Saturday, May 2, 2009

House Hunting Again

Today Harry and I went to see four houses in Northridge. The first one (Pictured on left and below) we saw was very nice, it was a four bedroom and two bath. It had a decent size living room, a separate dining room and two larger master bedrooms and two smaller bedrooms. The kitchen was fairly small but looked very nice. One very cool feature about this house were the wood ceilings. Not all of the rooms had them but it was a very "country" looking feature which Harry and I really liked. Of course the best part of the house was the lot it was sitting on. Over 8000 square feet and most of it in the backyard. It has so many huge trees in the backyard. Of course it will cost a bit of money to fix up the front and back yard and will need to put in a dishwasher in the kitchen and would like to replace the wood looking lament on all the floors, but everything else was pretty good. We a were already thinking about how we could expand the house and add a much larger kitchen and make the current kitchen part of the living area. But we must move on to house two.










House two (Pictured on Below) was in an okay neighborhood, and the house was in okay shape. It needed a bit of work but we figure for the price that we are paying we would have to do a little fixing up. We still liked the first house but the second one wasn't bad.





Now the third house (Pictured Below) had people living in it. A very sweet older couple and they did quite a bit if renovations on it already. The house was beautiful inside and out. Huge master suite and one of the most beautiful kitchen we had seen. Everything was great with one exception there wasn't much of a back yard. Most of the remodel took up their back yard but still they had one. We were really temped by this one.










Our fourth house (not pictured) was on an okay street but needed alot of work. Looks like they started renovating the house but then stopped. The kitchen was wonderful with granite counter tops and slate floors.. Harry really fell in love with that kitchen but the rest of the house needed alot of work. It did have a nice backyard but not as large as the first house.

So we had two houses that we loved and two that were okay.

After looking at houses with our Realtor Mary. Harry and I went out and drove around Woodland Hills and Granda Hills looking at houses we found online to check out neighborhoods and houses to see if we wanted to pass on the info to our Realtor so she could set up a viewing.

It was pretty much a bust... in Woodland Hills one house was condemned, two were on stilts on hillsides (I refuse to live on stilts) but the third looked okay and will send to our Realtor. As for Granda Hills out of the 15 house we looked at only three were in areas that looked okay. So will send those to our Realtor.

We are now home, tired and very tempted by the first house we saw today. We are going to sleep on it and talk about it tomorrow. The house has been on the market for over 600 days so it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Friday, May 1, 2009

New G.I. Joe Trailer

I've never been a fan of G.I. Joe but I have to say this new trailer is ROCKIN' Can't wait to see it this summer.

G.I. JOE trailer in HD


http://tinyurl.com/dj7m73

Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Guild BTS Specials

There are two new Guild specials up on MSN Video.

First one is Meet the Characters where the cast talks about their character and how they interact with the other characters. http://bit.ly/xEiGZ

Second one is Meet the Extras and that's the one I shot, produced and edited. I talk with several of the extras during the four day shoot for episodes 9, 10, 11 and 12. http://bit.ly/PdBSR

A little taste as to what will be on the DVD in May.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Getting No Sleep

Well last night I went to bed around 1am, well that is when I actually got into bed, but our neighbor dog was barking and for some reason he loves to bark right outside our bedroom window. He/she is some sort of pitbull mix so the bark is loud. The barking started about Midnight and continued non-stop until 4:30am when I finally was able to fall asleep.

As those of you who know me I am a huge animal lover but around 2:30am I was ready to kill that dog, or at least turn the hose on it. This dog barked constantly, I'm not kidding.. non-stop for hours by the time 4am came around the dog was losing it's bark.

We have a fan in our bedroom and I turned it on full blast to drown out the bark but that kind of worked and I was finally about to dose off.. I don't know when he stopped but when I got up at 7:30am he wasn't barking.

I don't blame the dog, these neighbors are horrible to it. They use to have two dogs and then they had puppies. But now they seem to have just this one dog now. They never take it out for walks or give it any kind of attention and when it's raining you can hear it whimpering in the backyard and it breaks your heart. This dog barks all the time and had a barking spree a few months back but only lasted a few hours.. this time it over over 3 1/2 hours. Though I know it's not the dogs fault all my rage last night was toward this poor puppy.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

10,000 Downloads

Knights of the Guild podcast which I started three months ago has just hit 10,000 downloads. It's amazing on how many people listen and continue to listen to our podcast. We actually have fans which is so weird and what is even weirder is they can't wait to meet us down in San Diego for Comic Con this year.

I just want to thank all those who listen and enjoy Knights of the Guild.. Jenni (my co-host) and I are just fans who happen to work on the second season of The Guild and want to share our experience with other fans.

The Guild fan community is so wonderful.. ::cheers:: here's to many more podcasts and downloads.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Next Day

Today Harry and I planned on driving around and looking about over 20 homes in the Van Nuys and Pasadena area. It's funny how one street can be beautiful and quiet and then the next street over is run down and old looking. We found about seven homes to look at in Van Nuys/Lake Balboa. We even found another really nice neighborhood over my the Van Nuys airport.. very excited about that because the houses were nice looking and it seems there were several in our price range.

Our trip to Pasadena wasn't so great. We had five homes to look at there and the first one was okay on an okay street. The part of Pasadena we were looking at is very old and the houses are very old. Most of the streets and houses were very "lived" in and I felt comfortable driving down some of them. So needless to say our experience in Pasadena, at least the area that we could afford was not a good one. We did find one home actually on Kenneth Way that was nice looking and the area looked okay but it was right next to the freeway.

So we emailed our Realtor Mary our finding and hopefully will be able to look at some of those house that we liked from the outside. And that ends day two of our house hunting. We were excited to find the two nice areas of Van Nuys and that gives up hope that we might be able to actually find a home that is nice looking and in a nice area.. keep your fingers crossed.