Friday, June 28, 2013
Those Old Georgia Pines
I wanted to share this awesome picture that my uncle took in our almost-backyard this past weekend when we had family in town from Alabama. I wasn't able to show them the inside of the house, but we spent some time touring the outside! The only thing missing in this picture is Wes.
Monday, June 24, 2013
It's the Final Countdown
Oh, if only we had G.O.B. here to commemorate this final countdown! Although we don't, it is true that we are a wee five days away from closing. This is not the same as being five days away from moving...but it's still pretty cool.
We did a walk-though this weekend and, while it went pretty well, there were still a few items that need to be addressed by the seller. We are confident that these items will be addressed this week before Friday's closing. If they aren't, we may have to wait just a little longer. And this will be me.
(sidenote: Have you seen the Sad Cat Diaries? I am obsessed) I'm pretty sure we will close on Friday, though. Literally the first thing that we have scheduled after we close is the installation of...wait for it...internet and cable! Seriously, you guys don't even know how hard it is when our internet is so slow that only one of us can engage in an online activity at a time. I cannot tell you how many times I have been forced to play Candy Crush on my phone using 4G instead of my iPad using wifi. The screen is so much smaller! What am I? An ant?!
We did a walk-though this weekend and, while it went pretty well, there were still a few items that need to be addressed by the seller. We are confident that these items will be addressed this week before Friday's closing. If they aren't, we may have to wait just a little longer. And this will be me.
Monday, June 3, 2013
A Bicycle (Key Rack) Built for Two
I have officially bought the first item for the house. Huzzah! While feeding the monster this weekend, I came across a pin featuring this awesome key rack from Etsy:
It's totes adorbs! See, bicycles built for two (bicycle built for twos? whatever.) are an unofficial "thing" for me and Wes. Actually, it might be an official thing. It started at the beach in Hilton Head in 2008:
We were babies! Just kidding, we look the same. I still have those pants. We have continued our tradition in St. Simon's:
In case you are keeping score, doing something twice still counts as a tradition. And in our defense, we intended to do it in Gulf Shores last year, but couldn't find a rental place and also it was raining and we may have spent too much time at the bar. It's still a tradition, though!
Our awesome rehearsal dinner actually had a bicycle-built-for-two theme. It was pretty great, and we scored this personalized print! This may be hung over the key rack, who knows? The possibilities are endless!
It's totes adorbs! See, bicycles built for two (bicycle built for twos? whatever.) are an unofficial "thing" for me and Wes. Actually, it might be an official thing. It started at the beach in Hilton Head in 2008:
We were babies! Just kidding, we look the same. I still have those pants. We have continued our tradition in St. Simon's:
In case you are keeping score, doing something twice still counts as a tradition. And in our defense, we intended to do it in Gulf Shores last year, but couldn't find a rental place and also it was raining and we may have spent too much time at the bar. It's still a tradition, though!
Our awesome rehearsal dinner actually had a bicycle-built-for-two theme. It was pretty great, and we scored this personalized print! This may be hung over the key rack, who knows? The possibilities are endless!
Thursday, May 30, 2013
The Pinterest Monster
We are less than one month away from closing on the house. I am going to spend the next month having that feeling you have on Christmas Eve when you're so excited you can't fall asleep. Y'all still have that feeling in your thirties, right? Anyway, we are excited. I'm so excited that I have already created approximately nine Pinterest boards dedicated to various areas of the house. This is me:
When Pinterest attacks, it is mighty. It starts out as a friendly, harmless let's-just-browse-while-drinking-my-morning-coffee, and then all of a sudden it's an hour later and you're late for work. True story. Pinterest is at the same time wonderful and terrible. Pinterest will teach you how to make delicious chicken. Pinterest will revolutionize your relationship with broccoli. It will show you amazing outfits with perfect accessories that in a million years you will never own. However, Pinterest will also trick you into making a banana omelette by telling you they are pancakes. Pinterest will convince you that ridiculous things are ingenious, like taking your bagel to work in a CD case and the classic using-a-dustpan-to-fill-up-a-bucket trick. It will tell you seven hundred ways to a flat belly, none of which will make you look like that girl in the picture. Pinterest also makes it very easy for misattributed quotes to "go viral," as the kids say. (P.S., Olivia Wilde said that one. In Cosmo.) And don't get me started on parties. Pinterest will unapologetically almost spoil a sweet boy's first birthday party.
