Blog Number 3

As you can see, I'm about as non creative with blog titles as one can get. I know that titles can make or break the book, paper, article or blog in this case, but I've never been good with titles, so I'm just going to continues on my numbering titles.

So we are FINALLY almost done the renos for the living room. All that is left is the baseboards, ceiling and moving in all the furniture. Todd says we'll have it all done by the weekend. I don't think that it won't, but we are both being kind of lazy when it comes to the final touches. But that being said, it looks AWESOME. I'm so impressed with our progress, because honestly, when we first go there and saw all the work we had ahead of us, I was a little wary that we'd ever get it looking livable. But we have.

The only issue that I'm having is the floor. I'm not buying flooring and installing it because 1) it's going to be too expensive 2) we don't have the time and 3) I'd rather just get a big area rug so that I can take it with me when we move. But the problem with that is, that rugs are too damn expensive. Anyway the above picture is before the renos (the wall with the biggest hole) and the following picture is the newest picture I've taken of the room. Once the ceiling and baseboards are done, I'm going to take a few pictures before we put the furniture in and then again once the room is completely finished, with all the furniture in it and with it looking like home.

Now if only this was the last thing we had to do, but nope, we still have two more rooms. The bedroom will be fine, it just needs a bit of TLC and a fresh coat of paint. But the middle room is going to be hell. There is so much shit (that isn't ours) that needs to be cleared out. Not looking forward to that. But at least the walls are in decent shape so that won't be too hard to fix.

Well all I can really say, is that I can't wait till it's all done and it actually feels like our own apartment, and not just a basement. I think it's going to look really good once everything is done. Maybe I should become an interior decorator. Or, maybe not.

Blog Number 2

So finally have my computer back. Had to send it to Dell to get another motherboard. This is the second time I've sent it to them for a motherboard is less than a year. You would think that if there was something wrong with all the motherboards this put in this model, they would send you a letter or something. Car companies do it, why can't Dell?

So, I never realized how much I would miss my computer. Just for the little things, like if I want to look something up, it's not as easy without my computer. So all in all, I'm glad it's back, even if it took a day longer then they promised me it would.

What else is going on. I started working again this week. Man, I am out of sync with the whole working thing. It's now, what Thursday? And I'm just starting to not dread the last hour. I'm enjoying being back at work, and I like that I'm actually learning new stuff instead of doing the stuff I had been doing when I was there before. There is at least one new thing a day, which is good.

I have to say I'm glad I'm going to a new store and not just coming back to this one. It's not that this one has gone down hill, because it hasn't AT ALL. It's just that so many things have changed - maybe for the better, maybe not - that I don't think I would be able to function. Thankfully at a new store, it's a fresh start and I can do things the way I know how and since most of the people I'll be working with are new to the company, I won't have people telling me to do it their way.

Moving on to the basement renovations. Things are moving pretty smoothly now. Todd finished all the patching and sanding. We primed the walls and we have the first coat of the grey on 3 walls (the 4th wall is going to be green). I was a bit worried about the colour when we first started because it was a little too taupey for me, but once it dried it was looking more like the colour that I had picked.

Once we are done, I plan on posting a blog with the progress, but right now the pictures are all on facebook. But we are hopefully (keep your fingers crossed) we'll be all moved in by the end of the weekend. The other two rooms probably won't be painted until around Easter when I have 4 days off so I can do it in a day or two.

I can't wait till it's all finished!! It's going to look so nice.

Till next time.

The beginning

Ok, so I'm starting a blog.

Can't promise that it'll be interesting or that it will be full of wisdom, but I can promise that it will be honest. I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while, and there's no time like the present right?

So I guess I say a little about myself and what's going on in my life right now. I'm 25 (26 in June), Todd and I have been dating for a year and a half and he's awesome. We just moved back into my parents place to save some money so we can get a house in a year or two.

What else can I say. My first day of work after 2 months off is tomorrow. I don't go to my actual store until April, but I get to do three weeks of training before that. I'm excited and happy but I'm also not looking forward to it at the same time.

Since we just moved into my parents place, we're fixing up the basement to make it livable, and I had planned on using the time before I go to the new store to paint, decorate and move all the stuff in and make it livable. Now it will probably take a little longer than anticipated.

There is so much work to do down there, so I'm sure most of my blogs for the next month will be about the basement and the progress that we've made. Our goal is to have the living room done and read to move furniture in by the end of the week. I think we can do it. I'm hoping to get at least the ceiling and the primer done tonight and then paint the base colour tomorrow.

I'll post pictures as time goes on, so you can see how far we actually have come, and how much work we've done.

Well that is all for now I suppose, if you do read this, I promise that I'll try and make it as interesting as I can.

Till next time.