if you give E a couch..

Did anyone ever read the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"? It’s an adorable book about a cute little mouse's simple request that evolves into increasingly complicated requests and their messy consequences, eventually tiring the other person to exhaustion. “If you give a mouse a cookie.. he is going to want a glass of milk… if you give a mouse a glass of milk he is going to want a straw”… or something like that. I haven’t read it in years, I passed that reading level a few years ago but I remember the moral of the story but that doesn’t stop me from being the “mouse”.

You see, our couches finally came! As I’m sure you rememeber, we’ve been sitting on the loveseat for the last 3 months.

We ordered furniture Memorial weekend and we JUST got it. I understand why it takes so long, it’s a custom couch (we choose a new fabric and a new “layout”) but I don’t understand why it took THAT long. We bought the sectional and chair from MACYS, thought  I was being fancy and all but in reality all it was was stressful, nothing fancy or glamorous about it. We got an email on July 4^th say that the couches were ready for delivery and to call to schedule the delivery time. That I did, I listened to the 20 different automated prompts, pushed 1 and then 2 and said my name 4 times ( “Erin”.. “Errr- INN:”… “no! ER-IN”….”NO! AARON?”.. finally for most of you people these two names sound alike but they’re not.. don’t even get me started.) moving on, we scheduled it for Friday the 13^th at 9:15am. A week and a half later but it was fine! I called back to confirm the time and the automated system didn’t even have my appointment scheduled! Long story short, I called a few times. First I was patient, understanding and hopeful that they would be able to get us back on to Friday. Then after a few unreturned follow up phone calls I began to get anxious, annoyed but still hopeful. Wrong.  Then I got pissed, mean and drunk. We finally set it up for Monday the 16^th, RC took off of work in the morning so he could be there to pop out the front window and help the movers. I would have been there but RC doesn’t trust me to carry anything breakable so the glass windows were out of the question. Monday morning comes and we get a call, MOVING TRUCK IS BROKEN DOWN ON IT’S WAY FROM NEW JERSEY. This will just get added to the lists of things I hated about Macys and the list of things I hate about Jersey.

Not the end of the world but mind you, we have no furniture to sit on. We sold our loveseat on Sunday and cleared out the living room:

So to the man cave we went. I wasn’t allowed to watch The Bachelorette or anything on TLC. Like i said, not the end of the world but coupled with the drama of scheduling the stupid appointment it was a perfect storm. Good news is- they came today and it’s beautiful.

This is where the mouse comes in, now we need curtains, shelves, and throw pillows. It. Never. Ends. The furniture is great, I'm just not used to all of that beige and all of that furniture. Give me a few days though!

curtain call!

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a nice, fun, cool weekend. We actually had a very productive weekend. We did some things around the house that we’ve been meaning to do since we moved in and it feels awesome to be able to check it off. I feel like I still need about 5 more weekends like that but I’ll take what I can get for now. The thing that we did this past weekend that I’m most excited about is.. we hung curtains on the back door! RC’s mom has been working on the curtains for the back door for a couple of months now. She volunteered to make the Roman Shades and I have a feeling that when she volunteered she didn’t know how much work it would actually be. They look AH.MAZE.ING. They really finish off the room perfectly. As I’m sure you remember, the back door looked like this…

old pic, but you get the idea



see all the light!?

It was fabulous for light but at night it wasn’t so fabulous when our neighbors can see right in, ya feel me?  RC’s mom not only sewed the curtains she also came over to put them up! RC’s dad same as well and we couldn’t have done it without them! I'm pretty sure we would have yelled at each other, the curtains would have been thrown across the room and then someone would have cried. That's usually how those things end.. tears..usually his. Instead, it was a glorious experience. Granted, I was the one standing back, taking pictures, making guacamole and giving Tucker treats. (i win) I would wager a bet that if you asked any of the 2 that did the work, (RC doesn't count here) they wouldn't have the same fond memories.



RC has this handy dandy tool that my dad gave him that sticks to the walls and shoots a laser beam across the wall so you have a perfectly straight line. BOOM!

Had to. Sorry. So yeah, this laser shoots across the wall and you can hang things perfectly, and that they did!

After some hanging, some adjusting, some guacamole, the curtains/shades were hung and looking amazeballs

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I just love it. Love. Love. Loooove. Now I can eat ice cream at 10pm and not think my neighbors behind us are judging me! Oh, and remember how I was bragging about how handy dandy that wall sticky thing is? Well we were doing the same exact thing yesterday when we were hanging the curtains and when we went to take it off the wall, this is what happened..

stupid drywall

Typical. We’ve used it 100x before and the one time we use it in front of other people it screws up. Now you know what the next post will be about..  

Thanks again to RC's parents we appreciate all of your help!!!

let me vent.

Are you surviving this heat? It’s BRUTAL out there. I want nothing to do with being outside, ever. We’ve been staying in the house and trying to limit the time we are outside as much as we can. The poor monkey, he can barely make it down the front stairs without starting to pant. Bulldogs are extremely heat sensitive and they can actual die from being out in the heat too long. That being said, we usually keep our house at a cool 71/70 degrees and Tuck has a personal fan that we put on him at night. (There is nothing worse than to waking up to him panting at 1:30am.) Sometimes we don’t even have to look at the thermostat, if Tucker starts panting we know it’s over 72degrees in the house. When we came home from our friend’s house last night, we were greeted by a panting dog. Weird, but there were fireworks and when he gets scared he also pants. (total princess). Finally we noticed that the thermostat was showing a temperature of 75 degrees. WTF?!

We turned it down a little to 70 and hoped it would kick on. No such luck. It just started getting hotter and hotter. Luke warm air was slowly coming out of the vent, I was sweating and there was an 80lb panting monkey lying next to me. RC went downstairs to the unit in the basement to assess the situation and he saw this:

ICE! How does that even happen? And he saw water build up on the unit and then water on the wall. (to the right, it looks like a shadow)

Awesome. Nothing like a brand new system that doesn’t work. Right?! So I did what any 27year old grown up would do, I called my Dad. He knows how this stuff works and we either needed to know how to temporarily fix it or if leaving it on would damage it more. Turns out, his advice was to turn it off and turn on the fan to melt the ice. It definitely helped with the air flow but by no means did I need a blanket to sleep nor was I comfortable. This morning, we called our contractor and they were awesome. They sent someone out today to fix it! He put in more freon. (sp?!) and the temperature in the house is slowly but surely dropping. I’m hoping that’s all it was, the technician seemed to think so but RC and my Dad both have some doubts. I guess time will tell?!

Situations like this make me anxious, what if this happened in 3 years? We would have to be shelling out money and time to get this fixed because it wouldn’t still be under the warranty. I now know why people are lifetime renters- so they don’t have to change air filters and carry around Freon.