Luna Tail

And here is my bedroom! It’s a light purple.. which I also like! I had it painted a dark pink but that was much too loud and so I painted over it. So this room has been painted twice!

I need to get a picture of the bathroom too, and I forgot, but hopefully I’ll get that going in the next while here. So far, I do like my house, and posting these pictures is making me realize that!

And here is the front room, which I also love… I love the brown paint. I never thought I’d like brown, but I wanted something homey and yet darkish but not too dark. Tatum is in this picture posing, too.

No POS systems in here.. but lots of tile floors! I love the tile floors. They are so nice for the dogs, and the poop that yes, we still get indoors once in a while.  That is Tatum’s bed in the middle of the floor, she likes to sleep in the sunshine.  And it’s still icky winter here and so we absorb all the sun we can get!

Okay here is another one of my rooms… this is the hallway. It’s been painted for some years now and I still love the green.

Maybe i should find some careers in painting… hrm… naw, I don’t like painting nearly that much. I just like the finished product. The painting is work. The prep is even more work than the painting. My rooms are not perfect but that’s okay, they make me happy and that is all that matters. And yes, I like color, can you tell? Color makes me happy and makes me feel like the house is a nice place to live. Plus it’s easily changed if we sell. Which is a bonus!

The bedroom is done! Yay! I’m so excited. I do need to print some nice dog pictures for the frames I bought. And I already need to clean the carpet again because Lucy has thrown up on it (I wish we could do tile flooring in the bedroom but that’s more work than we want right now), but that’s okay, I like the room!

I was taking some pictures of my rooms and I think, for the most part, I am really happy with how they have all turned out.  Most of the upstairs is painted and done, even after 10 years of living here.  I still hate the kitchen… that will be a while though since we don’t have the money or the time to totally gut it.  Oh well. I’m going to post up some more pictures over the next while because I like my house!

Yay the house is clean!  Well, the upstairs is, anyway.  The downstairs needs work.  The spare bedroom is painted, and the house is decluttered, and the maids came. Woot! It’s so nice to have a maid. I just don’t understand how to clean.  And I don’t understand how every darn surface in the house needs to be cleaned on a regular basis… which really seems more often than I can handle.  And so I hired a maid again.

My husband and I decided to refinance the house instead of paying it off in four months.  I was too stressed, he said. I was too tight and it was too much of a burden. So instead we refinanced and lowered our mortgage to a teeny tiny amount per month.  So that’s good, and it let me afford a maid again. And it’s helping the economy, right?  Paying for a maid? I think so! Maybe we need something for hair loss prevention too… but I dunno about that yet, the husband doesn’t really care and neither do I!

Anyway, so they cleaned the upstairs while I watched the dogs downstairs. And so it’s clean upstairs now. And they are going to come once a month. And it’s only $49 a month, so I can do that… $25 a pay check. It’s affordable! I like affordable. And I like a clean house too!

I’m finally painting the spare bedroom!

From Blue to Orange

After living in this house for 10 years… I don’t know why I avoided that room for so long. Now, after the first coat of paint, I feel like that room is mine. I’ve claimed it. I need to stake a flag in it!

Here are some pictures mid-stream of the paint job. I don’t like the blue. I like blue as a color, but for some reason I don’t like it on the walls. I dunno, just weird of me I guess. And I know this sunset orange is a bit dark, but I like dark! And I like color!

Above is the final product! Yay! I am so excited! I get to go buy a real bed frame for that room too. I don’t know if I’ll buy a mattress… my husband said I should. Good thing we are refinancing. LOL. But we have a mattress that we could use so I’m really not sure.

After all this work I’m going to need some good anti wrinkle face cream to smooth out my skin. I’m all dry and icky and painted… yeah I get almost as much on myself. No pictures of orange me though!

Yup, it’s time. I’ll try to get some pictures going… the spare bedroom is the only room upstairs in our house that I have not yet painted. In all the 10 years we’ve lived here. I have been putting it off and it’s finally time to get it done!

But the prerequisite to painting is cleaning up… and I have moved out my wardrobes and put them in my own bedroom. And then I went through most of the junk (I haven’t dared open the closet yet lol) and emptied out 3 bins worth of junk. Some is going to the DI, some is recycled, and some is just plain thrown out.

Next weekend I hope to be able to start to prep the room. There’s the layer of wallpaper that I’m kinda scraping off. If it comes, I’ll take it. If not, it will be painted over again. Yuck. I really don’t want to paint over it again but at the same time I really don’t want to take it off! I actually think only one wall as the wallpaper on it and it’s coming off on it’s own for the most part. Thank goodness.

It’s a job. I think I’m feeling better because I actually have the motivation to do this stuff! I’ll post again about why I think I feel better.

Yup.. I have a plan. I’m tired of the mortgage. Our money situation is way too dang tight now that my husband is not working and he’s going to school. And paying off the mortgage will be a huge help and let us breathe a bit easier in the financial arena of life.

So I’m upping our mortgage payment to $1,500 a month. I’m actually going to pay it every other week at $750, after I get paid. That way I’ll get a burst of positive reinforcement every other week instead of just once a month!

At this rate we should have it paid down enough by April 2010 that we can drain our savings and pay the whole thing off. And then we’ll have to replenish our savings but that shouldn’t take too long.

So April is the goal. It may go as long as May, maybe June… but I’m going to focus on April and hope we get that darn thing paid! Yay for a fully owned house!

Wow how time flies. It’s been 10 years this month since I bought my house. I lived in it for a year or so before Aaron joined me. Then we got married in 2003 and put the house in both our names.

I like our little house. It’s brick, so if there is an earthquake it’ll crumble and crush us. Hopefully there won’t be any earthquakes. It’s not quite breckenridge lodging but it’s our home and we love it. I just wish all the rooms were twice as big, and we had a 2 car garage instead of just a 1 car garage.

It’s cozy and we have fun in our little house.  We only owe about $13,000 left on it. Once that is paid off we’ll be mortgage free! We are very excited about that!

10 years in one place… wow. Kinda neat, makes me think my life is actually stable finally.

Yeah.. I’m better.  I’m actually better enough that I did some yard work this weekend! I was sick, if you were wondering… not the flu. Thank Goodness. But I had a bad bad cold. And my immune system is just so weak that I have a hard time getting rid of any type of cold, or just feeling bad.

I am planning on digging up one more rose bush out in the front yard… and all the ground cover which is, actually, mostly just grass that’s grown in the flower beds out front.  I’m going to dig it all up, hopefully on Wednesday, and then lay some of that black ground paper and put something over it. I want the pink gravel. My husband doesn’t. Hrm… I wonder how long it’d take him to notice if I just did the gravel? 

I’m also cleaning up my MacBook… yes, it’s already full of junk. LOL. Maybe a Personalized usb drive is what I need to help with that. Not sure.

Anyway, I’m really enjoying my cave time at home. I need home time, alone time, being by myself with my husband and our dogs. I can relax for a few months before the dog sports all start up again!