OH MY GOODNESS is Winter here with a vengeance now! Winter wanted to wait awhile to make her appearance this year (it was 70 degrees here on Christmas), but now we are having some single digit weather. The "feels like" temperature this morning was 3 degrees! That is painfully cold. We still haven't had any snow or ice yet though, so that's good!
Our New Year's Eve was quite relaxing, as it usually is. We made some steaks at home, and drank some champagne, and watched some movies! The next morning we got up pretty early to head to the train station to take the train into the city for the big Mummer's Parade. Our train ended up being an HOUR late (they were having electrical problems), so that wasn't very fun... But once we got into the city it was fun to see all of the parade madness. We walked over to our friend Timmy's apartment and met up with some other friends there, and we all hung out there drinking champagne and watching the parade on TV for a bit before heading outside to join in the madness. After we'd watched the parade for quite awhile, a few of us walked over to Big Mike's apartment and had some pizza and beers there. By the time we got back home, we were soooo exhausted! It was a long day of being totally unproductive and irresponsible, and it was awesome.
Some of the floats/props getting ready for the parade!
Some of the parade!
More parade! And that's our friend Leslie in the blue scarf (and Big Mike is on the right)
Here's McGee and Jen (Mike's girlfriend) and Mike!
Here we are hanging out in Mike's kitchen! He's holding one of his cats, and Timmy is clearly telling a super awesome story!
On Saturday we FINALLY got our new fridge! I don't know if I've told most of you the fridge saga, but we've had TWO failed attempts at fridge deliveries... The two fridges were horribly damaged, but it turns out the 3rd time was the charm! We finally got our new fridge. Here's our old fridge:
The old fridge was dying, and it was also actually too big for the space. You're supposed to have at least a tiny bit of space on the sides for some air flow, and this one was literally wedged in the space. We had to take the molding off of the wall to be able to pull the fridge out! And it had scratch marks on the sides from where it scraped the cabinets and wall. So... here's our new (slightly smaller but appropriately sized for the space) refrigerator:
It's slightly smaller, but it's also WAY nicer!! And we moved the old fridge down to the basement and we'll use it for drinks, etc. which will clear out some space in our main fridge!
Our kitchen is slowly but surely coming along. We still need to remove all of the wallpaper (and they wallpapered that whole wall behind the fridge too... how lovely of them...) and then we need to paint, and then eventually we'll need a new dishwasher (WAY cheaper than a fridge!), and we still need new hinges on our cupboards (they're still the brass ones that are in rough shape...). And then that room is officially done!
We've also been working on the downstairs bathroom, and I'll post updates on that soon. It's slowly but surely coming along. We're also making good progress on our basement! I'll take pics of all of that soon.
I hope everyone is having a great New Year so far!!
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