Well it's not done.

They ran out of siding and had to order some more. The bossman said it would probably be in next week. Here's hoping!!  I do have a before and after shot. It looks WAY better. I didn't realize how awful it looked until you see the pictures. UGH!

BEFORE:  

AFTER:

It almost looks like a completely different house. And did I mention the incredibly gross door we have been living with for 14+ years. I do have piles of other pictures, but, I won't bore you with them.

Thanksgiving was awesome. I ate way too much. But, I think that is the protocol.  I didn't bring any of the desserts home, and the family wasn't entirely pleased about that. Sooooo, since I am such a nice person I made a different pumpkin dessert with my leftovers. It was called "Pumpkin Pie Crunch." It was/is AMAZING!! I could eat it and eat it and eat it and eat it........  It doesn't have the mentioned crunch, because I didn't put the pecans on it. I didn't want to hear any complaining.  I guess I should be honest and say that it was a cake mix recipe. The bottom layer did not have any of the cake mix. That was actually real life, uncheater ingredients. The topping however is a box of cake mix and one cup of butter. DELICIOUS! I unfortunately didn't take a picture before hacking into it. Butttttt, this way you can see the insidey parts.

Thankfully it didn't burn. I "forgot" about it after sitting down in front of my computer. But, started to smell something and was able to save it from a fire-y death.

That's all I have for today. I do hope to have a completed house picture within a week. But, who knows.

Maybe today.

It is ALMOST done. But, they ran out of siding. The bossman said he would get some more last night. I sure hope he was able to. There is just one more section to do and the soffits. There has been some banging this morning. I'm hoping, hoping, hoping!!!!!

We did get a quote on replacing the roof. OYE! Renovating a ranch style house is very expensive. Too many sides and too much roof!

I saw this posted on FB and stole it. I totally agree with the sentiment about Thanksgiving.

Have a great Thanksgiving, in case I don't get back to blogging in the next couple days. Although, if they finish the house, I will definitely be back.

Laterrrrrr.

Today might be the day!!!!

There are two pick-up trucks and a car in the driveway. So there are either 4 or 5 people working on mi casa, today! WHOOOHOOO!! I sure hope I'm right!!

The "Twilight" Crazies.

Like I mentioned in my previous post, my BFFs and I decided to go to the midnight showing of the "Twilight: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1" movie.  I did enjoy the books, but, they got very, very weird. And the movies have followed that same line. Humans, vampires and werewolves -- OH MY! Weird.  But onto the story...

My BFF got the last five tickets at the only theater in this area. And the cashier told her that we needed to get there by 8:30/9:00 to get in line. Really?!?!?!?!?? Really.  I got to my BFF's house at about 8:50 or so. She lives only a hop, skip and a jump from the theater. We walked into the theater at 9PM on the nose. Our other BFF was kind enough to get there before us and was in line. I couldn't believe how many people were already there. We were going to have to wait three, yes THREE more hours before it started. So we (me and my BFF) walked over to the other BFF. After arriving in our theater #2 line we were informed that we could go sit down. FOR REAL?!?! WhooHooo!!!! We got right in and found the perfect seats and there were only about 7 people in that theater (including us) for quite some time. The luck! The score! I say it was "divine."  

After securing our seats we decided to indulge on some extra buttery, artery clogging popcorn. The lady behind the counter was a new employee, and I was extra nice to her and she did a GREAT job layering the popcorn -- aka extra buttery/greasy -- YUM!!! (check out the greasy sides on the container! AND I did share!!)

We had the perfect seats and a foot rest!

My BFF's daughter showed up and kindly took our picture...

There you have it. My late night movie adventure. I have NEVER done this before.  Not sure I will do a repeat performance since 2.5 hours of sleep just doesn't work for me. I am making every effort to not be a crank today. So far, so good.  The movie was good, but,weird (I think I mentioned that.)  I will have to see the last one for closure (even though I have read the books and do know how it ends.)  The best part was the 3 hours of uninterrupted chat time with my BFFs. Which was really AWESOME!

Yes, I know...

I am being a blogging slacker, yet, again.  I guess it is just a fact of life.

