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Things are going well. We're still slowly in the process of getting things done at the new house. It's taking forever, but that's really our own faults. We can move as quickly or slowly as we'd like and we've obviously chosen the latter. It's just a lot of work and aside from our own desire to move, we don't have anything pushing us forward. So, we'll just go until it's done then move and be happy. We'll probably start to seriously consider having a baby once we get done and moved in. It's exciting to think about, but I do still seem to be stuck in the unsettled place that I hate so much. It's like I'm standing on a bridge in between the beginning of my adulthood and the beginning of my stable adult life and I wish I could get the f across already. I heard a good quote in a movie recently though that I'm trying to follow. Something about how you can't always be wishing you're life would get somewhere better, you have to make the best of where your life is now. It really is important to enjoy every step in life's journey. I'm trying my best.
Shortly after we moved into this house I went antiquing with my mom and found a really great painting of a Chinese tree. I fell in love with it, bought it, and hung it in our living room. We went back to the same store today and I somehow found another painting that is obviously the other half of a set that includes the Chinese tree that I already bought. It has a very similar background but a different tree. It also has the same matting and frame as the one I bought over a year ago. I can almost guarantee that it wasn't there the last time because I am a very sort of anal antique shopper. I really look in every nook and cranny hoping to find hidden treasures. What a coincidence that I went back and found the match I never knew existed. I also happened to find one of the very hidden treasures I was just talking about. It is a beautiful original oil painting that was on the wall behind a big china closet and some other things. I have a very careful eye though and somehow spotted it and I couldn't be more in love. It's gorgeous. The last thing I bought was yet another painting, this one of Chinese flowers that matches nicely a few Chinese art pieces that I already have. I found a great oriental rug that I was set on buying until I completely unrolled it and saw why it had such a great price. It was in great shape, very clean and whatnot, but had a square patch that was much brighter than the rest of it where there had obviously been some piece of furniture. I wanted it for the middle of the room in the new house, so it wouldn't have worked. Too bad because it was really beautiful. Oh well. I'm sure I'll find some more great treasures on my next expedition.
After the antiquing we went to a really great little restaurant in Oakmont that has the best mushroom soup ever. (besides mine of course) My mom, Dana, and my Aunt Becky were with me and they all took my word on the soup and got some. Everyone loved it. Yum. After lunch we went to Aunt Becky's to see their basement that they just had finished. It looked really good. I liked the color they picked for the walls but wasn't so in love with the carpet, although it made sense because the boys play down there and it's very durable. I played with their dog Coby quite a bit. He's really sweet. It was a good day.
Now I'm just waiting for Gary to get home so I can show him the great art pieces I bought. He'll like them but I'm sure he'll just say, "Nice, babe." and not have a whole lot of emotion towards them. LOL.
Gotta run and feed the dog some dinner.
Things are going well. We're still slowly in the process of getting things done at the new house. It's taking forever, but that's really our own faults. We can move as quickly or slowly as we'd like and we've obviously chosen the latter. It's just a lot of work and aside from our own desire to move, we don't have anything pushing us forward. So, we'll just go until it's done then move and be happy. We'll probably start to seriously consider having a baby once we get done and moved in. It's exciting to think about, but I do still seem to be stuck in the unsettled place that I hate so much. It's like I'm standing on a bridge in between the beginning of my adulthood and the beginning of my stable adult life and I wish I could get the f across already. I heard a good quote in a movie recently though that I'm trying to follow. Something about how you can't always be wishing you're life would get somewhere better, you have to make the best of where your life is now. It really is important to enjoy every step in life's journey. I'm trying my best.
Shortly after we moved into this house I went antiquing with my mom and found a really great painting of a Chinese tree. I fell in love with it, bought it, and hung it in our living room. We went back to the same store today and I somehow found another painting that is obviously the other half of a set that includes the Chinese tree that I already bought. It has a very similar background but a different tree. It also has the same matting and frame as the one I bought over a year ago. I can almost guarantee that it wasn't there the last time because I am a very sort of anal antique shopper. I really look in every nook and cranny hoping to find hidden treasures. What a coincidence that I went back and found the match I never knew existed. I also happened to find one of the very hidden treasures I was just talking about. It is a beautiful original oil painting that was on the wall behind a big china closet and some other things. I have a very careful eye though and somehow spotted it and I couldn't be more in love. It's gorgeous. The last thing I bought was yet another painting, this one of Chinese flowers that matches nicely a few Chinese art pieces that I already have. I found a great oriental rug that I was set on buying until I completely unrolled it and saw why it had such a great price. It was in great shape, very clean and whatnot, but had a square patch that was much brighter than the rest of it where there had obviously been some piece of furniture. I wanted it for the middle of the room in the new house, so it wouldn't have worked. Too bad because it was really beautiful. Oh well. I'm sure I'll find some more great treasures on my next expedition.
After the antiquing we went to a really great little restaurant in Oakmont that has the best mushroom soup ever. (besides mine of course) My mom, Dana, and my Aunt Becky were with me and they all took my word on the soup and got some. Everyone loved it. Yum. After lunch we went to Aunt Becky's to see their basement that they just had finished. It looked really good. I liked the color they picked for the walls but wasn't so in love with the carpet, although it made sense because the boys play down there and it's very durable. I played with their dog Coby quite a bit. He's really sweet. It was a good day.
Now I'm just waiting for Gary to get home so I can show him the great art pieces I bought. He'll like them but I'm sure he'll just say, "Nice, babe." and not have a whole lot of emotion towards them. LOL.
Gotta run and feed the dog some dinner.