Life at Sharon Kay

After the wedding bells chimed and life began we returned from the honeymoon to life at Sharon Kay Apartments. Ryan had been the on site manager for 3 years and we decided that the rent free bonus out weighed anything else and I moved in. Ryan's previous time spent there had been
filled with male roommates and furnished with treasures that had been found on the streets. After vacuuming my apartment most recently I told Ryan that his vacuum smelled funny and that it might be nice to get a new one. He proceeded to tell me that the vacuum had been in the apartment when he moved in now over 4 year
s ago and he thought that someone had found it on the street. Gross. We are in the process of buying a BRAND NEW one right now (any suggestions on preferences let me know!) The entire apartment fell into this category. Before we cleaned and then painted and then cleaned again and again and again I wouldn't dare walk around barefoot. I still wore flip flops in the shower which I said I would never do again after doing it for 1.5 years in Venezuela. After all of the work it was livable and kind of cozy. Our days consisted of speaking to all of our neighbors in Spanish..thank goodness we still had a chance to keep up on it...and taking shopping carts back to Smith's. That one embarrassed me all of the time until Ryan pushed me and the nieces in one. Now I see shopping carts as only entertainment! After fixing the place up and actually enjoying my time there we were told that a new owner had purchased the building and a manager was no longer needed but if we wanted to stay we could pay $675 a month to live in

the ghetto (9th East 750 South for those who don't believe me...go drive by!). So we opted to leave behind our cozy home and search for greener pastures which we now pay for (and hate doing so every month) but love. Here are some pics of the old place....
Don't feel like you are missing out on the pics that are cut off...that really is all of the place. We were pushed up against a wall to even get the pics that we did. I chose to left out the picture of the closet as I don't like to be reminded how small it was. I wished I could just go naked because it was a fight to try to get clothes out of the thing they were smashed so tightly in there. Yet I still kept on shopping for more! I can't wait until I get a HUGE closet all to myself!!!

Happy Halloween 2007!?!

So although I didn't make it for the deadline of our one year anniversary to update everyone on our first year of being married...better late than never. Now I am just hoping for gettin' 'er done before the end of the year...which may I add...PLEASE STOP DOING A COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS! What's with you people. I can now see the attractiveness of Christmas in July. Let the wierdos get it out of their system! Anyway...Halloween was exciting for me last year. It was the first year that I was able to dress up with my hubby. The year before we got engaged on Halloween so there was NO costume for that one. I decided that I would be Tinker Bell and that Doc (we all remember my very good friend Doc) would be Captain hook. As you can all see he plays a fabulous Hook. He actually played the part too. All day long. I wanted him to be Cat Woman and I Bat Man but he wouldn't as it would be very difficult to act the part all day long and at the hopsital! So Tinker Bell and Hook it was. That left only one choice for my sexy man...Peter Pan. Pushing aside Ryan's displeasure I shopped for his "outfit" and settled on a green T-Shirt which I would cut to give it some jagged edges, a cool felt hat and of course green tights. I can say that when I showed him what was in the bag when I got home that night our first real fight as newly weds developed. Needless to say he dressed up as a Lumber Jack?!? That's right. He thought of the most MANLY costume he could come up with and to this day when remembering the story he just shakes his head and says "I can't believe you wanted me to wear that short T-Shirt and tights. I just can't believe it". Happy Halloween 2007. Hopefully I do a better job for 2008.







One can't forget Grampy on a day like this either. He didn't even know what he was. Old people can get away with anything!