Tuesday. Bleh.

I woke up to this

How much does that suck.

It's super windy out, and raining off and on. Getting cold today, and yesterday the AC kicked on. *sigh*. This is turning out to be a not fun fall.

Nothing special about this other than it's the cutest cat in the WORLD. This is how he looked when I was going to bed. "dude, it's bedtime, turn off the freaking lights already."

I'm getting kinda pissed about the new lense. I'm having a hard time with it. The pics are not turning out as great as I'd like them to be, it might just be my camera - something i'll have to accept until I upgrade. I want super tack sharp where i focus. I'm getting "pretty darn ok" sharp. Grr. I practiced today a lot on stuff around the house.

And...

Time for some halloween stuff to go out. I love halloween. I might even venture into storage and get some more decorations out. More than likely, this will be about it for the season. I'm kinda thinking a lot of my halloween/christmas stuff will need to find some new homes. When it becomes a burden to put the stuff out, then it's no longer fun.

My "real" punkin.

I paid too much money for that pumpkin on the left. I thought it was a lot larger than it was so I was willing to fork over some bucks, because I really like creepy pumkin faces. got it - it's like 2" tall. Ooops. So yes, I'm keeping it. It's still cute, but not super expensive cute.

I bought this guy last fall. I think it was about the only fall decoration I had out. Now he was much more reasonable priced. Something like $10 - 75% off. Told ya I like creepy faces.

Still stuff to get done today, like paying bills. T-mobile likes to get paid. Did you know they don't let you keep talking on the phone if you don't pay the bill? Pfft. Jerks.

Supper too.. chili tonight. Was gonna be cheez-it chicken, but found out, we don't have the right kind of chicken. (gene will be happy, I force feed him chicken most of the time.)

Lil' Teacup

Edited pics today. Lots of them, still tons more to do.

And cleaned. Laundry/dishes done and still tons more to do!

Few more of Tayen

Monday, Monday, can't trust that day...

Monday!

Clothesline Day

I'm so glad it's Monday.

No. Really.

Everyone was about to drive me nuts all weekend, and when I say everyone, I mostly mean Gene. LOL. We were both growly all weekend. Probably because of stuff like this:

Having a flood in your home forces you to do a whole chain of events that you never exactly planned - in that order. But in the end, it's all ended up being good things.


The flood caused the underlayment of the house to need to be replaced. The repairman said that for some more $$, he'd instead, build us a foundation (which will add a great deal of value to this house for very little investment). We cheered and said YES. IN return, the plumbing was now exposed and "easily" (snort don't tell gene I said that), replaced. Done.


Then, the deck will have to be removed from the front of the house (I told him the back HAD TO STAY). Well, if you remove the front deck, then the back deck becomes your new "front" door. The old back door was super crap so we had to replace it since we were going to be using it so much. The pic above is the old door - I forgot to take a pic before we ripped it out. It was super duper ugly.

Here's Gene and Tanner working on a massive hole in my house.

Here's a massive hole in my house :p

And my pretty, new back door.

*so much nicer*

It's been hard for me to get used to all the light coming in the back door now. I keep turning to turn the light off. I think it'll be a good spot to take pics too. Ironically, a mini studio.

So then Sunday, we had to do this:

Gene cutting the legs off the front deck.

Skids and the neighbor's bobcat

About 10 feet from the house.

Funny, we found a set of keys under the deck. I said "Hey John, you didn't lose a set of keys did you?" They were his! John (neighbor) and his wife put this house here about 13 years ago - it was his set of keys from an old car. He said they never intended to keep this house here. SIGH. You can kinda tell, we're now having to make this house more permanent feeling and redoing stuff that should have had more done to it to start with. BUT IT'S OK - because we got a good deal.

We're kinda looking forward to a weekend we don't have to do anything. But we HAVE made good headway even tho we lost 1/2 the summer getting ready for the wedding.

After about a year of working and saving, Tanner bought his laptop on Saturday night. He's SO HAPPY. It's a pretty decent laptop too.

"Well, are you just gonna stand there and laugh or you gonna get me out of this thing?"

this photo makes me LOL. I set out a pumpkin display and Jingles just HAD to partake. Stupid cat.

OK - Laundry is calling me!

Sneak peak for Torrie.

Did a shoot of tayen today, and a super quick one of Torrie, which I wanted to do more, but it was windy, and Tayen was grumpy.

Loving Adobe Lightroom. I dunno how to break it to Gene but now I want it. Sigh.

Lightroom or a lense? Merry Christmas to me??


My fave so far.