Clear it out!!
Spring is a time for new beginnings. Cleaning out the old.
Kyle and I have been working on cleaning out the basement for a couple of weeks now. There is a very small closet and it was PACKED with stuff. Lots and lots of old pictures of my family and lots of pictures from my grandmother's childhood. Very cool stuff.
Next is the attic.
I have to post pictures because this house is becoming so beautiful. We cleaned up the entire back and side yards. The front garden is going to be all dwarf sunflowers and peppermint in a few weeks. On the side yard we're going to grow tomatoes, cukes, bell peppers, boston lettuce, pumpkins, blackberries, blueberries and strawberries. Then the deck is going to be all potted flowers and I'll move all my culinary herbs out there too. I am so excited. We're going to get some humming bird feeders and repaint the front porch swing bright blue. The living room is now all white and sage green and smells like incense. We have so many paintings hanging now all non-matching and lovely. Musical instruments on the walls in the dining room and hutch doors painted bright colors.
I just baked chocolate chip cookies and Izzy is snuggled up sleeping at my feet.
Later on we're going to take a trip to the county to meet Kyle after work for a walk in the park.
Lovely!
Friday we all went to the Black Hole for a rave and it was crazysauce times.
On another note, though, they've been doing layoffs at work. I'm 99% sure that I'm safe since I've never been in trouble, I don't really make enough to help out the bottom line and I already do the work of two people. I hate my job but in this changing economy (haha, I sound like my dad) I'm happy to have the job I have. I guess.
I still want to move to Arizona in the Autumn but it's looking more and more like a distant dream everyday. Now we have the dog to think about and that makes finding an affordable apartment even more of a challenge. I don't know where we'd work out there and we aren't going to be able to save enough to make it at the rate we are going. And Kyle and my dad tried to talk me out of this idea with a very good point: Why move across the country to something completely unknown when here you have a house and a well-paying job and a garden and all your friends? Well. For the adventure of it, of course. But they are right. For now. But not forever.
Anyway, it's a beautiful, warm, sunny day here and I'm going to go spend it outside with Izzygirl.
Kyle and I have been working on cleaning out the basement for a couple of weeks now. There is a very small closet and it was PACKED with stuff. Lots and lots of old pictures of my family and lots of pictures from my grandmother's childhood. Very cool stuff.
Next is the attic.
I have to post pictures because this house is becoming so beautiful. We cleaned up the entire back and side yards. The front garden is going to be all dwarf sunflowers and peppermint in a few weeks. On the side yard we're going to grow tomatoes, cukes, bell peppers, boston lettuce, pumpkins, blackberries, blueberries and strawberries. Then the deck is going to be all potted flowers and I'll move all my culinary herbs out there too. I am so excited. We're going to get some humming bird feeders and repaint the front porch swing bright blue. The living room is now all white and sage green and smells like incense. We have so many paintings hanging now all non-matching and lovely. Musical instruments on the walls in the dining room and hutch doors painted bright colors.
I just baked chocolate chip cookies and Izzy is snuggled up sleeping at my feet.
Later on we're going to take a trip to the county to meet Kyle after work for a walk in the park.
Lovely!
Friday we all went to the Black Hole for a rave and it was crazysauce times.
On another note, though, they've been doing layoffs at work. I'm 99% sure that I'm safe since I've never been in trouble, I don't really make enough to help out the bottom line and I already do the work of two people. I hate my job but in this changing economy (haha, I sound like my dad) I'm happy to have the job I have. I guess.
I still want to move to Arizona in the Autumn but it's looking more and more like a distant dream everyday. Now we have the dog to think about and that makes finding an affordable apartment even more of a challenge. I don't know where we'd work out there and we aren't going to be able to save enough to make it at the rate we are going. And Kyle and my dad tried to talk me out of this idea with a very good point: Why move across the country to something completely unknown when here you have a house and a well-paying job and a garden and all your friends? Well. For the adventure of it, of course. But they are right. For now. But not forever.
Anyway, it's a beautiful, warm, sunny day here and I'm going to go spend it outside with Izzygirl.