A Long Bunch of Nothin'

Soooo, guess who woke up at 7:15 today? I did, and to most of you out there that's nothing, and generally for me that would be waking up late. But today's my day off, and I hate that I keep waking up earlier and earlier. I think that's the true sign of being an adult, when you can't sleep in anymore, even if you wanted to. RRRG. Oh well, I suppose it is good since I have loads of things to get done today...such as blogging, or something.

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P.S. Disclaimer right now: this is going to be LONG, and fairly not exciting. Just thought I'd let you know.

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Anyhoo, I'll first update on the comings of the never-ending house project. This week got off to kind of a slow start because of Harry Potter.

All day on Saturday, Philip would take reading breaks so that he could read another chapter or two of book 7. I also took advantage of these times to read more of book 6, because I have a horrible memory when it comes to reading, so rereading 6 is like a new adventure again for me. Anyways, Philip finished the book on Sunday night, so on Monday we got back to business. I took my last test on Monday night and got a bright and shiney A, hip hip hooray! Then I came home and we started moving things OFF our carpet because our new carpet was installed on Tuesday morning! I took this picture before I left for work on Tuesday. Is that our couch standing up in our kitchen, you ask? Why yes, yes it is. And the other couch was on the balcony. So on that same blessed Tuesday I got home from work to find: a) a house that smells like new carpet, b) new carpet that I am so very in love with, and c) Philip already moving our stuff back on to the carpet! Hip hip hooray for hew carpet! So this is very obviously our new carpet next to our new tile and new base boards! Hooray for three major steps done in our house! Our carpet is absolutely heaven-sent. Like really, I thought walking on our new tile was like walking on a dream, well my friends, this carpet is like a dream and a half! It's so delightfully fluffy, it makes me now realize just how trashed the old crap was!

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The old stuff was kind of like, remember when you were little and you had a very fluffy stuffed animal, and then you took it outside or "something" happened to make it dirty? So then you wash and dry it and the fluffy thing comes out all matted and coarse, and that's when you realized that maybe drying it wasn't the best idea? Anyways, that's what our carpet felt like. Like it had been washed and dried...twice. Kind of like "twice cleaned and professionally sanitized".

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That brings me to my next little question. Does anybody besides Kevie remember the Big Bob's Used Carpet commercials on tv? I have done the voice on those commercials a couple times lately for people then tried to explain it, and no one knows what the heck I'm talking about. That's all.

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SOOOO, I should probably wrap this up here since I have a bundle of things to do today. First and foremost, get packed and ready for VACATION!

We are going here:

and sharing a beach house with Sara, Jason and Oakley, which I couldn't be MORE excited about!

And then we'll probably hang out with them:

(p.s. this might be our mouse pad)

And then one day we're going here:

and eating lots and lots of these:

And in the mean time, we'll pobably get crazy sunburned, read lots of books, ride around Newport with Sara and Jason on beach cruisers, do some Back to school shopping for Philip, (who starts pharmacy school in less than a month!) and some 'Hooray for finishing pre-reqs school and good luck with applications to hygiene school' shopping for me!

Then when I get back it will be back to house stuff. Doing lots of organizing, touching up, repainting after new dry wall, scheduling installation of crown moulding (for our marriage's sake we aren't doing that on our own), getting new countertops and sink for our kitchen....sigh, still lots of work. I could really go for a house elf right about now. Oh, and I told Philip that if we ever got a pet, which he assured me we wouldn't, that I would name it Kreecher. That's all.

Have fun in not California suckers!