Before/After: Take 2

ACTION!

Cassidy insisted that the pictures were not “real enough” and suggested a video tour so here you go. You’ll have to excuse Ben and Hans. Apparently the boys were too good for this room tour. And I promise, Ben really loves you all… He was just in one of his ‘moods’. He’s crazy ya know!! :mrgreen:

P.S. – I sound and look like ass because I’ve spent the last three days laying in bed at night awake and hacking up parts of lung. Lung that I need to live. I’m totally dying.

Before/After

I have some pics up of the before/after of Cassidy’s room. I realized looking at the pictures that it looks like the entire IKEA childrens department has thrown up in there. heh I let her pick out ALL of it on her own and I think she did a pretty dang good job. 🙂

These before pictures make the OCD side of me physically shudder in pain. I had avoided going in her room pretty much alltogether but I could just not take it anymore (the first person who tells me I’m turning into my mother will get virtually bitch slapped):

From the doorway looking in:

Before - *shudder*

Standing by the bed against the far wall looking out:

Before - looking towards door.

AFTER!! So. Much. Better. And so worth the work. 🙂

Looking in from just inside the door:

After -  looking in

Standing against the far wall looking out (I moved the bed away from the window to let more light in and I think it makes the room look deeper):

After - towards door

The bookshelf. This picture makes my OCD happy:

After - bookshelf

Lastly, what the hell ARE THESE?! She LOVES them and they are pretty dang annoying but still cute. They came from McDoanlds but I think I’ve seen them full size somewhere…

What the heck are these?

FS: SK2’s

I’m selling both of our Sidekick 2’s since we both love the 8525’s. BOTH for $150. Not $150 EACH, but both phones, with chargers, ear pieces, two extra set’s of bumpers, four cases, all books that came with them and in the original boxes for $150.

Every other Sidekick2 for sell on Craigslist is going for $150 or more for ONE phone. In the ad I make it VERY CLEAR that you get both phones and all the accessories we have for $150.

Other SK’s are selling for the same price for ONE. So you are basically getting two for the price of one!

I’ve had probably 50 email’s since I placed the ad on Saturday evening around 9:00PM and 10 of them have read:

Im interested in your sidekick deal. Is $150 a firm price, or is there any room for price negotiation.

Yes it’s firm you cheap bastard! You are getting an entire phone with all the accessories for FREE. You can turn around and sell it on Craigslist and make ALL YOUR MONEY BACK. GAH!

Then there’s:

hello, i’m intrested in the sidekick if you still have please email me with info of when n where to pick up..oh if sim card is included in the price…

Why would I enclude the SIM card? I’m not giving you a phone for free AND paying for your phone service also.

I’m intersted. I havve 140 cash for both. Will pick up asap

$140. Hmmm.. Wow, that’s a really great deal for me! Come pick them up ASAP!! It’s really too bad you can’t see me right now because the extreme to which I just rolled my eye’s is something you can only truly appreciate in person. It’s almost magical.

hello my name is kyle and i am interested in ur 2 sidekick phones but my question is what plan are they cause me and my bro have Cingular and we would like 2 know if we could buy the phones and switch the sim cards. Is that possible? Or do u have 2 have a T-moble plan?

I am selling them, I am not your personal advisor. Generally when you buy something you do research first. When Ben and I were looking at the 8525’s I researched them. I found out that you can use them with T-Mobile but you have to get the more expensive TyTn version for almost $800 and then pay to have it unlocked. I found all of this out on my own using google then I called T-Mobile to verify what I had found.

can you give me your number also your address please?

*bangs head against wall*

I did respond to the one person who managed to write a coherent email and he’s flaked for the last three days. Apparently he can’t drive right now and after first wanting to meet in a public place, called back to ask if I could go to his house instead. Let’s see. I’m giving you a phone for free, and you want me to DRIVE TO YOU, to your HOUSE where you can kill me and chop me into 14,000 tiny pieces and feed me to your goldfish? Um, thanks for the offer but HELL NO.

