Black Friday=never again.

So my Preston's little brothers wanted to get a taste of the "Black Friday Fever" so naturally the only kind of strangers we would want to spend any extended amount of time with over night was Cabelas. So indeed, we (Preston, his brothers, their dad, and I)  got to Cabela's around 10:30 PM on Thanksgiving and began the wait. In the beginning it was fun, then we began wondering why on earth we had thought this was a good idea. Soon we realized that Yes- the first 600 people in line got a prize. What we failed to realize that there was only ONE rifle, ONE smoker, and pretty much the best after that was a hoodie. It was too late to turn back, at about 1:30am the folks from Cabela's had about a dozen heaters going, had s'mores that people could make, and hot dogs, all for free. That made it a little bit better. (luckily I had planned ahead and brought a flask. just saying) Soon the people around us got a little bit excited, as the 4:30 hour came close, that is the time when they started handing out the prizes, the crowd got excited and so did we! Maybe after all this we'll walk away with something good! So we pack up our sleeping bags, and chairs and wait. They start handing out the prizes (little things where you peel back a part of it and it shows what you won) they went down the line, and since we had gotten there so early we didn't have to wait too long. Right before the man got to us they said the rifle had already been won. Boo. When we got our prizes, $5 dollar gift cards and 1 $20 dollar card, we realized a few things. Black friday is not something I ever want to do again; My Grandma and Great Grandma loved doing this, I never really truely appreciated the things they went through for us, and also if there was a situation where we needed to bunker down for any extended time, It would be at Cabelas- after being outside and tired with them for about 7 hours I realized the people who shop there are the people I would want around me in the situation of the end of the world.

Anyways, not too much done on the house, but we are hoping to finish the guest bedroom by next weekend.

Home renovation heals the soul

"They" say that everyone grieves in their own way, and I think I have realized my kind home renovation soothes my soul. Yesterday my grandma (Mammaw) passed away, she was fighting for her life for seven months, between cancer, pneumonia,  staff infection, and countless other things she went to see Jesus on her 70th birthday.

With having the day off of work and no school I was faced with an empty day with the feeling of sadness to company me. I needed to do something, so when I woke up I realized one of the last rooms upstairs that needs work is the guest bedroom! So after Preston went to work, I began to work. Now, this room has been a pain in the butt for a little bit. Preston spent countless hours scraping the popcorn off the ceiling and mudding and sanding it all to realize it still looked like crap so then we painted half of the ceiling with a sand textured paint, still looked like crap. So today I started off by getting some  paint stripper, didn't work. So I took off the air vent and had a thought: What is the sheet rock covering? You guessed it, just like the kitchen floor I called Preston and asked what he thought about me ripping out the whole ceiling. He (being the most incredible man in the world) said go for it! One of the best things about Preston is he let's me do all my kookie crazy borderline insane ideas, and sometimes they actually work out perfectly!

So I began tearing down all the sheet rock, and tearing down the wallpaper with fabric backing. And under it all, yes, a beautiful wooden ceiling. So I painted it white, 2 coats, painted the walls, and most of the trim. (I would have painted all the trim but I ran out of paint)


       *Pictures*

             You can't see the color of the wall too well, but trust me, it's a beautiful light golden yellow. Thank you ass hole again for breaking into our home and stealing both of our digital cameras.

Kicking our office's butt

The office (that used to be a girls bedroom, and she apparently thought that putting gum all over the floor and on the trim work was a good thing to do) is now somewhere we would actually like to be!

We started off by scraping the pop corn off the ceiling, and of course mudding, sanding, and painting. Then we painted the walls, trim work and we were really starting to see major improvements! We were getting pretty excited and there was just one more thing that we needed to do- the light fixture.

Preston and I had seen some fan/lights at Home Depot and so we set off! After looking at those fans, we decided to look at Lowes, nothing. So we looked at a smaller store, and decided to go back to Home Depot. Picked out a beautiful fan and putting it in was a snap!!

While we were getting our fan, we saw THE COOLEST LIGHTBULBS EVER! Yes folks, the Edison Light bulb is now on the shelves of Home Depot. It was a splurge for us, at about $8 a bulb we could only afford one. Once we got home, we couldn't wait to see our new light bulb in action! As we marvled at it's beauty, Preston said to me: "If you had told me 10 years ago that I would be sitting in my kitchen, at 7pm on a Saturday night having the time of my life looking at an amazing light bulb, I would say you are crazy!" But since we are crazy, and pretty lame we were both extremely excited! Now we are just waiting to be able to afford more!

Got the first coat of polyurethane on the office floor, and it's looking AMAZING! Here are some before and after pictures and also a picture of our new cool lightbulb!

                                                           BEFORE

                                               BEFORE (YES THIS IS THE SAME ROOM)

                                     DO YOU SEE THE BEAUTIFUL POPCORN CEILING?

                                               NOW IT LOOKS LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE LIVE HERE!

                         AFTER (P.S THE GREEN PAINT WAS A 'OOPS' PAINT, WE GOT IT FOR $5)

                                             THE MOST INCREDIBLE LIGHT BULB EVER!