been expected. The house looks great though, the newly painted hallway really brightens up the entire house, the impact is actually quite surprising. That with our new bedroom curtains and new outlets throughout the house, it's all turning out pretty nicely. All we need now are the weird family portraits that we can fill the stairway wall with.
With Thanksgiving out of the way, we have turned towards Christmas, of course! There has been little decorating, no tree yet (saturday, hopefully!) Dan and I both had off yesterday so we headed to the Ross Park Mall to hit up Macy's and wherever else. He was quickly discouraged as he tried to get me a ring that they turned out to be sold out of or something (yeah, he ruined the surprise on that one!). It didn't help matters then that one of the women who was helping him was a "raging bitch". Anyhow, With the majority of my shopping out of the way, I get to not spend anymore money on gifts, and spend it all on house repair stuff! Next up on our list is a new roof! Then a new furnace, then water heater. Plus this winter we will also undertake the task of remodeling the upstairs bathroom that we started demolition on. Plus, we also want to make the upstairs fireplace usable again. Such hopes for a house we probably wont be in nine months from now.
Sad.
With Thanksgiving out of the way, we have turned towards Christmas, of course! There has been little decorating, no tree yet (saturday, hopefully!) Dan and I both had off yesterday so we headed to the Ross Park Mall to hit up Macy's and wherever else. He was quickly discouraged as he tried to get me a ring that they turned out to be sold out of or something (yeah, he ruined the surprise on that one!). It didn't help matters then that one of the women who was helping him was a "raging bitch". Anyhow, With the majority of my shopping out of the way, I get to not spend anymore money on gifts, and spend it all on house repair stuff! Next up on our list is a new roof! Then a new furnace, then water heater. Plus this winter we will also undertake the task of remodeling the upstairs bathroom that we started demolition on. Plus, we also want to make the upstairs fireplace usable again. Such hopes for a house we probably wont be in nine months from now.
Sad.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
wtf?!?
I had all of those pictures next to each other so there could be side by side comparisons, do you know how long it took me to do that? I went back and forth between the preview screen lots of times! BAH!
The Moment You Have Been Waiting For...
Picture time!!!
These are just a few of many that we have taken, some of them aren't that great because of angles and the like and you aren't really going to get the full idea of it all. The teeny pictures seen here are just a teensy weensy preview of what our house actually looks like. Also, I am tired to having to format them and size them and all of that other junk to get them to stay next to each other. But please, whoever you are viewing this, leave a comment of any sort, although I probably don't know you, I care immensely what you think about me.
These are just a few of many that we have taken, some of them aren't that great because of angles and the like and you aren't really going to get the full idea of it all. The teeny pictures seen here are just a teensy weensy preview of what our house actually looks like. Also, I am tired to having to format them and size them and all of that other junk to get them to stay next to each other. But please, whoever you are viewing this, leave a comment of any sort, although I probably don't know you, I care immensely what you think about me.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Pre-Thanksgiving Festivities...
We are having Thanksgiving at our place again. This time it will be at our house, not our teeny apartment with only one sofa to sit on. It will be, as Thanksgiving dinners go, a legitimate attempt at a true family Thanksgiving. Family, plus a few extras. First off, Dan and I have been together for almost two years, but none of our family has actually met (not counting the time that Dan's mom and my older brother from California got cozy in between puffs at a Tom Petty concert last summer). One time my parents almost met his mom, but instead my dad peed next to her house in some bushes and then we left. In exactly one week from today, these parties will finally meet. On top of that, Dan's mom is bringing her boyfriend. Now they started dating or hoo-ha-ing a little bit after Dan and myself got together, but we have never been given the opportunity to meet him, Mr. Williams, Lee. Of course we will also be having the normies including the sisters and the friends and the post dinner drink friends. All in all, it should make for an interesting evening.
In preperation for this event, we have started household improvements again, we kind of let off after finishing all of the bigger stuff for the housewarming party. But alas, they have begun, again. Currently, we have two large projecs underway, fixing the hallway wall, and dismantling and gutting the upstairs bathroom. Right now the project being concentrated on the most is the hall, applying layers of spackle to the new drywall so that we can paint the entire hallway upstairs and down prior to next Thursday. Here is a picture of the hallway prior to having part of the wall removed:
Now you can't really tell from this picture, but alas I cannot find my camera cable to get the pictures I took before undertaking this project, but, on the left side of the picture on that wall in three different places, before, and twice after the thermostat, there are large cracks running from floor to ceiling in the plaster. I decided one day while Dan was at work to knock the plaster off to get rid of these cracks. It was a somewhat lengthy and extremely dusty task.
