Overloaded

Our entire house is beige. AKA blah. Now I admit we did pick beige as our paint "color" but it really is overwhelming to be in a house that is suppose to be yours and not have it really feel like yours. Our house feels more like a model than a home. It's not just all the beige, it's also all the rooms that are half empty because we just don't have furniture to put into them. This has turned my head into a scary place because every day I am making lists of things I want to do to make this house a home. And folks my lists are like scary long. So to help make us accountable and also get my thoughts organized I'm going to share the list of things I would like to get done. To help us out even more I'm going to highlight the ones I want to get done before our friend house warming (We are also planning on having a big family and friend house warming in the warmer months so our families can make the drive down if they want). This list is in no particular order:

• Paint living room (Completed 1/12)
• Paint the front room, media room, office, and our bedroom
• Put mirrors in the hall and half bath
• Hang toilet paper holders and towel bar/circle 
• Hang curtains and/or blinds in all bedrooms
• Re-cover black and white chair for living room
• Put legs on the record player stand to make it higher
• Make or buy a liquor cabinet
• Finish media stand for living room
• Unpack all boxes that aren't going into storage
• Hang mirrors, shelves, and decor in living room
• Buy an additional chaise for the couch and shelf for behind couch
• Buy a bigger TV for living room
• Figure out art work for front room
• Buy Star Wars posters for Andy's office
• Buy desks for Andy's office
• Make accent pillows for living room 
• Get big TV and the old couch up into the media room

I know that there are more things I need/want to do but I just can't think of them all. I think I may have to start carrying around a small notebook and pen to keep track of things when I think of them. 

Moving is hard

I finally have access to the interwebs folks! We just got our internet and cable connected on Sunday, so freaking crazy! Anyway, that's my excuse for being gone for so long, plus the whole moving thing. Good news is we are all moved in to our house, not that we aren't unpacked nor do we have anything in the slightest semblance of order but we are working on it. Let me tell you having four days to get out of the old house and into the new house was crazy hard. It was so stressful and tiring but so worth it since we are in OUR house. We are homeowners, it still doesn't feel completely real, like some days I will be sitting in the living room and think "Oh my gosh, this is our house, we own it!" It sounds weird but I still do that sometimes about being married. I think it's the whole feeling like a grown up thing, I still see myself as a kid in college (and act like it).

Anyway, we are completely loving our place for the most part, there are a few minor annoyances but nothing too major. For example we don't have sod so our yard is just mud right now so we have to walk the dogs, which we haven't had to do in nearly 2 years.We freak out at any damage we do to the house (like a hunk of drywall that was taken out when we were moving furniture in). Plus no one can find us, since we aren't on Google Maps, people like the pizza delivery dude and our internet and cable provider. Other than that things are great. We've been working on organizing and unpacking, slowly but surely. We need to get our butts in gear though because the first weekend in February we are having a house warming party and I would like to have most of the house set up and organized. I actually planned the party to motivate us a little more, I think it's working.

Anyway, that's my little update, I've got a lot to share about the projects we've completed since moving in and all the projects I want to undertake in the near future. I promise to post a little more often now that we have our connection back up!

Bad Newlyweds

We are very bad newlyweds. There are multiple that I say this, our thank-you's haven't gone out yet (Don't judge, I feel awful, the only thing making me feel a little less guilty is Miss Manner's rule that we have one year after the wedding to get those suckers out), we haven't unpacked completely, and we haven't done anything with the wedding pictures. Trust me when I say, we are working on it. Everything kind of took the backseat in the months after the wedding. Between my graduation, both of us getting new jobs and moving, we had a lot on our plate, but the dust is (finally) starting to settle and we are getting things done.

First of all, we finally located the gift list to write out our thank-you's this week so we will be able to write them this weekend. Woo hoo! Cross that momentous undertaking off the list (soon), hopefully the guilt of not getting them out yet will stop and our friends and family will understand why there was a six month delay in getting those suckers out (I think we have a pretty legit reasons). Second, there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel with the whole unpacking nonsense. The garage is cleaned out and there are only 4 boxes with stuff in them still and more than likely it will stay that way. Finally, my project for the next couple weeks is going to be to organize our wedding photos into a photo book. Christmas is just around the corner and I know a few parents that would love some pretty pictures to show off. Plus my hope is that by loading our pictures onto the computer I will be inspired to print a few copies of my favorites and actually have some of the beautiful pictures of our wedding day hanging around the house.

So tell us that we are not alone in being a bad newlyweds, is there anyone else out there that hasn't got any other there post-wedding to-do's done yet?