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This post is called “Around the Looking Glass” instead of “Through the Looking Glass” because we didn’t change the windows, we just changed around the windows.

But first I would like to “brag” about our “Perfect” January Southern California Weather.

Here we are on the “island” of Coronado which is just on the other side of the San Diego Bay from Downtown San Diego.

It looks beautiful, and look how we’re dressed! However… “Perfect” is in quotation marks because I have a few complaints. First of all I’m going to set the record straight and let you all in on a little secret. Kyle and I don’t actually live in the city of San Diego. GASP! Nope. We live in San Diego County. I did state in earlier posts that we live about 20 minutes from the ocean, so that should have clued some of you in. Anyway, I just want to let everyone know that we’re not trying to be deceiving when we say we live in San Diego. The actual city we live in is El Cajon, and the house we remodeled was in Lakeside. If you aren’t familiar with Southern California (or even San Diego county for that matter) you probably haven’t heard of or you just don’t really know where those cities are. So to make it easier to geographically explain our location in the world, we simply say San Diego. Many San Diego county residents do this because it just makes it easier and then we don’t have to explain where we live. San Diego is well-known, so no explanation is needed. Now here I am giving an explanation anyway.

When Kyle and I first got married, we lived in the town called Ocean Beach in the city of San Diego, so San Diego is just the mother city of the entire county. If you want to do anything fun, you go to San Diego. So the city of San Diego is kind of like our front yard, I guess.

Even though San Diego has awesome weather compared to most places in the world, I still don’t like the dryness. It’s like living in a desert. And when you live 20 minutes from the ocean in Southern California, you pretty much are in the desert. I have problems with dry weather. It hurts my nose. It creates a constant flow of static from my cats fur to me, to my hair, to my chair, to my flannel pajama pants, etc. Even my laptop has been shocking me lately (which I must say is kinda scary because it’s an electronic that is hooked up to an electrical socket!)

Anyway, if you don’t like dry weather, you definitely wouldn’t have liked the last 30 days we’ve had here. It’ s been about 80 degrees with probably 1% humidity. I am so glad because just yesterday the clouds started showing up. Yay! (people in Seattle are probably thinking “You’re so ungrateful”). No, I get it. I know that Southern California has better weather than most of the world… I mean, the most moderate climate anyway. But nothing’s perfect and I am just all dried up. Not to mention that the drought we’ve been having is probably going to cause our water prices to go up (which actually doesn’t affect me personally anymore since we rent, but I care about others too).

Okay, so now that I’ve blabbed your ear off with complaints about our perfect San Diego weather, I’d like to get on to the purpose of this post, which is to show you what we did to fix up the window framing in our master bedroom.

The window framing wasn’t finished, so we put thin plywood around the window sill because drywall would have been to thick over the window frame line…

We had to sand this plywood like crazy and then we nailed it in and put caulking over the nail holes. We were really lame and didn’t get a nail gun until December of 2010. So hammering nails in was pretty difficult and time consuming until that point.

We actually ended up replacing the glass in these windows, but we didn’t get around to it until May of 2011.

The window on the west side of the room was a new window, which was nice. After we put the wood up, we painted it white.

Then we put trim around it.

The trim gave it a much more finished look than just having drywall go around the corners of the window sill.

So how do you think our windows turned out? Well, at least it’s better than before.

And here are some cool pictures that Kyle took one morning when steam was literally coming off our fence.

It was pretty crazy looking.

Anyway, that’s it for today. Just a nice little post. Come back tomorrow because we’ll be showing you our brand new clean carpet! Yay!

Did you guys notice that Kyle wrote his first post yesterday!? I was super stoked.

Check out his Monster Truck Jam blog post here.

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