So… do YOU want the SK2’s? I offered them on NorCal for $100 and I’m extending the same offer to people here at Aflux. If you (or somebody you know) wants the phones I’ll sell them BOTH with all accessories for $100 + shipping whatever that is (if I have serious interest I’ll go to the post office and have them weighed).

Like Martha Stuart

Only I can still vote. heh

In the last week I’ve rewired a power cord to make it work with a sun shaped ceiling light, rewired a light switch to take a dimmer, changed Cassidy’s toilet seat, hung curtains, and a green… thing on the closet, and a giant leaf in Cassidy’s room. I’d totally have pictures to post if flickr didn’t decide to have a massage at the exact second I went to upload them.

I’ve been in major redecorating mode and started in her bedroom and bathroom. I have before pictures that still make me sick to my stomach. Her room had become a massive toy dumping ground and her idea of “cleaning” it was to shove every toy, scrap of paper or article of clothing in any area that it would fit in. And often times if it didn’t fit she’d find a way to shove it in there anyway.

Last Saturday she went to a sleep over birthday (I’m pretending to not remember the sleep overs and the stupid stuff I did on them at her age) and as soon as I came in the house from dropping her off I started tearing the room apart. SIX garbage bags and 24 hours later I had it close to where I wanted it. Then Sunday afternoon she and I spent a few hours at IKEA picking up some of the things she’s been eyeing up for awhile. Some lights, curtains and rod, the giant leaf and the green contraption to hang in front of her closet. They are now all hung up and looking awesome and she’s EXTATIC to finally have her room looking “totally cool”. I was going to paint. Blue on top and green on the bottom for an ‘outside’ feel but we’ve hung up so many posters that I really don’t think it matters at this point. She’s taken to buying teeny bopper magazines and hanging the posters on the walls. Everywhere.

Anyway, that’s what we’ve been up to. Now that her room is finally done I’m going to start back on the kitchen, living and computer rooms. I plan to have them all painted by the end of February and then I can start buying wall art. I have a few things in mind that I want for sure but I’ve been looking and looking and looking and looking for something to hang on the wall that’s the second biggest focal point in the room and I can’t find anything that is ‘just right’. I think it’s because I have this image in my head and nothing I find is good enough because it’s not the image in my head. *sigh* I’ll find it eventually. Hopefully.

I changed my mind and decided to make all registered users able to view the private posts. Mostly because I’m lazy. I get an instant email whenever anybody registers and if it’s somebody I don’t want approved I can just delete them immediately. So yeah, that’s it. Off to be lazy on the couch and watch some TV with The Princess.

Night!

Super Secret Stuff.

AKA: Operation SSS. Tonight I’m installing a mod that will allow me to limit who can see certain posts to registered members who I’ve allowed access. I’ve wrestled with this decision for a long time. The one thing I don’t want, is to ever have to censor myself here but because some people still check the site even though they should have stopped caring about what I have to say MONTHS ago, I’ve decided it’s time.

I don’t want some of the things I discuss here to EVER be used as ammunition against myself or Ben or Cassidy or anybody else I love and the only way I can ensure that is to keep some of the stuff I need to rant/vent/GET THE FUCK OUT out of the public eye. For now at least.

I’m going to pretty much approve anybody who registers EXCEPT the petty morons that I’m trying to keep out so go ahead and register and I’ll get around to approving people ASAP. You only have to do it once, choose the option to stay logged in and you’ll be set. Only posts where I talk about certain topics will be hidden, but for the most part I’ll continue to blog publicly like I always have.

It sucks I have to do this, it really does. But I don’t need people perpetuating drama that I let go of awhile ago and I have other things to focus on right now like my wedding (OMG I’M GETTING MARRIED) and not killing anybody before the PMS completely subsides.

Beware: Girl talk ahead.