The truth of the matter is that I have been trying to "beef" my online store and waiting for the contractors to get done working on the house. I can say I accomplished some beefing up, but, not as much as I'd hoped. I need late nights to do that, and I don't have that luxury anymore since I have to be up and feed everyone in the morning. Responsibilities -- PFFFFT! Highly overrated.

The weather is still being incredibly contrary. It was fabulous last weekend and this weekend has been a drizzly mess. The contractors left after only an hour of work yesterday morning. Then today they didn't even show up.  Not that I was given any notice. There goes a pot of coffee down the drain. That's what I get for being all nicey-nice.  I am hoping that they will come and work their @sses off tomorrow and get it done. The boss said he wanted to get four guys together and get it finished. So tomorrow must be that lucky day, right?!  I sure hope so. It is supposed to be sunny, but, the highs only in the 40s -- kinda brrrr chilly for such work, but, hey that's what they are paid to do.

My (insane) BFFs thought it would be a good idea to go too the opening night of the new "Twilight" movie. I backed out two days ago, but, I do not like being left out and once they made a plan to go, I changed my mind. One of the BFFs was certain I would change my mind. She knows me too well. She got that LAST five tickets for tonight's or should I say tomorrow morning's midnight show. OH MYYYYYYYY!! I seriously don't even care that much. But, it will definitely be fun to hang with the BFFs and pick on the crazy people.  Of course, we are joining them, so I guess that makes us crazy, too. Dagnabbit!!

I hope to be posting house pictures TOMORROW!!! Maybe if I think it enough it will happen. I will certainly let you know....  I gotta go make dinner for the family, so catcha later!

Ho Hummmm...

The weather is driving me batty! It is hindering the work on the house which is taking a longggggggggggggg time. I know I am being impatient, but, I can't help myself. I just wish the rain would cease and desist!!! That's my rant for today. Laterrrrr...

This made me chuckle.

I stole this from a blog I read on a regular basis.  The women that write it are my kind of people!

If you can't read it, which I know I can't, just click on it and it will open up bigger in a new window.

Anyway, the house is under some renovations. New door, windows and the big one, siding. You don't realize how labor intensive it is, until you see all the crap they pull off the house and then they have to put two new layers of crap BACK on. Ohhhhhhhh the incessant pounding.  It will look great when it's all done. And I am looking forward to that beautiful day. 

Sadly after starting this job, the lovely husband has started to look closer at the house (inside), which means more cleaning (ewwwwwwwwwwwww,) painting (I hate!), peeling of wall paper and so much more. UGHHHHHHHH! I know, it needs to be done, but, yuck. Why can't I just live in my little hovel and be left alone?!?!?!   Be thankful in all things. Be thankful in all things. Be thankful in all things. Be thankful in all things....  You get my drift.

I will post pictures once it's finished and I am sure it will be AWWWWWWsome!!!!

You know it!

Coffee humor!

I'm too tired to think today. So this is what you get. Deal.

Heehee.

Me and my new love.

C#2 was kind enough to organize the magnets... I kind of liked it without all of the paraphernalia, but, it is a fridge. Like I said before, the trick is to keep it clean (on the inside.) That will be a challenge.

It was our first time....

Buying a refrigerator. I know what you were thinking. Sheeshhhhhhh. I finally acquiesced to purchasing a new one. We have lived at our humble abode for 14+ years and I was more than happy with the icky looking, off-white POS that was left by the previous owners. It worked fine, until recently. I can probably count on my hands how many times I actually heard the thing stop "running." Our electric bill was never horrible, but, we might see a vast improvement with this new purchase.  But, now I am straying from the original story.

At the end of last week I was making a bowl of hot oatmeal for C#1. I started to pour the milk into the bowl and it came out in big chunks. EwwwwwWWWWWW!!!!! It wasn't stinky or anything, just chunky milk. I had noticed that the fridge was being less than cooperative. I had that stupid thing cranked to the coldest setting and it still WAS.NOT.COLD!  The freezer was fine. So something between the freezer and fridge had malfunctioned. We went to a local Lowe's and purchased a newer, better looking piece of equipment. But, unfortunately due to the flooding and the fact that the Home Depot hasn't reopened they couldn't deliver the thing for eight days! We figured we could manage -- which we did.

