Pfffffttttt - Or, in other words: Bleh...

So much for my excitement of getting the living room and kitchen done by Christmas.

We got our living room furniture in, it was beautiful, except for the fact that the cream color portion of the paisley print came in as a mustard yellow! Worst thing is, it's not even supposed to be available in mustard yellow. According to the lady at the furniture store, it was a problem with the dye so there is no guarantee that it won't happen again if we reorder it... I took the pieces home and tried to make myself like them, but I just couldn't do it. I can't be so desperate to have furniture for Christmas that I accept furniture that I will hate for the next 5+ years. We took the pieces back and asked about ordering my second choice set. Sure, no problem. It will be at least 6 weeks... Ick...

I know I'm impatient, but I REALLY wanted to enjoy Christmas in my "new" living room. I guess we'll be opening gifts while we sit on the hardwood floor Christmas morning. The living room looks so bazaar  Christmas tree in the corner, a coffee table in the middle of the room and two awkward end tables placed in random places- all just waiting for the beautiful furniture. Sigh...

Then, there's the kitchen. Oh dear, the kitchen... Well, of course I had to rearrange the placement of the appliances and as a result, move cabinets, and as a result of that, we had to run new gas lines and stove ventilation  What I expected to be a one or two evening project turned into a week long fiasco of missing pieces, wrong pieces, mistakes, miscommunications, misalignments and misplacements. Both Dad and Jordan requested not to (aka: refused to) begin on any of the cosmetic projects until these were done properly.

Needless to say, with the holidays, Amy's wedding and hectic work schedules, this is all we have gotten done since my last post. I am definitely feeling pretty "Bleh" about the whole thing at the moment. With Amy's wedding coming up in like 11 days, I'm guessing we're going to be so busy that we are pretty much at a stand still on the house for the rest of the year. Hopefully the new year will look brighter