Home Improvement!

As promised, here are a few photos of our home improvement efforts. No, we're not finished, but, we have done a ton so far. Just a few more coats of paint and two more rooms to lay floor down, installing some trim/transitions and we're done!

Bedroom Paint Before:

Bedroom Paint After (still needs one more coat):

Time to Rip up the carpet!

Our living room sans flooring:

The wood!!

My dad laying the glue (the stickiest stuff in the world):

Our first rows:

Finished product!!

Anyway, that's it so far! We will definitely need to get some area rugs, and once the guest bedroom is finished, I'll post some photos of that too!

Painting is Fun!

So, we also decided to go ahead and paint over our fug purple wall while we didn't have any "real" floors.  We got a deep red for our master bedroom.  I think its called "Ruby Ring."   And, since it had that dark purple faux finish, we had to get some primer.  The gal at home depot tinted our primer with the shade of red we were going to use to help get better coverage and also help the red look the way its supposed to.  Well, we finished painting it last night, and now our room is temporarily pepto bismol pink!!  Again, once we have our computer up and running at the house again, I'll post all of our "home improvement" photos. 

 

We also got paint for the guest bedroom.  We're going to give that room a typical "Tourist Florida" feel.  Seems like everyone who visits wants it to be as typical beachy semi-tacky Florida as possible.  So, we got a super light aqua (Himalayan Mist) 3 of the walls, and then are going to do the wall the bed is against a darker shade of aqua (Fresh Water). 

 

Anyway, painting is fun!  I can't wait till we delve into the Living Room, but, there is just so much architechural detail going on there its going to be hard to decide how to do it.  And, the way the dining room wall meets up with the kitchen wall is a little awkward, so, we'd have to work something out there as well.  Anyway, guess I had better start doing some work today.  haha.

No More Carpet!!!

So, FINALLY around 11:30 last night (way WAY way past my bedtime) we finished pulling up all our carpet, carpet pads and tack stripping. Now, our house is super ghetto looking.  But, its all temporary.  We'll finally start putting in our floors this weekend.  My dad from VA flies down on Friday afternoon.  We'll probably spend Friday night doing a little more prep work and then hopefully just get our rears up at the buttcrack of dawn on Saturday and then knock a crapload out.  Ideally, I'd like to finish by Sunday or even mid-Monday.  That way, I can take some time to rest before I go to work on Thursday.  So, me, being the idiot I am, agreed to give a presentation on Tuesday.  Well, my dad is still going to be in town.  I should have tried to push it back until Wednesday.  But, oh well.  I'll just go in Tuesday morning, give the presentation then leave when its over. 

 

On another note, we inherited 2 more cats!  Our friend moved down to Miami and doesn't have his own place yet (he's staying with family friends).  Anyway, his lease in Tallahassee was up last weekend, and two people who were supposed to take his cats fell through.  So, his last option was either us, or the shelter.  And, so I think we were a much better option.  Though, we're probably super stressing them out by first being in a new home, meeting two new cats (one who is a super fight picker) and then ripping up all the carpet and moving stuff around in their "safe room."  But, they seem to be pretty well adjusted to our craziness.  Their names are Chubbs (yep, a big fatty long haired orange tabby) and Kitty (the only gal in our house, a gray and white tabby).  I would post pictures, but, seeing as how our computer and internet access are out of commission this week, photos will have to wait.

 

Anyway, I'm in dire need of a manicure (carpet work does nothing for your cuticles) - but that will have to wait until after the floors go down.  So, probably the next time I write, I will hopefully be posting before & after photos of our house!!  All I have to do now is not fall asleep at work today!

I Luuuurrrve Hockey!

So, this year marked our 2 year anniversary. Two years already (yeah yeah so what if you've been married 10+ 2 years is exciting!)

Anyway, to celebrate - aside from stuffing ourselves at the Melting Pot we took a trip down to Tampa to go to a Tampa Bay Lightning game. Steve's new insurance company (that being, his company's new business insurer) offered us tickets last December. So, of course we took up the offer. Row B baby! Here are some photos:

Interesting....

blogger.com isn't filtered - nor is my ability to write a blog, but, my blog itself is filtered under "Blogs & Forums"

interesting.....wacky how these internet filter thingies work!

Gotta love grad school

So, one of our semi-assignments for my GIS in Social Sciences class was to create a webpage. Kind of funny considering I already have this blog (for one), a myspace page and a facebook page. How many pages does one girl need? Anyway, I figure this site could be strictly used for my graduate studies, and a way to build my GIS portfolio. I put a bunch of maps I have published on there. I'm considering putting my research papers on there as well, but before I do I need to be sure to save them as PDFs. I just hope no one tries to plagurize me. Well, at least if they do, I have proof its really mine!

Anyway, here is the site:
http://jes.rogers.googlepages.com/

It really needs some sort of a comment box area....I'll have to look into that

Hippy No Ear!

So, its been literally a month since I last "blogged." I could use the excuses such as, we closed on our house, moved, travelled for Christmas, I'm starting classes again, etc etc. But, the reality is I have plenty of time at work to blog (gotta love the state) but its FILTERED! And, I can't seem to get the "blog from email" feature I signed up for to work. Quite annoying actually because all my best blog ideas come to me when I'm at work. I could write them in a word doc, transfer to my flash drive, then copy them back when I get home, but, seriously, its just a blog. I'm not even going through all that trouble!!

Anyway, yes, we are all moved in. Still have some organizing to do (i.e. file mounds of papers and figure out what to do with all miscellaneous crap that we seem to have). And we have a ton of space to fill it seems. We have an entire empty "guest bedroom." Eventually we would like to get a king sized bed for ourselves, but, hardwood floors are coming first. And, my grandma is coming down the first weekend in February and are we really going to put her on an air matress? I mean, don't get me wrong she's in great shape and can handle it but still. We've been contemplating a futon or a sleeper loveseat in the "Office/Game Room" so maybe we can look into one of those. But, higher up on the list is a media console table (which is currently our stack of surround sound boxes) and a foyer table & coat rack. I refuse to have mail build up in the kitchen!

Some of the other costs of home ownership that we kind of knew about in the back of our heads but, didn't really put much thought into was yard supplies. We spent $200 at home depot the other day, and pretty much came back with a rake, hose, ant killer, general bug killer and a long squeegie so we can clean the jumbo half moon window over our door. Fun stuff! I contemplated going on an ant killing rampage today, but, its been rainy and might rain some more, so, its a bad time to do it. Those lucky little suckers might get another day, or week if the weather continues as such.

So, my agenda for today consists of searching for curtains for the master & guest bedrooms, buying Harry Potter 5 (I'm re-reading all of the books before I read the last, and the only one I don't own is 5), and then sitting around waiting for the mail to come becasue we're expecting a certified letter today - hopefully. Which, that pretty much translates into either me catching up on project runway and grey's anatomy, or, mopping the kitchen floor & vacuuming. It will probably consist of all of the above.

And, for those of you who don't know, "Hippy No Ear!" was something I wrote to my dad when I was about 5 or 6 which is translated from kidspeak into "Happy New Year." Its been a joke among family and friends ever since.