myJaxonIf we don’t go crazy once in a while, we’ll all go crazy. - Hawkeye

The house is coming along nicely.  We painted the living room and hallway a couple weeks ago and now they are all the same color.  The color isn’t what I was looking for, but it’ll work for now.  However, my current decor scheme doesn’t work with the new paint job.  The theme I’ve been using for awhile now is autumn colors, so I have a lot of red, yellow, and orange decorations that worked everywhere we’ve been.  Now my silver has tints of blush and purple in it depending on the time of day and brightness of the sun so all of those colors really don’t work now.  So I’m leaning towards a sunset color scheme, which allows me to use a lot of the yellow and reds, but the oranges have got to go.  This just means I get to buy new stuff as we can afford it.

My office did get painted a while ago and it’s this pretty green color and all of my wood and nature shots work wonderfully in there.  As well as my orange decors, so they won’t be completely wasted.  It’s kind of a mess right now, so I need to get there in a clean it up, but once I do, it’s going to be fabulous.

Ian’s bedroom was also painted and I actually put a little more work into his room than I did all the others.  His room has three different colors going on and they all work well together (so far).  The bottom half of his room was painted this pretty cartoonish green with the top half a cartoonish blue.  I think the two colors look cartoonish but others may not.  As a border between the two colors, I have a asphalt looking road circling the room that seems to be working well.  I haven’t gotten the yellow lines up yet since I just added the border yesterday, but give me a few days and those will be up too.

I’m hoping to have all the rooms clean and set to right by the end of this weekend, so I should be able to post new photos of the house soon.  The kitchen is coming along nicely.  I finely have a spice rack and I haven’t had to paint, so this room was the easiest to do.

The yard is a goner.  I made a mistake that Jesse still hasn’t let me live down.  He sent me to the store to return the weed killer since the sprayer wasn’t working and I came back with RoundUp.  You may not see a problem with that, but Jesse was also using the weed killer on spots in the yard and neither of us realized that RoundUp is also a grass killer.  So now we have brown spots littered throughout our yard.  My Bad!  We were trying to get the yard to look a little better than when we moved in, but that’s not happening this year now.  We’re planning on doing some preliminary work this fall so we can get a jump start on the yard for next year and planting grass seed in those areas is going to be one of those projects.  In all honestly, the yard isn’t that bad.  The majority of the work we’re going to have to put into landscaping is mainly cosmetic and anything we want to change.  There are a couple of bushes that we’re going to pull since they don’t seem to be doing to well, but other than that, everything is good as it is.

I love our basement.  It’s going to be sad once we start chopping it up and putting up the walls and whatnot, and it’ll be nice when we do that since there will be another bathroom downstairs, but until then, I’ll enjoy it while I have it.  I’m still hoping we’ll get to put up some walls this winter, but I’m not sure if we’re going to be able to or not.  I really want to get Jesse’s office up and running so he has his own place to disappear to.  He really needs it, and aside from the wall separating the storage area, that’s one of the first projects we’re going to be doing.

I think that’s it for now on the house.  I’ll try and post some pictures later next week.

It’s official. We closed on the house this afternoon. Jesse and I are now homeowners!!! We don’t actually take possession until Sunday, but it’s all ours. No more dealing with Indy Mac (the bank from hell), no more waiting, no more searching, no more nothing. All we have left to do is move our stuff into the house on Sunday and it’s done.

I’ll post some pictures next week, but we really don’t have that much to do on the house once we get it. I’m not saying we don’t have things to do, it just doesn’t seem like all that much. We’re going to change the locks (obviously), and some of the rooms don’t necessarily need to be painted (but they will be eventually), but most everything we need to do is maintenance related. The bathtub/shower hardware needs to be replaced, a couple of windows are cracked, and the back gate that gives us access to the park needs to be fixed, but other than that, everything else isn’t all too major. Jesse is going to come back and say it’s all majorly important, but we’ll still be able to go at our own pace and not one predetermined by the house.

So yeah, we are now officially $100k+ in debt and proud of it!

We finally have a house! The seller’s bank has finally come through, it’s only taken them three months, but we have a close date. We will close on the house on June 27th. We won’t actually take possession of the house until June 29th, but it’s ours. We’re taking possession two days later because the sellers hadn’t started packing until they got the verbal word from the bank, so they are not exactly ready to be out by next Friday. In all honestly, we’re not really ready yet either, but we will be by then. We have to be out of our apartment on Monday the 30th, so we have to be ready by next weekend. We will be.

However, now, we need volunteers to help us move. Anyone interested?