Then & now

Here is a picture of the house as it looked mid-October:



And here is the same shot in mid November with a few less leaves on the trees:

I think I prefer the green season! There's still a lot to finish up inside before move-in (scheduled for mid December), but it's getting close. Next step - working on some landscaping!

They're out there.

Sometimes I say stupid things. The other day I stumbled upon this site. It was wildly entertaining and was comforting because it prooved that I'm definitely not leading the pack of people who don't think before speaking...or don't think at all.

Za is a word?

As if facebook wasn't a vile enough addiction, the time wasting has been compounded by a new discovery: scrabulous. It is a lovely little facebook application (in addition to being it's very own entity outside of facebook) that allows you to play a rousing (read, drawn out over a period of five days) game of scrabble with friends near and far. What fun! What next?

I would like to point out that I'm currently in the lead, madame!

Try it...you'll like it. That, or you will forever curse me for adding one more distraction to your day.

Oh, the little things!

Sometimes a girl feels a little melancholy. Sometimes it is a trip down the household cleaners aisle at the grocery store that makes a girl feel better. Sometimes all it takes is a little time-saving gadget and the feeling of a good buy to make a girl feel like she is on top of the world. Can something this endearing not have a name?

Progress

I'm a lazy poster! Just a quick update on the house - the exterior is nearing completion, but there's lots of work left to do on the interior. Here is a picture exactly one month after the work began. The painting is about 3/4 done and the shingles are ready for installation. Sheet rock should be going up today on the inside! Yay! It's coming together! It looks like we'll be in by Christmas, so I'm planning my Christmas tree location and mentally shopping for new decorations. Hey, a new house deserves new decorations, doesn't it?