There's a Light In My Windows

For anybody who was unaware (sorry Teresa) that I am fixing up my parents basement... Here's a brief post of how that is going. Fixing up might not be quite the correct word but anyways. Mel and Ben used to live down here and had made a pretty cozy apartment out if it. Of course they had couches and coffee tables and all of the stuff that is on the agenda to get... Hehe, it all takes doing so first comes the cleaning and then the sparse furnishings. Ang, Julie, Abbie & Megan were helping me out with the cleaning in the kitchen while I was shampooing the carpet. That took some doing I tell you what! It takes a long time to get anything done when there is something going on pretty much every evening and weekend and you can only work for short periods of time. I took down the old blue plaid curtains and was determined not to put them back up, so I have finally put up some flags which I rather like the look of. The windows in the front were an odd size so my 3x5 flags didn't all fit so the blue thing is a piece of cloth from Thailand. They aren't that "homey" looking, but I am not "living" down here, just taking care of it and it is really nice to have your own space to have people over. For the moment I just have Camp chairs, and while it isn't the same as curling up on a couch they are not all that bad. : ) The cleaning pics are back in Sept. and the ones of my windows are just this morning. Kris came over the other night after the meeting and was helping me out putting them up. Supposedly they look pretty cool from the outside as well. : ) I am hoping to get stuff up on the now clean walls soon. Will post pics of that when I do. Here's a few for now....

It was pretty spotted up... probably hadn't been shampooed in forever

You wouldn't believe how long it takes to shampoo carpet until you do it.

Ang cleaned my fridge!

"God Bless America"

Israeli Flag

Union Jack (Great Britain - Not to be confused with England)


My Thai "curtain"

The Pool Table Area (used to be the dining room when we lived down here)

Living Room - very bare.... I know.

Girls Night At Unos

This is a post especially for Teresa cause the girls here still do miss her, even though the pain is now down to a dull thud... : ) Just kidding! I think we all miss you, but are very happy you are where you are. So, wipe away the tears... Here's a pic of the girls out at Unos on the night before elections. I left my memory card in my computer and my internal memory was almost all used up from the last time that happened so I only have this one pic. Otherwise.... I would have taken a picture of the cheese fries and hot wings and cheese sticks to make your mouth water. : ) Hehe, now aren't you glad I didn't???

Happy Birthday To Kris!

Kris and I have birthdays 4 days apart, and when we were growing up we always celebrated them together. When we got a little older we hooked up with Teresa who is 3 days after Kris and were all later joined by Abbie who's birthday comes one day after Kris. (tyoday! Happy Birthday to Abbie!) It is much better to have just one party in the course of a week than 4! Somehow... even though she had a few attempts at suprise parties, until last night, Kris had never been suprised. Somehow the suprise always leaked out. Last night we finally managed it, or Daniel planned it and we all managed to keep the secret in. We did have a little fun and play a joke on Jon an yelled surprise when he came in the door about 5 min. before her, and the look on his face was more surprised than hers! : D Hehe! Twasn't a big party and I didn't take many pics, but was a nice evening anyways. "Copper, you're my very best friend..."

Surprise!

The "real" surprise : )