List completed

1) Amazing weather!

2) Due to amazing weather, getting Hawkeye on the pavement for 45 minutes a day, weather permitting.

3) Starting the upstairs bathroom

4) Purchasing the flooring

5) Date night

6) The most important part of the week: New Moon on DVD Saturday at 12:01AM.

7) Waiting for Jana to get home to have our marathon!

 

Since it's Friday, I will complete this list!

1) Great weather, except, it's currently snowing. Will be back in the 50's Monday

2) Happened 4 times this week!

3) All painting and trim work done as of about 5 minutes ago! Just a few touch ups and then we are done!

4) DONE!!!!!! It was even more on sale!!!! EH OH!

5) Date night, turned into PH and a movie!

6) 3 hours from now!!! I will be too excited to sleep!

7) Sunday Sunday Sunday

PS - GO UNI!!!

Love Never Dies

I am a Broadway junkie. I will admit it. From Rent, to Wicked, South Pacific, Spring Awakening, West Side Story and my all time favorite has to be The Phantom of the Opera. I still remember at a very young age, getting to stay awake to watch it. NBC had done a miniseries, which I now own. I remember sitting on my parents bed just watching it in awe. I believe I was only 7, but I fell in love with The Phantom and Andrew Lloyd Weber. I remember one Christmas receiving not just The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack but a 4 disc collection of Andrew Lloyd Weber and listening to it non-stop all the way to the East Coast. My favorite all time song had to be "The Phantom of the Opera." Hearing the beginning, the drums playing, I was hooked. Not to mention, in 2004, it came to the Big Screen! I think this is the role that made me fall madly in love with Gerald Butler! The DVD stayed in my 6-Disc changer almost 6 months in my apartment. Along with Mean Girls, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and The Italian Job. I have been fortunate to see it on Broadway. It was breath taking. I, of course, cried like a baby. I never did like the ending. Call me crazy, but I really wish she would have ran off with The Phantom. I always thought Raoul was a wussy little baby that had no macho manly tendencies. Now The Phantom, well he had a powerful voice, he could fight and my heart always went out to him. Last November, I read in an article the Andrew Lloyd Weber actually wrote the sequel, "Love Never Dies". This has been floating in the air for years and I was over the moon excited to hear it. I looked it up on iTunes the day it was released, March 9th. I listening to a few songs and fell in love immediately. I never purchase it b/c it was $29.99 and I thought if I waited, maybe I could find it somewhere cheaper. We have been so busy getting the house ready, I haven't had time to do much of anything for myself. To my surprise, a fellow co-worker had purchased the CD. Can we say lucky? I then proceeded to burn it onto my computer and work and then brought in two CD's to fill up with the amazing music. I am in love, love, love with it. I cannot stop listening to it. First off, the man who does the vocals for The Phantom...can we say gorgeous!!! His voice melts my heart and gives me goosebumps. The feeling you can hear in his voice, wow, just wow. The sequel is also, as I like to say, a little more "rough". It's not so lovely dovey and you find out what has happened in the past 10 years. I just get swept away by this music. The melodies, the symphony, the story, it's just amazing. Just another thing to hope to come our way in about....5 years! Ugh, I'm going to be listening to this for weeks!

The new Phantom = Yes please!

I think he is a Gilles Jr

Here is part of "Beneath the Moonless Sky"

List I made for the week!

Thinks to look forward to this week:

1) Amazing weather!

2) Due to amazing weather, getting Hawkeye on the pavement for 45 minutes a day, weather permitting.

3) Starting the upstairs bathroom

4) Purchasing the flooring

5) Date night

6) The most important part of the week: New Moon on DVD Saturday at 12:01AM.

7) Waiting for Jana to get home to have our marathon!

This being Tuesday lets see the progress:

1) At least once this week

2) Twice this week

3) Just finished the first coat this evening!

4) We got the padding last night!

5) Comes Friday

6) 4 days AWAY!!

7) Whenever the girl gets her butt back here!!

I will follow up as the week continues!! =)

Hallway of Death....accomplished!

Weekend project: one ginormous hallway. After our trimming extravaganza we had on Friday, Saturday morning brought very little enthusiasm for the days work ahead. It was slow moving but once we got rolling, literally, it went pretty fast. We had the first coat on by 2! What a day. I really didn't want to even try to put a second coat on. It was a workout, a test of marriage (LOL), and a test of skill. We had to run out and do some errands. After grabbing a late lunch and eating it at my parents house since we had to take Gabby out, we headed to our current 2nd home, Home Depot. Let me tell you what. I looked horrible. I didn't even care. My hair was all up in shambles. I looked like Sarah Jessica Parker from the Oscars. I had a ratty old Nationwide shirt on from 3 years ago, when we use to get them for free. I had a pair of old, holey jeans on, no make up and a giant crater of a zit that crash landed on my face during the night. I was a mess. Or course, I went to give the man at the counter our paint selections. I gave him the card and looked up. WHAT?! Who are you? Where did you come from? Can I take you home in my pocket?! Honesty. We have had the same paint guy every time we went in. Not this time. I looked up from the counter and this dark haired, muscular, blue eyed beauty was staring at me. I think my mouth literally fell open. He had red plaid shirt on and his sleeves were rolled up to his beautifully tanned elbows. He then asked me how many gallons of each I wanted. I had to take a moment and compose my self in order to speak. My voice, traitor, cracked. It was horrible. I could tell my cheeks were red and the back of my neck was about to sweat. He told me it would be about 15 minutes then flashed this amazing, dazzling, wide smile. My knees buckled and I had to lean against the cart. I took a deep breath and started walking down the isle. I did inform Michael of what just happened and he laughed uncontrollably. I kept stealing glances over as the probably only 19 year old boy was working. After we got everything we needed we headed back up to get our paint. As we were picking it up, I noticed my paint color on his apron. My own personal mark left on him. Michael then snapped me back to reality. As we were checking out the lady at the register said "Being that incredibally good looking cannot be right. You should see the girls flock over there." I told her "I can only imagine." On the way home Michael did admit that the boy looked like he belonged in an Abercrombie catalog or a Calvin Klein commercial.

