These are long overdue! The wedding and wedding holiday seem soooo long ago... I am already dying to get planning on our next vacation!!!
xoxo
L & J
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The House is Falling!!!
Ok... So Joon and I will have officially been married for one month on Friday (Yay for us!!)... BUT, since we returned, things have sort of been literally falling apart with our house... which btw, is only 7 years old.
On Thursday ( December 11), at 10:00 pm we discovered to our absolute HORROR that our beautifully finished basement (that was about to host our annual holiday Christmas party) had flooded.
Joon stepped off the bottom step of the basement with the intention of bringing something upstairs... and stepped into about 4 inches of water. Squish...
Of course due to the hour, we were up late calling around for a clean up crew to come in... We couldn't get one in until the next morning. After a full day of the cleanup crew cleaning the water, taking out underlay, removing all of our drywall and furniture, setting up drying fans (to dry the carpet) and packing all of our stuff that wasn't damaged, our basement now looks like a war ravaged flood zone... And all furniture will need to be replaced due to water damage...
The next two months should be interesting as we wait to get the cause of the flood fixed, and our basement habitable again!!!
We are also having problems with our furnace, and have not had a lick of good heat since Monday December 15... Needless to say, we are a bit stressed and VERY chilly this close to Christmas...
The extreme chill that Calgary is experiencing makes getting anything done extremely difficult, as the rest of the city is experiencing home difficulties as well! Why do our houses choose to break down when it is cold, snowing, and late at night???
On a related note, we are having a bit of a challenging time adjusting to losing 1000 square feet of living space, and I feel like we are living literally on top of one another!!!
I don't have any pictures to post as our camera was in the basement, and bless the clean up crew for handling EVERYTHING, our camera is packed in one of the hundreds of boxes that is now our stuff in the basement bathroom!
All the same, it is nearly Christmas, we are seven days and counting and my holidays officially start today at 4pm!!!
Happy Holidays from L & J
On Thursday ( December 11), at 10:00 pm we discovered to our absolute HORROR that our beautifully finished basement (that was about to host our annual holiday Christmas party) had flooded.
Joon stepped off the bottom step of the basement with the intention of bringing something upstairs... and stepped into about 4 inches of water. Squish...
Of course due to the hour, we were up late calling around for a clean up crew to come in... We couldn't get one in until the next morning. After a full day of the cleanup crew cleaning the water, taking out underlay, removing all of our drywall and furniture, setting up drying fans (to dry the carpet) and packing all of our stuff that wasn't damaged, our basement now looks like a war ravaged flood zone... And all furniture will need to be replaced due to water damage...
The next two months should be interesting as we wait to get the cause of the flood fixed, and our basement habitable again!!!
We are also having problems with our furnace, and have not had a lick of good heat since Monday December 15... Needless to say, we are a bit stressed and VERY chilly this close to Christmas...
The extreme chill that Calgary is experiencing makes getting anything done extremely difficult, as the rest of the city is experiencing home difficulties as well! Why do our houses choose to break down when it is cold, snowing, and late at night???
On a related note, we are having a bit of a challenging time adjusting to losing 1000 square feet of living space, and I feel like we are living literally on top of one another!!!
I don't have any pictures to post as our camera was in the basement, and bless the clean up crew for handling EVERYTHING, our camera is packed in one of the hundreds of boxes that is now our stuff in the basement bathroom!
All the same, it is nearly Christmas, we are seven days and counting and my holidays officially start today at 4pm!!!
Happy Holidays from L & J
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!!!
I cannot believe how fast time is flying... Joon and I will have been married for three weeks already on Friday... the wedding, cruise, and Caribbean feel like a dream from long ago!!! Combine that with the fact that we were away for nearly ALL of November and presto... Christmas is just around the corner.
On the weekend, I mistakenly mused that it would feel so much more "Christmas-y" if it would only snow... Sunday morning came, and we woke to a snow blizzard... which continued for the entire DAY! It is beautiful outside, but now we are in a mad panic to get all our shopping out of the way, and prepare for our annual Christmas party...EEEK!!!
As this is our first Christmas as a married couple, I want to do something a little special, but am unsure how to go forward... maybe a cute ornament? Or a weekend away in the snow topped mountains? Some quality time on the skihill? Or just a few hours with just the two of us, reconnecting after the busy weeks since our wedding...
I will be sure to post our tree, decorations, and of course, the SNOW very soon.
Merry almost Christmas everyone!!!
love,
larissa and joon
On the weekend, I mistakenly mused that it would feel so much more "Christmas-y" if it would only snow... Sunday morning came, and we woke to a snow blizzard... which continued for the entire DAY! It is beautiful outside, but now we are in a mad panic to get all our shopping out of the way, and prepare for our annual Christmas party...EEEK!!!
As this is our first Christmas as a married couple, I want to do something a little special, but am unsure how to go forward... maybe a cute ornament? Or a weekend away in the snow topped mountains? Some quality time on the skihill? Or just a few hours with just the two of us, reconnecting after the busy weeks since our wedding...
I will be sure to post our tree, decorations, and of course, the SNOW very soon.
Merry almost Christmas everyone!!!
love,
larissa and joon
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