Thanks Erika & Kat :biggrin:. Once our room mate who lives in the master bedroom in the back of the house moves out this fall, then I'm turning that into the bunny room! Let me explain....
My MIL needed extra money a year ago and had this whole 3 bedroom house all to herself, so she decided to rent out the master bedroom in the back of the house (its tucked back behind the kitchen down its own little "entry way"). She equipped the master closet with a little kitchen set up (mini fridge, coffee maker, toaster, microwave) and there is a full bathroom back there. The master bedroom also has locking sliding glass doors and its own entry way (just walk down a little path from the side yard and out the gate), so its a perfect set up for someone to live back there.
Well, the guy she rented it to is someone who Ryan and I haven't met before (and we've lived here 5 months already - my MIL moved to WI and we are renting the house from her). Anyway...the guy is a nursing student who is in his late 50's and he's rather weird. Like....we will come home and be outside unloading groceries and if he is coming home at the same time, then we will drive up the street pass the house and return home later when we aren't outside. We think he's just super anti social or something.
Sometimes he will call Ryan's mom when it's 3am in WI to complain to her that we have the television up too loud (in the living room on the other side of the house), so she calls us and tells us to turn it down. Or...just the other day we had incense burning (like usual) and he called her to tell her that he's tired of his clothes smelling like "patchouli" ("hippie smell"), when we aren't even burning anything that smells remotely close to that! So....he's kind of a pain in our butt and will occassionally call my MIL and complain about dumb little things.
He moved in when my MIL lived here...she's alone and quiet. He new we were moving in and chose to stay living here. We are a 21 year old married couple who IS loud (hellooooo....I'm a new yorker
) and we have friends over sometimes, burn incense, watch movies on the suround sound every weekend, etc. What does he expect? This isn't a darn apartment building with thick walls...this is a house with "house walls"!!
In case you were wondering...he never comes into our living areas. It all sounds weird, I know....but he's insanely quiet (we may hear his toilet flush or him turn on the water in the bathroom, but thats it) and we never hear from him unless he calls Ryan's mom to complain about some dumb thing. Its kind of like we just live in a 2 bedroom house...like the master bedroom doesn't exist, LOL.
Anyway....Ryan's mom gets some sort of monthly retirement check every month starting in October, so we are planning on kicking the room mate out! At that point, Ryan's mom won't need his $500 (which basically pays for the taxes and utilities on this house, since she owns it)....and we will still pay our normal $650 (including utilities) to live here in the entire house!
At that point...we can turn the master bedroom into a HUGE bunny room (like 2.5 times the size of their current one). There will be the master closet (I am thinking PLAY CLOSET!!!) and then a bathroom (hrm...storage room, LOL). Also, since there is sliding glass doors that lead out onto a little wood patio deck, I plan to fence that off (with a roof) so that the bunnies and kitties can go out there to get some fresh air!!!!
Needless to say....I want October to be here soon
. I guess I shouldn't be too awfully excited since its not permanent....we are moving to PA in 2 years, but it will be super cool for the time being.
aaaaand to top off the mini-rant, I will post a picture of a weird moth that I found outside on the side of the house by the front door. He is almost a pearly lime/pastel green color!!
