Define: Ghetto Fab

"A slight step up from ghetto. The difference between ghetto and ghetto fab is ghetto is rock bottom skid-row but ghetto fab has a 'bling' associated with it." -Courtesy of urbandictionary.com

So, does this count? Our heater broke in the play/computer room New Year's Eve morning. We got a baseboard style from Home Depot instead. Poor Jake just can't replace the drywall where the broken heater is right now and the baseboard can keep up better with how cold that room gets, anyway. So to have everything fit together in the space, it was easier to
( ghetto fab: ) cut out a spot in the old grill using a dremel allowing everything to still look 'stream-lined.' He did a really neat job. Every project has a story. Maybe he'll fix it later, but.. then it will no longer be ghetto fab any more. We'll see.

Lights Out! Humbug!!!

Jake and I have been consoling ourselves with one pact as we've been knee deep in DIY remodeling the past eight months and that is this: we will do the inside of our home this year, next year, the outside (yard, paint, restaining the decks, etc.) We have reminded ourselves and found peace in the tornadoes that seemed to be making up the mid-project bathroom... And other places.
Congradulations should be in order because we are so burned out! and sticking to this agreement with great adhearance. The only sacrifice is there will be no Christmas lights adorning our house this year. No, not one. Dissapointing yes. But now you know the circumstance. So I will share with you the Griswold House---and know that we love Christmas here at Woody House & Home, though not showing it in 25,000 dazzling twinkle lights!! The message: Humbug, AND God Bless Us, Every One :)

The Roamer at Home

What's a girl to do,
where can she lay her pretty head?
She must exile to the outside,
to take a break, instead.


Then where is she to get away
-buzzing, pounding-
the din is poured?
Adaptive Angel entertained,
behind a quiet door.

Oh, what is a girl to do
when she loves her laboring family?
Can't help but to Help
make a house a Home,
a place where we can be!!