Greetings One And All! It Is I! Your humble Invader, speaking to you with my typing fingers!
Life is what it is. Not super-fantastic, not so terrible that I'm gonna drama-llama all over the damned place. So here's the skinny on the life not terrible or super-fantastic...
House is good. Needs some work, but we have years to worry about said work. Our first plan of attack is our wretched bathroom. We're planning on using our tax return next year to pay for the remodel. The tub, the toilet, and sink are going to be HISTORY. As are the stupid plastic tiles and horrid yellow floral wallpaper. January is when we'll have someone come in for an estimate. Color scheme will be discussed and will probably end up going in my favor because Eric rarely argues with me on that sort of thing. Apparently I have decent tastes. ^_~
The kitchen and basement have sort of been discussed, but first and foremost is the bathroom. Because we HATES it so very, VERY much! The kitchen I might see about doing a rough "sketch" some time in Google Sketch-up and at least talk to a contractor to see if I've designed something feasible with our incomes or if I've completely jumped the shark. I kinda doubt I'll design something outrageous, I'm a pretty simple gal when it comes to what I like in kitchens. The basement might be fun to have as a second living room or guest room someday.
Our central air is both wonderful and useless. It's great for the basement and the main floor, but upstairs where our office is, is fucking HOT. Which means I don't like being up there. We still have the air conditioner, but I fear its too big for the narrow windows upstairs. So both of us kind of avoid being up there right now. Come winter it might be a different story. Next year, I'm thinking maybe we can fit the AC in sideways and only use it when one of us is up there. I really would like to use that room, but breaking a sweat just sitting in one place sucks massively.
We'll need to call an electrician one of these days too. We need to lay in some grounding wire on at least two outlets in the house. I'd like to one day get all the outlets grounded. The one guy we talked to said it will probably cost about $100 per outlet. That's not so bad, I suppose.
If you follow me on facebook, you might have seen last month my post about getting back into the art field to earn some extra cash. I had a fabulous-funky-freak out moment when I saw how much Sallie-Mae wanted from me what I assumed every month. Turns out they're being kinda silly or something and it's quite a bit less this month. BUT, money is a worry for me and I am planning on getting back to work. I was thinking of setting up a Society 6 page and attempting to sell art there. I have one design sketched up so far, but I'm still trying to get over the hurtle of hating everything I draw and being horribly out of practice. It's been a really long time since I drew anything I was really pleased with.
All the extra money will be going to pay off Sallie-Mae and the house. On the plus side, it might give me a lot of tax breaks.
I do hate that I am looking at art as a monetary thing, but I do have a skill and I SHOULD use it to make a little cash, right? BUT, I still plan to do what I want, and not at the mercy of a client. So if I sell something, I'm selling it myself, and not begging for money (and being completely ignored) like I did with the last guy.
As Eric put it last night, we might as well be living in a sitcom. We've got the preacher and his very spunky, outspoken wife to our west and the redneck clan to our east. Western neighbors are cool and pretty quiet, although I'm waiting for the wife to jump their fence and steal food off our grill (she's threatened to do so at least once and Eric LOVES to grill). The other neighbors are pretty quiet too, except for last night when they were building a plywood fence to keep their new rottweiler in the yard. Eric watched them last night and couldn't stop laughing. All of them apparently stood there staring at this "fence" pondering how well it would hold. I guess it's better than their previous 'use whatever crap we've got in the garage as a barricade' plan. Still, if that dog wasn't as behaved as he appears to be, he could easily bulldoze his way through and off to do whatever damage he wills. I had to resist the urge to run outside and pet the puppy a few times now. I'm not sure if he's friendly or if our neighbors even want people fussing with their dog.
I guess this could go in the house portion, but we will be getting a nice fence for the backyard before we get my malamute. Especially now that I know that next door they've got a dog. He may be a very friendly dog for all I know, but I'd rather not take chances.
I've been kinda of avoiding facebook, but only because I started playing around on pinterest this week. Also because I've got a few people not happy with me. Meh, whatever. Then there's the predictability of pretty much everyone there. Not that I'm any better. So it's time for a break. So back to drama-llama LJ. *LOL*
Pinterest account is found here if anyone wants to see what photos, drawing reference, or anything else I have a tenancy to horde.
