So if you have been wondering what I have been doing with all my free time (Ha Ha)...well, I have been making a huge mess. I have been redoing our foyier. That has entailed, finishing the mudding on the dry wall next to the stairs. You may remember from when we first moved in, but that wall was a doorway, and we ripped that out and turned it into a wall. But it has been covered in hanging coats for so long, that we all forgot that it wasnt actually a finished wall....oops. So I finished the mudding on that. I patched the plaster. It wasnt too bad actually, just some small, fine line cracks...well most of them, there were a few that were more substantial...but they are much better now! I also had to strip off the old wall paper trim. I took a picture of that to show you what it looked like. Of all the wall paper in the house, this stuff is not the ugliest by a long shot! But it was trimming entire entry way. So I took a razer to it...there was something satisfying about that.

So now that I have made a huge mess...I will have to post the pics of the finished product. It looks beautiful.

Curtains

So we finally got curtains...it only took 2 years. But wait, they are special curtains...they are thermal curtains..oooooo
At least the blankets over the windows are gone!!

New Dishwasher

I was finally pushed to my limit! I had to buy a new dishwasher, ours was actually making our dishes dirtier. So I broke down and got one...and wow is it beautiful! It cleans, it looks pretty, it matches our fridge, it even has wracks to hold wine classes! For the first time ever I can wash my china NOT by hand! I am in love and his name is Frigidair pro! Le sigh!

Toronto Trip pt. 1

Yeah, I know I have been a huge slacker. But I am finally getting up some of the pics from toronto. We had a great time! These are the pics from hanging out at Carrie's house and then Josh and Kristina's place. They have a great place, by the way, and as you can see from the pics, we had way too much fun!

NYC with Dana

In September Dana and I finally got to make a trip to NYC! For the first time since I have started with Disney, I got to visit our NYC office and meet the Prepress. The Prepress are the people I work with everyday. We talk on the phone multiple times a day. Dana use to joke that she spoke to them more than her own husband! HA! Yeah, sometimes I feel that way too. =)

Visiting the office was great. Everything was in boxes because the office was moving to White Plains two weeks later...no I haven't been to White Plains yet. Give it another 2 years and I will be allowed to leave for that trip! LOL! I finally met Tisha, who is AWESOME!, and who is the NY side of the production department. I met Kelly, who use to be my prepress contact person, but who abandoned me for a different prepress. =) I do miss her cynicism. (Love you kelly!)

We went to lunch with the girls and had a great time. Tisha took us to a really good Mexican restaurant in the city...best guacamole I have ever had! They had this funny wall of water with little diving guys . I had to take pictures.

After lunch we went to prepress. They live inside the ESPN magazine office. Wow, is EPSN different than our office in Noho. First it is way more manly. Sports and trophy's and testosterone everywhere. They have basketball hoops on the wall and a score board that I assume is not actually keeping score of anything. But you never know, those sports types are pretty competitive! So after being blown back by the world of sports magazines...let me put it this way, Socktopus and Fun Finger Food for Four Year Olds would be topics that need a glossery. So after walking through ESPN, we went into the cave of prepress. It is this tiny little room filled with computers and scanners and people..and I am pretty sure a colony of Gnomes lives under one of the desks! But I finally got to put a face to the people I talk to every day. Jackie is my primary contact person. She use to be known as the "new Kelly." But she has her own identity now. Most of that was PTSD from Kelly's departure. We have had some therapy, heart to heart talks, some prozac and we have all adjusted. Ha ha....seriously though Jackie kicks ass!

Dana and I had a great trip. We spent a lot of time talking about what my world will be like without here....sad, but manageable. I miss her terribly, but doing fine. Thankfully she comes into the office periodically, so I get to see her. =)

Well, check out the photos, sorry they were so long in coming.
Oh yeah, and if you are wondering about the random Grand Central photos....it was my first time there. So I was being a total tourist! I just couldn't help myself.
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