Current location:	glendale, az
Current mood:	tired
Entry tags:	house, random

Girly Thoughts...
When I was in high school or thereabouts, I started getting Pfaltzgraff dishes, in a pattern I chose then, Tea Rose. Currently, I have a setting for four, a tea kettle, and a few other miscellaneous odds-and-ends. But...I'm older now, in my own house, and the Tea Rose pattern, while still pretty, isn't my favorite. It doesn't match the plans we have for the house, and I've seen other patterns that both match the house better and are more my current style.

But Pfaltzgraff dishes are expensive. I'm not sure I could get enough out of selling what I have in order to get the same amount of what I want, especially since these aren't our everyday dishes (everyday dishes are Corelle, "Rosemarie" pattern). I didn't get to have a "real" bridal shower, just a "card shower," where we got money and gift cards that were put to use surviving those first two months in NC without work. And even if we had, I probably would have gotten more Tea Rose, not knowing we were moving into this house in AZ.

The practical side of my nature says, "Suck it up and deal with it, they're just plates; as long as they keep the food off the table, no one cares." But the girly side of my nature keeps saying, "But they don't MATCH! The kitchen/dining/living area is Southwestern in look! These plates are PINK! And we don't like pink!"

Even so, it's probably a moot point, as we won't be able to get dishes until we get the house done, and the house is on hold for the moment, until we can get the closing/opening bills paid off and have some extra money for primer and a long-poled roller so we can prime the ceilings.

Quick list of what we still need to do:
-sand ceilings where they were scraped
-prime ceilings
-paint ceilings and walls
-new garage door (this one is so jury-rigged it stopped working: two car garage, and
      both are in the driveway)
-get fireplace inspected, lined
-get air ducts cleaned
-get ac unit inspected, cleaned
-get swamp cooler working
-new floors
-um, furniture would be nice...sometime this decade

Then we move on to what we WANT to do: new appliances, new cabinets and counters in the kitchen, revamped bathroom, something with the front and back yards....

Yes, this is a project house, and we knew it when we moved in.