First things first!

Today marks a bunch of milestones! One, I am finally starting my blahg. It's been sitting in my head for, oh, I don't know, forever! Problem is, no one else can read it! What better a day to start this thing than the 1-week anniversary of buying OUR FIRST HOUSE! That's right. The DB, darling boyfriend, and I bought our first house last Friday, August 22, 2009. It still seems surreal! Maybe because we're still moving things from the apartment. Hopefully by the end of today I can say we've moved out of there completely! Ugh... long day ahead.

Soooo. We're both super excited, beyond real words, about our new house. The previous owners treated it like it was their baby, and we're lucky to be living here now. Of course, there are things we want to do to update the house and make it our own, but there's nothing that is urgent or a safety issue. Because, let me tell you! There were some doozies out there when we were looking for our home. Bad all around. Ugly, that's one thing. Destroyed is another. For about 80% of the houses we looked at, we didn't need to go much further than inside the front door. No interior doors, strange smells, missing walls. Just bad news. If we were looking for a true, hardcore fixer upper where we would have to gut the entire inside to make them even livable, those would make the cut.

But, that's all in the past! We love our darling house! We have a clean, safe slate to start from, and we're ready to make it our own. First project was to cover the windows - this baby came with no window treatments. We hung curtains over our sliding glass door and 5 of the 6 windows. The 6th is a super huge window - I am not kidding. It's nearly 50"X74"! It's in our loft, and we'd like to keep things light and airy in that room.

Okay, I know this may cause a stir, but I'm going to come right out with it: I live in the same town as IKEA! It's less than 10 minutes away. I used to be able to keep an eye on it from the apartment building's 11th floor, but now that we're in our house, I just have to trust that it's still there. :)

So, that's it for now.

Here's a tip: draw a picture of the windows in your house and add the measurements right on the picture. This helps a lot at the store so you know exactly what you're getting!

Tracy