No Laptop = Cranky Girl

Well Jason's work laptop is junk! It won't let me blog. I'm pissed.

Have I ever told ya'll I'm not a morning person? Well I'm not! This morning Jason woke me and told me the trim guys were here and I had 10 minutes to get up and dressed. You're rushing me? I throw on some sweats and made my way downstairs only to be nearly whacked by a piece of falling crown molding. Good morning to you too klutz! I am happy things are actually getting done around here but ugh...

We got a call from Best Buy and naturally our computer issues are not covered by our warranty so that's sucks! I almost wish it was just junk so we could get Mac. I'm over buying laptops that last two years!

So I wanted to blog today about our weekend but I have a ton of pictures to share but that can't happen with no laptop because I actually used my camera this weekend and not my phone. No big deal hopefully the computer will be fixed and the pictures aren't going anywhere.

We have a cold front coming this way today, being from the north the southern version of a cold front cracks me up. Don't get me wrong I hate the cold and as far as I'm concerned it is legit cold but closing schools for a small chance of flurries is laughable! I seriously wonder what things would be like around here if it legitimately snowed!! 

We've had people in here all day and more to come this afternoon! I am going to call and change my credit card and putter around for the afternoon before the "bad weather" hits! Jason who is proud northerner even said he didn't think it would be a good night for grilling maybe we should turn the fire place on and watch a movie! Haha the south is making us soft! I love it!!

I'll leave you with a few pictures I had on my phone from the weekend of my favorite little munchkin! Oh how I love her! 

Have a great day! Hopefully tomorrow we'll be back on track!!

Saturday night nosey Nora here would not sleep with things going on in the house so her Mama put her in her little space here and she sat there for over an hour by herself chatting to her dolls. She is the baby that makes you want your own!

I mean seriously! That face! Her and Jason were having their own dance party and she thought it was hilarious!!

I'm not sure who was more excited about story time!

All dressed up for mini golf! She surprised us all and left her headband on all day!

And so it goes....

So our laptop died this morning! AWESOME!! I swear we have the worst luck with laptops! This one isn't even two years old! This is the second time this has happened, our last laptop was junk and although this one is under warranty still I'm going to bet whatever is wrong with it isn't covered!! We took it to Best Buy and dropped it off this morning, they said they will run diagnostics and get back to us in a couple days. Worst case they would have to send it away if it's something major. If it's junk were getting a Mac, I don't care what Jason says.

I planned to blog about our weekend and post a bunch if picture but I don't want to do it from my phone. I will set up shop on Jason's work laptop tomorrow and fill ya'll in!

Calling for a blast of winter here tomorrow! Haha meaning here the chance if flurries and weather still above freezing! I'm not going to lie being from the north I laugh but greatly appreciate that is the worst of it! I seriously hate the cold!!

I hope you all had a great weekend! I'm going to get everything cleaned up around here before the game tonight! 

I promise to be back tomorrow with legit content! 

Good night!!

Good Morning Winter... In the South!

Well I apparently missed the memo that in November it does actually get cold in the South.. if I only would have known. I don't know what the deal is, apparently some random cold front is coming through and even Georgia and Alabama were to be expecting frost this morning.. bullshit.

We had to be up early this morning because we had a plethora of people that are to be coming through the house today. I am generally not a morning person and the fact that it got so cold last night and Jason had the windows open in the bedroom, getting up this morning was a feat! Jason got up with the alarm and I went back to sleep, so he came up and fought with me to get out of bed 15 minutes before anyone was suppose to show up (sound familiar Mom?). I just got up, put on some sweats and made myself presentable before blindly wandering downstairs to make coffee. I hate mornings.

As you can tell I haven't been around much this week and truthfully I am not apologizing this time because it was intentional.. I was so super miserable this week with all of the lack of work going on in the house and dealing with the most incompetent people that I couldn't think of anything to write about but the misery of it all so I stayed away. I will tell you that we have still had no luck and everything was suppose to be completed by this Wednesday and here it is Friday and only one guy has shown up and two small items have been addressed out of a four an a half page typed report. I have called multiple people, yelled, explained in no uncertain terms what I think of them, their operation and professionalism. It got me no where. I want to spit at them all. I just want this all finished so I don't have to deal with these assholes anymore.

We also got some news about Jason and work this week which for some reason hit me really hard, I will keep you all posted as details fall into place but BIG SURPRISE I have done a decent amount of crying in frustration with everything that is taking place this week. Thank god for Tanya who can relate to my work frustrations and her graciously facetiming to listen to me whine!

