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...

10 DAYS!

Quite a bit happened today, and I'm starting to feel the stress!  I called around to two cable companies and carpet cleaning companies today, and decided who I am going to use (Cox and Stanley Steemer in case anyone was really interested...).  I also spent about 45 minutes on the phone with my home warranty company trying to get the policy transferred and renewed; unfortunately almost every person that works there is an utter idiot, so it was pretty complicated process (plus, this is the third time I've called in a week!).  Either way, everything got squared away; now just have to find an alarm guy and get the utilities switched over...

I also turned in my massive amount of credit card points in for a $50 Home Depot gift card (for paint, etc.) and a $50 Kohl's gift card (for kitchen/bath stuff...or clothes haha).  $100 isn't much, but it will help!

I keep going back and forth with the bedroom furniture and new bed; this is something I want, but not something that I need to move in.  My mom keeps urging me to wait at least a month before forking over a grand for all this stuff, and she is probably right, but I WANT IT NOW!  Anyone who knows me well knows that I: 1) have an impulse purchasing problem 2) have zero patience to "wait" for things I want and 3) do not want to put anything off, especially with this house.  However, I need to be careful, because money does and will go quickly if I'm not careful...  I really need to make a priorities list, but it just seems so hard to figure out what is more important that something else...

DAY SEVENTEEN: a picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently...

my little piece of real estate...

I think we all saw this one coming, right?