The scary drywall lift - oooh sooo sturdy!
Completely covered
Drywall over the air duct
Drywall with mudded seamsSunday, August 31, 2008
Rennovations Updates - Drywall Layer 1
So to get the studio adequately soundproofed for a home setting, we're using this compound called Green Glue that will soundproof sheetrock for much cheaper than the more traditional methods out there. It just requires 2 layers of drywall! Here is the first:
The scary drywall lift - oooh sooo sturdy!
Completely covered
Drywall over the air duct
Drywall with mudded seams
The scary drywall lift - oooh sooo sturdy!Completely coveredDrywall over the air ductDrywall with mudded seams
Labor Day Weekend, Part 2
Well, what an interesting day we had yesterday!! The GPS sure gave us some wonderful new places to revisit and led us to some surprising locations that we never expected to be in!
We had an interesting drive down to the big city. Every horrible driver from every surrounding state seemed to be traveling I-65 yesterday, getting in their last vacations before the start of school. Alan was none too pleased with their lack of driving skills, which just made me laugh because there was NO WAY anything was going to ruin my "birthday weekend"!
Even though the mini-trip was for relaxation, we did have some business to attend to. Syd, that devilish little critter, has managed to destroy all of his toys with the advent of his adult teeth. Even at just 6 months, he has become a destructive little boy. So we stopped at PetSmart and picked out some GREAT new toys for him, Halloween themed ones at that! Also a new collar because he's outgrown his current one, a sturdier leash, and some Glucosamine and Chondroitin treats for his little hips and joints, which he can eat now that he's 6 months old (all the packages say that?!). ANYWAY, this morning 90% of the toys have been destroyed. What a lovely child. Looks like we're just going to have to get him an old tire to gnaw on!!
We then decided to get some lunch, Greek to be precise. It's great - you can search by type of cuisine on the points of interest preloaded on the GPS, so the handy old machine pointed us in the direction of a Greek/Italian/Mediterranean resteraunt about 5 miles away from PetSmart. Well...it was shut down, dilapitated to be more precise, and in the worst possible side of Nashville that one could fine himself in. I've never felt as out of place on a street before as I did yesterday! There was even a socks-stand on one corner, right down the street from "Gun City USA". Weird!
So we moved on to a different area of town and found The Greek Islands/The Breeze, a great Greek and Mediterranean restaurant in downtown Nashville on Music Row. We had a wonderful Greek lunch surrounded by the historic recording studios of the country music industry. The food was fantastic! I should have taken a picture, but we ate it too quickly! We had turkish cigars with apple chutney as an appetizer, and I had one of the greatest gyros I ever ate, while Alan ate Chicken Shish Kabobs. It all was wonderful and we'll definitely be back.
After lunch we had a beer at Dan McGuinness, the Irish pub up the street. It was such a great atmosphere in which to relax, digest all that GREAT food and enjoy some fabulous company with my husband! They were also playing some great music. If you're ever in Nashville, it's a great place to hang out.
We then wanted to find a book store in the area, so the GPS led us over to Church Street to OutLoud Books, which just so happened to be a specialty store for the gay and lesbian community. We didn't discover this until we were inside and realized that a lot of the books had naked same sex couples hugging each other and in other scantily clad positions! Nonetheless, it was a very cool store filled with lots of counter culture items and a very friendly staff. That situation would have gone MUCH worse had it been any other misguided couple from the "south" that are not nearly as accepting of others as we are! It's refreshing to see a store like this as well. You've got my support!!
We found a Borders Books nearby, but it was on the Vanderbilt University campus, and it was PACKED, but we came across a little gem across the street called Cumberland Transit. It's an outdoor clothing and equipment store full of wonderful things! Tents, backpacks, clothes, shoes, bikes, climbing gear and a large area dedicated to fly fishing and the art of making a beautiful fly. I found a great "Good Karma" t-shirt by "Life is Good" that is made of 100% Organic material. What a great store!!
Our last "must-do" stop in Nashville is always The Game Keep, that old traditional geeky board game and miniatures store that smells musty, is falling apart and is just pure bliss. It is here that we found the catch of the day! A copy of Agricola, the hottest game of the year that is becoming harder and harder to find as it's in high demand and on back order from nearly every online game store out there. That's why it's so important to support your friendly local game store (FLGS in geek speak), they just may have it in stock! Over the years, we have amassed over 100 board games ranging from the Eurogames to the typical Ameritrash and even a few of the old standards available at Wal-Mart. We LOVE board gaming. I think that's what we'll be doing today; playing our favourite games and enjoying some new ones, relaxing a little more and spending some quality time at our lovely home with each other and with our favourite little pooch!!
