Day 3...down

Wow, wow, and wow again.  I cannot even begin to describe the level of filth that covered this house.  Now I totally understand the concept of "we're moving anyway so why clean" but these people had a small child and 4 animals...you can't just not clean for two months!!! It took my mom and me 3 full days to clean and tape the house to be painted.  It was slightly longer than I had anticipated, and let me tell you...I am absolutely sick of cleaning.

Needless to say I am grateful and relieved that Orchid is now clean from head to toe, and we can move onto the painting.  I picked a lovely "pecan sandie" as my base wall color throughout the whole house, and a beautiful "smokey blue" for my accent wall in the great room/kitchen/dining room.  Today the focus will be getting any carpeted rooms and the laundry room painted, because APPLIANCES ARE COMING TODAY! I cannot wait to see how the black looks in the kitchen after being painted!

My mom (being how she is) wanted to replace the blinds in the house because she couldn't stand the color that was already there, and wanted to put in white wooden blinds.  Thankfully, because my mother is wonderful, she offered to pay for them...and lemme tell you, it totally transformed the look of the house!  I am very grateful for her wonderful taste...

Goal for today: paint and get appliances!  Tomorrow: tackling the horrendous backyard...

DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: a picture of something you are afraid of...

Spiders. I'm creeped out just looking at it...

burning a hole in my pocket...

Purchased my new washer/dryer from Home Depot tonight, and got another smoking deal!  All that I really "need" to make the house livable now is a new King bed; trust me, a full is definitely not enough room for myself and 2 puppies!  I was contemplating a Queen mattress, but a King isn't that much more and appears more worth it...we shall see!

DAY TEN: the person you do the most effed up stuff with...

Mr. Jaren Longmire... don't know what it is, but he brings out the "cray cray" in me!

hello kitchen!

I went and put the down payment on my brand new, beautiful GE appliances today!  I think having black appliances in the kitchen will make it look SO much nicer and newer.  Originally, I was looking at Sears' Kenmore sale going on this weekend, and found a really good deal on them; but they didn't have free delivery, and their installation fees were double that of Home TV & Appliance.  All in all, I spent about $70 more than I would've at Sears for WAY nicer appliances...woop!

In other crummy news, I spent half my day in the ER with a weird abdominal pain...this better go away by VEGAS and moving day!

DAY NINE: a picture of the person who has gotten you through the most...

my momma.  not only did she sit with me in the ER all day, she has put up with my "emotional basketcase" moments as she calls them for 24 years...thanks mom!

thank god for president's day...

A big shout out to George, Abe, Thomas and the others; thanks to you fine men I found myself a smoking deal on some kick ass appliances!  Will be headed back to Home TV & Appliance (formerly The Maytag Store) to purchase my GE fridge, range, microwave and dishwasher; then, over to Home Depot to buy my washer/dryer--also by GE.  Life is good right now, especially since both do layaway and can hold off delivery until move-in!

DAY EIGHT: a picture that makes you laugh...

diddles for jefferson!