Can we fix it?

Apparently, yes we can.  Almost two months to the day since we closed on the house, we finally went to Home Depot and bought a bunch of paint and supplies to actually start fixing up the house.  We also ordered a new stove with the gift card D's (that would be Awesome Husband) parents got us for the wedding--thank God, the stove that came in this house is so old I'm constantly afraid it's going to explode.  Seriously, you can't even see the difference on the knobs between 350 and 400.  I'm not much of a cook, so this definitely doesn't help the effort not to burn things.  

But the paint!  So exciting because now we can finally paint the study room and set it up with our myriad bookshelves, which in turn means that I can start looking for a desk and setting up my study space prior to the start of school.  Once that's done, hopefully we'll move on to the bedroom and get that done before August as well so everything will be mostly put together.