We have gotten a few other things for the house since last time I posted, but I forgot to take pictures of them haha go figure! So I will make sure to be on top of that for my next post, but in the meantime to feed your curiosity we got curtains for the living room and dining room, master bedroom lamps, a good majority of stuff for the gym and I feel like we got more but I cant quite put my finger on what at the moment! I'll go around and take pictures!

That really is this week in a nutshell. I finally got around to take a bag of clothes I was getting rid of to Plato's Closet and they bought 13 items for $41.00.. SCORE! That afternoon I decided to make a homemade chicken soup for dinner, because... well basically I love homemade soup!

We had to go to Sears and get a few things, Jason a new suitcase particularly and again I was stunned at the Christmas display being put on.. ITS NOT EVEN THANKSGIVING! Seriously, long before Halloween the Santa setups were in every mall, trees were up everywhere, what the hell is going on??

I mean I am by no means a Grinch, I LOVE Christmas but Christmas is not a 6 months out of the year kind of thing, I don't feel like I will appreciate the Christmas season as much when it does arrive seeings how I have been listening to Christmas music for weeks. Knock it off people, knock it off! We have Veteran's day (yes it is a VERY important day) and we have Thanksgiving!!!! COME ON!! (I was bound to rant somewhere).

The pest control people are here aka my new best friend. No we don't really need them but I INSISTED it be done as a preventative measure because if ya'll don't know it, the bugs in the South are MASSIVE and if I find another one in my house we are moving. So its cheaper to rectify the issue before it is one then to sell the house (which is a consideration anyway if these mother truckers don't get their shit together and fix what needs to be done). Thankfully there are other people here as well so Jason wont be able to micromanage the pest guy (he needs to do a good job) like he did the Time Warner guy this morning. 

I mean honestly.. this guy was so not impressed with Jason hovering and basically "fixed" the problem and jetted out of here. 

So I think I am going to run now that I have rambled on because these house assholes are here and Jason is FAR TOO NICE and I am over that, they are either going do what needs to be done or deal with the wrath of this redhead which I promise you is not their best option. 

We are headed to the Seavey's tomorrow for a change of scenery and some mini golf! I plan to drink bloody mary's, not in excess because I am quite sure I have a kidney stone or gravel or something in there. I had issues while we were in Maine and on and off I have felt that very clear pain that is consistent with kidney stones.. so I think I will chase every drink with a nice glass of ice water. I'm so old. 

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend! Hopefully the weather gets a little nicer around these parts because mini golf in my parka seems a bit ridiculous, however not out of the question. Pictures to follow! 

PS - FOR YOUR OWN GOOD... financially and emotionally... DO NOT BY A KB HOME!!! YOU WILL BE KISSING YOUR MONEY AND SANITY GOODBYE!

Some House Stuff and a Birthday.. Typical Monday!

Good Evening All!

I hope you all had a great weekend! I didn't plan on being around here this weekend and truth be told I could have yesterday but I was exhausted! I have been meaning to come around and show you some updated pictures of the house, and all the other list of things I have going of what I want to post about but my motivation and time has been limited.

I have been waiting for days, specifically since last Wednesday for all the people who should be coming into our house to fix all the things that are wrong with it and so far nothing. We agreed upon a completion date of this Wednesday assuming we would have people in the house the next day to start and naturally we never heard from anyone and no one has been here as of today and I have officially exceeded my tolerance limited and plan to rhyme off an email tomorrow that will make head spins! I officially hate every one of these incompetent tool bags for ruining our first home buying experience and wish they would get their shit semi together and do their fucking jobs! Period. NEVER EVER BUY A KB HOME!!!

In the meantime I thought I would share some pictures of the house, as things have come together a little more and I did share these pictures with other people and then I thought.. HEY! there are other people who would like to see these! So I apologize in advance for photo overload.

I am more in love with this coffee table everyday! I love the rustic warm look, I couldn't be any happier with this purchase!

Living room thus far, we are debating an area rug but the floors are so great we just can't decide. You can see there are temporary curtains hanging in the dining room over the sliding glass doors until we can find curtains we absolutely love. The whole house has Hunter Douglas blinds but that door so its not a huge issue and we decided not to settle but hold out for something that we instantly fall in love with!

