Modern Literature of Ping Pong

Since Rick and I are on a rather frugal and picky, thrift, craigslist, or estate sale kind of furniture shopping requirement for the house, finding furniture has been really slow going. A few grand spent at Nebraska Furniture Mart can be a few grand spent on dry wall, paint, electric wires, outlets, sand paper and so much more that the bones of our house need more than the eye of our guests.

After going out hunting for some thrift store furniture we came home with this.....

Our drawing room/library is one of the few rooms in the house that doesn't need much done to it. We're waiting out to pick out paint colors until we find some kind of showcase sort of piece of furniture, like a couch. So, until God drops a fantastic couch off on our front porch, this $20.00 ping-pong table will do just fine!

We have the room, and need something to do in between ripping out dry wall, laundry, and fighting off black mold. Plus, our oh, so glamorous camping chairs were crying for some company in this room. ha.

In other exciting news we have a plan for the floor! Yahoo! We were quoted $3 a square foot for refinishing our floors. You do the math for nearly 5000 square feet of floors. I wanted to cry. Not anymore! We're on a waiting list at Home Depot, oh our beloved Home Depot, to buy a used drum sander. With the help of some friends with past experience, and youtube we're going to redo our floors ourselves! AND-- save a TON of money! Plus having the opportunity to own our own sander will eliminate the pressure of trying to get all of the floors finished in so many days without having to pay more rental costs. We also know in the future when Rick and I sell our houses we rent out, we will need to refinish the floors too. Win-win. Rick is also convinced he can hire me out to sand other peoples floors, yeah.

Back to the grind of school work. All the snow days were great, but now all of the teachers are trying to catch up with the time missed, thus making our lives miserable.

oh! oh! I also scored a brand stinkin' new iMac!

So I no longer struggle to upload, and post and edit blogs via my phone or my kindle! 

I vow to try and figure out how to make interactive panorama pictures work on this blog!