Movies, Air Conditioning and Basements

Eric and I had a good weekend. Good in that we were relaxed, not that we got a lot accomplished. But that is ok, it was too hot to really do anything anyway. As we sat huddled in the basement with the cats on Sunday, we decided two things. 1) We need to get central air. 2) We are going to finish the basement so we have a nice place to huddle until we get central air. The girls didn’t seem particularly pleased with this plan, especially Smidge, since it is going to require walls going up in the basement. That will mean that both of her favorite pastimes will have to stop; sitting on the water heater to look down on everything and throwing up on the floor...but I think they will like the carpet. That concrete gets chilly in the winter.

We got inspiration to finish the basement (again) when we went to Eric’s friend John’s house on Saturday for his graduation party. He has almost the same basement as us and has a family room in it. The trick is that instead of framing out the walls (which are also braced) and putting up drywall, they just painted them and put down carpet. And it looked good. It didn’t look awesome, but honestly, it isn’t going to be a showroom. We just need the extra living space! Maybe then we will feel comfortable enough to have people over for parties if they don’t all have to scrunch into the living room.

Otherwise, we spent a lot of time this weekend at the movie theater or shopping. We saw Over the Hedge and X-Men. Over the Hedge was actually really good. I thought it would be more of a kids movie, but the end was actually hilarious. Eric, Vanessa and Dan enjoyed it too. X-Men was pretty good. I was a little disappointed at the huge departure from the actual X-Men storyline, but I will get over it. The special effects were really good. Maybe I am just getting used to seeing CGI stuff finally, but I thought they really made the fight scenes look real.

That is all, we will keep everyone updated on our attempts to actually begin and finish a large house project. Our track record hasn’t been very good in the last year….