All Moved In

Living room






half of the backyard




Bellas play room and soon to be office/sewing room

she's a good helper!

Finally, we are done moving!! I'm a little irritated with our landlord right now because they asked me to clean up our old duplex and I said yes. I got my mom to help and we packed all the cleaning supplies up and headed to the old place, when we got there a cleaning lady had already been there for a few hours and was half way done with the house. I figure maybe our landlord just wanted it done a certain way so she hired someone. I get a call about 3 hours later from my landlord saying "I'm going to charge you what I charge her." Uh what? I told them I was willing to clean the place and I would'nt have done it half ass, it would've been done GOOD. The cleaning lady charges $10/hr. The duplex was already clean, I wiped down the cabinets, vaccumed 3 of the rooms and cleaned the bathrooms. So I thought she would be just there a few hours, I drove by at 430 and she was still there!!! Almost 10 hours later. I was like wtf I am not paying this lady 100 dollars to clean a house that didn't need that much cleaning!!!! We went to scope out the house after she left to see exactly what took her so long. Nothing. It looked the freaking same! The cieling fan was cleaned off, everything was vaccumed and wiped down (which I had already done). It should've taken her a couple hours at the most, 10 hours is just ridiculous. If I was charging by the hour, I would take my time and I think thats exactly what she did. I was expecting the carpets to be shampooed, every window to be sparkling clean, the bathrooms shining. None of that was done, it was just a basic cleaning. That I was completely capable of doing. Ridiculous.

The weather has been gorgeous the past few days and I've been going without heat as long as I can but over night we need something. We also arent using the upstairs yet. So since they are on seperate thermostats we have just left it turned off up there. We are moving everything upstairs this weekend so even though heat rises and it feels nice up there during the day, the nights are going to be to cold. Have I mentioned how much I love this house? And I wish it was OURS. Everyone that walks in says "This house is huge!" Heck yes it is! And I love it! I open all the curtains during the day and its so bright.

For some reason I'm having a hard time uploading pictures from flikr so I have to use the uploader on here that squishes the pictures and makes them look terrible.