Pirates Rock!

Thanks Jane for the great site! One of my ancestors was the pirate Jack Rackham (whom Captain Jack Sparrow was loosely based on), so this was cool that my name turned out to be Rackham too! My aunt had the same thing happen. Actually Jane did too. Maybe this site is really dedicated to ol' Jack. Let me know if any of you get Rackham names too!

My pirate name is:

Dirty Jenny Rackham

You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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Our new Honda Ridgeline! Yay!!! We sold the Chevy Blazer we had (time to upgrade before anything went majorly wrong with it) and went with another import. This time from Honda (we have a Toyota Camry we love too).
Long ago (when we first got married) we made a bit of a deal. Aaron really wanted a truck and I told him that when I got a house, he could have a truck. I guess you could say we’re square now. :) It’s a great truck with some really cool features that made it a practical vehicle to buy as well as fun (simply because it’s a truck). It has loads of storage space even inside the cab and can fit 5 people. The truck bed has a trunk (like a car) in it that is actually insulated so you can use it as a cooler! (That sounds like picnic/camping fun!) There is even a drain in the bottom so you can let the water out. Honda is smart I am thinking.

The only downside to the truck is that it is longer and wider than the Blazer, so it’s a bit of a tight squeeze fitting it in the garage! It will fit though, so I guess we can keep it! Here is our own truck (contrary to what you all thought, I did not take that lovely promotional photo above). It’s not the greatest pic (taken in the parking garage at work), but it’ll do until I can get some better ones.

Patriotic Theme

Ok no more construction on the blog for at least 3 1/2 weeks now. I promise. I know I've gone all over on it. I just decided to be patriotic for a bit (since July 4th is steadily approaching). The spring theme totally wasn't working for me, particularly after I learned some fun new header tricks. So I changed it. Here's the result for the next couple of weeks!

Bye Bye Comfy Couch

OK so we bought this couch and chair shortly before getting married. It was the first large purchase we bought together (that I remember) and therefore it holds a special place in our hearts.

We got the the point though where we decided we were ready for something bigger and newer (and not blue since most of you know I am a green person really). I posted the couch on craigslist and in 18 minutes it was sold to a person offering to come pick it up within 2 days and pay cash for it - at the asking price! Also, the asking price was only about $10 less than we paid for it 6 years ago, so we felt like we got a great deal too!

The furniture sold on Monday and they came and got it on Wednesday. They were super happy and kept saying what a great deal it was. They totally would have paid more for it!

The house was empty and sad after the couch and chair left. I think it had the blues (ha ha). We actually pulled our gimpy air mattress down (it deflates quickly) and set it up so we would have something to sit on and fill the room up a bit until we got furniture.
We had been shopping for furniture for awhile and not really found anything we were crazy about that was not uber expensive and that was in stock, so we didn't buy anything. Finally, when we found out Aaron's parents were coming out we decided we would get any of the pieces of our desired sectional that we could and we would wait for the others.

We changed configurations about a zillion times, and when we went to get the 1-2 pieces we could on Wednesday, we found that they had ALL of our pieces in! Hooray! Here is the finished product:

It's microfiber, so it should stay good looking for awhile. I think it will look great once we get the room painted and those pillows recovered (triple eww). Stay tuned to see the finished room when we get it done! (Hopefully soon!)

Paisley Change

Ok apparently the big paisleys took WAY too long to load unless you were on a high speed connection. Let's try the little tiles. Any opinions? Too busy? I may just start over...