Living room, Kitchen, Dining Room

Kitchen

Dining room with our fabulous dining room table. If you remember back we were having a wicked time finding a dining room table. We were set on a pub table and having no luck finding one until we came across this one online. I was unnerved about buying something we couldn't see but we were desperate. I called to order it and they said that they couldn't get it in until January.. so I continued to call around. I managed to find a licensed Liberty Furniture dealer who had it to us at the end of October and it was cheaper! Score!

Downstairs Hallway and office space. 

Master Bedroom. We got awesome bedside lamps after these pictures were taken.. sorry! I will have to update! That TV is also temporary as we don't have one for the bedroom yet so this is our travel bedroom TV. 

I'm trying to tell Jason, we need more pillows! Don't you think?

Master Bathroom. 

Master Bathroom

My closet. I have some organizing to do. 

Stairway looking down.

Upstairs loft space. 

Upstairs loft space looking out from copper accent wall

Upstairs spare bedroom, I didn't add the picture of the other bedroom because its the same as this but empty! This one is for guests and this week the other one will transform into a gym!

Upstairs Laundry room

Upstairs spare bathroom. I didn't take a picture of the downstairs powder room, but its nothing exciting. 

Front of the house!

We are making progress, slowly but surely! We haven't managed to get any art on the wall sadly, to me that always makes a house feel like a home but we are working on it. Tonight we are planning to pick a few wedding pictures to have printed and then we will get frames and are thinking we would like to put them in the stairway. There is a certain picture I would like to have for the bedroom but I feel like I cant make a decision until I know about curtains (ridiculous I know) but we will probably get pictures before curtains at this point so we'll see! 

This past weekend the Seavey's came up for a sleepover! It was quite an interesting weekend to say the least haha! We had a great time none the less! Saturday night Brianne carried Amelia's pack-n-play upstairs and I took the little lady to get her set up for bed! When we got up there Jason had every window in the damn house open and although it was a gorgeous day the nights have been quite chilly here. I put lady A down on the carpet for a minute while I shut some windows and she was a little perplexed! I hadn't given much thought to the fact that they don't have carpet at their house and she had never seen it! I'm not sure she knew what to think of it, check out her expressions! They were hilarious!

The dimple, seriously!

This was hilarious.. she would get her face so close to the carpet and then pop up with the most hilarious smile like she had found gold! It was amazing!

How I love this little porker!

So that was really my weekend. Yesterday while Jason was hungover all day I cleaned and relaxed! Watched football and did laundry. I bombed in the pool this week but am hoping Jason wins as today is his birthday. 

When things like birthdays roll around and I count how many we have spent together silly I know but I get butterflies. I look forward to all these events we share together and looking back on them fondly! I try hard to make every moment of them special, especially birthdays because they were always made special for me. 

Today I wish the love of my life the happiest of birthdays, I am grateful to be apart of every birthday and hope you feel as special today and everyday as you make me feel! You only get better with age babe, be proud of it! I love you more than words! XO

Ps - I'm sorry you had to rake the lawn today, but you did a fabulous job! ;)

On a side note before I take off, I was pretty busy on my own birthday this year and then I departed the next day for a week and to say things have been hectic since we've been back is an understatement.. so I haven't posted a picture of the FABULOUS birthday present Jason got me. I am so in love, I pout every time we leave the house and I have to take them off! BEST GIFT EVER!

UGG slippers! SCORE! My feet actually need these right now as they are COVERED in blisters.. literally... bad ones. For some reason in the last week if I can burn it, blister it, break it, etc I have done so. I am quite a wreck, no kidding. 

Speaking of that, I do a lot of apologizing around these parts for not blogging and it really does come from a genuine apologetic place but that is a little broader in that I haven't been much for the phone or being on top of responding to letters, emails, etc. I don't really have a defense besides being busy which I generally think is a shitty excuse. I am really trying to take advantage of down time and just read, have a bath, do things that help me relax because I have been overwhelmed, so cut me so slack.. I really do care. I swear. 

Alright I am going to bed, we have a Time Warner tech coming tomorrow because our TV is F'ed and Jason called about it tonight and they don't know. Nothing ever works, I kid you not. 

North Carolina State Fair

Happy Friday all! Hope everyone had a great Halloween last night!

