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Jan. 7th, 2013 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jalecoThe plumber guy was here today to rip up the basement. He had an accent and not very good English and made it sound like he was ripping up most of the basement. It ended up just being a small little corner. I worked last night so I was not looking forward to jack hammers all day... Turns out it was only 10 minutes of jackhammers and they were done by 11am. George's jumping and cheering all day interrupted my sleep way more. :P
Our kitty, Nyx walked over the fresh cement and left tiny kitty pawprints. SO cute. I love it. I love prints embedded in cement. :)
When I came home from work Saturday morning I found Christmas was gone. Rowland took down everything and put it away. I miss it. They were so pretty and now the living room feels empty and the one corner seems so dark. Less than 11 months and it goes back up! :D
I set up a budget for the next few months. Hoping we can stick to it. My biggest goal is to put at least 10% of our paychecks in to savings. My goals are to not be paycheck to paycheck within a year. Pay off the rest of our credit cards and student loans in the next 5 years and save up 10-20% downpayment for a house within the next 10 years.
Heather has a 10 year mortgage on this house. At that point she would give us the option to buy and I'd like to be in a position where we could if we wanted to. I'm not 100% sure this is a house I want to live in forever... but it's a possibility since we are lazy and hate moving. At this point though we do love our home.
We would need to do some renovations though so that's the main deterrent from buying this place. George's room and the bathroom are painfully small and I hate the back room being uninsulated so it's essentially useless except in nice mild weather and is just more storage for now.
I'd like to turn the back room in to a second bedroom first, then cut George's room in half to expand on the current bathroom and use the other half to add a master bath/walk in closet to the master bedroom. I'd then need to add on a new backyard entrance, probably off the kitchen since I wouldn't want the back door in George's room. Eventually I'd like to get rid of the hideous kitchen cupboards but those are certainly not something that needs to be done.
George's room is the only thing that I would do right away since he would be 12-13 and in desperate need of more space and probably more privacy. Our rooms are RIGHT next to each other at the moment. The rest could happen over time. It'd be the easiest to do too.
George has become such an interesting little boy. He is entering the stage where he doesn't stop talking. His vocabulary is exploding every week though he still speaks a lot of gibberish.
He has friends at daycare and talks about them all the time and asks to go to 'school' (as we call it) all the time so he can see his friends. He even has a little girlfriend named Charlotte who it just as crazy about him. It's adorable.
He is starting to get really in to imaginary play. He has me tie his blankie around his shoulders so he can be Batman and he throws his arms up to make his blankie cape flow out behind him. Kills me everytime. He even does the deep Batman voice and runs around saying "I'm Batman!!"
He hasn't made much headway with potty training but he does try at daycare. He really likes their little toilets. Here he has to use the big toilet or a potty chair and he doesn't like either. Not as awesome as a little toilet just his size. He tells me when he poops and when he needs a diaper change but has zero interest in doing anything on the potty.
He's telling me he needs a change now so I guess I have to end this here. :P
If anyone else is joining dreamwidth my username there is still jaleco. I am posting all entries now from Dreamwidth and just cross posting them to LJ with their handy cross post option. :)
Our kitty, Nyx walked over the fresh cement and left tiny kitty pawprints. SO cute. I love it. I love prints embedded in cement. :)
When I came home from work Saturday morning I found Christmas was gone. Rowland took down everything and put it away. I miss it. They were so pretty and now the living room feels empty and the one corner seems so dark. Less than 11 months and it goes back up! :D
I set up a budget for the next few months. Hoping we can stick to it. My biggest goal is to put at least 10% of our paychecks in to savings. My goals are to not be paycheck to paycheck within a year. Pay off the rest of our credit cards and student loans in the next 5 years and save up 10-20% downpayment for a house within the next 10 years.
Heather has a 10 year mortgage on this house. At that point she would give us the option to buy and I'd like to be in a position where we could if we wanted to. I'm not 100% sure this is a house I want to live in forever... but it's a possibility since we are lazy and hate moving. At this point though we do love our home.
We would need to do some renovations though so that's the main deterrent from buying this place. George's room and the bathroom are painfully small and I hate the back room being uninsulated so it's essentially useless except in nice mild weather and is just more storage for now.
I'd like to turn the back room in to a second bedroom first, then cut George's room in half to expand on the current bathroom and use the other half to add a master bath/walk in closet to the master bedroom. I'd then need to add on a new backyard entrance, probably off the kitchen since I wouldn't want the back door in George's room. Eventually I'd like to get rid of the hideous kitchen cupboards but those are certainly not something that needs to be done.
George's room is the only thing that I would do right away since he would be 12-13 and in desperate need of more space and probably more privacy. Our rooms are RIGHT next to each other at the moment. The rest could happen over time. It'd be the easiest to do too.
George has become such an interesting little boy. He is entering the stage where he doesn't stop talking. His vocabulary is exploding every week though he still speaks a lot of gibberish.
He has friends at daycare and talks about them all the time and asks to go to 'school' (as we call it) all the time so he can see his friends. He even has a little girlfriend named Charlotte who it just as crazy about him. It's adorable.
He is starting to get really in to imaginary play. He has me tie his blankie around his shoulders so he can be Batman and he throws his arms up to make his blankie cape flow out behind him. Kills me everytime. He even does the deep Batman voice and runs around saying "I'm Batman!!"
He hasn't made much headway with potty training but he does try at daycare. He really likes their little toilets. Here he has to use the big toilet or a potty chair and he doesn't like either. Not as awesome as a little toilet just his size. He tells me when he poops and when he needs a diaper change but has zero interest in doing anything on the potty.
He's telling me he needs a change now so I guess I have to end this here. :P
If anyone else is joining dreamwidth my username there is still jaleco. I am posting all entries now from Dreamwidth and just cross posting them to LJ with their handy cross post option. :)
