Jenn and I love ping pong. When we lived at The Colony we would walk over to the Marriott and play ping pong near their pool. Probably not the classiest thing to do, but we enjoyed it. It always made us feel like we were on vacation. When we started looking at houses one of the "nice-to-haves" for me was an area for a ping pong table. And of course if you've been following the "Casa de Szerlip" series you know that we have a really nice size atrium at our new house. 

It took us nearly three months, but we just finished up our first big project in the house. When we purchased the house in January of 2015 one of the big projects we wanted to undertake was removing the built-in's from the second bedroom and the outside atrium area. They weren't bad built-in's but they didn't fit the decor or setup that Jenn and I wanted for either of those areas. It restricted our options for the rooms and took up more space then we would have ever wanted. 

When I was still in High School I used to spend a ton of time reading tech blogs. Each year when these websites would do their predictions it was that home automation was going to be the next big market. However there never seemed to be the adoption that was expected. That was until the iPhone. Now you go to any home improvement store there are tons of options for connected hardware. The biggest product in the home automation category of the last couple of years has been the Nest Thermostat. 

I'm not what you would call an audiophile. I don't love music. I don't have the same passion for music I do for TV, Movies, or Video Games. But that doesn't mean I don't appreciate it. On the other hand Jenn loves music. She gets a lot of joy out of it. When we bought our house one of the things she wanted to do was have the ability to play music throughout the house. So when we're cleaning on a Saturday morning, or putting up Christmas decorations, the house could be filled with music.

Almost two months after we put in our initial offer in on a home, we've finally got keys! But that's getting ahead of myself. In my last post we left off a couple of days before we got keys. After a couple of quiet weeks things ramped up in a big way.

There are three big award shows in the Szerlip household. There are the Emmy's, Oscars, and The Golden Globes. Granted I think the Emmy's and the Oscar's are great, there is something beautiful about combining TV and Movies into one night. For each of these three award shows Jenn and I print out a ballot, and cast out votes for who we think will win.