I'm alive... promise...

Do you ever go through those phases where you just don't want to deal... with anything?  I have been stuck in one of those ruts - just haven't even wanted to look at the computer when I'm at home, let alone blog or post anything on Facebook or email or anything at all... And so not to overdo it and exhaust myself in a return to social media - just a few pictures from the last little while...

Yeah, this poor dog has a rough life... no one ever wants to pet her, she always gets ignored... just no love at all (this was at the state cross-country meet and was not the first or last group of people who stopped us!)

Kirk, Luci and the boys were in town on my birthday - we'll skip how old, but apparently I needed help blowing out the candles!!  And I just have to add, this is the little twerp who was dying for bunk beds and now won't sleep on the top bunk!!  Good thing the twerp is so much darn fun!

And finally... it snowed... a whole bunch this weekend...  I always think of my sister Sara when it snows like this and how she'd have us out sledding or tubing or doing something in the snow!!  Now if I could just find my snow boots... 

And can I just say I live on a great street... all day I was dreading shoveling snow when I got home from work - I shoveled twice yesterday! - and I got home and a kind soul had shoveled my sidewalk and driveway, and later I came home and yet another kind soul had shoveled the huge pile of snow left by the snow plow on my driveway... so very grateful to the good people who look out for me!!

New vs old house pictures

Okay... maybe a final house post?  I make no promises, but now that most of the boxes are "put away" (i.e. hidden in the closet if I didn't know what to do with all the precious treasures inside...) and there's curtains up and rugs out and books and movies on shelves, so I thought some before and after pictures were in order...

The front room looking to the back:

BEFORE

AFTER:

The master bedroom upstairs:

BEFORE

AFTER:

Front room looking to the front:

BEFORE

AFTER

Front room looking toward the kitchen:
BEFORE

AFTER

Kitchen:
BEFORE

AFTER

And the bathroom they kindly finished for me...

Stairs down to basement:

BEFORE

AFTER

Basement looking towards the bedroom:
BEFORE

AFTER

Basement bedroom:

BEFORE

AFTER

Storage area/new bedroom:
BEFORE

AFTER

More storage and furnace/new bathroom:

BEFORE

AFTER

Basement looking towards stairs and laundry room:

BEFORE

AFTER

Basement...
BEFORE

AFTER

Old laundry room/new utility room
BEFORE

AFTER

 And that about covers the inside...
A guy was here a week ago taking pictures and kept telling me how clean and organized everything was... I finally had to open a closet to show him it was all just an illusion!

Open House on October 5th from 6 to 8 pm... feel free to drop in!

Two weeks in...

Why is it that you never get as much done as you think you should?!  If someone had asked me how long it would take me to get all moved back in and settled, I'd have told them a week, maybe 10 days... and I would have been a liar!!  I just don't get much done on week nights - I'm lucky if I can get through a whole box!  But I'm getting there - I think all of my clothes are unpacked, and everything but the tupperware is unpacked in the kitchen, and all of the bathroom stuff... really the most important things, right?  But I miss my books and movies!!  Anyhoo...  a few pictures...

Thanks to Kirk, I finally got the promised bunkbeds set up... but look how close that top bunk is to the ceiling!  Maybe I need to pad the ceiling... don't want any concussions or anything!  

And yeah... don't look in the closets - that's my secret stash in there!! (And the garage is still pretty much a disaster zone!)

Out of curiosity, I looked on line to see if I could find any picture of my house and low and behold!!  This one had to have been taken shortly after it was built in 1941.

This was what it looked like when I bought the house in... 2003... can that be?? I've been here for 7 years?

And how it looks today!  Little bit different, huh?!

I am LOVING my new house... I smile everytime I put a dish in the dishwasher and do a load of laundry in my red washer and dryer, I love all of the extra outlets and the overhead lights, the new windows are awesome and I think I've already spent more time in the basement than I did in the previous 7 years... and I am so excited to use my new furnace and not have to worry about relighting the dumb pilot light!!  Wahoo... now if I could just the last of those boxes taken care of...