So maybe giving up coffee wasn’t the best idea when I’m in the midst of the worst PMS I can remember having since that time I was 15 and called my mom a bitch for doing my laundry for me. HOW DARE SHE happen to be washing the shirt I wanted to wear RIGHT THEN!? Like, my entire social life depended on that shirt being clean and on me and baring just enough stomach to be “daring” but not enough to be “whore” and what if the guy of my dreams didn’t see me in THAT SHIRT which I just KNEW was going to be the shirt that made him fall in love with me so we could grow up and get married and have babies and my last name would look so cute if I dotted the ‘i’ with a heart like I’d practiced ALL DAY LONG when you COULD have been washing my shirt and now my LIFE IS OVER AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!!! *door slam*

Yeah, it’s been that bad this week. Yesterday my uterus started contracting with enough force to have pushed out an entire herd of cattle. And a matching farmer. I haven’t given in though. I’ve gone 5 entire days without a single sip of coffee and somehow at the end of this five days, Ben still want’s to marry me. THAT’S an amazing man right there, folks. Simply amazing.

The other night I was looking through some wedding magazines and I told Ben that I’d like to have either a very simple Asian theme or a beach theme (think Polynesian). At the end of the conversation he mentioned that he thought the best idea was to go with a theme that was “us”. Something that symbolized the type of people we are and the kind of relationship we have and that as long as whatever we decided to do managed to do that, he’d be happy.

Last night I had a dream that we gave away whoopi cushions and miniature M3’s as favors and the cake was shaped like a giant, well… it was phallic. heh Because that’s US. We laugh at eachother all the time. WITH eachother too but lets be honest here… I do a lot of crazy stuff and Ben is lucky enough to get to sit back and laugh at me. A lot. But he makes me laugh too. A lot. So, I want to have the nice, beautiful wedding but it’s important to me that it be FUN too. I want our guests to laugh. A lot. I’d prefer they NOT be laughing AT me however so any suggestions you have are welcome. Any fun weddings you’ve been to before that incorporate something funny and memorable??

Dropping a line.

I don’t blog enough. It’s not for lack of things to say. I have PLENTY to say. As a matter of fact Ben would probably love it if I didn’t say SO MUCH to him and started saying more HERE again. I wish I could come up with the reason that I haven’t been blogging more. Maybe I’ve just been lazy? I feel like I should entertain you all with blog posts. I go back into my archives sometimes and read “Today was fun. We ate this here and we shopped there and then Cassidy said something funny and isn’t that super swell?!” and I actually bore MYSELF!

I don’t ever want to say that I’ve ‘outgrown’ blogging. I haven’t. If you have one and you are here there’s a very good chance that I’ve read it today. I still read them a lot. A lot, a lot. If you comment, I read your blog and I probably even add you in my favorites and I will come back and read again. I’m fascinated by your life. I’m fascinated by the fact that you have kids, or you swear you will never have kids, or that you are married to a funny guy, or that you just broke up with the love of your life. I’m fascinated by that funny story you told about your dog and the garden hose, the one about how you daughter hasn’t gone to the restroom in 5 days made me cry and wish you well, and I love all the off the wall pictures you post of your doorknob.

I promise I’ll start trying to do better. Now that I think about it, maybe I just needed a little break. A chance to let my engagement story linger there at the top. Once I start blogging again, that will fall back into those pages of archives and some of you won’t get the jist of how powerfully in love I am. And My Maui pictures will fall off the main page and I’ll have to come to terms with the fact that I’m actually back here in San Jose and when I open my eyes tomorrow I won’t still be on vacation.

But, I have no doubt that planning a wedding will make for some interesting times ahead. It’s started. I’ve purchased every single wedding magazine I’ve found and also got this FANTASTIC planner that I’ve spent hours reading and pouring over and started formulating ideas and pictures in my head…

So that actually gives me some ideas for blog posts! So, I guess I’m back? If I haven’t commented on your blog in awhile, or you’ve never commented here, comment or drop me an email or just wave excitedly from your computer chair and I’ll do the same in return.