My fireplace is currently hidden behind my couch and I’m pretty sure I will never use it. However, after a conversation with Nancy, it will soon have purpose other than just being in the way. Woo! More updates to follow… hopefully tomorrow or the day after. =)

On another note, I am taking the week after Thanksgiving off. Mark and Andrew will be over and we will be making lots of meat. It will be known as meatcation.

“Yeah, it’s been a long, long time.
Such a site, you’re lookin’ better than a body has a right to.
Don’t you know we’re playin’ with the fire?
But we can stop this burnin’ desire, Leah!

Ah! Leah! Here we go again!” - Donnie Iris

I’ve finally put up my second wall of photos:

Brook and my friendly coworkers :-) (at least some of them) will be happy to see themselves on this wall! =) The first two columns are from the food road trip Andrew, Mark, and I went on last year.

Man, do you guys remember when fruit roll-ups used to have strawberry seeds in them? Those were the days.

Oh, and finished flooring pics:

Now I’m watching Glee on Hulu, because my little sister sent me this:

My house work is almost done. Mostly all that remains is adding the trim between the tile and wood and just general cleaning. It’s looking pretty nice. =) I was worried about what tile/grout to get but I think it worked out well… it’s very hard to look at one piece of tile and than extrapolate it across a large portion of your house. Here are some shots, starting with the bathroom door I got added to the master room.

Now I’m debating a bit about what to do with the former “breakfast nook” area. I’m thinking about turning it into a clean “table games” area and going with a predominantly white+wood look with clean white lighting. We’ll see…

“Sometimes I wanna give up
I wanna give in,
I wanna quit the fight
And then I see you, baby
And everything’s alright,
everything’s alright

When I see you smile
I can face the world, oh oh,
you know I can do anything
When I see you smile
I see a ray of light, oh oh,
I see it shining right through the rain
When I see you smile
Oh yeah, baby when I see you smile at me” - Bad English

Contractors put down most of the tile today, then I went to help Chancy move into their new house for a while. Tomorrow, it’s the Bazaarvoice Technical Services Diablo II LAN party at my place! Woo!

They also did a pretty good job installing a door for my master bathroom, but I was too lazy to take a pic of that. Maybe tomorrow after everything’s done. Have a good weekend!

I had contractors over at my place today to take down a wall and replace some wood flooring with tile. Here’re some mid-progress photos:

Tomorrow, the tiling starts! Yaaaay!

“If you leave, don’t leave now
Please don’t take my heart away
Promise me, just one more night
Then we’ll go our separate ways
We’ve always had time on our sides
Now it’s fading fast
Every second, every moment
We’ve got to, We’ve got to make it last

I touched you once, I touched you twice
I won’t let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we’d still be friends someday” - OMD

I want to post some lyrics, so I gotta come up with a blog post to go along with it…

I just had dinner at Plucker’s with Al:

Good times as usual. Thanks, Al!

In other news, I need to replace my roof after the hail storm a while or whatever ago. Thankfully, that’s what insurance is for! It actually works out pretty well, since I’d probably need to replace it in a few years anyways. Should I look into getting a metal roof? :mrgreen: I likely would have figured this out a while ago had a solicitor not assumed I was an adolescent child, which made me not listen to her at all. Anyways, inspector said it was pretty scratched up but I didn’t have any immediate risk of leaks or anything, so I’ll get around to getting that done soon.

I’m prepping to get some other contract work done on my house, like removing a wall or two and tiling some floor. I’ll post pics when that happens (maybe even this coming week)!

“I’m lying alone with my head on the phone
Thinking of you till it hurts
I know you hurt too but what else can we do
Tormented and torn apart
I wish I could carry your smile and my heart
For times when my life feels so low
It would make me believe what tomorrow could bring
When today doesn’t really know, doesn’t really know” -Air Supply

I think I’m going to start titling all my weekend posts with “The ____ one.” Sounds like a TV series episode naming scheme. :-)

This weekend was very much dominated by me listening to music at my house, sleeping, waking up with random website ideas, and then throwing together what you see here now. I’d call that a productive weekend. On Sunday night, Chad, Nancy, Ochs, Sam and I watched the first few episodes of season two of Weeds. I also managed to make my way to Town Lake and ran and kayaked a mile-ish.

I bought a water hose and stuff to give my lawn some loving, but never actually put it to use… well… maybe tomorrow…

I also printed out a bunch of photos and put them on my wall with magnetic photo rope I purchased from Photojojo:

“Maybe I’m wrong, won’t you tell me if I’m coming on too strong
This heart of mine has been hurt before, this time I wanna be sure

I’ve been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life
I’ve been waiting for a girl like you, your loving will survive
I’ve been waiting for someone new to make me feel alive
Yeah, waiting for a girl like you to come into my life” - Foreigner

So I’ve had one of those Citi credit cards that give you cash back ever since 2005. Apparently, I’ve never actually claimed the cash back that I’ve earned throughout these four-ish years. I logged in to my account recently and noticed that I had accumulated over $600 that was just waiting for me to press a button to claim.

Haha… so I went ahead and did that. That, combined with the extra $500 from the new First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit is going to go a long way in me actually getting a washer/dryer… now I just need to wade through a ton of reviews to actually find one…

“It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had” - Toto

My family’s always filled the garage with… things not cars, so my new house was pretty much the first time that I’ve actually used a garage for my car. I drove from my apartment to the house in pretty heavy rain today and man… having a garage is awesome.

In other news, I also got my sectional in today. Yay! Lost at my place tomorrow?

Updated checklist:

• TV (Samsung HL67A750 67” DLP)


• Fridge


• Living room sofa (sectional from Haverty’s)


• Washer/Dryer


• Sound system


• Blu-ray player (PS3?) (PS3)


• Bean bags

“Oh mama I’m in fear for my life
From the long arm of the law
Lawman has put an end to my running
And I’m so far from my home
Oh mama I can hear you a crying
You’re so scared and all alone
Hangman is coming down from the gallows
And I don’t have very long” -Styx