 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Stonely, welcome to a new vlog. Today we're finally getting our dining room table, which is really exciting because I have not had a place to work other than the couch for, I mean ever since we moved into that place because Ryan took my desk and I have my desk. I gave Ryan my desk, but I ordered my desk and it should be here like January, hopefully. And honestly, the dining room table wasn't a priority for me because I really wanted the breakfast table first, but the dining table was actually in stock. So we're driving up to the CB2 outlets to pick it up because delivery, I can't remember if they didn't offer it or if it was just like stupid expensive. So hopefully the table fits in my car, but if not, I think Ryan said we could just like tie it up on the top of my car. We already have the dining room chairs. It actually got delivered during Thanksgiving and my friend Keana was so nice and she just like pushed them through the door because I was like a little worried that these big boxes would be on our patio, but I haven't opened them. So I guess we're just gonna open everything and set everything up today and see how it looks. Pulling up on all these warehouses. Oh, are we? We're one minute away. What the ramp? It literally fits perfectly in my car. I cannot believe this. We first seem to get it cleaned out so that we can build the table in here and probably the chairs. I'm not sure if the chairs came assembled, but I guess we're gonna figure it out when we open them up. So I went into the garage and broke down all the boxes. So I put those in my car. Probably gonna take them over to our old apartment building and just like put them in the trash room because I mean, we're still paying for at least for maybe a whole other week. So I might as well use the amenities like the trash ballet. So we're gonna do that and then put all these wood, like the wood floors in the garage where I just cleared out. And we returned a good amount of wood. I think we got like almost $300 back, right? Just from the wood floors because we overbought. But a lot of people said that sometimes wood floors can like be discontinued or like the specific color that you have. So I kept a couple of them just in case anything happens but hopefully nothing happens to your floors because they're brand new. I couldn't even imagine anything happening because they're like glued them down really nicely. So anyways, let's stop rambling and get back to work. Yeah, I cleared it. I cleared on the left side. Thanks babe. Taking a pause on the dining room table because we have someone from Lowe's coming out to check our fence. I told Ryan what I want for my birthday this year is a new fence. And I didn't vlog my birthday but it actually happened like two days after Thanksgiving, it was on that Saturday. Never over 25th, so a happy birthday to all my sad sisters and brothers. But yeah, so I really want a new fence because it's giving Willy Wonka, I don't know how to explain it other than that but it's just like is looking a little rough and there's a lot of places that like planks broke so they boarded it up and it's just not looking as good as it can. And I really wanted to get it done before this Friday but I know that it's definitely not realistic because I want shop around for quotes. This Friday I'm actually celebrating my birthday for the 100th time. I feel like I've been celebrating for the past two weeks but honestly I feel like if your birthday is like around a holiday that people travel for, you get it because like I want to celebrate with my friends here but I went home for Thanksgiving so then I celebrated there and then I also have a girls night birthday thing that I'm doing this Friday. We are doing a Hibachi night so that's why I wanted the fence to get done before then because it's in the backyard but it's okay because literally we just moved into here and I don't want to rush everything. In an ideal world, we would get a horizontal fence that ends up like this. Currently we have the fence that goes like this like a normal fence but when I was looking at fences online those were definitely more expensive and then I saw really nice like plastic ones which I was like, okay, maybe we could get those because they weren't that expensive but then I was reading reviews and I saw that they faded really easily. Guys here but basically I was just thinking maybe it wouldn't like withstand the Texas heat. The fence guy just left and this is what we're working with. I think I'm showing you definitely like, you know, the worst side of it all but it's not great. So I personally have been dreading doing anything with the fence because we have to like talk to our neighbors and the guy was like, you know, you can ask them to pitch in for the fence but if they were fine with it this whole time like why would they pitch in? It's kind of like setting yourself up for failure. Like, hey, this costs us much. Do you want to help? Like obviously no, like you're the one that wants it and all of the other fences are the same. So I'm kind of worried that they're going to be like, well, you're getting the new fence and it's going to look weird with all of our older fences. I might