This is what it looked like with the old plaster knocked off. Since then we have put up new drywall and I have spackled and we are very close to painting, I will update as soon as I can with more pictures. ALSO, sidenote, notice little Mow Mow in this picture here, isn't she a cutie? She is such a wonderful cat who somehow is not afraid of drills and hammers and all of the noise that these things make. Amusing story- today Jack was trying to eat her head, as Jack normally does, and Mow Mow pawed at him and in doing so her claw got stuck in his collar and when he started walking away he ended up dragging her with him a little bit, she either failed to notice, or care, that she was being drug across the floor by the dog.
But anyways, if anyone out there doesn't have plans for Thanksgiving, feel free to stop in as Dan will be in charge of the turkey (he's very good at this task) and I will be doing everything else, with some help from my mom of course. If our company isn't enough to tempt you, remember this, there will be brussel sprouts!
In preperation for this event, we have started household improvements again, we kind of let off after finishing all of the bigger stuff for the housewarming party. But alas, they have begun, again. Currently, we have two large projecs underway, fixing the hallway wall, and dismantling and gutting the upstairs bathroom. Right now the project being concentrated on the most is the hall, applying layers of spackle to the new drywall so that we can paint the entire hallway upstairs and down prior to next Thursday. Here is a picture of the hallway prior to having part of the wall removed:
Now you can't really tell from this picture, but alas I cannot find my camera cable to get the pictures I took before undertaking this project, but, on the left side of the picture on that wall in three different places, before, and twice after the thermostat, there are large cracks running from floor to ceiling in the plaster. I decided one day while Dan was at work to knock the plaster off to get rid of these cracks. It was a somewhat lengthy and extremely dusty task.
This is what it looked like with the old plaster knocked off. Since then we have put up new drywall and I have spackled and we are very close to painting, I will update as soon as I can with more pictures. ALSO, sidenote, notice little Mow Mow in this picture here, isn't she a cutie? She is such a wonderful cat who somehow is not afraid of drills and hammers and all of the noise that these things make. Amusing story- today Jack was trying to eat her head, as Jack normally does, and Mow Mow pawed at him and in doing so her claw got stuck in his collar and when he started walking away he ended up dragging her with him a little bit, she either failed to notice, or care, that she was being drug across the floor by the dog.
But anyways, if anyone out there doesn't have plans for Thanksgiving, feel free to stop in as Dan will be in charge of the turkey (he's very good at this task) and I will be doing everything else, with some help from my mom of course. If our company isn't enough to tempt you, remember this, there will be brussel sprouts!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Halloween!
As Tara mentioned in the previous entry, our Halloween plans were to dress up the dog, hand out candy, and then hit up a party. Luckily, we realized early in the evening that we were old and toned down the, admittedly, over-ambitious plans.
Tara worked in the morning, but when she got home we headed out to the middle-class beacon of disposable culture: Costco. No doubt everyone is already aware of the magnificence of Costco; the glory of buying in bulk, the markdowns, the sense of power in showing off my black "Executive Member" card, the free samples, and the $1.50 all-beef hotdog and soft drink combo. Magnificent.
We stocked up on candy. Two bags of fun size candy bars (each containing 150 pieces), and a box of full size candy bars, not to mention a few of our general staples: a bag of Andy Boy romaine lettuce and some sliced turkey. We tied it all together with a couple pepperoni pizzas that were marked down. Another quick stop at the beer distributor and we headed home. When we arrived at home it was around 5:30. We hefted everything inside, filled up a bowl with candy, and began getting down with our festive selves. We put our pumpkins out front, hung up some cool little lattern lights, tossed the pizza in the oven, and opened up a bottle of wine.
Then, for the next hour and a half or so, we sat out on the front porch, drinking wine and eating pizza, handing out candy, and questioning kids about their costumes. There were some fantastic ones, cute little kids dressed as oompa-loompas, bumblebees, and giraffes, and then there were the lazy teenagers who had no costume whatsoever. One of them was on the ball when I asked him about it, stating "I'm myself. I thought I'd go as something scary this year." Another boy came up without a costume and simply began stuttering when I asked him about his lack of costume. His mother came to his aid, explaining that he has a mask in the car, but chose not to wear it because "it makes his face sweat".
