Miss me?

OK, so I don't actually know how many people really read my little blog here, much less who would be checking back in to see if I'd ever post again, but I have decided to start posting again anyways.

The reason for the extended hiatus?

Well the problem with creating a blog with the sole purpose of posting about your home and all the renovations you want to do to it is when the money runs out so does the material for the blog. So, are there still long lists of things that we want to do to the house? Oh sure. In fact those lists have grown by quite a bit from the early days in the house. Unfortunately our cash flow has decreased significantly. So for now it's all pipe-dreams and somedays.

So lets see, the topic for today.....Everybody loves tax refunds and "economic stimulus packages."

Now normally I don't really support things like the stimulus package (see side note) that our dear Congress approved, but frankly I could use the influx of money to do a little work on my house like, oh...did someone say finally fixing my tape window? You did, well then you'd be right! It gets humid in my house on warm days. HUMID! Yeah, that's not right. I can handle hot or cold but humid indoors...oh no...not so much.

So I'm thinking this new-found money (thanks Dubbya) will go towards:

1. Installation of a new bathroom window
2. Getting the duct work looked at under the house finally
3. Beefing up the insulation in our crawl space
4. If there's any left over after the 1st three, I would love to purchase and install a new door to our back patio, but that may have to wait.

Yes I know, exciting stuff but really if you lived in the house with us you'd be thrilled. These are fantastic options. Who needs light switches that actually work (anyone know a good electrician?) or faucet knobs in the bathroom that don't suck (total bathroom reno in our future) when you can actually sit in your house on a hot day and know that you don't have cold air escaping out your tape window, your poor ducts under your house, or out your poorly insulated roof. That's what I thought.

Side note: While I understand the purpose behind the whole stimulus package thing (or tax cuts like the voters here in FL passed) it affects the public service things we depend on for day to day life. I mean hello, taxes pay for your road maintenance, police force, county library...all those things that the government provides that we just take for granted. When these tax cuts/packages occur, it means less money to provide those services.....and yes, to my dear brother who strongly disagrees with me on this point. I know that the money that I'm getting back is technically mine and I earned it, but I'd prefer knowing that our court system has enough money to run full time year round than having the extra $XX in my pocket (yes in FL they almost had to shut down some parts of the court system for (at minimum) 2 months due to a lack of funds as a result of tax cuts).