After - new windows, sans screens
Originally uploaded by Cutiemoo.
It's been a while since I wrote in here, I apologize... life has been quite busy lately.
At the end of May I finally got my new windows installed. It was quite the investment, and I was glad to see them finally installed! I took a bunch of before and after pictures after the first day, but then nothing after that, because the whole point of the new windows was to get ones that looked exactly like the old ones, so the after pictures weren't all that exciting :) You can see all the pictures, though, here. There's a great picture of the front of my house as a whole (with old windows) in that set, too.
Right after I got the new windows, John's parents delived an old sofa and love seat to me. Old to them, NEW TO ME! I haven't had an actual full-length sofa since moving out of Ted's house, so it's been SO NICE to lie down on one when watching tv. They're flowery and not my style, so I got a GREAT red slip-cover for them (the loveseat one is still being delivered, it can only be purchased online) here's a picture of the sofa - with the new throw pillows, the new rug, and (of course) Yoshi!
The most recent project has been tackling the basement. I'm trying to clean it out for John's impending arrival in the House of Moo. I have FINALLY packed up all my stuff into the rubermaid-like containers and moved them all into the "room" in the back corner of the basement. What an improvement! The Christmas tree is the only thing that's still out in the open, and that's only because I haven't found a container big enough for it yet. John's bringing over a Shop Vac tonight so we can start sucking up lots of dirt and dust and his dad is coming this weekend to help with plumbing/electrical (We want to try to make the drain so that water can actually slope INTO it, which does seem like the purpose of a drain, no? And we need more outlets down there if John's going to be working down there).
On top of all that, I've been putting in a number of 10 hour days at work and working on the weekends...we had a HUGE deadline on June 11 (last monday) and I was the ONLY person on my project to meet the deadline! While that's definitely Yay for Me, it also means that "Oh, Jennifer's done, and now all these other people are behind, so... Jennifer can pick up the slack" *sigh* It's a never-ending job. It's nice feeling valuable, though, and I definitely like being busy more than I like sitting around with nothing to do - it's hard for me to remember those days now!
I need to get the pictures off the camera of my trip to Cincy with Mom and Dad to see the Reds/Indians game (including going to the Red's Hall of Fame)... I think I have various other pictures on there, too... like pictures of Mac and Cheese with broccoli in it... I'm not sure what possessed me to take that one, I think I just like food to much, the sad thing, it's a SERIES of pictures... before it went in the oven... when it came out of the oven... when I put it in a bowl to actually eat it... mmm... now I'm drooling... and I just ate lunch!
