No more cold feet

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! I sure did!

I'm sorry I lied and told you that I had lots of posts for last week...but it turned into such a busy week!!

First of all, I started painting 15 of these:

The new ones on the left.  BIG improvement from the ones on the right, right?  I can't say I got very far though on my painting, one coat of oil base on only 12 doors...but I'm still working on it (as well as my wedding thank you notes : ).

Anyways, so I started painting doors, ordered some windows (BIG...HUGE YAY!!!!!!!), went to Mississippi for Thanksgiving, and drove up to Nashville for the rest of the week. Very fun, busy, fulfilling week, but I am exhausted!

But really the point of my story: my new bedroom rug.  My mom found this rug in Nashville over a year ago and I have loved it since.  The problem was, the rug was in Nashville, not in Memphis and if I bought it in Nashville it would some how have to travel to Memphis which really wasn't ideal.  So after looking and looking and looking I couldn't find anything else I like in Memphis, so I ordered the Nashville rug and THEN realized it was not going to fit in a truck, or SUV, or anything. So we dad jammed it in my mom's SUV until only 2 feet hung out the back and rode like this for 3 hours, back to Memphis, in the right hand lane, with all the windows down (so not to die on carbon monoxide (oohhh was I warned!) in 50 degree weather. Needless to say I got TONS of looks.

via google

Ok, so not really like that, but this was only image I could find on google that somewhat resembled how I felt. (On a side note, the search terms, "packed trunk" does not get the desired image results (I do not suggest googling it), instead I used "car packed with mexicans" and found exactly what I was looking for! hmm...)

Soo I got the rug back safely to Memphis and I think the unloading process is shown best with pictures.

Before:

Step 1: Carry the rug pad in the house and center on floor: SUCCESSFUL.

Step 2: Carry the rug in the back door: UNSUCCESSFUL.

Step 3: Carry the rug in the front door: UNSUCCESSFUL (see image below)

Also pictured: a pair of hunting boots. Not pictured: the owner of the boots whose thoughts, while not heard (thank you for that!), were probably not appropriate to be posted on this blog. 

Step 5: Brainstorm about what to do while considering cutting my arms off.

Step 6: Realize there is one way left:

Go through the window (duh!): SUCCESSFUL!!

And voila, we finally have a bedroom carpet!!

I couldn't be happier with it and even more happy that I have no more cold feet in the morning :)
Perfect timing, too, might I add because the high was only 45 today. Burrrrr....

Love,
Leigh