just have Ryan do that even though he's like the introverted one. Anything like confrontational just scares me too much but anyways, Ryan's on a call and I think when he gets off a bit we'll try to do the dining room table. We're going to build our dining room table now. Okay, I'm going to build our dining room table right now. Thanks, babe. Where do you don't put the armor? I'm a hardware girl. Boxing her out. Okay. Ryan finished building the table and I got started on the chairs and of course I did it wrong. So he's unbuilding it to make it right and then rebuilding it. We have six of these and they're giving us a hard time. There's like a lot with these little chairs. The guy just came to come and fix this just like refinish it. Basically there was molding on it that I didn't like so we just ended up taking it off and this is what it looks like and obviously it doesn't look great. I mean, you can't really tell on the camera but it should look way more finished than that. So we are getting someone to repair it. That hard, it's just like certain things you got to remember. Everything that sucks about us and it's the energies. Everyone said, I've never really run into that many. It's going to be six or seven years before you do it. That's the longest look for me. Oh, shit. And then someone even warned me about that too when I first went, it's been about six years. It takes that long to build up in your system for some reason. Wow. And then you get out of these. Not good. You're probably not saying that originally. It's going to be cedar and it's going to be the mold or the pollen or something. Yeah, that's what it is. In Atlanta, the pollen is like horrible and before we left, I was starting to get a little, like we just got back from Thanksgiving. I was starting to get a little like head cold peeling. It's a little bit wobbly but it's fine. Must have, I don't know if that's something. I went through the whole pandemic without getting COVID and the allergies almost stuck in. A little bit later, we're going to do some more festive stuff in Austin. We're actually going to go to the ice skating rink at four seasons. So we're dressed in our little holiday gear. Hopefully it'll be warm enough in this. I feel like if we're ice skating, I'm going to be sweating because number one, it makes me nervous because I don't know how to ice skate. And number two, like you're being active. So I feel like I'm going to be warm but I want to show you guys an update on this. I found Brandon on next door neighbor and he did an amazing job. They look so good. This is exactly what I wanted. I'm so happy with them. He's going to come back another day and like paint them and texturize them because our wall is textured a little bit. So just match it. He's just going to put some texture and now this is putting a little fire under my butt to actually stay in those stair noses. So once this is done, then I'll get to that. I think I showed you guys the chairs. We took a little pause because they were frustrating us but Ryan got one done. So now we got five more to go. Sure you fit. Cute. This is what we're going to. Ice rodeo. It's so beautiful. It's so beautiful. It's so tasty. I suck. I didn't vlog any of the food. Basically we are rushing because I really want to skate. We got here a little bit late but they're closing at eight and we have like the last chance left. So we got to hurry because I really want to ice skate. I haven't done it in, well I thought it was two years. Ryan says, since we were in college. Two years? I don't think we're in the next one. I just thought we would like have gone like in Georgia or something. But I guess the last time we went was on top of Pond City Market which was a very long time ago. So God bless me today because I'm not a skater. Ryan actually is, right? He like did skating. I don't get it. Oh, well, anyways he did ice skating when he was little, right? Oh, rollerbladed. Well, I did that like twice and I sucked at that too. So, yeah, I didn't really like it. I just, I was a very cartoon girl. I was a, yeah, I was a Disney girl. Ryan was Nickelodeon. Like, this is so bougie guys. Look at this. Is it bougie? bougie. We got dessert. Oh my God, the corn empanadas were really good. We actually stayed here like a month ago and I got those there and so I had to get them again. But look at this, they went all out. And we really need to go skate before they like do less call or something. So, goodness, I tense up so much. I'm really sore. She's about to be like, massage. Yeah. But anyways, I'm gonna be sore for a very long time and it was really fun though. I'm glad we got to do it. Now I don't have to do it again this season though. How'd your fall a bit hurt? Oh yeah, guys, I fell, taking pictures of Lauren. I don't know how it happened, guys. Like, I just, you know, the next thing I knew I was on my butt and I apparently made a really loud thud so that was really fun. So that's also gonna be really sore tomorrow. The next day I wanted to give you an update on the stairs. They look so good right now but I feel like every time I make a little bit of progress in the house, like clean up, put things away, unpack. Oh my God, it just gets like 10 times worse. I mean, like, especially