Can't wait

I’m about 90% sure we get to move back home on Saturday. The construction part of the remodel was finished on Monday and they are mudding and taping as we speak and should be finished by this weekend.

I am so ready to go home. It was been wonderful staying with my mommasita, the best place we could have gone for this transition but 2 weeks is a long time and I miss my things. I miss having all our food and all my clothes and I have so much to do for Dexter. I miss my Clydeypants! He has been staying with our friends Josh and Lynsie this whole time and we are so grateful. That was one thing mom said was absolutely no Clyde. He has been having a good time over there with their dog Sasha who matches him for size, finally a friend that will actually tucker him out rather than all these small dogs.

I my house to be clean and I can’t wait to arrange my furniture in their new spots. I can’t wait to move into our new room which is about twice the size of our old room. I can’t wait to have a shorter drive to work. I can’t wait for Dexter to be comfortable at night again and hopefully improve on his sleeping through the night.

Yes, oh yes, I’m ready to go home.

always late

I always seem to get my pictures on here after I have already posted about something but hopefully that will now change as my GINORMOUS computer has arrived! I am working on it now and I LOVE it! Thank you so very much my Max for knowing I needed one so badly!

Finally, my before and afters of the kitchen. No picture is going to accurately show how much better it looks but I can guarantee you it is much, much better. My walls are a copper color... not orange like the photos show.

My little Luca lion after his haircut. Even though he gets a bit chilly easier, he absolutely LOVES it. He much prefers his hair cut short we have found. Clyde gets confused because he usually picks Luca up by his hair but now there is no hair so he goes for his face and picks him up. No worries, we don't let our dogs beat each other up, this is just how they play. As soon as Clyde gets Lucas head, Luca will bite and hang on to his lip.

No words, this is after a week of my husbands hair growing out. Sigh, another couple weeks and it will be normal.

Shop. Shop. Shop.

no i don't have very much money to throw around... not much at all but there are some essentials that i have had to recently purchase that i am waiting for.

my countertop! i haven't ordered this online but menards should be calling soon saying they are ready for us to pick up! i love the color of our kitchen so very much and i can't wait to see the finished effect of our new stuff! you will understand when you see how nasty the kitchen was. plus once we get the countertop installed we will be able to use our new sink and faucet too... its one of those beautiful tall curved faucets. Luca will actually fit under it when i give him a bath :)

my glasses. i went to the eye doctor at the beginning of the month and haven't been able to order glasses until now! i have been getting some nasty headaches at work as of recent. if you can believe it, i got 2 pairs of glasses WITH anti flare lenses for 35 dollars. that's right, 35 dollars. Caitlin let me on to this website www.zennioptical.com where they have extremely cheap and good looking glasses for like 8-15 dollars! the anti flare lenses were an extra $5 per glasses so it would have been $25 with out that. pretty nice huh! i went to pearl vision to try on some glasses first to be sure of some that look good on me because obviously you can't try glasses on through the internet so hopefully the ones i picked will look alright. if they don't, then i can just get a different pair since they are so cheap!

oh my beloved books. i ran out of books to read. out of the hundreds of books that i own, i stinkin' ran out of books. i am trying to restock on books so that i won't run out again for a while so my mom got me a couple at a thrift store and i ordered 5 online for $25. on sat when i go shopping with the girls from some of max's poker winnings (i really need work clothes), i am hoping to get them to stop at goodwill so i can take a look at the books there. i can't wait for garage sale season where i can get tons of books for a quarter!

as i said before, I am going shopping on sat with my lady friends and i am so very excited about it! i haven't gone mall shopping since my birthday last july. yes. LAST JULY! i have done a little jcpenny shopping since then but just to get a few sweaters for work for the winter. i have been running on one pair of work pants for a while now and a little variety would be nice! we are heading to the mall of america and ikea and i CANT. WAIT!

waiting for these things has been making my week go by quite slow but working so much has been making my week go by very fast. does this mean time is going normal for me?

update

it's hard to figure out what to say sometimes, you know? do you dive right in or do you start out with something inconsequential like I am doing now? poo, either way, I have to write! It's been way to long!

max and i painted the kitchen this week. we also ordered our new counter top and picked out a new sink and faucet :) our kitchen will look so beautiful in 7 to 10 days when the counter gets here! it will be a brand new looking kitchen for not too much money. it is just a cosmetic makeover that we are doing now. we were originally planning on remodeling the whole deal but basically the kitchen, bathroom and dining room would all have to be done at the same time and since we have decided that we are going to move eventually, it is not in our best interest to do that. we still have to make things look good though so that when we do sell, the house won't sit for a year.

the counters will be a beautiful blend of dark browns, a little black and a little gold in there. it is called milano mahogany. i know that it is hard to describe counter top but i did take before pictures and i will take after pics so that we can see the difference. we painted the kitchen walls a coppery color. it is actually called copper beech and it is beautiful! most people probably won't like it but max and I both enjoy a good bold color choice so we both like it. i was a little apprehensive when the paint was going on the walls because it was very orangy but the next day the walls looked much better. you can definitely see the orange tones and the brown tones in it. it matches the counters real good and I know this because we stole the paint and the counter top from the Menard's display case. haha, max and i aren't very good at figuring those types of things out on our own so we stole other peoples ideas :) hey, if it works it works right?

i have been looking into getting a tattoo lately. it's been incredibly boring at work so i just randomly started looking up tattoo ideas. then i find out that jw wants to get a tattoo so then it got me to thinking even more about getting a tattoo. i haven't really thought about getting one before because I just didn't know what i would want to put on my body forever and ever but if it had significant meaning and it looked awesome, then i think i would. I would love to get a tattoo that my mom and my sister would have too. kind of a shared family tatt... or get one with my friends... but i can only think of one that i would get to symbolize my max. no worries, i would never get his name tattooed on me but something else. I love the look of script or something like that and I would want to put it on my ribs. it would hurt like a mofo but oh well. what sorts of tattoos does everyone else have? can you give me any ideas?

its been a pretty rough winter with max not having a job... his unemployment obviously is an incredible help but not like having a good job and a steady paycheck. we were talking last night about how we would combine our bills and such once he starts back up at county. hopefully that will help with paying back some of the debt that has been racked up due to no job from the other half. i told him that i want to take control over the bills, i will feel much better knowing exactly where everything is going. so at least we have a plan but a job is the first step! does anyone know of anything? he has an associate degree in accounting so he could do accounts receivable/payable or something along those lines? he is willing to travel...

anyhooo, until next time!