Yes it's true! Paint, we've got paint! I'd actually say we are about 95% done with painting the inside of the house. Of course, that doesn't include doors, door jams or trim. Besides, doors are highly overrated. Kidding . . . we like doors. We're just trying to keep an upbeat attitude about having to pee in a bathroom w/o a door. But at least we now get to go in a toilet and not a bucket in the garage. WOW! How did I get so off track with my original thought? Must be the lack of sleep and completely overworked mind and body.
So getting back to what I was saying. Our halls and walls have been decked out with color. And not just a little color or a light color. We are talking in your face color! Now some of these color combo's were not my idea and some didn't exactly have the effect I was originally going for but overall I'm thrilled, absolutely thrilled with the paint. I'd love to show you pictures but they just don't do the colors and rooms justice. Really, they need to be seen in person. Which means, ya'all will just have to come over when we are moved in to see what sort of crazy combo's I came up with.
Now about the halls and walls of my trip to NYC/DC. Lets touch on a few things about my (our) trip. This was my first trip back east. It was definitely an eye opener in a wonderful way. I loved both cities and would go back in an instant. On our first full day in NYC, we rode the subway in to Manhattan. (We are not wealthy people and were gone for 11 days so to be able to afford this trip had to stay out in Queens. Jamaica-Queens to be exact.) When we came up out of the subway station, got our bearings and started walking up (up isn't actually accurate since we were heading east) 42nd St towards Broadway, it was a bit overwhelming. Buildings so high with all sorts of advertisements and billboards and TV screens right on them. The streets and sidewalks were so crowded. The hustle and bustle was phenomenal. We definitely looked and acted the part of the average tourist. Cameras out and clicking away. Maps out trying to find exactly where we were headed, all while our heads are cocked back at these insane angles trying to take everything in. You could definitely say we "absorbed" as much of the city as possible.
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No pictires!?? You are killing me. I can't wait to see how nice everything looks!!
Will there be a picture of the bucket?
What was your favorite thing to see on your trip?
My 3 questions about your trip would have to be.
1. Were you shot at or robbed
2. Did you eat at sbarros
3. Do they use buckets in Ny the way they do in Washington
jane anne, you are seriously jumping to conclusions when you say - how nice everything looks. you may want to hold off on judgement until after seeing it. but I certainly hope you'll like it and I LOVE it!
dow, no pictures of the bucket (or should I say - buckets!)
dow, that is a tough question to anwser . . . .
i guess my favorite thing to SEE in New York was broadway and times square.
in DC it would have to be all the monuments and memorials and government buildings. they were (and are) amazing with so much history and meaning behind them. i can't wait until my girls are older and we can take them back there.
My 3 answers about my trip would have to be.
1. If we were shot at I was unaware of it. Maybe the better question would have been was I literally shot? - No, not shot. But I was robbed . . . of sleep and rest and relaxation!!!
2. Yes and I even took pictures to show you that I took your advice and ate at a GREAT pizza place.
3. While I am unaware of how they use or what they do with their buckets in NY, I can say that there are a number of areas used as a "restroom" that weren't actually created for that purpose. Elevators, subway "station areas", alley's, the OUTSIDE of the Honey Buckets (or as Anah calls them Hottie Potties), benches, rocks and bushes in Central Park - just to name a few!!!
It seems we got a sneak peak in the Tanner Christmas letter. Am I right?
Jane Anne,
I'm assuming you are talking about the pictures from NYC? The sepia toned picture was taken on Thanksgiving Day in Central Park. The other one of the four of us girls is actually taken from the observation deck of the Statue of Liberty looking back on New York City. (I think - I guess it could also be New Jersey.) And the bottom picture is of the outside of the Graham house. The big truck is actually delivering our sheetrock right thru the living room window!
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