from everything yesterday when we were trying to set up the chairs and the table and then we had to pull out the couch because he was working on that. I'm just going a little insane, that's all. Here's what the stairs are looking like right now. It is exactly what I wanted. I think I said this yesterday but our walls are textured. So I don't know if you can see that but this is a little bit more smooth than the textured wall. So he's gonna come back and texturize them and paint them. I think he's actually gonna come back and put one more layer of this like joint compound thing and he should be here soon but I want to flip this thing over and show you guys the table today. I'm very happy with the color match between these chairs and this table and I'll show you guys a little bit later. I think Ryan's on a call and I just need him to, you know, help me flip this over. I can't do it just by myself but we need to get all of this cleared out just like the boxes and all of this stuff. We actually went to the apartment and dropped off a ton of cardboard boxes last night. So that was nice but we still have lots to do. It's honestly nice when you invite people over to your house and you have like X amount of days to get shit done. Definitely helps with the motivation a little bit because all the shit just needs to get done anyways. Thank you. We turned it over and it actually fits pretty well in the space. Obviously with all that out of the way it's gonna look even better and I'll obviously show you guys what it looks like when we build all the chairs but that's gonna take a while. So for now we have this and one chair, I'll go get it. You gonna push it on all the way? I feel like I shouldn't though. It looks weird so. Guys, are you serious? Look how good this color match is. I told you guys, wow. Okay, these chairs, where'd I get these chairs? Walmart? Something like that. I'm not exactly sure. I feel like it was Walmart. Anyways, I'll link them below. I'll link this table below. This table was actually not as expensive as I was thinking it was gonna be. It was like maybe under $600 and then these chairs were like under 300 for two which I was gonna splurge on dining room chairs but I think these look really good. I'm really glad I got these. When we were building them it scratched up a little bit but we'll just take a little paint pen to it. I think the only thing I don't love is that the cushion is gray. I wish it was like anything else but gray because it just looks a little dingy. When it's all done I think it's gonna look really good and actually the gray doesn't look too bad when I'm standing far away. I'm editing vlog, very big day because I finally have somewhere to sit at while I work which is so nice but I feel like this room is a little dark. It's also cloudy outside and I was just like kind of dozing off for a second. So I might need to get like a lamp in here. Make it a little bit more moody lighting. I'm exporting this. I need to make the thumbnail. I really wanna post it today. I also just wrapped my friend's birthday gift and I think I did not a horrible job but I could have done better. I actually really don't know how to wrap. I feel like I really wanna get better at that but I did a little cute brown bow on it and me and my friend Nancy were in this home store. I actually vlogged it. We went to Maribou and we saw all the, I don't know how to say it. It's called the Asaline maybe books. They're like they're really colorful books that are super trendy. She picked up the grease one, the meek and nose one and she was like oh my god this would be so cute to have because I think that's where they went on there. How do you do it? So I made a mental note so I could get it for her birthday. She is like four days after my birthday. I love a sadge sister and tonight we're actually going to do another festive thing. Last night we went to the Four Seasons. Tonight we're going to Hotel Van Zandt and I think this holiday thing is more of like an igloo experience. It's Nancy's birthday today actually so we're gonna celebrate there and the boys are coming. So it'll be a fun little night and hopefully there'll be food and drinks and all that but it did say like light bites so I didn't want to have high expectations for food. So I'm just gonna make some chicken and we'll do like rice bowls. And actually told me the other day that it would be really cheap to like have Chipotle cater and just like make it a meal prep thing. I think I've seen that on TikTok before but I was like no like I'll just do it. I got this. So I bought out my frozen chicken today and it was actually just Trader Joe's like already marinated chicken and it would probably be cheaper if I just marinated it myself. So I'll do that next time but I already had that so I was like I'll just use this. Hopefully that's yummy and it won't keep us a little full until we get the light bites or whatever. It's only 4, oh, oh. I was gonna say it's only 4.30 but I literally told Ryan we should leave here by like 5.10 so that's 40 minutes and the chicken's not gonna be done cooking until like in 25 minutes. So I don't know what my head is doing what my internal clock's doing but something's not aligned today. Ryan's got