mr. president, wtf?

i usually steer clear of any political conversation these days. awhile ago i began to feel like i was living in another country. that feeling is still haunting me when i watch any news relating to national politics.

watching the news the past few mornings, and seeing what a mess this natural disaster caused really made me upset. i was just starting to feel better, after hearing from my friends and family about the donations and help they're giving (karm and i gave some too), then i saw our poor excuse for a president, after finally figuring out the importance of leaving his extended vacation and coming to deal with things a president should be dealing with, taking this time to really only be there for politics, not for "healing"...

...really no surprise. it's just sad. i think to myself, 'if that were me, i'd be there as fast as possible, and i'd actually be helping out'. how could you not, if that were your job? hell i wanted to go there myself this morning to do search and rescue, or just help any way i could. if i were him i'd be going on airlifts right from the get-go. talking to the people in shelters and assuring them that they'll be alright and taken care of. it would be so cool to get saved and see the presidents face coming up one of those lifts, as you enter the helicopter, and have him saying, it's going to be alright. we'll find your family, get you some food/shelter, whatever. i'd be stoked, even if it was our crappy excuse for a president. another wasted opportunity.

in lighter news, we'll be working on the house all weekend, and i'll be building a fence most of next week. gotta clean this up:

plan "b"

ok, so i suck at updating this site, and i thought i'd give blogger another try. seems easy enough. so welcome, and don't expect too much.

house pictures

below are some pictures i took last night. we're getting close to move time (9/8). we're very excited. i believe they are starting on the paint today. we had a door moved from one room to the other. i'll make a note in the pictures below. enjoy.

here's where the door used to be.

another picture of the door, with a nice view of our old fence in the background.

here's the new door. that was just wall to the right of the window. we had our workers move the door there. that will be karm's dressing room. pink, of course.

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more original tile

still working on the tiles. the paint that are on the original tiles is very thick. it's taking tons of Jasco to get it off. not to mention it's making both karm and i a little loopy. we had to buy respirators to avoid the fumes.

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