In Tuesday’s post I mentioned that my bestie Megan and I went house shopping for when Neil and I move to Madisonville… here’s the story that will bring you to date on that decision:
OK so here’s the thing:
Neil was serving at a restaurant in Kuttawa, the town about 10 mins away from the lake house. When he graduated from college he was asked to be a manager at the new restaurant the company was building in Madisonville, which is about 50 mins away. Our best friends live there so we know the area well enough. He was having a hard time finding a teaching job so he took the management position. They trained at the restaurant in Franklin (about 2 hours away) until the Madisonville one was done.
They opened this past week and it’s been crazy! Even tho we’ve had an open invitation to stay at our besties’ house so that Neil won’t have to drive so much, he hasn’t been staying there because he wants to come home to me. Sweet but stupid. Anyway, we had talked about moving to Madisonville when/if he was promoted because although we can afford it now, we’re living rent free at the lake house and would like to keep it that way as long as possible. But these past few weeks have been so hard on him and me too really. He works 18 or so hours a day and then drives home really early in morning only to have about 4 ish hours of sleep and get up and do it all over again. My bestie and I decided to take things in our own hands and look for apartments/houses/duplexes to rent last weekend and viola! we found a house! It’s about 100 years old but the landlord is renovating it so it’ll have all the charm of an old house but with modern finishes 
At first Neil didn’t like it at all (he didn’t want to move in the first place) but Monday night while driving home he dozed off for a few seconds and almost collided with another car! I took him to see the house again Thursday morning and we wrote the deposit check that afternoon! The landlord says it should be done by next Friday so hopefully Neil will only have one week of driving left. I’ve actually been thinking about staying at the besties’ house there in Madisonville for most of the week if they’ll let us. I’m excited but at the same time a little stressed (nursing school starts back up on the 11th) because of everything we have to get done for the move in such a short time!
floor plan I drew on excel. don’t make fun
Today my mom and I went around to various stores in Paducah in search of things for the new place. I found a ton of stuff I liked but for the life of me I can’t remember any of the colors of the house! The only room I can visualize color wise is the front mud room or as we’re calling it, my office, and that color is blue. Most likely a light blue, maybe even baby blue? Gosh I wish I could remember! Anyway! Since I’m really really REALLY into blue, yellow, and gray as a color combination I went ahead and bought some office stuff. Yay! The following was found at Tuesday Morning.
I plan on buying some from this collection from Walmart:
And last but not least, here’s a picture I took with my phone right before I bought….My refrigerator!
I’m looking forward to going this week and taking pictures of the “before” to show you guys what it looks like right now and then show you what it will look like in the end. Eeee I’m SO excited!
