chateau labarge updates

My running streak lives on. The flooding in our basement does not. 

I didn't get a chance to post about last week's exercises (spoiler alert - it was just running) because I was catching up on some much needed sleep from last weekend's adventures. I literally went to bed each night before 10pm and some nights I was there by 8pm!

Probably the worst thing you can find is that your previously assumed dry basement, floods in the spring. Then, when you discover that it's not rain water...it's sink, bathtub, and toilet water...it's pretty much the WORST thing. And that was my weekend, last weekend. Home ownership is such a joy.

I mean don't get me wrong, I love that I own a house, MY HOUSE, but a castle with no drain issues sounds nice right about now. You wouldn't even have to throw in a butler. Please start a kickstarter and buy me a castle. #nopressure

THIS weekend, I did absolutely everything I wanted and nothing I didn't. It had lots of sleeping in, raking leaves, chatting with the neighbors, hanging the laundry out to dry, finally priming the living room, and breakfast for dinner. I. LOVE. BRINNER. 

As a side note, when the master's is on, don't ask your husband for help. He will be distracted and possibly paint your hair...

With a $1,000 budget blessed by the painting monster Ryan, words cannot express how excited I am to change up the living room. The hundreds of internet tabs I have open right now *might* paint the picture (how punny!). I can't wait to see how it all comes together. 

Now to figure out how I convince Ryan that this end table is very much necessary.

Until the next home update, go all out, alfalfa sprout.

- Allison Rae

we bought a house

So I know I already told you guys, but in case you forgot, we bought a house!

One Sunday back in October, we went to FIVE open houses. The first house we stumbled into is now the one we rush out of every morning. We fell in love with every. little. thing. The original woodwork. The hardwood floors. The big, huge radiators. The stained glass windows. Everything. We saw it and we loved it.

We emailed our agent that night asking to see it again. And so we went and saw it again...the very next day. The day after that, we signed an offer letter. The day after that we had officially begun the closing process!

Forty-seven excruciatingly, long days later, we signed our lives away and got a huge ring of keys in return. I'm not even kidding. There must've been ten keys per door.

The first few nights were a little less than glamorous but we're homeowners!

We still love the house but as we're living in it we notice things we want to change. Like getting rid of the cable wire that was fed through the wall, across the room, through another wall into the next room...and painting over the hideous green walls in the living room.

I know it'll be a few months until we have our house warming party (read: June or July) but I couldn't wait to share our new address with our friends and family. And it served as a good excuse to make Ryan put on a nice shirt and stand still for a picture.

Isn't he just the cutest?

Anyway. Four moving boxes perfectly stacked, some photo editing, and some inventive phrasing later, we had our cute, simple post card.

I'm kinda in love with how it came out. I may or may not want to frame this in the near future.

And now that I have a house warming party deadline, I have a long list of projects that need to happen first. Who wants to help?

Until the next house update, peace out, lifers.

- Allison Rae

it's a freaking miracle

I MADE IT.

With three fifteen hour days back to back fueled by little sleep combined with the worst cold I've had in the last five years, physical inventory is finally over. Can I get a freaking hallelujah? Ugh.

I'm debating whether I should be knocked up or stuck in another country the next time this rolls around. Especially considering I'm supposed to "run" the finance aspect of it next year and made a multi-million dollar mistake (thankfully fixed!) this time. 

Ryan held down the fort this week doing a bunch of projects. He installed our new dishwasher, switched out the light fixture in the living room, and discovered the fan in the dining room is plastered into the ceiling. #winning

My contribution to the house this week? Repotting plants. 

Since I don't have tomorrow off like most people seemingly do, I'm already looking forward to next weekend. Hopefully by then I'll be rid of this head cold. (And be sleeping a solid ten hours each night.)

What's on deck for you this week?Are you plotting payback for your boss for the cold he shared? Or are you planning on a few extra hours of sleep for good measure?

Until the next sleep deprive post, peace out, lifers.

- Allison Rae