Shaking off Thanksgiving

It's 9:30 Monday morning... I'm having a hard time getting back into the groove of things @ work. Strangely no one is bustling around in their normal end of the month fuss... yet.

On Saturday we managed to clean up and set up the garage, a project that has been looming since we moved into our new house in May. I know 6 months is a whole lotta procrastination... but it still feels good that its done! You could actually park a car in there if your car was slim enough to clear the door, mine isn't. I don't understand our garage, weren't cars BIGGER in the 1950's?

In an attempt to give our new digs some character we also started work on the front bathroom on Sunday. Most of the day was spent trying to undo the bad DIY done by the previous owner... he tried I guess, some things we just had to give up on lest we end up ripping out all the drywall.

Were adding white wainscoting (courtesy of my mom's overbuying super powers) new molding and painting the top a teal green color. The vanity will be black satin and I will be adding some Haeckel prints and other funky steampunk-ish sorta things which is really easy to do now a days since they have funky things even at Target. Hmmm well clearly not very original but at least it won't be this white Home Depot sheik that it is currently.

Did you do anything fun this long weekend? I know the above does not sound fun but it is for me! Organizing crap makes me happy... I know I have a few screws loose.

Finally....

I don't think I've been this tired and sore in my entire life. If you ever get the inkling that you and your honey can move your entire house alone... you should immediately smack yourself in the noggin and reconsider. We did it but every bit of me is paying the price. And right now the hubs is in the bathroom fiddling with the tub... where does he get the energy to go on? Cripes what a good guy I married.

Either way tis all said and done.... we are moved in, the old house is moved out and there are boxes and things strewn everywhichwhere. Monday is going to be a biatch.... I can feel it.

Oh holy hell crimanutly...

I turned on iTunes and walked (strike that) hobbled into the living room, which is far far away compared to my old house... looked out the lovely big window and saw my car... which is still filled with crap. Sheeeit....

TWD: McFly you Bojo!

You can't dry you hair or keep food cold in your fridge...
unless you got powa!

Ok maybe that's not exactly how the scene goes.

With all the changing of closing dates for our escrow we've had to move utilities around to accommodate. So last night when we came home were were greeted by a powerless house. Fun! I'm seriously a dope... I called them to change it but they were closed so I had planned on sorting it out the next day but was promptly blindsided by the need to find an extra 3k for closing costs. My idiot of a finance guy mis-calculated our closing costs by three thousand dollars! Needless to say I was a bit preoccupied, with all the tricks I had to turn over the weekend.

Luckily my neighbor (*whos probably just being nice cuz he's so happy to see us leave.) let us run an electrical cord to our house to plug in the fridge. I told my honey that this is all just a glimpse into what will happen to us if we can't pay our new mortgage. No electricity, one car (oh yeah did I tell you guys my honey's car is in the shop since friday) and him having to drop me off at work at a god aweful hour so he can get his job done. (With wet hair & no makeup thank god no one is on this side of the building, I would have scared them to death.)

Of course theres no Tuesday's with Dorie for me AGAIN :( I bet when I do finally get everything in order the recipe will be something godaweful like mushroom anchovie tarts or something. This week pick sounds amazing of course, Tartest Lemon Tart chosen by Babette at Babette Feasts.

A mere $42.50 idiot fee (they should charge me extra honestly) and my electricity will be restored! Woot, thank you PWP!

TWD: No Tiramisu

This is such a bummer, we still haven't moved! We really thought it was going to be this past weekend because our escrow was supposed to close the 29th. Frustrating doesn't even begin to cover it.... this by far is the most stressful time I've experienced in a long while. We are living like teenagers with no belongings. That's not the hard part though, it's kind of interesting and almost fun, the simplicity of it all. But annoying as hell when you have a great recipe choice from a blog buddy and you can't make it because you even packed away your flour!

This weeks Tuesday's w/Dorie recipe was chosen by my Bake Along cohort Megan from My Baking Adventures she picked the delicious sounding Tiramisu Cake on pages 266-268. Hopefully I will get to make up the recipes I keep missing because this one sounds so very good.

Oh and if you curious to see what a few grand can buy you in So. Cal, you can see a few pictures of our shack here. I took these when they were doing the inspection on the house. It's sort of a big white box right now and hopefully we will warm it up and make it a little more interesting. I tried to tactfully ask the old owner to take his junk out of the garage and he thought I was asking him to leave it... skillful negotiator I am not.