I'm fairly sure no one uses LJ anymore, so I'm probably just talking to myself, but meh, it's here, its public. So there.
House is good. Needs some work, but we have years to worry about said work. Our first plan of attack is our wretched bathroom. We're planning on using our tax return next year to pay for the remodel. The tub, the toilet, and sink are going to be HISTORY. As are the stupid plastic tiles and horrid yellow floral wallpaper. January is when we'll have someone come in for an estimate. Color scheme will be discussed and will probably end up going in my favor because Eric rarely argues with me on that sort of thing. Apparently I have decent tastes. ^_~
The kitchen and basement have sort of been discussed, but first and foremost is the bathroom. Because we HATES it so very, VERY much! The kitchen I might see about doing a rough "sketch" some time in Google Sketch-up and at least talk to a contractor to see if I've designed something feasible with our incomes or if I've completely jumped the shark. I kinda doubt I'll design something outrageous, I'm a pretty simple gal when it comes to what I like in kitchens. The basement might be fun to have as a second living room or guest room someday.
Our central air is both wonderful and useless. It's great for the basement and the main floor, but upstairs where our office is, is fucking HOT. Which means I don't like being up there. We still have the air conditioner, but I fear its too big for the narrow windows upstairs. So both of us kind of avoid being up there right now. Come winter it might be a different story. Next year, I'm thinking maybe we can fit the AC in sideways and only use it when one of us is up there. I really would like to use that room, but breaking a sweat just sitting in one place sucks massively.
We'll need to call an electrician one of these days too. We need to lay in some grounding wire on at least two outlets in the house. I'd like to one day get all the outlets grounded. The one guy we talked to said it will probably cost about $100 per outlet. That's not so bad, I suppose.
If you follow me on facebook, you might have seen last month my post about getting back into the art field to earn some extra cash. I had a fabulous-funky-freak out moment when I saw how much Sallie-Mae wanted from me what I assumed every month. Turns out they're being kinda silly or something and it's quite a bit less this month. BUT, money is a worry for me and I am planning on getting back to work. I was thinking of setting up a Society 6 page and attempting to sell art there. I have one design sketched up so far, but I'm still trying to get over the hurtle of hating everything I draw and being horribly out of practice. It's been a really long time since I drew anything I was really pleased with.
All the extra money will be going to pay off Sallie-Mae and the house. On the plus side, it might give me a lot of tax breaks.
I do hate that I am looking at art as a monetary thing, but I do have a skill and I SHOULD use it to make a little cash, right? BUT, I still plan to do what I want, and not at the mercy of a client. So if I sell something, I'm selling it myself, and not begging for money (and being completely ignored) like I did with the last guy.
As Eric put it last night, we might as well be living in a sitcom. We've got the preacher and his very spunky, outspoken wife to our west and the redneck clan to our east. Western neighbors are cool and pretty quiet, although I'm waiting for the wife to jump their fence and steal food off our grill (she's threatened to do so at least once and Eric LOVES to grill). The other neighbors are pretty quiet too, except for last night when they were building a plywood fence to keep their new rottweiler in the yard. Eric watched them last night and couldn't stop laughing. All of them apparently stood there staring at this "fence" pondering how well it would hold. I guess it's better than their previous 'use whatever crap we've got in the garage as a barricade' plan. Still, if that dog wasn't as behaved as he appears to be, he could easily bulldoze his way through and off to do whatever damage he wills. I had to resist the urge to run outside and pet the puppy a few times now. I'm not sure if he's friendly or if our neighbors even want people fussing with their dog.
I guess this could go in the house portion, but we will be getting a nice fence for the backyard before we get my malamute. Especially now that I know that next door they've got a dog. He may be a very friendly dog for all I know, but I'd rather not take chances.
I've been kinda of avoiding facebook, but only because I started playing around on pinterest this week. Also because I've got a few people not happy with me. Meh, whatever. Then there's the predictability of pretty much everyone there. Not that I'm any better. So it's time for a break. So back to drama-llama LJ. *LOL*
Pinterest account is found here if anyone wants to see what photos, drawing reference, or anything else I have a tenancy to horde.
I'm fairly sure no one uses LJ anymore, so I'm probably just talking to myself, but meh, it's here, its public. So there.