Baldwin music playing and we're making chipotle bowls with Trader Joe's chicken shawarma. All right, what do you think? Cheers. I have to shake it. Like chipotle. No sour cream. Oh shoot. You know what? More cheese. Next. Oh shoot. I have cheese. I have cheese in the fridge. You're healthier. We'll do our better next time. We're in a rush. We forgot a lot of things. We went to the event and I totally forgot to vlog anything but I'll put some iPhone clips right here and now we came back and Ryan built me four of the chairs. What do you think, babe? I did a good job. Yeah, you did a good job. You did a really good job. What do you think about the color match? I mean, I think I've said it like multiple times of this vlog but I think I did a pretty damn good job matching those chairs to the table. What do you think? What do you think? I don't know. A chandelier? No, I don't like that one. I was gonna have this changed out or Mimo said he would when he was here but I didn't wanna rush getting a chandelier. So this is what we have right now. Not great, not bad. I mean, we can get a lamp. There's something to- If I guess what happened was this? This was the 63. So this is the smaller one. So how small is the vector snookin' be then? 38. Why? Also, I think you can push this pull out like towards the wall a little bit and I'll make it more flush. What do you rate the comfiness of the chairs? Four, huh? Four out of what? 10. Yeah, I feel like they're nothing special but also like they're not uncomfortable, you know? And also if we're eating dinner here we're not gonna be in it for very long but obviously I will be, what? This chair's, this one's wobbly. Is it because I put those pads on it? No, this needs an intro more. So the legs are kind of different on each side which I did not realize but I mean, I don't hate. I guess they kind of like turn in, so interesting. I was editing this vlog and I realized I wasn't very informational about the table so I wanted to give you guys a few specs in case you're wanting to buy it. I know I was like researching and trying to find all the videos I could find on TikTok and YouTube but I really couldn't find anything so let me take you over to the table and we could talk about it a little more. The dining room is finally cleared out for the most part at least. There's a rug behind there, some pictures in the mirror but overall it looks way better than what it did. It was a disaster in here but this is what the table looks like with the chairs. We did get the smaller version which was 35 inches wide this way and then 63 inches long this way. The bigger version is 91 inches long and so I just felt like it was gonna be too close to the door and there wouldn't have been too much space on this end so we couldn't even sit someone there to like pull out their chair. I literally just had an epiphany moment looking at this table just now but what do you guys think if I turned the table this way instead? Do you think it would like fill the space up a little bit more? I'm so curious. Maybe we'll try it when Ryan gets home but comment below if you think I should keep it how it is or turn it. I think I showed you guys the legs, how this one's like vertical, this one's horizontal and then that one's vertical and then that one's horizontal so it's nice because it does fit a chair at the end really nicely because if these were both turned in like that, it would be way too small. I know I told you guys that the chairs were from Walmart but they're actually from Home Depot and they're like under 200 for two. I think it was around 170 when I last looked. Since I don't have my desk just yet I've been using this as my desk so I've been sitting these chairs for a couple hours on end and I think they're pretty comfortable. I know Ryan gave it at like a four out of 10 but I would give them maybe like an eight out of 10. I also wanna show you guys the final product of the railings. It looks so freaking good. He is pretty much done but there is an issue because at some angles, the paint doesn't look like it matches the paint that we painted the whole house but it's so weird because we literally got the same exact paint like we read the paint bucket that was still here. At night when you like turn a certain angle this looks a little bit more like matte than what we already had painted but like I said, it was the same exact like sheen and everything. So I don't know if it's like we need to do a couple coats or what but I don't know. It's really hard to tell right now obviously but let me remind you guys what it looked like before. It definitely looked a little just outdated in my opinion and now it looks so modern and very sleek. Ryan says he actually likes the stir noses not painted. What do you guys think? I feel like it needs a little bit of stain but also the guy that did the railings said like maybe you could just do a clear stain just so that there's a little bit of contrast and then that way it's like sealed off a little bit but I don't know, I feel like I should stain them. Visit of this blog but get excited because it is December and I've decided I wanna try to vlog as much as possible so we'll see how that goes but I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.