Step Two

Most people I know take it easy on Sunday. Not us, at least not on this Sunday. We got up and went to the gym. After watching The Guardian last night I decided I wanted to do my workout in the pool. BTW, The Guardian is an awesome movie and at the end I looked to Laura and said, "well now I want to join the Coast Guard". I had a really good workout and I can really tell that my other workouts on the Elliptical trainer is paying off. Then we came home and got started with the bathroom.

This is the before picture. Looking at this picture I am glad we decided to to paint it because I can see how bad it really does look. I guess we just got used to looking at the sheet rock and the bare walls.
Here we are right before we started painting. It was a lot of work, especially right above the shower. My arms are very sore. We painted the walls a light brown/tan color. It has a hint of green which matches the tile on the floor perfectly. We are going to be painting the trim of the doors and windows white. I think the color will really stand out once we get the trim/window painted. We got one coat of the paint on today and will do the second coat tomorrow. Then later in the week when we are certain the paint is dry I will paint the trim/window. I will wait to show the after picture when the trim is done.

Here is a picture of Sophie to show that we have gotten back to normal. Sophie is very happy to be back on her bed. She only sleeps on it during the day or when we go somewhere. At night she is always right next to us. And yes that is the shower curtain on her bed. We had to take it down to paint. And you can see Sophie doesn't really care.

We have just a couple more things to do to the house before we could really think about putting it on the market. The minute the markets turns around I think we are going to put the house on the market. Even if it's just to get out of this neighborhood and to move to a neighborhood that doesn't have as much crime. Just yesterday the K-Mart that is about a mile from our home one of the employees was taken back into a back restroom and almost raped. And this happened in the middle of the day not at night.

Laura and I often talk about moving out of Kansas City. If we didn't own this house we would be out of here next week. Laura's work enables her to work at home and she could work from a distance. Since I am already looking for work this would be the perfect time to look for work in another state. We'll see what happens in the next few months. I am very excited about thinking about where we would want to move. Even if it's not a different state I think it will be nice to move to a new house that we find together as a couple.