Good News!

Two pieces of good news:

1) Our landlord found someone to lease the duplex. Hopefully he will take down the sign in the frontyard soon and the lockbox off the front door. I'm just glad to not have to worry about people walking through the house anymore. It was a pain, especially with the dogs. It's also good he found someone because that means we can get refunded for part of our September rent. Yay for money back!

2) The other day we pulled into the driveway of the new house and there were what appeared to be workers walking around the "blue" house next door, holding hundreds of paint samples and walking around the house pointing things out. We were so happy! The neighbor had mentioned to Andrew when they met that they were planning to paint the house a "normal" color, like some kind of brown. We hoped this was true but didn't put too much stock in it until now. It looks like it really might happen! It will be so nice to live next to a normal colored house, although the neon blue house was a good reference point when giving directions!



We didn't spend too much time at the house last night, which was a good thing. We needed a break. Pretty much all we did was spray the grout a few times and assemble some furniture pieces from Target. We did rearrange the furniture in the family room and found a layout we like better. I'm still going to try and tweak it some because I really want to fit the computer desk into that room. I dont want the room to look crowded or silly so if it can't fit we will come up with something else, but I'm hoping we can find a way to do it. Beyond that, we didn't work on any "projects" or get dirty, so that was a nice change of pace.

I spent most of the evening out with the neighbor girls because we were in desperate need of some girl time. We left the boys at home and went to Chili's and stuffed ourself with food and delicious margaritas. It was great to just hang out and laugh and NOT WORK! Hopefully we can continue to do things like that even after we move. Don't forget about me!!

Hurricane Ike is coming to Texas this weekend, but it's sounding now like it won't affect us as much as they had once thought it would. I hope we still get some rain (now that I'm a home owner I care about green grass!) but hopefully we won't have to deal with any aftermath or power outages. A lot of evacuees from south Texas and the Houston/ Galveston area are expected to be in Austin this weekend to escape the storm. It should be interesting to observe, but for the most part we will be holed up in the new house painting and what not.

Have a good weekend!