some pictures for friday...

so i absolutely love having a house to live in. one of the coolest things is being able to do little projects around the house. here are a few things i've done since we've moved in. i feel like such a man :)

this is a before picture of our kitchen sink area. it was not bad, actually it is by far our favorite kitchen sink that we've ever had. but i was inspired by Larry and Christy's kitchen light project. so Crystal and I went to Lowes and selected a nice light to go overhead (under the cabinet).
i drilled a hole through the cabinet to place the electrical cord.

and this is the finished product, i love love love the way this looks now. it is such an improvement to the kitchen atmosphere. and the best part of it is that the light switch you see in the picture works on the light. the left switch is the light, the right switch is the garbage disposal. love it! :)

dresser in a box. this has to be the heaviest box that i've picked up (or tried to pick up) in a long while. it took me almost four hours to screw this thing together (with some valuable help from Crystal). but we are very happy with the way it turned out. we were able to put her baby dresser (changing table) out in the garage (in a safe spot, man i love having a garage for storage!).



there... done... :)

The before product. The walls are still white (notice the final color in the last few pics) and the bedroom set is still super-90's.

goodbye 90's knobs...
the spraypainting process. it was fairly easy, but a little messy (notice my feet).
there... done... :)


so i've come to realize that traffic is really not bad here in memphis, especially for the size of the city. the scary thing is that people are really aggresive, crazy drivers. so there are a lot of wrecks around the city. one of my favorite things while i'm driving is to listen to the AM station that lists the traffic report every ten minutes. there are dozens of wrecks daily. today there was a huge one on one of the roads i take to school every morning. luckily i had an 8 am exam this morning so i was running very early and didn't get stuck in it. but on my way home they were still cleaning it up. i'm not sure what happened but there was a truck full of sand, a jeep, a pick-up truck, and a few other cars involved. you can see the truck under the red awning of the gas station to the right of the picture below.

so i drove around to get a better view... i'm parked here under that red awning at one of the gas pumps. you can see the sand that has spread across the whole road.


can you imagine if you had been standing there pumping gas and this truck came flying at you. thank goodness no one was using the pay-phone.