It's been awhile

Wow, I didn't realize it had been a while since I last blogged. I have been busy! Unfortunately I have been getting home too late and have been trying to clean up the house...Haven't had much time for the computer. The one night I did get home at a reasonable hour my hubby got on the computer and played his Star Wars game for a long long time.

Anyhoo, just to let everyone know we are painting the house tomorrow!! Travis is pressure washing the whole house today after work and then bright and early his mom and dad are coming over to help us paint the house. Should be fun. Hopefully we can finish in one day...not sure if that is possible, but we will see!! I might see if my parents are busy. They volunteered their help, but I just found all this out last night so..... I will try to get some before and after shots of the house. I have some from Christmas (showing of my decorations), but it is a little dark...I will try to get those on tonight.

We found a house that Travis and I really like...which is hard to believe. Usually we find a house that he likes and I don't. I am picky though. We have found 2 others besides this one and each time we were too late...someone put an offer on them before we could. The thing is the last one was for sale FOREVER before we looked at it....we liked it, called the selling agent to see if any offers had been made and sure enough one had just been accepted that day. This current one that we like has been for sale for over a year and been vacant for about 2 years. It needs updating and some maintenance due to the fact it has been vacant for a while. We are keeping our fingers crossed that our house sells quickly!

Well, that is about all for now. I will write more when I get a chance....sounds like we are going to have a busy weekend!!

Travis' friend, David, came over Saturday to watch the WVU game....needless to say many beers were consumed that night. We needed something to drown our sorrows....we should have won.... 

This is me...goofing around with one of the dust masks we had left over....scalpel 

The window is finished!!! The caulk is on and everything is complete....well almost everything! 

Looking good....now to finish the window... 

This is the other side, up and looking good. 

Warning - Spelling is not my forte'

Ok, I know I am not the greatest speller in the world and sometimes my grammar sucks. Please forgive me. If you do see an error please let me know and I will fix it. To be honest...I use this spell checker every time, but it doesn't catch everything and sometimes....my brain thinks faster than my fingers can type!

Thanks Debbie for letting me know of my mistake....I fixed it...I think!

This is me....just thought I would add my picture since I got it to work today!! (Taken January 2004)

It is really starting to come together. Here is Howard again...say cheese! 

Starting to look like walls again! 

Howard fixing the plumbing 

This is after we took down the walls... 

Mountaineers in Sweet 16

Congatulations to the WVU Mountaineers!!! Let's Go Mountaineers!! This was an exciting game the other night. We haven't been in the Tournament since 1998....this is great! WVU beat Wake Forest in double, yes I said double, overtime!! This game definately kept you on the edge of your seat and ended with a WVU win 111-105. As said by a writer in the Gazette "this game will be remembered in Mountaineer lore as one of the greatest ever. For that matter, given just the basic circumstances — a No. 7 seed upsetting a No. 2, coming from 14 points down and doing it in two overtimes — the game figures to find a place in NCAA tournament lore, as well."
Texas Tech, here we come!

Sorry

For some reason the pictures wouldn't upload last night after I wrote my little blurb. I will try again tonight....I would really like for you to see what I am living with!!

Last night we took our showers at my in-laws house and then wet our hair in the sink this morning. My hair always goes nuts if I sleep on it wet like I did last night. I looked like the Bride of Frankenstein!

Things never go as planned

Well, we started the bathroom update and of course things didn't go as planned. Something that we thought would take a day or two looks like it will take 3-4 or more days now. When they got started the found that the wall around the tub was basically falling in so that's when it started. The wall was taken out (as you can see in the photos) and they are in the process of putting up the drywall (as in the photos). I guess I really should have expected this...I mean things are never as simple as they seem to be. We now don't have a shower...like I mentioned in my earlier post, this is a 1 bathroom house. Looks like we are going to be taking showers at our parent's house for the next couple of days.
This sucks, but it will all work out in the end.

The Stepsister Speaks Outs

This is my favorite monologue. I just had to share it with everyone.


"The Stepsister Speaks Out".

Author and Source Unknown.
Approx. 1 min., 50 sec.

Cinderella's stepsister gives an different viewpoint on that famous story.

It isn't easy being the ugly stepsister. Everybody always feels so sorry for poor little Cinderella, but what about me? I deserve a little sympathy, too. Does MY fairy godmother ever turn up with a magic wand? Does the prince ever dance with me at the ball? Not on your life. The best I can ever hope for with my pumpkins is a decent piece of pie. And as for the rats, well, rats are rats, with their sneaky eyes and skinny tails, nibbling and gnawing at the garbage. I haven't seen one yet who turned into a coachman.

If you ask me, that Cinderella is weird. Certainly, she isn't normal. Besides the fact that she has naturally curly hair and wears size 4 1/2 shoes, she is so good-natured that it's downright sickening. If you had to dust and sweep and clean all day long, would you go around singing to the birds? Of course you wouldn't, no sensible person would.

Some people think I'm jealous of her. Maybe I am, but with good reason. I subsisted on seven hundred calories a day for three whole weeks before the ball. I got a perm and a facial and a manicure. I even bought a new gown, blue velvet, designer label. I mean, I was READY. "PRINCEY," I thought to myself, "HERE I COME!"
And what happens? Little Cindy, who has never seen the inside of a health club before in her life and who doesn't know the caloric difference between a carrot stick and a chocolate eclair, whips together a dress out of some old curtains from K-Mart, waltzes off to the ball and snags the prince.

It isn't fair! It really isn't fair!

This is the flooring that is currently in the bathroom. My husband is hoping to take this out or cover it up because he hates it!  

The bathroom we plan to remodel. This is the before. You can't see it very well, but the soap dish is that 60's ugly green and the tiles are a light pink. There are swans on the tiles next to the sink. We have already painted the walls a pretty light blue. We did that about a year ago.  

What am I getting myself into?

Well, it looks like our bathroom is going to get remodeled next weekend. Did I mention we have a 1 bathroom house. This is going to be fun! I just hope things go as planned (like that will happen!) so we are not without a bathroom for longer than the weekend. Travis and his Dad, our handy man, will start work next Friday evening I think. We (when I saw we I really mean Travis & Howard....not quite sure what I will do, probably just get in the way!) are going to put in a tub surround to cover up this very old tile (it is way too expensive for us to re-tile this whole bathroom!), replace the faucets in the shower, maybe replace the floor & toilet. Everything still works, it is just really old and we are going to be putting the house on the market in the spring. Got to make it look pretty for someone else!
Travis & I are heading out the Lowes to purchase the tub surround and the faucets. The part I really hate is having to part with a lot of money. I didn't realize how expensive this project is going to be. I keep thinking that I am going to have to spend even more money in a couple of weeks because we are painting the outside of the house too.....what am I getting myself into??
It should all work out in the end...hopefully!!

Emmalee (my niece)