Home for the holidays?
Last week, Ben and I put up the same artificial tree we've had since our first Christmas in Cincinnati. It's been looking sadder the past couple years. Not quite Charlie Brown, but getting there. Fake trees shouldn't lose needles, is all I'm saying.
We bought some new lights this year from Target... these nice tiny "pearl" round bulb lights- one strand red, the other white. They look gorgeous on the tree. We haven't put any ornaments on yet. I think we will soon, but it's just so simple it's pretty. It looks really nice next to the industrial shelves stuffed with boxes that are sitting in our living room. *rolls eyes*
We have a crush on a house in Springville, UT 84663. We're not completely sure (I know this will come as a shock to all of you...). I mean, we don't want to start a relationship if it's just going to end badly. And is it exactly what we want? Hard to say. But then, we could take a chance on it and maybe the little things, with time, would be insignificant. Or they could change. While I know this is unlikely, I would like to say that today Ben ACTUALLY wiped off the sink after trimming his beard. I nearly fell over. I might not get tiny, sharp hairs in my contacts every morning now.
Anyway, the house is mostly one floor, with a room over the garage and a big, unfinished basement. It as a decent size backyard for this area (.41 acres) which is muuuuuuuch smaller than we'd like but it turns out that we do have a price limit and don't want to live in total BFE. Most of the houses around here are .25 acres at best. Sigh. One of the problems is that the triangularly-shaped yard (woo-hoo, an adverb out of triangle!) backs up to 4 houses/yards in addition to the neighbor on either side. There's a partial fence, but we would definitely have to plant some trees.
The other problem is that Ben thinks that the whole basement should remain unfinished and should house his model railroad layout. Yeah, about that. We went shopping this evening and saw a mother of a 60-inch TV, and I said "Wouldn't you love to play Halo on that in the dark entertainment room of our basement?" 20 years of maturity just fell off of him. So I will have to use my wily womanly ways to get what I want. Nevermind that the TV cost almost $5000. Shhh, we'll think about that after we're broke from buying a house!
Oh yeah, I chose thirsty as my mood because it's really dry here. Something about mountain air.
We bought some new lights this year from Target... these nice tiny "pearl" round bulb lights- one strand red, the other white. They look gorgeous on the tree. We haven't put any ornaments on yet. I think we will soon, but it's just so simple it's pretty. It looks really nice next to the industrial shelves stuffed with boxes that are sitting in our living room. *rolls eyes*
We have a crush on a house in Springville, UT 84663. We're not completely sure (I know this will come as a shock to all of you...). I mean, we don't want to start a relationship if it's just going to end badly. And is it exactly what we want? Hard to say. But then, we could take a chance on it and maybe the little things, with time, would be insignificant. Or they could change. While I know this is unlikely, I would like to say that today Ben ACTUALLY wiped off the sink after trimming his beard. I nearly fell over. I might not get tiny, sharp hairs in my contacts every morning now.
Anyway, the house is mostly one floor, with a room over the garage and a big, unfinished basement. It as a decent size backyard for this area (.41 acres) which is muuuuuuuch smaller than we'd like but it turns out that we do have a price limit and don't want to live in total BFE. Most of the houses around here are .25 acres at best. Sigh. One of the problems is that the triangularly-shaped yard (woo-hoo, an adverb out of triangle!) backs up to 4 houses/yards in addition to the neighbor on either side. There's a partial fence, but we would definitely have to plant some trees.
The other problem is that Ben thinks that the whole basement should remain unfinished and should house his model railroad layout. Yeah, about that. We went shopping this evening and saw a mother of a 60-inch TV, and I said "Wouldn't you love to play Halo on that in the dark entertainment room of our basement?" 20 years of maturity just fell off of him. So I will have to use my wily womanly ways to get what I want. Nevermind that the TV cost almost $5000. Shhh, we'll think about that after we're broke from buying a house!
Oh yeah, I chose thirsty as my mood because it's really dry here. Something about mountain air.