... and a hectic but happy new year

already a week into the new year, and its as crazy as ever. a few freelance projects are keeping me busier than i expected, but thats not neccessarily a bad thing :) ian and i rang in the new year going out to dinner and then relaxing at home. here we are before leaving for the night:




ian has finally finished up the remodeling on his parents house and we've gotten back to work on our place. over the course of 2 short days we managed to get quite a bit done. ian worked on the baseboards and cutting in paint in the dining room, trimming out sydneys private food area, and installing/building a cabinet and shelving unit above the peninsula. i love the finished look. we'll need to get a coat of poly on there, and then finally start putting stuff away.






i finished hanging the drywall in the downstairs bathroom, and now i just need to start taping the seams and skip troweling. i have all the tile + fixtures for the room, but i still need to decide on a paint color. i'm hoping to start the tiling this weekend and before you know it, i'll finally be done with this room :) and not a very exciting photo, i know.




in other news, we hung out with joey 3 shirts on tuesday night for dinner, thats always a good time. as one of the few people who actually read this blog, i thought he deserved a shout out :) we've also finished up season 1 of lost on dvd, just in time for all of our regular shows to start up with new episodes. the tivo will be definitely getting a workout the new few weeks. speaking of workouts, i'm also hoping to get back to bally's on a regular basis, esp since they've been withdrawing from my account the past few months.

on that note, i may just go to the gym now :)