Trick-or-treating ended around 7:30 and we headed upstairs. We tossed around the idea of going to a party or a bar, etc, or even just watching a scary movie, but finally we just settled in and watched the Phillies game and went to bed.
Tara worked in the morning, but when she got home we headed out to the middle-class beacon of disposable culture: Costco. No doubt everyone is already aware of the magnificence of Costco; the glory of buying in bulk, the markdowns, the sense of power in showing off my black "Executive Member" card, the free samples, and the $1.50 all-beef hotdog and soft drink combo. Magnificent.
We stocked up on candy. Two bags of fun size candy bars (each containing 150 pieces), and a box of full size candy bars, not to mention a few of our general staples: a bag of Andy Boy romaine lettuce and some sliced turkey. We tied it all together with a couple pepperoni pizzas that were marked down. Another quick stop at the beer distributor and we headed home. When we arrived at home it was around 5:30. We hefted everything inside, filled up a bowl with candy, and began getting down with our festive selves. We put our pumpkins out front, hung up some cool little lattern lights, tossed the pizza in the oven, and opened up a bottle of wine.
Then, for the next hour and a half or so, we sat out on the front porch, drinking wine and eating pizza, handing out candy, and questioning kids about their costumes. There were some fantastic ones, cute little kids dressed as oompa-loompas, bumblebees, and giraffes, and then there were the lazy teenagers who had no costume whatsoever. One of them was on the ball when I asked him about it, stating "I'm myself. I thought I'd go as something scary this year." Another boy came up without a costume and simply began stuttering when I asked him about his lack of costume. His mother came to his aid, explaining that he has a mask in the car, but chose not to wear it because "it makes his face sweat".
Trick-or-treating ended around 7:30 and we headed upstairs. We tossed around the idea of going to a party or a bar, etc, or even just watching a scary movie, but finally we just settled in and watched the Phillies game and went to bed.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Just an update...
For any interested parties, here are some things that have been going on with us lately.
We took the motorcycle saftey class. It was fun. It was four sessions, two in class ones in the evening and two riding lessons on sunday mornings. We were both very nervous, in the first riding lesson, I, Tara, was almost killed by a rogue motorcycle. In the second I nearly killed myself with my own bike. Dan however did very well, never falling or faltering and in the end we both passed with somewhat flying colors and are now licensed motorcyclists. Scary, I know, keep yer children out of the road.
Last tuesday we bought a motorcycle. It is an 82 Kawasaki 440. It's a crazy little bike that rumbles and grumbles and has weird handle bars. But we both like it and Dan doesn't know it yet but we're going to clean it up all nice and maybe he'll repaint the tank. We'll prolly upgrade in the spring. Oh yeah, and it's, i mean his, name is Tommy. Rusty Tommy our first little motorcycle.
Dan is in the process of applying to law schools. He's such a smarthead he's going to apply to Harvard and Yale. Looks and brains, I don't know how I got so lucky to find such a man.
We are going to dress Jack up like a shark tonight for Halloween and give out candy for trick or treaters. Then we may hit up the local PNA because Dan is intent on getting a membership though neither of us are Polish. But I guess I was part of the VFW and wasn't a veteran of war, foreign or domestic.
That's about it. Thanks.
We took the motorcycle saftey class. It was fun. It was four sessions, two in class ones in the evening and two riding lessons on sunday mornings. We were both very nervous, in the first riding lesson, I, Tara, was almost killed by a rogue motorcycle. In the second I nearly killed myself with my own bike. Dan however did very well, never falling or faltering and in the end we both passed with somewhat flying colors and are now licensed motorcyclists. Scary, I know, keep yer children out of the road.
Last tuesday we bought a motorcycle. It is an 82 Kawasaki 440. It's a crazy little bike that rumbles and grumbles and has weird handle bars. But we both like it and Dan doesn't know it yet but we're going to clean it up all nice and maybe he'll repaint the tank. We'll prolly upgrade in the spring. Oh yeah, and it's, i mean his, name is Tommy. Rusty Tommy our first little motorcycle.
Dan is in the process of applying to law schools. He's such a smarthead he's going to apply to Harvard and Yale. Looks and brains, I don't know how I got so lucky to find such a man.
We are going to dress Jack up like a shark tonight for Halloween and give out candy for trick or treaters. Then we may hit up the local PNA because Dan is intent on getting a membership though neither of us are Polish. But I guess I was part of the VFW and wasn't a veteran of war, foreign or domestic.
That's about it. Thanks.
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