But perhaps Pinterest's worst transgression comes in the form of home decor. People don't live like this this, right? These kitchens are not real. No one has the thing where the cutting board pulls out and has a little hole for the trash to go straight into the trash can. It's exhausting to see these things when you live in an actual house that regular humans inhabit. Not a house with a tiny built in playhouse under the stairs. (really? is this a thing?) Or this house which is totally photoshopped and if it isn't, I'm moving tomorrow. How is it possible to browse those boards without going completely insane?
So the challenge here is to keep the Pinterest Monster at bay with a healthy dose of realism. I have a great house to work with, but we don't live in a fairy tale. I'm pretty sure that I can't DIY myself into a treehouse filled with endless wine fountains and an infinity bathtub. Pretty sure...I haven't run all the numbers yet. But even if I can't plant a tree in our master bedroom and construct a bed out of natural wood and a hammock, I am not a failure. Our house will still be lovely. But in the meantime, dear readers:
When Pinterest attacks, it is mighty. It starts out as a friendly, harmless let's-just-browse-while-drinking-my-morning-coffee, and then all of a sudden it's an hour later and you're late for work. True story. Pinterest is at the same time wonderful and terrible. Pinterest will teach you how to make delicious chicken. Pinterest will revolutionize your relationship with broccoli. It will show you amazing outfits with perfect accessories that in a million years you will never own. However, Pinterest will also trick you into making a banana omelette by telling you they are pancakes. Pinterest will convince you that ridiculous things are ingenious, like taking your bagel to work in a CD case and the classic using-a-dustpan-to-fill-up-a-bucket trick. It will tell you seven hundred ways to a flat belly, none of which will make you look like that girl in the picture. Pinterest also makes it very easy for misattributed quotes to "go viral," as the kids say. (P.S., Olivia Wilde said that one. In Cosmo.) And don't get me started on parties. Pinterest will unapologetically almost spoil a sweet boy's first birthday party.
But perhaps Pinterest's worst transgression comes in the form of home decor. People don't live like this this, right? These kitchens are not real. No one has the thing where the cutting board pulls out and has a little hole for the trash to go straight into the trash can. It's exhausting to see these things when you live in an actual house that regular humans inhabit. Not a house with a tiny built in playhouse under the stairs. (really? is this a thing?) Or this house which is totally photoshopped and if it isn't, I'm moving tomorrow. How is it possible to browse those boards without going completely insane?
So the challenge here is to keep the Pinterest Monster at bay with a healthy dose of realism. I have a great house to work with, but we don't live in a fairy tale. I'm pretty sure that I can't DIY myself into a treehouse filled with endless wine fountains and an infinity bathtub. Pretty sure...I haven't run all the numbers yet. But even if I can't plant a tree in our master bedroom and construct a bed out of natural wood and a hammock, I am not a failure. Our house will still be lovely. But in the meantime, dear readers:
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Here I am!
Apparently I am blogging just enough lately to keep me from completely deleting this blog. Throughout the many iterations of this blog (I keep reinventing it...sneaky or indecisive?) I have come to learn several things about myself:
Inside this sweet little gem (which I like to think resembles the house from Father of the Bride...I said resembles, people) awaits numerous poor paint colors, outdated bathrooms (including: The Bathroom Without a Shower and a Toilet So Close to the Tub that Your Knees Touch the Edge and Did I Mention It Has Carpet), more questionable carpet, a sprawling bonus room adorned in peeling wallpaper, and a plethora of what will be empty rooms until we can afford to fill them up. You, dear blog readers, will be in for a treat as I document each delightful and probably-most-of-the-time boring step as we transform the inside of this home to match the beauty of the outside. Which is totes amazing. If you think about it, it's kind of like the opposite of the Biggest Loser.
Also, I plan to talk about our cats. You're welcome in advance..
*This month will probably feel like agony. Two-bedroom-apartment based agony.
- I started blogging in my twenties. I am no longer in my twenties.
- I like to alternate between blogging about mundane things and making sweeping, profound observations on Life (capital L life - big stuff).
- I'm probably trying to be a little profound in this post, but just be cool, everyone.
- I like cats. I am obsessed with my cats.
- I can't run.
- Weight ain't nothing but a number...that tells you how much you weigh. And is directly related to your cheeseburger and potato chip intake.
- I just can't blog unless I have something to blog about.
Inside this sweet little gem (which I like to think resembles the house from Father of the Bride...I said resembles, people) awaits numerous poor paint colors, outdated bathrooms (including: The Bathroom Without a Shower and a Toilet So Close to the Tub that Your Knees Touch the Edge and Did I Mention It Has Carpet), more questionable carpet, a sprawling bonus room adorned in peeling wallpaper, and a plethora of what will be empty rooms until we can afford to fill them up. You, dear blog readers, will be in for a treat as I document each delightful and probably-most-of-the-time boring step as we transform the inside of this home to match the beauty of the outside. Which is totes amazing. If you think about it, it's kind of like the opposite of the Biggest Loser.
