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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Why a Blog?

For those that know me, I'm not much of a "tech savy" person.  We have an iPad and if it doesn't turn on the minute I tap the screen, I assume it's broken and we MUST get a new one ASAP.  Big Hunt has since educated me you must push the button first.

Also, I'm the worst person to ever text you back.  You text me at noon, I'll holla back about 7pm ready to continue my conversation.  I really love my dear friends that have learned to adapt and always respond without complaints about my absence.  Most of them know that it's because I've left my phone in my car for 5 hours or the ringer is off so I have assumed it's been stolen because I can't find it.

Reason 3: I'm terrible at grammer.  I constantly make up words and spelling to words and insist that I'm correct.  Therefore no one is to judge grammer or pretend to be Webster the Walking Dictionary when you read my blog (doing so will only exhaust you and confuse me because I'm positive I'm correct)

All that being said, I'm not your typical person to start a blog so many may be confused.  I decided to do it for completely selfish and vain reasons.  We have family and friends all of the place and we're so blessed that they love us and are interested in our life.  I figured a blog is a great way to share pictures and updates about our family without calling 35 people everytime I hang a picture in the hallway and call it redecorating. 

That's my vain, my selfish reason is I have been wanting to find a way to really capture these first few years of marriage between Big Hunt and I.  We know that these are some of the best years in marriage and the few we have as just us.  When I have a baby screaming at 3 AM and I'm wide awake and he's sleeping, maybe I can look back at some entries from the blog and remember I love him and I'll take the pillow of his head. (kidding)

So there you have it! If your interested in any of my home improvement stories, millions of pictures of my dogs, and sappy stories about my hubby then follow my blog.  If not, you should look at my favorite blog tags and follow them.  They are a few of my friends and wayyyyy more interesting than me.

Just as a teaser of the greatness to come:


Please try to handle yourself.   These dogs are adorable.  They are also mine.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

I hate the person that owned the house before us

Ok ok.... Hate is a really strong word! I don't HATE them, I just wish they would have left well enough alone!

We live in a great small suburb of Dallas where houses were built from the mid 50's to late 1960's. Homes in the area are anywhere from townhouses, apartment, 1,000 sqft to 3,000+ sqft. The lot sizes are pretty decent and most houses have alleyways. It's a wonderful school district, great shopping in the area, and it's a neat age range of original homeowners to newlyweds like me and my husband!

Well before my husband bought our current house, the house was a rental for a few years. When the owners put the house up for sale, it seems that they watched a few episodes of an HGTV show and did all the quick fixes that are a complete pain to undo!

For starters, they painted all the baseboards and cabinets high gloss white. Which is not an awful thing, except they didn't sand or prime anything so its bumpy, chipping, and dirty looking.

Then they painted the entire house a "neutral" color which is more pink than it is neutral. I mean ENTIRE house. The closets, the shelves, EVERY SINGLE ROOM!!!

They did plant some bushes in the yard, except they were the overgrowing kind. Other than that they planted mostly crab grass and weeds.

In the garage they fixed the giant holes in the walls with cut up pieces of drywall (mismatched colors).

They also decided in the entryway they should install floors that you find in restaurants (its nonslip so safe if you walk in on a rainy day)

Don't get me started on the light fixtures! They didn't screw that up because in over 40 years they had never updated them.

So now were stuck trying to fix all their semi-fixes. I'm stuck trying to figure out how to get all the white paint off the baseboards and cabinets!

Has anyone else ever had any experiences with poor pre-homeowner updates? Or have suggestions on how to get gloss paint off cabinets? haha!

Looking forward to fellow homeowner stories!