I'm Finally Back!
Hi to anyone who actually still reads this,
Well I am officially awful at blogging. But to justify the last few weeks have been horrendously busy. In July I was away visiting my family in beautiful Birch Bay, and thus I was almost completely away from all of civilization. My Grandma’s cabin where I spent my summer has no cable let alone internet. It was a perfect holiday, so relaxing and fun to see my whole family. It made me wonder why I ever wanted to move to Phoenix, but then I remember, ahh yes, jobs! Anyways so that is my bullshit excuse for where I was in July. Now you wonder, “well its the end of August, Andrea, explain that huh?”
Well August has kind of slipped through my fingers. Upon my arrival into bloody hot Phoenix, I went straight back to work in my classroom, finishing the purge of my classroom. I am happy to say that now it is a functional and cute learning space, albeit a bit tiny. In conjunction with that, we began our pack up and prepared for the big moving day. My mom arrived to help the 29th of July and we packed and packed and cleaned and cleaned. The 1st of August was the big moving day. Our wonderful friends Kirk and Nikki helped us load our worldly possessions into a U-Haul and we caravanned them to the new house! Did I mention it was 115 degrees that day? See pictures below of us moving….
Ryan and Kirk move the couch.
…and the bookcase, and then everything else too
Andrea and Nikki look adorable!
Well when we got to the house and all our stuff was here, we sat. And we sat, and we were officially overwhelmed. Thus began a new phase in Ryan and I’s lives in which we got our home improvement handy man skills on. Now if you had asked people last month, “Are Ryan and Andrea handy?” they would have laughed in your face. But now, hah, we have begun to prove the doubters wrong. Ryan and I have single handedly (or is it duel handedly), changed 6 plugs in our house to 3-prong from 2-prong, we have cleaned and lined all the shelves in the kitchen and bathroom, hung a shower curtain, and our biggest accomplishment to date… we replumbed our bathroom sink! Check it out in all its nastiness below.
Am I right, or am I right… disgusting!
And there it is… so fresh and so clean!
Anyways the house is more work than we could have ever imagined. I think when I thought of living here I only ever pictured myself in the house when it was all finished. Well that is certainly not the reality of having an old house. The problems come quicker than we can fix them, such as the gas not working to the stove, and the sunroom leaking (it rained cats and dogs last night and the water poured in). We are going slow and working it all out though. We are getting quotes to get the wall separating the kitchen from the rest of the house torn down, and have big dreams for our perfect little kitchen. More of that to come as it all unfolds. Mostly all the boxes are unpacked, and I have begun to really get in there and clean everything to our standards. Also I got rid of 3 big boxes of clothes, but all of our stuff still didn’t fit so after 2 weeks of searching on Craigslist we finally got this beauty for $60 today. The best thing is they delivered it!
Ahh… isn’t just so pretty?
Anyways that has been our life these last 2 months, I am just now getting in the swing of being a homeowner and a teacher, sometimes I feel like I can’t catch my breath I’ve been so busy.
I do promise to update more regularly from here on out, I have a lot to say. So many plans, and so little money to execute them all. Can Ryan and I do it? Stay tuned… this blog will kickass I guarantee it!
Cheers…