We had an interesting drive down to the big city. Every horrible driver from every surrounding state seemed to be traveling I-65 yesterday, getting in their last vacations before the start of school. Alan was none too pleased with their lack of driving skills, which just made me laugh because there was NO WAY anything was going to ruin my "birthday weekend"!Even though the mini-trip was for relaxation, we did have some business to attend to. Syd, that devilish little critter, has managed to destroy all of his toys with the advent of his adult teeth. Even at just 6 months, he has become a destructive little boy. So we stopped at PetSmart and picked out some GREAT new toys for him, Halloween themed ones at that! Also a new collar because he's outgrown his current one, a sturdier leash, and some Glucosamine and Chondroitin treats for his little hips and joints, which he can eat now that he's 6 months old (all the packages say that?!). ANYWAY, this morning 90% of the toys have been destroyed. What a lovely child. Looks like we're just going to have to get him an old tire to gnaw on!!
We then decided to get some lunch, Greek to be precise. It's great - you can search by type of cuisine on the points of interest preloaded on the GPS, so the handy old machine pointed us in the direction of a Greek/Italian/Mediterranean resteraunt about 5 miles away from PetSmart. Well...it was shut down, dilapitated to be more precise, and in the worst possible side of Nashville that one could fine himself in. I've never felt as out of place on a street before as I did yesterday! There was even a socks-stand on one corner, right down the street from "Gun City USA". Weird!
So we moved on to a different area of town and found The Greek Islands/The Breeze, a great Greek and Mediterranean restaurant in downtown Nashville on Music Row. We had a wonderful Greek lunch surrounded by the historic recording studios of the country music industry. The food was fantastic! I should have taken a picture, but we ate it too quickly! We had turkish cigars with apple chutney as an appetizer, and I had one of the greatest gyros I ever ate, while Alan ate Chicken Shish Kabobs. It all was wonderful and we'll definitely be back.
After lunch we had a beer at Dan McGuinness, the Irish pub up the street. It was such a great atmosphere in which to relax, digest all that GREAT food and enjoy some fabulous company with my husband! They were also playing some great music. If you're ever in Nashville, it's a great place to hang out.
We then wanted to find a book store in the area, so the GPS led us over to Church Street to OutLoud Books, which just so happened to be a specialty store for the gay and lesbian community. We didn't discover this until we were inside and realized that a lot of the books had naked same sex couples hugging each other and in other scantily clad positions! Nonetheless, it was a very cool store filled with lots of counter culture items and a very friendly staff. That situation would have gone MUCH worse had it been any other misguided couple from the "south" that are not nearly as accepting of others as we are! It's refreshing to see a store like this as well. You've got my support!!
We found a Borders Books nearby, but it was on the Vanderbilt University campus, and it was PACKED, but we came across a little gem across the street called Cumberland Transit. It's an outdoor clothing and equipment store full of wonderful things! Tents, backpacks, clothes, shoes, bikes, climbing gear and a large area dedicated to fly fishing and the art of making a beautiful fly. I found a great "Good Karma" t-shirt by "Life is Good" that is made of 100% Organic material. What a great store!!
Our last "must-do" stop in Nashville is always The Game Keep, that old traditional geeky board game and miniatures store that smells musty, is falling apart and is just pure bliss. It is here that we found the catch of the day! A copy of Agricola, the hottest game of the year that is becoming harder and harder to find as it's in high demand and on back order from nearly every online game store out there. That's why it's so important to support your friendly local game store (FLGS in geek speak), they just may have it in stock! Over the years, we have amassed over 100 board games ranging from the Eurogames to the typical Ameritrash and even a few of the old standards available at Wal-Mart. We LOVE board gaming. I think that's what we'll be doing today; playing our favourite games and enjoying some new ones, relaxing a little more and spending some quality time at our lovely home with each other and with our favourite little pooch!!
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Labor Day Weekend, Part 1
As some of you may know, we have been working on finishing our basement for about the past 2 months. We are very close to being finished and to celebrate the fruits of our labor (well, mostly the labor of our family friend Jimmy), we are taking the weekend OFF!
Alan and I are heading to Nashville today. That is one of our favourite cities to visit, other than Lousiville, KY. My birthday was on the 27th and Alan's is coming up on the 4th, and we bought a very nice GPS unit to help us on our weekend adventures. It's the Magellan Maestro 4250:
Magellan Maestro 4250 Review
We love it so far. With over 6 million points of interest, we'll never be out of ideas for things to do and cool places to eat!
And we're off and running....
Alan and I are heading to Nashville today. That is one of our favourite cities to visit, other than Lousiville, KY. My birthday was on the 27th and Alan's is coming up on the 4th, and we bought a very nice GPS unit to help us on our weekend adventures. It's the Magellan Maestro 4250:
Magellan Maestro 4250 ReviewWe love it so far. With over 6 million points of interest, we'll never be out of ideas for things to do and cool places to eat!
And we're off and running....
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Our Kentucky Cousins
What an amazingly talented and promising family I married in to! Here is a little blurb about Alan's young, up and coming cousins that will definitely make a mark in whichever field they chose to give their talents to!