Also, I plan to talk about our cats. You're welcome in advance..
*This month will probably feel like agony. Two-bedroom-apartment based agony.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Another 31 Things Update
Here is an update of where I stand on my 31 Things to-do list.
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1. Complete wedding scrapbook.
2. Run a half-marathon.
3. Buy a house.
4.
5. Take Wes to a UGA game in Athens.
6. Take a golf lesson.
7. Buy a nice camera.
8. Host a family holiday at our house.
9. Frame a shadowbox of wedding items.
10.
11.
12. Lose 20 lbs.
13.
14. Write a short story.
15. Train Ollie to not poop on the floor.
16. Beat Super Mario Galaxy.
17. Complete 2010-2011 scrapbook.
18. Give at least one homemade Christmas gift.
19. Find a signature scent and start wearing it.
20. Seriously clean out closet.
21. Go to the North Georgia Mountains with Wes.
22. Visit Nashville.
23. Get a customized stamp once we have a house.
24. Select and print canvas prints from wedding photos.
25. Make some Pinterest Christmas decorations.
26. Get my calves small enough that I can wear knee-high boots.
27. Create a jewelry display/storage system.
28. Have wedding rings appraised.
29. Buy a new car (preferably a small SUV!).
30. Go rock climbing (indoor, obviously).
31. Climb Stone Mountain with Wes.
Obligatory Resolution-Type Post
Naturally, it has been a while since I blogged. And, even more predictably, it is the second-to-last day of 2012 and I'm in one of those introspective moments when I resolve that I * will * blog more in 2013!
But seriously, I am going to blog more in 2013. How do I know? Well, for one, Santa brought me a super fancy MacBook Pro for Christmas, and I now have the proper tools for blogging! My old MacBook was in a sad state and I rarely turned it on, which is one main reasons I never blogged. Yea, that's it. I also need to remind myself that it's okay to blog even though I don't have any kids to talk about.
So here are the things that I RESOLVE to do in 2013, or, more accurately, the things I hope will happen in 2013:
1. Start writing more in an effort to not lose my creative writing skills I once had (read: blog more!)
2. Buy a house
3. Lose 20 pounds
4. Finish our wedding scrapbook
5. Complete the Publix half marathon in March
I have decided to leave off what would be number 6: get my s&#@ together. Because I'm already kind of doing that anyway, and, realistically, how do you measure accomplishing that at the end of 2013? I guarantee that come December 31, 2013, I would find a way to tell myself I still needed to get my s$&@* together in 2014. So enough with that.
There are some other things I guess I'm "resolving" to do in 2013, but I'm not calling them resolutions because that's kind of a recipe for failure. These are just things I'd like to do in 2013: visit family in Boston and Ohio several times; purge unnecessary junk from our house; downsize my wardrobe to things I actually wear; buy some grown-up furniture. I'd also like for my blog to be interesting/well-written and for people to actually read it.
We'll see about that one, I guess.
But seriously, I am going to blog more in 2013. How do I know? Well, for one, Santa brought me a super fancy MacBook Pro for Christmas, and I now have the proper tools for blogging! My old MacBook was in a sad state and I rarely turned it on, which is one main reasons I never blogged. Yea, that's it. I also need to remind myself that it's okay to blog even though I don't have any kids to talk about.
So here are the things that I RESOLVE to do in 2013, or, more accurately, the things I hope will happen in 2013:
1. Start writing more in an effort to not lose my creative writing skills I once had (read: blog more!)
2. Buy a house
3. Lose 20 pounds
4. Finish our wedding scrapbook
5. Complete the Publix half marathon in March
I have decided to leave off what would be number 6: get my s&#@ together. Because I'm already kind of doing that anyway, and, realistically, how do you measure accomplishing that at the end of 2013? I guarantee that come December 31, 2013, I would find a way to tell myself I still needed to get my s$&@* together in 2014. So enough with that.
There are some other things I guess I'm "resolving" to do in 2013, but I'm not calling them resolutions because that's kind of a recipe for failure. These are just things I'd like to do in 2013: visit family in Boston and Ohio several times; purge unnecessary junk from our house; downsize my wardrobe to things I actually wear; buy some grown-up furniture. I'd also like for my blog to be interesting/well-written and for people to actually read it.
We'll see about that one, I guess.
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