The Past Few Months

What have we been up to the past few months? Well, most of you probably know that we moved. We moved less than a mile away, but the house is bigger, the lot is bigger, and the neighborhood is a bit nicer. I do have pictures. This is the outside of our house:

And this is the inside of our house:
Yes, we decided to gut the thing. After all, anyone can move into a new house the week before school starts, while you daughter is starting kindergarten, 2 weeks before you leave on a week-long trip to the Carribean, and while your wife is 7 months pregnant. Only the stupid... I mean stout-hearted will gut it before they move in.

The house was a foreclosure, so we bought it from a bank. The previous owners had put in new carpets a year ago. They looked good, so we figured, live in the house for a year and slowly change stuff. When we started to move in, we noticed a peculiar smell. We decided to pull back some carpets and noticed that the owners didn't really enforce the "peeing outside" concept with their animals. Every floor in the house was full of pet urine. Before we could move in, we began the tedious job of ripping out the carpet and treating or replacing the subfloor (one of the worse sections pictured here). Meanwhile we started living in a single bedroom at our friend Alma's house. It was quite a lot of togetherness.

The long and the short of this story is that the last few months have been a lot of work. We had a lot of "Might as well a..." as we started working on the house. Since we needed new carpets, we might as well a texture the ceilings and walls upstairs and put in a new banner. Since we are going to do new floors in the kitchen, we might as well raise the ceiling. You get the idea.

On the positive side, when things cool down, i am going to market my new weight loss program. Here is the recipe:

2 parts stress
3 parts no sleep
1 part physical exhaustion
2 parts Monster soda

I swear this works. But keep it under wraps until I develop a marketing strategy.