Here are some photos of Saturdays work:

He got way up there!

In other news little Miss Zoey got a hair cut! The pooch needed one so bad! She looks like a completely different pup!

We had a full day and finally crashed around 9! What a day, but we did get a lot done!

Today, oh today. It didn't help that we lost an hour of sleep. Which means, of course, we woke up late. 10 to be exact. Not good, not good. After running a few errands and getting the boy fed, we started working away. It went a lot quicker today because we were just putting the 2nd coat one. A few hours later, it was done. Really?! It can't be! Yes! It's done. This had to be one of the biggest painting challenges for us! It is now done and we are relaxing this evening. We deserve it! Sadly, we worked so hard, we didn't get a weekend! Tomorrow is the start of another work week. I wish I could be in Texas! Haha. But the weather should be fantastic this week and bathroom #1 is getting started! Here are some photos of the now, finished hallway!

 

 

 

 So glad to be done!! Now time for some SATC!

Thank goodness it is Friday. I feel like this whole week has been one giant pot hole! I need to be fixed! Haha. The weather, not helping. This is the 4th day for of rain, clouds, and fog. I am not seeing any dazzling vampires running around so the sun would be nice. I did see the forecast for next week and I saw a few 50's! 50's and sun. I think I can manage! The weather has been impacting my mood way more then it should.

My mood hit an all time annoyance level this morning. Today = angry girl music. I started with some no-shaving-armpit Alanis, then moved to skaterboy lovin' Avril, some smash the plates Flyleaf, throw in a dash of Paramore, with a Meredith Brooks song we all know, a remembrance of Evanescence, and a criminally sane Tori Amos. I think I listened to Lykke Li's "Possibility" about 6 times until I ended up on the Muse for about 20 minutes. Then Presidents of the United States "Peaches" came on and I truly man laughed hard core. I love the 90's. Good memories. I then resorted back to Ingrid Michaelson. I can never go wrong with her. I somehow managed to get to work way too early so I got to break free at 2:45. Ran a few errands and got home about 6. After a hearty meal and an hour of play, Jake went down for a "nap" as he calls bedtime. Date night 2 of painting began. We got everything tapped, trimmed, textured and fixed tonight. That is so much more then I thought we would get done! We broke out Bon Jovi and rocked out while 'we were livin on a prayer' to not go crazy with this hallway. I never realized how big the vaulted ceilings were until about half way through "Shot Through the Heart" and I realized I needed a 10ft ladder. Ironically as "Dead or Alive" played, I managed to fall off a chair backwards and get paint all over my buttox. Story of my life! Michael got a kick out of it! 

Now time for some R & R. Have to get ready for paint day tomorrow!

I lied.

The madness struck a new high today. I totally forgot that the "Eclipse" trailer was debuting today. We even had a countdown going on it! Where is my mind today? I got a text from a friend around 11 to remind me to check at noon. You bet your booty I was on it at 11:59. I couldn't stop listening to it. I watched it 3 times but then I was consumed by listening to it. Excitement shot through my blood stream, goose bumps shot up all over and chills ran up and down my spine. I am completely obsessed. I need an intervention. Actually, no. I don't. Men are obsessed with sports, I can have Twilight. Again, I just got goose bumps. I am proud to be a Twi-Hard for 3 years and going strong. I am sure I will get extremely excited in Nov for HP! Hopefully it won't disappoint like the HP 6. I lied about keeping my 14 year old self locked away. It made it's self known today and badly! Best part: I already downloaded the trailer to my iPod!

Home owner

Being a home owner has its ups and downs. Most of them are ups! Selling, well that is a downer. We are hoping to have our house on the market by May. Keeping our fingers crossed. I am 90% sure I can have all the painting done by the end of March and then we just have the floor left. We have been going back and forth about where to go from there. I think apartment living is what is in our future. We do not want to rush into another house that we don't love and we can't see ourselves in. Apartment living might be a little cramped and might be a pain for a while but it will give us time to figure what we want. Now, if a house falls into our laps, then it's a different story. 

We spent the evening at Michael's parents house. They have just returned from Arkansas. They bought Gigi's house. She is moving at the end of March and so they are trying to figure out what stays and what goes. Basically they are pretty much stressed out! That is a complete understatement. They need a vacation on a secluded island for a week. Between figuring out what furniture stays in her house, needs to be sold or brought to her new house, to paint/wallpaper (no wallpaper!) colors, to the fact they aren't even moving till Spring 2011, it's just insanity. It sounds like they are just furnishing the place the way they want it and let it sit until the big move. If you haven't met Michael's parents, well, let us just say, they have a lot of stuff. They have to get rid of about half of it. This is going to take a team of people! I think they are going to have to have an estate sale. There is no other way around it! Just the books, the mountains and piles of books. The books alone will be an adventure. It should be an interesting year.

Well here is to us hoping to sell our house by the time football season rolls around! Wish us luck! We need it!