Monday, January 30, 2012

living in the woods...

is a different ball game.  i love looking outside and seeing the trees and the water and the twilight esk view (i see you edward).... i don't love the nastiness that live in the dark corners below.  i am talking mice, possums, raccoons.  call me a sissy a wussy or that word that starts with a p.  i don't care. they give me the heebee geebees. bugs i can do - rodents i can't.  on day one we paid terminex and ungodly amount of money to get rid of these creatures.

because our house was vacant for a few months before we moved in, walker kept saying we were still bound to run into something. like that made it ok.  well it happened.  all of our vents were open because the covers have to be custom (i am so sick of saying that) made and were not yet complete.  we were sleeping soundly until 1am we heard a loud scratching noise coming from the bathroom.  one of the reasons i love walker is he is the ultimate dood. he reminds my brother of liam neeson punching a wolf in that new movie of his.  he jumped up (a bit disoriented) and went over to check out the situation.  then he said oh sh*t, give me something big!  there was a possum or rat trying to claw its way up the metal vent into our room. i panicked and handed him a decorative throw pillow.   he ignored me and quickly covered the vent with a stack of large books and did the same throughout the house.  i had a mini stroke.  he had been away the night before on bizness and all i kept thinking was, what if i was alone.  i don't think i would have done that, i probably would have ran outside, locked myself out in my pj's and watched in the rain as the thing took over my house. slept in my bed! or i would have rabies.

i tried to google a picture of a rat or possum, but i got sick to my stomach.  instead, please look at boo - the worlds cutest dog.

goodness

 

we have temporarily fixed the problem, but the thought still haunts me.  i apologize to my future children.  no you can not have a hamster, no you can not have a gerbil, no you can not have a cat. 

Monday, January 16, 2012

house update

- we ordered LED canned lights.  so did everyone else, they are on back order until the end of january.
- i can sweep three times a day and make it look worse. 
-to follow up on the last statement, i hear the phrase; "promise bubs, this is the last time i need to drill or sand"  a lot.
- walker can't stick with a project now because until the next big one, he considers them all boring.  i consider them necessary, like doors.
- the oven cooks hot.  like you care but i have to lower temp 50 degrees and take everything out 10 min early.  it's the original oven, a gaggenue, which according to my dad was the bomb in the 70's.  not bomb now dad.
- not having a garbage disposal or dishwasher made me not want to cook.
- i missed cooking.  i found myself on food blogs and looking for new recipes all the time. first official recipe - pasta with a tomato cream sauce and a poppy seed cake.  #letsgetfat
- i have so much more space in the kitchen it is redic. 
- if i say i want an outlet here, walker jumps.
- we finally got HD.  more because my brother made fun of us for not paying for it when we have an HD TV.  he was kind of mean about it. the jokes were justified, HD is like a gift for our eyeballs.
- adding the extremely large kitchen island actually made space look bigger.
- the kitchen layout is everything i ever wanted.  lots of storage, mucho counter space and OPEN. i am gonna entertain like martha stewart pre insider trading snafu - unless someone gives me a good tip. #letsbehonest
- our furniture looks like doll house furniture because of the space. 
- we don't get into heat arguments as much because this house has insulation. #walkerlikesithot
- the view is amazeballs. 

-i love it. and i love hashtags.






these pix are old.  we actually have the sink and range in.  counter tops are temporary because walker wants hand chiseled marble from a country that doesn't even exist. the corner window and door will eventually be replaced too.  as well as the fridge and oven and we still need more cabinets.  oh and an entire deck and a new roof.  the bathrooms and laundry room haven't been touched and really look like sh*t.  this is so fun.  i am so glad we are millionaires- if we weren't this never ending list would really stress me out.

Monday, January 9, 2012

killing it right now

lana del rey is...


i want her voice, her hair, her lips, her eyeliner, her face. (blue jeans and born to die are good too)

lana and bon iver and gotye and florence + the machine are all on repeat right now all the time.  even when i run, which is weird because they are all super slow (with the exception of miss welch).  just shake it out, ok?

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

New Year

Happy 2012 to you and you and you and you and you

we rang in the new year with some friends.  it was fun.  we almost called last minute and bailed because our couch felt so good against our rears. but we rallied.  we put on lipstick and hoop earrings and we socialized. 



handsome

 new years resolution?  didn't really make one, more of a constant goal setting kind of girl myself.   i love lists!  walker's was about his career and houses and design.  that guy really says the sweetest things to me sometimes ;)  here are some pre move in photos.

sub floor didn't take long to put in at all...



hey hardwoods - i see you



and then he covered them up.

we enjoyed the nice gleaming hardwoods for about two seconds before walker covered them up.  why?  because he is the most anal person ever and just in case the movers wore cleats.  kids are going to be a rude awakening for mr. t.  we didn't take any photos right after we stained the floors and painted the walls/ceiling before we moved in - which is a shame, because the floors against the fresh paint was impressive.  i dreaded the painting of the walls, because i can help and walker actually approves of my work... which means 10 hour days of p.a.i.n.t.i.n.g. hell.  some friends helped, which was awesome and really saved us a lot of time.  we got into some deep discussions while inhaling sherwin williams bright white.  like why didn't mommy love me deep and is it appropriate for girls to wear hats at dinner? 

yes, yes it is...