Best thing about moving back to CA? All the fun trips that are not 5 hours away by plane! Off to Vegas in T-5 hours with the girls. And it's only 1 hour away.

Back in CA

Well, we are now back in CA. I thought now with all my copious free time (we're renting not fixing up a 90 year old house) I would try the blogging thing again. Especially now with the whole Facebook content issue, maybe I should concentrate on a blog where I have control over the content and I could still keep in touch with my friends (Google Reader anyone?). Let's see how long I last this time with blogging.

Welcome to the house

So, if I really want to show what we have / are

doing with the house, maybe I should post to the

blog. I'm going to start with a spare bedroom. It

was the first room we started in the house. Even

before we moved in. It was painted pink with

green carpet. Gotta love it. Even better than the

carpet were the Barbie stencils on the walls. This

was really CP's favorite part of the room. He can

still recite what was written on the wall, even

though he has not seen it in almost two years.

Fake Brick

And this is why I hate fake brick
1. It's ugly
2. It's impossible to remove from your walls.
3. It destroys your walls in your attempt to take it off the walls
4. It screams 1972.
5. Did I mention it's ugly ?

So this weekend we tried to start removing it from the backsplash of our kitchen.


















While we were chipping away, layer by layer....
First the major parts of the brick. Than the layer of mortor stuck to the poor plaster walls. Some areas played nice, others not so much.


What our walls looked like after removing all the layers of the lovely brick.






It was a pretty close call, if I should just rip it all out and just put of drywall. I'm trying to repair it this week. Let's see if it works.

Just a quick hello. Soon I will be posting pictures (mostly of the house in progress or the cat - Really what else do I take pictures of ?) , but for now, just hi