We've really done very little to the house since the last update. We finally took the second table back out to the front porch today, and the dining room is back to looking gigantic.
We finally hung up our big mirror. It's now over the radiator across from our bedroom.
And we got this nice little shelf for the bathroom!
Other than that, the only work we've really done is shovel. There was a lot of snow this morning, and I swear every time we shovel the sidewalk it magically becomes wider. Still, through all this cold weather everything seems to be holding up well.
So about the beep. There's this beep. The only room we've heard it in is our master bedroom on the second floor. It is high pitched and electronic, and lasts only a fraction of a second. It is not loud, but it's loud enough that you can hear it even if your ears are covered with pillows. (I know this from experience.) We know it is not: a smoke or carbon dioxide detector, a wrist watch, an alarm clock, a cell phone, a washing machine, an oven, anything that is alive (Po has never reacted to it,) the exercise bike. It doesn't beep consistently in that there's never an exact amount of time between the beeps, and sometimes it sounds louder/quieter. If you have any other ideas, please keep them coming. We're pretty sure we still haven't figured out what it is.
Still! If one little beep is our biggest problem right now, all is pretty well.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Let there be (kitchen) light!
We've been in the house for a couple months now, and as quickly as we moved in and unpacked, we have really taken our time with making the house ours. I personally think that it's because we've been under so much stress in the last year that it's been really nice to just come home, crash on the couch, and chill. The other day a coworker said to me, "So have you started decorating and really making it look like you live there?" I could tell by her face that she was not expecting me to say no. I wasn't offended, but it did get me thinking that maybe it was about time.
Last weekend Alex and I really went all out with our art. Our frames literally had not moved since we'd first put them out of the way, so it was really nice to A) get them on the walls B) reclaim some floor space. My proudest accomplishment was *finally* getting some of our wedding photos into the frames we'd bought for them, and getting them a good spot in the living room.
Yesterday we went to a couple new antique stores. We're rarely looking for anything in particular, but it's always fun to find things that fit in the house. We ended up finding a hippo, a really pretty candle holder, and Chelsey and Landis's house. (The last one wasn't in a store, we found it with our GPS.) Having found a few things, I thought we were done doing house related things for the weekend, but no! I had completely forgotten that we'd mentioned looking at the awful florescent lights in the kitchen to see what it would take to get those out. (Note: I just looked through my old photos so I could have before/after pictures, and realized that I hated the old lights so much that I very carefully made sure to never get them in a picture. You'll just have to use your imagination.
As it turns out, they were not at all difficult to replace. We accidentally bought three separate fixtures when we bought the one for the dining room, so now the two extra fixtures have a home!
Last weekend Alex and I really went all out with our art. Our frames literally had not moved since we'd first put them out of the way, so it was really nice to A) get them on the walls B) reclaim some floor space. My proudest accomplishment was *finally* getting some of our wedding photos into the frames we'd bought for them, and getting them a good spot in the living room.
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| Perhaps someday I will take a better picture, but Po is sitting on my lap right now so I can't get up to take one |
Yesterday we went to a couple new antique stores. We're rarely looking for anything in particular, but it's always fun to find things that fit in the house. We ended up finding a hippo, a really pretty candle holder, and Chelsey and Landis's house. (The last one wasn't in a store, we found it with our GPS.) Having found a few things, I thought we were done doing house related things for the weekend, but no! I had completely forgotten that we'd mentioned looking at the awful florescent lights in the kitchen to see what it would take to get those out. (Note: I just looked through my old photos so I could have before/after pictures, and realized that I hated the old lights so much that I very carefully made sure to never get them in a picture. You'll just have to use your imagination.
As it turns out, they were not at all difficult to replace. We accidentally bought three separate fixtures when we bought the one for the dining room, so now the two extra fixtures have a home!
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