Living room

Right now the living room has nasty cream carpet and small brown trim. The windows are newer and do not have to be replace for a few more years. My plan is to take out the carpet and replace it with bamboo flooring. In the corners by the windows will be the baby grand piano (yes, my mother is going to give it to me for the time being). Against the wall will be my large cream couch with two adjacent chairs. OR...my father told me that he would give me an antique love seat from my great grandmother. I will have to have it re-done, but it is totally worth it. *note to self - get love seat from dad.

I don't know what I will use in the middle for a table, but I hope to find one. As for colors, I was thinking burnt orange brown for accent walls. I really don't know though, I think I am going to ask Jeeves

17 days

17 days until I move! I am super excited. Here is a picture of my new front yard. It was replaced and looks a lot nicer! I will need to stain it when I move in so it doesn't look so...yellow...I am not a fan of that color as of late.

Oh, I have also started planting my herbs. I started a small little green house in my apt and the seeds have started to sprout!

DIY - My hair

I have had a really bad day. I tried to lighten my hair, only to end up with a bright yellow mess. It was bad...very bad. But I still had to go to work because I had a meeting.

Right when I walked in I saw my bosses boss have a very confused look on his face. I said "it will go back to normal tonight". He replied "is there a normal?" The answer is no. My top favorite things people said to me:

--"Wooh, your hair....it looks, um, different."
--"I'm gonna start calling you 'lemonie snicket'"
--"How did that happen?!?"
And my favorite came from Beth, who when passing me in the hall just started laughing and could not stop. We talked about it earlier and I made it clear that I did not like my Rainbow Brite inspired hair.

That being said, I went home and attempted to dye my hair again. This time I went with red. However, it turned out pink.

I should not DIY my hair....

Rain

The last couple days have been raining really bad. There were flash floods for a few hours. In fear that my basement would double for a swimming pool, I went to make sure the house was dry.

Good news - IT WAS!!!

I was very surprised! In the mean time, I took more pictures.

Now these next few posts will be of the new house and what the room will look like.

Bad dream

Some times I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. I have this re-curring dream that I still work for my last employer. It was hell. No, it wasn't hell. It was where the devil would go if he was bad.

During the year that I worked there I was one of the senior employees. It was a frickn' revolving door of employees. Most of the poeple would get fired for the strangest reasons. We had 4 HR directors and were in the process of hiring a 5th when I left.

I was one of the only people that actually left due to another job. I was really suprised that I didn't get fired because the last 3-4 months I clocked out without leaving the building. I would spend over half my day playing on the internet. I got really good at crossword puzzels.

After leaving I never had to contact that place again. Until yesterday.... I needed two years of W2's and I could only find the one from GES. That meant that I had to call my last employer to get a copy. My palms were sweating, heart racing and I think I peed a little. The good thing is no one anwered so I left a message. Luckly they did not return my call. Ha ha. Now my mortgage guy has to call them. HA!

Tetris

I have been packing over the last couple days. I told my co-workers I am working on the world's greatest box fort so they have to give me all their old boxes. I really have The needed them to pack my apt. The problem is finding space. I have found that stacking my boxes has turned into a real-life game of Tetris.

In college I lived with a girl that we called BH (Bad Holly). At first she was just Holly, but the Holly Morff moved in and we had to change the name. Holly Morff was just too cool to be compared to the other Holly.

BH was in grad school for OT. She was a really nice girl, but her voice would make people jump out a window. HELLL-OOOOOWW? Said very nasally and loud. Every time I would answer the phone I would hold it far from my face because I knew BH would pick up. Even if it was 5 minutes later she would still pick up "HELLLL-OOOOOW?". Here is a picture. We were playing a trivia game and I was winning...the trivia game was on the Simpson's so no one had a chance!

Just showing off!

This has nothing to do with buying a house or any house related things. I just wanted to show off the fact that Holly and I met the Kooks and after they heard we did the marketing for them, they all posed for a picture. The Kooks are too cool. Oh, and I included a picture of Dustin and I with Matthew Caws from Nada Surf.