Game Night

Last weekend we had the largest group of people over yet, 17 or 18 people over from our church young adult group. We did a game night, Rock Band and Guitar Hero. We set up two TVs, a friend bought his TV and others brought the gaming systems. The TVs were turned way up and every one was having fun taking there turn at playing. I found I really liked playing the base on Rock Band and by the end of the night I think I played for about 2 hours all in all. I even tried to sing and was not so bad at it, now drums on the other had I just stink. The major negative effect was my left shoulder/neck (upper trap and rhomboid) was really inflamed due to the way I was holding the guitar but thank goodness I work at a Physical Therapy office and got some treatment. All in all people hung around for about 5 almost 6 hours and the games never stopped. It was a lot of fun for sure. We are thinking to do that again since it was such a big hit.

Major painting problem

I got the blue on the wall yesterday in the bathroom. Two coats and it was done like that, used less then half of my quart of paint. The red on the other hand is noting but a problem. Had to go and buy more paint and the color is far from being even. Not sure what to do with it, i don't think it will ever get even. Should i sponge it? Should I use cheese cloth on it? What should i use, i lost! I really wanted the sold red color but anything to get it finished. Oh and yes i did use primer on the walls and made sure to let every thing totally dry before the next coat. HELP!!!

Our Saturday

The east wind has not let up. Yesterday it was blowing all day and very strong. Trying to stay in side Steve and I got up way to early so we could go to the dog show. The two breeds we wanted to see show were of course the earliest. We watched the Border Collies and Austrian Shepherds, got to really see what Chad got from each breed to make his mix. Also we got our free dog food samples and Chad eats them like treats.
Once we got home Steve finished working on his car and got it back together while I painted out guest bathroom. It is an American Flag theme with red and blue walls; I have ideas of decorations to put in there just need to get the pain to dry first. I’m trying to get a way from the yellows and browns and explore true colors. (my first ideas as blue and you guessed it yellow)
I need to take a break from painting and fix dinner and just my luck when I was just about done cooking the meat for stroganoff and the power went out. We sat and waited for a bit, wondering when we would get power again. After about 45 min we were very hungry so we ordered a pizza. If I remember correctly this is the first time I have had a pizza delivered at a house for dinner. We thought we should start a fire, used all the cardboard we have and some wood from the last door we took out. Found out that yes both our smoke alarms do work and are very loud, so if we were to have a real fire could not miss the alarm. The alarms went off because we did not get the flu opened all the way and the smoke came in the house first. I was running around turning them off and I had to jump to do that. I fun sight to see. Over all the fire place is very nice and we got a lot of heat from it, now the house smells like a camp fire. For sure we want to get an insert so it works better next time.
Power came back on around 9 or 10, I can’t remember and we got some stuff done around the house and went to bed. I woke up this morning with no power but with in 20 min of being up it came back on. The wind is just non stop; we have branches in our back yard, thank goodness no tree limbs down like other on the street. I don’t think the wind even let up over night, still going strong this morning.

Painting

We are 99% done with the kitchen painting. I have a bit of touch up and need to paint the new doors. It looks great. I will try to post some pictures up here soon for all to see. If I forget though, Steve and I have been talking about doing an open house in or around March (when it is warmer, I hope) for all to stop by and see. More should be done by then.

Snow again

I thought we were done with the snow, but I was oh so wrong. I was just outside putting the trash and recycling at the curb and it started to snow again. I was thinking just this morning it might be dry for a bit and things can dry out. I was wrong. I’m tired of the snow, rain and just all around wetness. Believe it or not I’m very much tired of this cold weather. I want WARM weather.

To do and what has been done

Christmas is all over now for 2008, all the presents have been exchanged and opened, now heaps of garbage/recycling wait the weekly pick up. All the cookies and treats are gone (at least at our house) and now it is time to go full bore on home projects. We still have the long list of projects but we are about to check off the replacing of the last door. All the cold drafts have stopped due to the amazing spray in foam (comes in a can); it works wonders and is fun to use. This weekend our plan is to start painting the kitchen. I hope we get it done and don’t have sections to keep coming back to. The talked about order for painting is kitchen then the Greenbay office, maybe outside to the fence that needs to be moved and replaced. Will have to wait and see what gets done now.
Now on to the main reason I wanted to write this blog, which is a fun one, is to share with you all our favorite thing to do after Christmas. We enjoy shopping for next years decorations, wrapping paper and so now when things are on sale. The bigger the sale the better. Last night we went to Wal-Mart, got about 80 dollars worth of stuff for 20 dollars. There is no way I would have paid the full 15 dollars for this nice decorative wreath but when it was on sale for 3.75 you cant pass it up. We got a table cloth for 2 dollars and a ton of out door light for 1.75. That is fun shopping for me. Next year we will do the same after Christmas, but for now it will be in storage until next year. Once Christmas rolls around again we would loved to show you all what fun stuff we got and got done.