HELP!!!

OK, so if you've been reading along you know we're stuck! We took out some walls (it looks awesome!) but it's changed the "flow" of the house and now we can't decide what to do with the flooring. I've posted a slideshow of the floor plan showing how it was "floored" when we got it, and three different options for what to do now. PLEASE look at the floor plans and then answer the poll in the upper right hand corner here. We have to decide PRONTO 'cause our contractor works at the speed of light and he's going to order the materials right away. I can't slow this guy down so someone needs to SPEED ME UP!!

P.S. - you can click on this post's title ("HELP!!!") and it will play the slideshow full screen for you so you can get a better look at the floor plans and our thoughts on them.

P.S.S. - Tell everyone you know to vote!!

THE WALLS ARE GONE!!!

So I missed one day of going and checking on the construction crew and when I get there today...

THE WALLS ARE GONE!!!!!!!!

Actually (hehe), that was in the plan. I've got to post a floor plan and you'll see why. I mean really... there were these two walls that separated the house in half that just JUMPED out at us as soon as we walked in the front door. The first thing I thought when we went and looked at this house was, "Can we rip out those two walls?"

Well, as of today, they're history!!! AND IT LOOKS GREAT!!! Well, as great as it can considering the other walls and floor are all torn up and the place looks like... well... a construction site :)

I put links on for each of the slideshows now cause the blog page was getting too crowded... follow the links - see the ever changing shape of this project.

More importantly, I'm going to put up the floor plan and I need YOU to help me to decide what to do with the flooring!!! The wall removal didn't go exactly as planned so now we've got to rethink the flooring. My contractor and I disagree on how to handle it and Sponge is remaining calmly neutral about the whole thing. I'm wondering if I'm crazy to question my contractor or if I just have better taste than he does. So I'm going to post the floor plan each way and then put a poll up here for you to vote. Get EVERYONE you know to vote 'cause I HAVE to make a decision within about a day so we can sign off on the materials order.

Oh, and I was going to say check back soon to see the floor plans but guess what! I put an RSS feed thingy at the bottom of this blog... you can SUBSCRIBE now! WooHoo!! So subscribe and then come vote as soon as you see me post the floor plans. And feel free to leave comments soo... we can use all the help we can get :)

SPONGE IS SEQUESTERED

Sponge has sequestered himself in the bedroom - busy writing LESSON THREE. He's been in there awhile. I told him he was limited to 3 paragraphs... 4 at the most. It seems LESSON THREE was a significantly more difficult lesson than I realized. He studied for months before he came across the eye-opening, life altering lesson that changed our way of thinking. So now, I'm told, LESSON THREE is undoubtedly going to be more than one lesson.

I'M EXCITED! In the months that Sponge was studying his way to LESSON THREE, I was simply busy working. Working night and day as an independent contractor so that I could give half my income to Uncle Sam and still have enough left over to pay the bills. Sponge, on the other hand, (while working night and day too) was busy studying how to keep a little more of our earnings for ourselves.

Sooooooo... this post is primarily to get you ready for LESSON THREE and maybe a few more. By the time we're done, you're going to see securing your financial future a little differently then they taught you in school. And, hopefully, be able to start now to secure not only YOUR future, but a future for your kids, and their kids, and their kids, etc. Learning a new way of thinking can provide a future for generations to come and our hope is to lead you in that direction - FOR FREE!!!

THE STORM BEFORE THE CALM?

Just a quick update... we started construction today at Medallion (and closed on Sun Bay). You know Medallion was just fine without any improvements... we'd actually have been happy to live there as our primary residence. BUT... to make it really valuable there are all these little improvements we wanted to make (like today they were scraping the popcorn off the ceilings). As you can see - things get alot worse before they start to get better! Isn't this what they call "the storm before the calm"? (hehe)