We weren't sure how many kids we would get on account that we've never lived here before and haven't spent enough time here to scope out the neighborhood and get a feel for how many kids actually live around here. We had about 25 kids come to the door which I thought was good, probably about what I expected. Truth be told though I was a little shocked about how Halloween takes place for kids today compared to when I was a kid. If you went out, you dressed up... do you know how many kids came to our door that were not dressed up.. LITTLE KIDS!! What is the point in going out for Halloween in a Hollister sweater and a pair of jeans? Your 8, get in the spirit! Not only was there a huge lack of costumes but parents drive their kids around? Since when? We usually had a wagon full of my Dad's loot from his friends as we walked around, there were no mode of transportation!! I can understand for little ones who are just going to their grandparents and such but when you're 8 years old, you walk your ass and work for your candy!!! Oh today's generation, so lazy!

Anyways I am still on catch up mode in regards to all the time I missed while life was hectic and crazy! I am almost there though and then we can move on to bigger and better things. As you know if you follow me on Instagram when we got home we were able to make it to the North Carolina State Fair! When we lived here before it was our intention to make it to the State Fair as I had never attended one and unfortunately things didn't happen that way and we didn't end up making it. That year at the fair many people contracted Ecoli from the petting zoo and died. I kid you not. I personally love a good petting zoo, or should I say I use to!

Last year we went to the Alaska State fair which was amazing! We drove out to Palmer and although it was September the mountains out there had just got a fresh blanket of snow and it was beautiful! We spent hours wandering around and eating and it was fabulous! I don't go on rides, I just cant do it if I want to hold my funnel cake so our fair trips generally require a lot of walking!!

I believe Sunday was the day we made it to the fair, forgive me as days seems to not mean much to me lately! It was the last day for the fair though and Jason assumed it wouldn't be too busy as most people would have at this point probably made multiple trips! NEGATIVE! We had to park well over a mile away and you could barely move once you entered the gates! I couldn't believe the amount of people there and the line ups for everything! Again thankfully we don't do rides so there were a few food lines but nothing major!

I'm not sure if you saw it on the news but as this year passed the fair here didn't pass without hitting the news in a negative way a time or two! Unfortunately there was an incident with a ride where the people were getting off and the ride started up again causing injuries to many, the gentlemen in charge of the ride was placed under arrest and although charged is fully cooperating with the police and has since been released feeling extremely awful. A gentlemen was also arrested for taking pictures of little boys in the bathroom, lovely right? Some people! There was another incident but I can't remember. I suppose these things happen everywhere, when you get crowds like that there is bound to be trouble somewhere.

Anyways check out some of the pictures I took...

Smoked Turkey legs, this is why Jason goes to the fair! 

Southern BBQ!

That's a happy face right there!

Mountain goats, haha!

Porky, literally. 

Prize winner right there!

Fountain

Good ol' funnel cake!

You're only eating them right when this happens. 

So that's it for the State fair! We managed to get out of there with little traffic and stress. 

In the meantime we are still dealing with house repair people! If I didn't mention before the construction superintendent we dealt with through the entire build process is not longer with the company (don't really know what happened there) so two days ago we met with the new superintendent, Carter. Truthfully I had high hopes after our meeting as he did not diminish any of our concerns and basically said that he would start scheduling people and would be done on Wednesday.. which is fine because he was only getting until Wednesday! I refuse to spend the time we have here dealing with a construction zone because these people cant get their shit together. So it has been two days since we met with him and nobody has been in to do work and we have no received a work schedule. There is a gentlemen coming this morning, he was here already this week and late both times. 

I'm not going to lie I am SO OVER dealing with this bullshit and these people! We are suppose to hear from our sales rep every week, I don't even think I remember her name its been so long since we've heard from her. If I can give you any advice that I really encourage you to listen to.. DO NOT BUY A HOME FROM KB HOMES!!!!!! 

Yes that's how I really feel. Our first home buying experience has been a total bust and it is all because of their lack of professionalism and overall having their head so far up their asses they don't have a clue. End rant. 

So after said repair man finally shows up and does what needs to be done Jason and I are heading out to get a few things done. Its a little chilly here today and raining, yesterday was a lovely 79 degrees! The Seavey's are coming up tomorrow and Jason is making a seafood chowder! Obviously I don't eat seafood chowder (as I am deathly allergic to shelled seafood) and I absolutely hate that my house is going to stink but I'm hoping it will be gone tomorrow! 

I'm not sure if I will make it back this weekend, but I will definitely try! If not I hope you all have a FANTASTIC WEEKEND!!! Good luck to my Dad and brother who are headed to hunt camp for a week, BIG DEER GUYS, BIG DEER!