Young Whitney is a sophomore in college and is as smart as can be. She is majoring in Mathematics at Western Kentucky University and looks to have a very promising future ahead of her as a teacher (it runs in this family!). Mathematics...I'm jealous!
Bob Miller is one of the most talented photographers I have ever seen. He is finishing up his last year at Samford University in Alabama and has an incredible gift for the Arts (as does his sister Sarah...but I'm getting ahead of myself).
Bob, courtesy of Bob Miller
In late 2007, Bob traveled to Kenya and the Sudan and was witness the intense violence that followed the Kenyan presidential election. His photos capture emotions that we here can only imagine. On a far lighter note, Bob is a phenomenal wedding photographer! On 6/7/08, our cousin and his sister Sarah married family friend Michael Bradley and Bob had the wonderful job of being their wedding photographer. Please check out his website and explore his fantastic photos here:
http://www.everythingisinbalance.com/sarahandmichael/wedding/
courtesy of Bob Miller
Sarah, the beautiful young lady in the photo above, just finished a Master's Degree at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. She studied Art History (Medieval) and previously, she attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, studying Art. She and Michael Bradley were married on 6/7/8 in Glasgow, Kentucky and they currently reside in Tennessee. Sarah was recently hired as an adjunct faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) where she is teaching several Art History courses.
Young Whitney is a sophomore in college and is as smart as can be. She is majoring in Mathematics at Western Kentucky University and looks to have a very promising future ahead of her as a teacher (it runs in this family!). Mathematics...I'm jealous!
Bob Miller is one of the most talented photographers I have ever seen. He is finishing up his last year at Samford University in Alabama and has an incredible gift for the Arts (as does his sister Sarah...but I'm getting ahead of myself).
Bob, courtesy of Bob MillerIn late 2007, Bob traveled to Kenya and the Sudan and was witness the intense violence that followed the Kenyan presidential election. His photos capture emotions that we here can only imagine. On a far lighter note, Bob is a phenomenal wedding photographer! On 6/7/08, our cousin and his sister Sarah married family friend Michael Bradley and Bob had the wonderful job of being their wedding photographer. Please check out his website and explore his fantastic photos here:
http://www.everythingisinbalance.com/sarahandmichael/wedding/
courtesy of Bob MillerThe SYD
So this spring, we got a dog. Not just any dog, a crazy pound puppy. Behold:
Ok, so I lied. I suppose he didn't START OFF crazy; they can't do that or else they wouldn't have much luck getting adopted. No no, this one's smarter than that.
After renting a house for nearly 4 years and abiding by a strict "no dogs allowed" rule, I finally had enough of the canine-less life. We moved into our beautiful new home on March 20th, 2008 and after getting settled, I convinced Alan the next month that it was necessary for the greater good that we get a dog. I've always grown up around animals and they bring such love, warmth and character to your family. It's lonely without that companion curled up at your feet while you're relaxing after work, or protecting you from the strange noises of a new home.
Needless to say, on April 21st, we adopted Syd (originally named Angus) from the Barren River Animal Welfare Association in Glasgow, Kentucky. He has quickly grown over the past 6 months and he is a loving, but crazy, addition to our family. I guess he fits right in!
He's such a handsome little guy, even when he's in trouble.
He is entirely too happy and always has a smile on his face...
...even when he's sleeping!
Ok, so I lied. I suppose he didn't START OFF crazy; they can't do that or else they wouldn't have much luck getting adopted. No no, this one's smarter than that.
After renting a house for nearly 4 years and abiding by a strict "no dogs allowed" rule, I finally had enough of the canine-less life. We moved into our beautiful new home on March 20th, 2008 and after getting settled, I convinced Alan the next month that it was necessary for the greater good that we get a dog. I've always grown up around animals and they bring such love, warmth and character to your family. It's lonely without that companion curled up at your feet while you're relaxing after work, or protecting you from the strange noises of a new home.
Needless to say, on April 21st, we adopted Syd (originally named Angus) from the Barren River Animal Welfare Association in Glasgow, Kentucky. He has quickly grown over the past 6 months and he is a loving, but crazy, addition to our family. I guess he fits right in!
He's such a handsome little guy, even when he's in trouble.
He is entirely too happy and always has a smile on his face...
...even when he's sleeping!
We're Joining the Club...
Well, I finally gave in and decided to take on the duties of making a blog for our little family. Facebook just isn't cutting it for updating everyone of all our news so here we are - we're joining the blogging club! We're in good company of many friends with blogs and it is a wonderful way of keeping in touch across the miles.
Check back often to see what we're up to, what new adventures we've been on and just what kind of bright ideas we've come up with along the way!
Check back often to see what we're up to, what new adventures we've been on and just what kind of bright ideas we've come up with along the way!
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