Busy

Sorry for my lack of posts! As you can imagine I've been very busy with the house. My life since we got the house has consisted of working at my job, working on the house, and sleeping. We are pretty close to done. The kitchen needs another coat and the master bath needs some work. We got all the wallpaper off...finally. Man that was hell. The guys got the bulk of it off and I got all the nitty gritty bits off. It took several hours, but it's done now. The walls are still a mess though. Even though I got all the residue off it didn't come cheap. There are lots of gouges in wall. Most of them not from me. But Daniels going to fill all the spots tomorrow. Then we'll have to sand after that, and then we can finally paint. That master bath doesn't have to be done before we move in though. Hopefully we meet with the floor people this week.

I'm getting so antsy to move in! But we can't until the floors are done.

We're in (kind of)

Well we got the keys, but were still doing work. Actually just painting. Once we completely finish that, we're going to do floors. Then, we're going to move in. We still have a couple rooms to do and a couple to touch up, but were getting there. I estimated a week for painting, but I'm guessing we'll need an extra two days. Maybe 3 max. But for the floors, we're thinking of hiring someone.

I'm a little disappointed with the way one of the colors turned out. It looks more light blue than grey, but I'm crossing my fingers once we get the trim bright white, as opposed to yellowy white, it'll look more clean and gray. But I get my white walls upstairs ;) finally. That makes me a happy girl.

Man I can't wait to move in. It sucks having to go back and forth between houses. And every time we leave I'm always really sad. Because right now it feels like more of a place to hang out than it does home. But it'll come. I'm hoping the floors will move a lot quicker if we do actually hire someone.

Realizing

That I'm not really a minimalist anymore. I read a blog post from "The Minimalist Mom" talking about she really is no longer a minimalist. She still tries to live with less and without excess, but has no desire to live with a certain amount of things or anything like that. The same is true for me. I don't want to own only 15 clothing items, or be able to fit all my possessions in a suitcase. I want to live comfortably, homey, and in something that doesn't look so barren. That used to be what I was interested in, but when I came to as close as I was going to realistically get to that, I realized it wasn't as desirable as I had once thought. I grew bored and just found myself lusting for more. At least clothing wise. Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to stuff my closet or anything. I would though like to have somewhat of a personality in my clothing choices. I still want to live only with what I use.

I want to decorate. Not with tons of things, but I want colorful art on my walls. Maybe a shelf with a couple of carefully selected objects on it, such as a lomo camera, or my orange elephant coin bank. Man I'm just ready to move in already! We get the keys tomorrow!

Tomorrow!

Tomorrows the day! Ahh I'm so excited! Forgive me for talking about it so much, but it's a pretty big deal to me. Plus, not much else is going on in my life right now lol.

I've been looking at art the past couple hours. I plan on buying a bunch of prints from etsy. Not right away obviously, because they're not cheap. At first I was worried grey would be too boring of a color, but I don't think it is anymore. With the bright prints I've been looking at, I think it will look really clean. In the kitchen, I'd like to do pops of yellow, since grey and yellow somehow compliment each other. In both of the bathrooms, we're going to do an orange and teal/mint green color scheme. 

Bought some shower curtains!

So I finally decided on some shower curtains for the house! Originally I wanted this cool orange elephant one from a designer, but it was $120. That was kind of hard to justify. Maybe eventually. So I found these at target. The first one was like $9 and the other one was like $20. Together with tax and shipping it came out to $36 I think. So a lot better than $120. The geometric one is a crappy vinyl material, but we don't mind. The mint green, striped one is made out of polyester. We're gonna get liners for both as well. The striped one is going in our bathroom. I'm gonna do some orange accents with it. I'm not sure what accents were gonna do for the geo one.

We're both really getting excited about the house! We did the final walk through today. It kind of sucks because the closing is at 3 on Monday. I wish it were at like 11 or something. Oh well. I do kind of wish the house was brighter. Cause it's pretty dark, but I can live with it. The back yard is worth the darkness.

Picking out furniture is going to be fun and overwhelming. Because as you all know, I have commitment issues when it comes to that sort of stuff. Because I change my mind about stuff very easily. I know what I want to do for bedroom furniture, but that probably won't be right away. I'd like to do the Hemnes set from ikea in the dark/espresso color.

Trying to find stuff to do

It seems during the day I've been able to keep occupied, but at night I've been so bored lately. Usually people interested in minimalism tend to declutter to focus on what really matters. Well I've been doing that, but I guess I don't really have anything to focus on. Blogging, interior design, and decluttering are pretty much my hobbies. Well I spend a lot of time on the Internet too.

Packing

So I'm almost completely finished packing. There are a few things I haven't because I'm either a) still using them or b) waiting for a box to put it in, since we're out of boxes right now. It feels really good though. I've been having a lot of fun doing it. Probably enjoying it more than I should be. I just love the experience of moving! most people probably don't, but there's something about it I love. Just the feeling of newness and leaving the old behind you get. I love it.

You know it's funny. I literally almost never use my desk, but am right now. What's funny about that is there's nothing on it except my ihome. laptop, and some M&M's I'm eating. I usually have a lamp and a calender in front of me. But when that stuff was there I never used the desk. But since it's almost completely clear, I feel like using it.

Today we switched over the water and gas to our names. We still have to do the electric, but we can do that online. Daniel said he'd do it tomorrow. What's good though is that the gas. water, and electric never got turned off so we aren't going to have to pay to get them turned back on.

I still can't believe this is really happening. It doesn't seem real. I wish we didn't have to do the work to the house, because I know it's going to be a couple weeks before we can actually move in. Who knows maybe Daniel will want to camp out before the work is done. Knowing him probably not, but if we're going to have to drive out to the house everyday to get the work done anyway, we may as well. Although I guess we'd save gas on the way to work if we stayed here. Anyway, this week can't pass quick enough.

It's been kind of fun going through my clothes and trying to figure out what I'll wear for the next two or three weeks. Not that I've come up with exact outfits, but just not packing the stuff that I will probably wear.

Man I'm so bored! There's never anything to do anymore. I just can't think of anything. I'm really not a tv person. And I feel like I'm tired of everything on the Internet. My rooms as packed as it can be right now so I can't do that. I'll probably end up going to bed pretty soon. Mostly out of boredom.