October 19, 2009

So last night Torrie and I went on a shopping spree! Our trip was to our favorite two stores, which coincedentally share a parking lot: Lowe’s and Walmart. We made out like bandits, buying:

1. Paint and rollers to paint our kitchen, bedroom, and bathrooms. Here are the names of our colors:
Kitchen – Quaking Grass
Bedroom – Stratosphere
Bathrooms – Silver Spoon

I'm not sure if the colors are exactly the same, and as I've discovered over the past week, colors are a lot different depending on what other colors they are next to, the amount of light...tons of things.

2. Metal knobs for the dressers that we had sanded and painted white this weekend. They are really simple, and kinda look like pop bottle tops in a way. They're nice though, and were at an unbeatable price of $.97 each. $3 a handle can get pretty expensive pretty quickly...

3. A lot of food. Now that we have a house, we have space to buy more than just the bare essentials for what we will need in the next three days. In fact, we’re pretty excited about building up a good amount of food storage.

I’m really excited to finish painting over the next couple of days. Then, at least we’ll have a few rooms of our house finished, and I can write a before-and-after blog entry detailing our work.

We were pretty hungry as we were leaving Walmart. Our original plan had been to buy food for a taco salad that we would make when we got home. However, it was late and we really didn’t feel like making a taco salad. However, there were some rotisserie chickens at the Walmart deli. You know, the ones that they discount late at night to make sure that they are sold. They were a pretty good deal. However, I looked at Torrie and she said, “You know, I would be just as happy with a bowl of cereal at home.” So we left, saving the $6 or so that we would have spent on that chicken. We ended up having some really good homemade nachos while watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks on our little TV. What a great evening.