Waiting for Patience

If you've been reading, you know that I purchased a house last month, August 8th to be exact.  It was the result of my roommate moving back to Chicago and the rent in my area being a giant money pit I could no longer afford to play in.  So I went house shopping and made an offer on the 2nd one I saw.  After all the crazy that's been the past month, I still think I chose the best option I saw.  I like the layout, I enjoy the neighborhood, and the location is perfect for me from work.  No one could guarantee I would have the same or different issues at another place.  This one was the best price for the area to keep the mortgage at an amount I can afford on my church salary. So I cleaned it that first weekend - just preparing the house to be moved into and it looked like this! 1. The Blue Bedroom 2. The Amazing Kitchen,  3. The Purple Living Room 4. The Wood / The Tile Floor. Then I moved in with the help of my amazing friends and stayed ...

--- 1 --- Well it's been a pretty crappy end of the week around here ... sorry for the language  but yesterday evening Mer, MG, my neighbors (so glad I finally got to meet some good neighbors who were incredible) and I spent the evening cleaning up sewage that came up my toilet spreading it's nastiness throughout the entirety of the downstairs of my house.  Yeah, you read that right - sewage.  It was a pretty terrible experience.  The floor looked alright, but you could feel squishing below and water would come right up from the seams even after you dried it.  Today a water restoration guy came out and now it looks like ... --- 2 --- Well, this: Downstairs Bathroom - the offending toilet was right there. Hallway sans Flooring and Baseboards Dining Room sans flooring, baseboards and part of the wall Front Entry Way, you guessed it, sans flooring Living room, no floor but got these nifty air dryers. They add a very interesting...

Well, this is not going to turn into a home improvement blog like the newest one on my feed ( Old Town Home ), but I am going to use it as a means to share some of the fun things I'm doing in the house. Tonight's project was to change out the orange slip cover my 'as-is' Karlstad Couch came with when I purchased it 10 days ago.  This is what it looked like before: Comfortable but orange.  I mean, it's grown on me with pillows and other items in the room.  However, there was not a chance that it was going to stay orange for ever!  My friends who were here helping to move were kind saying that the orange was great - I was soon to correct that my new cover was sitting on a FedEx truck somewhere in Maryland on its way to my house! And yesterday it arrived!!!  YEAH!!!  Switched it out last evening (not hard for one person to do!) and this is what I have now: Much better!  And I think the color on the far left is going to be my new living roo...