JUST DO IT!-my new motto

My newest decorations:

Since we got married I always wanted to have an Americana theme for my living room.  I'm finally starting on it.  This is my first little corner finished.  I'm planning on making (or finding) some throws for the couch...adding some Red/White/Blue pillows.  I'd love to replace the old curtains with Blinds or get some nice coordinating curtains instead BUT:

We've been renting this house here in Terreton for 5 years now.  Ron has been very adamant that I not spend any money on decorating because its not "our" house.  I've been waiting FIVE year to make a house our home!  We keep thinking we're going to be able to get our own place and year after year keeps slipping by us.  I wish I could turn back time and change our decisions or see what the future hold for us.  When we first moved out here we didn't know how long it was going to be for so we didn't want to buy anything.  Well, like I've said its been 5 years and we're still out here.  We LOVE Terreton its the perfect little community and I love how wide open everything is.  We're right in the middle of all the farming, yet in the middle of the community as well.  We want to stay out here and continue making it our home.  However, someday (we thought it would have been by now) we want to be able to farm completly on our own.  The problem is: you either inherit it or marry it. Probelm #2 Nothing goes up for sale out here, you just all of a sudden hear that so and so just bought such and such place. #3 Nobody, especially in this economy is going to lend a young couple like us half a million dollars to get us started! So, here we sit, waiting and waiting for a turn of events to get us into our own place.  Because why buy something now, if we get the oppertunity to buy something else this fall.  OR in my case why spend the time and money in decorating THIS old house now, when we can have our own place this fall.  I have finally decided JUST DO IT!  We won't get a place of our own until I finally get settled into this one!  We need to just enjoy what we have now and DO make it our home, because it IS our home...at least for now.