getting it done

this man was doing just that. and on thanksgiving eve to boot. they got the garage slab d-o-n-e. of course that means they want to get p-a-i-d then too.

ah and what a beautiful sunset it was on that eve. i am totally sure that is NOT what this guy was thinking at the time though.

you can't see the two other guys just kicking it on the trailer from this angle. so I'm sure his thoughts drifted somewhere to, "why are there like 5 people standing around looking at me, and one of them has a camera?".

littlest building inspector says "approved". now where are her kick back monies?

i'd never order anything from home shopping network

sike!

because i just did. bam. me and the old ladies are loving this rug for my living room. i might call in later after i get it to talk about how great it is.

and apparently termite prevention is happening at the site. there is no house, but we are spraying. its all about cutting them off at the pass out there. see i know this because i got a random call about how i needed to pay some monies for that. to which i responded "um i don't even have a house yet." to which she responded "where can i send the bill?" okay. its all fine though, because i had a coke zero at lunch and i am getting a nate berkus rug. so i am good.

whats that noise?

is it crickets chirping awkwardly or tumbleweeds blowing by? either one could probably be heard at the jobsite, because that's about all that's going on out there. we had to run some squatters off yesterday who said they thought we had abandoned the site.

in an effort to be patient, on to more pleasant things. specifically lights. oh good times. i bought a few at ikea on the now infamous trip.

kitchen...




half bath
and what about this for the dining room? with a couple of other wicker type fixtures. bear with me on this one. it has yet to be purchased.

and i am kinda liking this for the hallway...we will see. no commitment there either.

images via Ikea, West Elm and Unknown?

and on a totally unrelated house note, we shipped my brother in law off to Qatar. Not in a banishment sort of way. he is going to coach basketball there. we will all miss him until he returns. jodie more then anybody (who may move in with me, good thing chris doesn't read this blog) and then bo, who loves her carl and his bee drawing skills. have fun carl! win some games and don't forget to send the monies home. and see if you can get somebody to look at that eye while you are gone.

here is really not enough time in the day for me. I cannot get any work done. And its mostly because I can't get off the internet. There is no end to the fabulousness that is coming out of these two blogs.....



http://www.littlegreennotebook.blogspot.com/


i am GOING to do something like this...
http://littlegreennotebook.blogspot.com/2009/10/office.html



and then just about everything from

http://www.isuwannee.com/

seriously, either of these ladies please come to live with me. i will give you food and drinks.

make it happen

that is our goal for the week. oh how i amuse myself. i like to throw that phrase around amongst my friends. like "get me a pizza, make it happen". rarely does anything actually happen though...


but, the block work is finished. here are the blocks. so patiently awaiting their friends, the woods to come on over.


welcome to our home. this is where our side door will come into the the house from the garage. so basically where everybody will come into our house. we considered not having a front door, but thought that would be weird. so instead we are going to have two.

ah, the courtyard, what i fought for. i am not sure who in the world has a courtyard anymore, but i will. and one day my pool will be in the courtyard. and we will lay out by it and have drinks and relax all under the shadow of the romantic damn alltel tower off in the distance. ah lovely. and check it out, a cell phone hardly works out there. i am thinking they just put it up for the buzzards to roost on, which of course only adds to the romance.

and finally the littlest building inspector. picking up trash. a grown man can walk by a trash can all day long and throw this mess on the ground, but a 3.5 year old can get out there and pick it up. i mean really? i am thinking i may blow this up poster size and attach it to the side of the dumpster. i mean how could that pitifulness not encourage you to just throw your trash away?

you know denny?

um, me either. and only my mom will get that. it has absolutely no relevance to this post, but she thinks its funny. and since she was the only one who would brave the IKEA, granite, used hotel furnishing buying trip with me. thats for her.

sooooooooo the most activity the jobsite has seen lately has been the delivery of the dumpster. now don't get me wrong, with chris' trash obsession this is a very important jobsite addition. and i also feel like it really adds to the ambiance around there. i.e. it makes it seem like a real jobsite. however, its not really the progress i was hoping for. maybe there will be lumber that shows up soon. wouldn't that be great? like wood, for your house? seems important.

as i mentioned before, my mom and i went on a whirlwind trip to atlanta to meet my cousin to discuss my countertops, also met my cabinet guy. then we headed out to the granite store to pick out a slab. see below. i was doing a better job of taking a picture of me taking a picture of granite, while my mom stood by and thought "what have i gotten myself into?".

i get it together a little bit better and get a slightly better shot. before you say or think it. yes that's black granite. yes its probably hard to take care of. yes it will probably show every fingerprint that ever touches it. but its basically the only way i will get granite countertops. (read: its the only color that chris says doesn't look like it should be in some mafia boss's bathroom. i'm not sure where he gets his interior design info.) so black it is. people, its either that or chris suggested he could build our countertops out of wood. i do not care how much that slab costs. i think my cousin who installs granite countertops would also chip in just so nobody gets wooden countertops.

so that part of the trip was pretty successful. we also hit up the atlanta contemporary jewelry show, which is non-house related but i somehow managed to buy something there too.

all that was left was IKEA, which was a major part of the trip for me. i loooove it there. i will move in there one day. anyway, i thought we should run by Homegoods on the way to IKEA, for a lamp. you know, because they don't sell them at our Homegoods. and low and behold at the stuff i bought there. its indescribable. all i can do is post a picture. i was in danger of not being able to get anything from IKEA, but between my mom's mad packing skills and my determination that damn it, i was going to buy something there, our car looked like this when we got home....

as a side note, we did NOT buy anything at Belks. see that is luggage.

so i know you are super excited to know what i got at IKEA, and that will probably end up being a whole other post. but there is lighting... for the kitchen!!! whoo hoo hoo! BUT it hasn't been approved yet. so we shall wait for that.

man, i am all over this. who would like to hire me to fill your house with random things???