Since the freezer was still working AND the ice maker, we were golden. I had a few ice packs, a Gatorade container full of water and ice that I rotated throughout the week. There were a few times when I thought the ice machine bit the dust, but, after a day of being obstinate it would start producing ice, again.  Phewwww!! I hate buying ice and the thought of purchasing it at a local grocery or convenience store makes me cringe. They charge an arm and a leg for a small bag. It would be worth it for me to run to Sam's to spend $2.70 or whatever for a 20+ lb bag.  But, I digress.

This morning the lovely delivery men from Lowe's delivered my brandy new fridge and hauled away the old POS -- FOR FREE!! How about that! I was more than pleased. Here are pictures of the old fridge and the new. My darling hubby was not impressed I took pictures of the POS, since it clearly hadn't been cleaned in a longgggg time. In my defense, after one of the door thingies on the door snapped off, I figured it looked horrible already, so what do I care.

Picture #1 is the outside of POS. See it's gross off white color that matches NOTHING!?! And the fact that it looks really grubby and I obviously NEVER moved some of the magnets.

Here's the inside. You can't really see it, but, the bottom door shelf thing was taped to the door. Otherwise all the salad dressings/condiments would have ended up on the floor and the door wouldn't shut. Classy, I know. And the door thingy that isn't there. The broken one. You had to be careful not to shut the door too hard or everything on that shelf flew out. It is really nasty. You gotta figure it's 15+ years old!! 

Now onto the new....

It's so nice and quiet, BIGGER, clean (for now), and matchy matchy!! Hip Hip Hooray for the new fridge!! I might have to be more vigilant about cleaning this one. One can only hope...........

Haaahahahhahaaah!

More funnies.

I really would have liked to do that this morning. (above)

I remember those days and am VERY glad that my Cs are way beyond those stages.

Give them an inch....

...and they'll take a mile. What an accurate statement. Trying to be the nice Mommy, I have let C#1 and C#2 stay up later than normal the last couple of days. The first night was because we watched a movie and it ended late and the second night they were gorging themselves on candy.  You may wonder what I am rewarded with? Wellllllll..... Both nights they proceeded to get "wild." Screaming, yelling, running, carrying on. It was all in good spirits, but, I have zero patience for shenanigans when it is close to bedtime. I know, I should lighten up, but, it IS BED TIME! "Do not pass go..." AND go directly to BED! 

I could probably handle this better, but, then morning arrives. Since they were wild and obnoxious the night before, because they stayed up too late, they will now NOT get out of bed. Me trying to be the nice Mommy, again, tries not to get irritated and yell, etc, etc... That clearly does NOT work. Neither C's will get out of bed and HAVE to be yelled at. "GET OUT OF BED!! IT IS 6:30! THE BUS WILL BE HERE IN 20 MINUTES. WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS. GO BRUSH YOUR TEETH. DO YOU HAVE ALL YOUR STUFF FOR SCHOOL. INSTRUMENT? BOOK? HOMEWORK? DID YOU EAT BREAKFAST?!" I am sure you get the gist . I have definitely grown weary of that rigmarole.

The solution. Alarm clocks. Yes, they do have them, but, they haven't actually used them. Me being the "nice" Mommy, again, trying to make the wake-up less startling. C#1 said he woke up before the alarm went off (a HUGE first) and he already had on his clothes. Although I had to hound him to brush his teeth and get some breakfast -- not in that order. C#2 didn't set her alarm right, so I had to wake her up. Thankfully she must have taken a lesson from the two previous days (or should I say the many years) and got up without too much fuss. I had to hound her to eat breakfast and do the teeth thing, but, not with any shrieking. Thank goodness!!

That means tomorrow will be the ultimate test. Hopefully it works.

On a different note.  I worked on C#2's quilt yesterday and it looks like I am on the home stretch. YAY!! Not that I am in any hurry.  It's gonna be super awesome when it's done.  I am still a quilting dunce, but, my BFF is definitely not, so it will ALL be good.  I will definitely post some pictures when it's done.

Till next time....

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