Show us where you live Friday

Over at Kelly's Korner, she is doing a fun post called "Show us where you live Friday". What a great idea. After seeing my friend Brooke post hers, I decided I would join in on the fun as well. Well hope you all are not disapointed, here we go!

This first picture is from above the doorway above the entrence into the dinning room. I picked up at Kohl's for cheap when we first moved in.

We are now going to the left as you walk in from the dinning room. This is the bar area, we used to have stools, and then we got the AWESOME mini fridge as a gift from my work as a wedding gift. Next to the fridge is the furbabies food...still looking for something to contain the food that looks better.

This the back door and my little kitty. We are hoping to bring the flooring down into this area this summer.

Now we have the stove area, up above is my BISTRO sign...I looked for months for this and finally found one at Home Goods after numerous weeekly trips!

This is our "bar" area until I can afford a bar in the dinning room. Hanging up is my favorite apron from Anthropolige, $19.99 on clearence!

This picture would be to the right when you walk in, it got out of order somehow. This is my favorite corner because of the glass door which of course has all of our alcholic glasses.

Back to over by the bar area on the opposite wall, are my two prints that I love!

My table from college...not too bad for a free table. (Sorry about the nailpolish in the picture! Oops!)

Above is the sink area.

In this picture you can see the MOST awesome Christmas present EVER! My in-laws got me my under the counter I-Pod deck, this is my favorite electronic item in the kitchen. It gets used almost everyday. It is a great $40 investment if you cook and entertain alot.

That's all folks! Hope you enjoyed the kitchen tour, and hope to see some pictures of your kitchen soon!

I think I may puke

due to these little guys up above. I may have even had numerous nightmares this week. Let me explain, in case you do not know what the above pesky little insects are, they are a homeowners worst nightmare. Yes, TERMITES. On Sunday we were trimming the dead branches off the lilac bush when my husband cut through the wood and handed it to me. I immediately noticed these little suckers feasting on dinner. I was quick to tell my husband that the piece of wood he just gave me contained live termites. He told me I was crazy...then after slamming the wood onto the sidewalk he was convinced also. Thanks to my mother-in-law who came to the rescue with some bug spray. We quickly removed the whole bush inspecting as we went, we wanted to make sure they were all removed. Now the small problem is the fact that the bush sits about 12 inches away from the house. I quickly go into panic mode. You need to understand that I am TERRIFIED of these little boogers for the mere fact that they will eat me out of my home. This all started June 2007 when we got our home inspection. The inspector made us aware he found some non active tunnels in the basement. We had it inspected then by a pest control company who went on to tell us there was no infestation, and no sign of damage. We then proceeded to get the house treated and having the seller split the cost so I could sleep at night. Fast forward almost two years and I have forgot about the little devils. Luckily I pulled up the contract, called the pest company and was made aware they are responsible for any new signs within the two years and must spray at no cost to us. So all night I have been down in the basement imagining the worst and looking for evidence of a new infestation. Call me crazy, but I am past the point of being paranoid. My husband is ready to shot me, and I think I have made myself physically ill.

Hopefully the guy who did the inspection will call me back tomorrow, so we can get this over with and I can sleep once again! If you have nothing better to do, please pray that this is an fragment of my imagination and I return to normal soon. Has any one else ever had to deal with these pesky insects?

Oh, the joys of being a home owner

when you own a three pound turtle by the name of Donatello. My week has consisted of cleaning up half of his humble abode which dumped onto my eighty year old wood floors. My DH and I came down to almost all of his water standing on our floors Monday morning. The worst part being we had to be out the door in ten minutes for work. Our rug had soaked up a ton of the disgusting turtle water, the rest was trying to form a small pond. We cleaned up as much as we could and headed out the door. On my way home I received a call from my DH who broke the bad news to me...our waterfall had ruined our hardwood floor in the corner and had done damage to the wall behind the tank. Oh, the joy of owning a home! We now will have to refinish both the dinning room and the living room floor since the run into each other. This weekend my DH and my wonderful father-in-law will be scraping and repairing the wall so that I may repaint it. The floors won't come for awhile since it is not in the budget at the time. On a good note, this past weekend we built a gate for Tucker so that he could play in the backyard/driveway without a leash. He is so happy! I have pictures of the project, but will share them once we stain the gate. Well hopefully the remainder of the week goes better, and that all of you are having a great week.
Also, before I go I want my readers input on something I have been praying about lately. I would like to dedicate one day of the week on my blog to tell the story of my mother. I think this would be good for me when I go through my grief. She always told me I would publish a book someday, and this would kind of fulfill her dream. My question to all of you is if you would bother to read what I wrote, or do you feel it is too personal. Please let me know, all of your opinions matter to me!

P.S. This is the second time I wrote this, the first time it all disapeared!