Blogging without Pictures

Have you ever had the experience where you would like to blog about something, but you suddenly realize that you don’t have any pictures to post with the blog entry? That’s depressing, let me tell you, its like having a black and white TV when everyone else has 1080p HD TV’s.

Well, with that said, I have to tell you the funniest baseball experience ever. JSYK (just so you know [I just made that up, isn’t that grand. It’ll be the next FYI or TTYL]) this was among a group of friends (coworkers), men and women who were all highly competitive but at the same time we were all just having fun. For example, in this form of baseball we had a hard foam ball and a hard foam bat with a plastic core. There were no strike outs, but other than that it was mostly regular baseball. Oh, and stretching to rules was ok in a lot of cases, so it was flexible baseball.

My team was down by a few points and the game was almost over. I looked out and saw that we had people on 1st and 2nd base, and we had two outs. I thought I would be funny, so I walked over to third base (right next to our dugout) and as soon as the ball was hit I ran in to home. All the sudden both teams counted it as another run. I didn’t expect it, but no one from the other team had seen me walk over to third from the dugout. So know I was a bit confused because I didn’t know if I should tell them, but before I could reach a firm decision the game was already underway again, so I just kept it to myself and told two teammates in the dugout what I’d just done. They thought it was hilarious. We ended up in the end, winning the game by 1 run.

So, the next day we all are in another meeting and we make the announcement that last nights game was actually a tie. Everyone is a bit confused, so I tell them what I just told you. Fortunately everyone was laughing and everyone was actually happier that the game was a tie (even the winning team was glad it was a tie). I guess we all just like to have fun and we don’t care about who wins. How cool is that?

Home Tour: The Complete 2 Episode Season (Part 1 and Two)

So here is some news that some of you know and some don’t. We have been looking for homes over the last few months and we finally found one. We moved into it about three weeks ago.

So, check out the pics and enjoy a little home tour of what the place looked like before we bought it. Later will include pictures about changes we’ve made to the home.

Outside of Home

This is the front of the house with a picture of the driveway and carport. There is ample room for one car under the carport, but not enough for two.

This is also the front yard, but from another angle. Isn’t that snazzy that we were able to take pictures from two angles of the front of the house?

Here is the inside of the carport. We were really looking forward to this for the Mustang to protect it from the elements.

From the previous picture if you were to turn to your left then you would see this, part of our back yard. They left this nice shed for us, and a lawnmower, weed wacker, ladder, etc. Very nice of them.

Here is the rest of the back yard. Its a very nice back yard with a decent amount of privacy thanks to all those big trees at the end of it.

Inside of Home

This is the front porch. You can see what this looks like from the outside from the pictures up above. We want to put some nice chairs and a table in here I think. This would be an awesome visiting area because it can be opened to let air flow or closed to keep temperature. It also has a ceiling fan and light.

Yesterday there was a big lightning and thunder storm and Paula and I hung out in here to watch it for a bit. It was very cool. Unfortunately we don’t have seats yet so we stood instead.

This is the front door to the house, looking in from the front porch.

This is the front living room. (The picture before this was looking in on this room too.) That brick thing against the wall is where an old wood burning stove used to sit to heat the home. We’ll take that out before too long I’m sure.

Here is the living room from another angle. We’re actually looking at it from the kitchen right now. I don’t know what was in those big black bags in the living room. It was a don’t ask don’t tell sort of thing. Also, see that cable on the floor in the left of the picture? That was the TV cable coming right out of the floor. We’ve since fixed that and will some day blog the changes we made to fix that.

If you turn around from the last picture then you’ll see this kitchen. Of all the houses we looked at, this one had the largest kitchen by a lot. We were pretty exited about having room to place the kitchen table in the kitchen.

Here is the kitchen from another angle. We have huge windows over the sink. It’s very nice.

There is a hallway off the kitchen that leads to two bedrooms and a bath. This is the first bedroom, sorry about the poor angle. Its pictures like these that keep me from being one of the top photographers in the world.

This is the same room but from another angle.

This is the bathroom. It has the largest variety of out dated items that we had seen in any home. For example, that vanity thing on the left of the picture is from the 70’s or something.

The tub walls are made from cultured marble, the paint is a minty green… yeah we’ll have to change that too.

Here we have a medicine cabinets from the 20’s and that other thing on the wall from the 90’s. Now that’s variety. Lets give the bathroom a hand for it’s diversity. Bravo.

To be continued…

Unfortunately I need to go now, but I don’t know when I’ll get to continue this post so we’ll leave room for a part 2 of this small series. Until then…

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And now, for the exciting conclusion to: “Home Tour”

Last time, on “Home Tour” we left you at the bathroom. Now we admit that although the bathroom is not the most kosher of places to leave someone, you must admit that it is probably one of the few places in a house where you can meet most of your needs. Enough said.

Here we have picture one of what we made into our bedroom. Its the larger of the two bedrooms upstairs and we like the windows. Below is another picture of the room from a different angle.

Ok, now for a little jump, we are going back out the bedroom door, through the kitchen, and out the back kitchen door. And what do we have there? I’m sure you are just so curious to know.Well, we’ll save that for another blog entry… Ok, I’ll stop being dramatic. We find at the back of the kitchen some stairs to the basement.

You can also see the back door (out to the carport) from here. Nice, a carport!

Behold, the basement (as seen from the carport door).

And here we are in the basement. To the right is the furnace, hot water heater, and laundry hookups. I would try to make that sound exciting, but let’s just admit that right now it isn’t all that exciting. To the right you’ve got the third bedroom, pictured below.

This is the room we are planning to turn into our TV room. That means no TV upstairs. I guess I can live with that.

If you are already suffering from boredom you may want to skip these next two pictures of the furnace room. If not then brace yourself, or if you are trying to fall asleep after a long day then by all means proceed to the furnace/laundry room.

And that concludes our home tour. Look forward to future blogs of how we fix this place up.

Post Thanksgiving

Well, Thanksgiving was a blast for us. It was fun getting to spend time up in Salt Lake. James and I got to sleep at the red brick house that my dad has completely remodeled and it was beautiful. I felt like we were at a luxury hotel (minus the luxurious bed, Thanks for letting us borrow the air mattress April, James and I still appreciated it.)

Now it is back to the grind of school, but it's not so bad knowing that there is only a week and a half of classes left and then a week of finals. I'm kind of looking forward to all of it, and being able to check each test off of my calendar.

Meanwhile James is living up this last bit of freedom before he jumps back into school in January with lots of computer games and building a new TiVo. (I love having a techy husband!)

Well, to everyone out there, happy holidays!