TOK goes to the Movies, again

    " Yippee Ki Yay, Mother......" . This Monday, we're back at the movies, movie quotes to be exact. "It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no telling where you might be swept off to",  so, "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night"

 

     If you're thinking, "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore", you'd be exactly right. I moved. To Oshawa, affectionately know as the 'Schwa. I took the plunge and moved to the 'burbs. Didn't know the area, don't really know anyone out here, was more than a little apprehensive having been a downtown boy for soooooo many years. But you know, I love it here. "It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself". "Don't ever let somebody tell you...You can't do something." Let me show you around.

      Come on in, grab a seat, relax a little in the living room. We can have a chat. Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

    Here's the side view of the living room. Looks like the mirror is not going to say. We're thinking gas fire place on the feature wall. Big built in mantle. Yes?

     From the couch in the living room, you can see to the kitchen. There are very few full walls in the new house.

"Gimme some sugar, baby."

Sure if you've got the arms of an orangutan.

Who builds out cupboards to the depth of the fridge?

Now I know you're all jealous of my custom built kitchen, but... "There's three ways to do things, the right way, the wrong way and the way that I do it." This is a recurring theme in the house. I'm not sure who the DIYer was. “ I appreciate it, but I don't accept it. ”

"But you are, Blanche! You are in that chair! ”

      The dining room is right off the kitchen, one large room really. And speaking of those chairs, let me tell you how much I hate that dining room set. It looked  good in the showroom, not so good in the old house or the new one. I was very disappointed it didn't get lost or damaged in the move. That's pretty much it for the main floor. Time to move up stairs.

      Love the stair case, not just one bend but two. "All right Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close up." South facing dormer windows, great for a little greenery.

 "Why don't you come on up and see me sometime -- when I've got nothin' on but the radio." cuz I'll be relaxing in the huge cast iron tub in the bathroom. I love having a tub I fit in that holds more than an inch and a half of water.

     There are three bedrooms and a no television or computers upstairs rule.
   

Mine.

The never made bed

"No wire hangers, ever"

     A spare room, right now with the wall of books still in boxes.

     No pictures of the other half's bedroom. As you can see I haven't spent too much time yet on the second floor. And even though we do have the space, "No, thank you. We don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations." I'd like a chance to settle in first.

     Which brings us to this.

Access to the attic. "You shall not pass!" But of course I had to

"The horror...the horror."

I told you there was a lot of junk up there. " I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."

     Maybe back down stairs.

     I've got a big deck off the dining room, a decent sized yard, unfortunately that shed on the fence is also plugged full of junk. Spring will see a lot of clean up work before any planting occurs. But I'm okay with that.

     The only place you haven't seen? Well it's right down the stairs. The descent into the "man cave".

"What a dump." you may be thinking.

Not so

What do I do down here?

"Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh!"

Currently reviving my love affair with Youtube

Listening to stuff like this and this

     With any new place there are always a few, let's call them eccentricities. "There's nothing bigger in life than the little things..." " Houston, we have a problem." You're damn right we have a problem, there's  only 11 outlets in the whole freakin' house. Until I can get an electrician in, a lot of this.

      I've had to replace the new " smart" clock we got. It tells perfect time, just not the one it's set to on the back and you can't manually fix it. Sorry smart clock, you've got to go.

"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"

That pretty much concludes the tour. Yes, I bought another fixer upper. "Stupid is as stupid does."

    I know I've used up way more than my 10 quotes, bonus points if you can identify all of them, but I was having so much fun showing you around.. Here are three of my actual favourites.

Why would God make us all so different if he wanted us to be the same? 

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.

And finally, Luke, I am your father. They'd take away my geek card if I missed that one.

     Let's go see Stasha and read up on everyone else's . " Party on Wayne."

     Need the answers? Here's the key.