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03-23-2008 01:23 AM
Wow, so long since the last blog! Wonder what I've been doing??? LOL
Oh yah, I got the flu--again. Meh.
Now it's spring and time to go outside and play instead of stiiing in
front of the computer all day. I did go outside one day, right before a
heavy rain was predicted, to plant two nandinas in the lil front bed
between the driveway and the porch. I used muscles I haven't used in a
million years--just to dig one hole! Yikes! I have 15 boxes of flowers
to plant, dunno how but I know I will. The front yard needs much more
no-brainer perk plantin, especially since the ice sotrm that blew down
what was hiding the eastside neighbors from me. Their backyard is so
frickin gross, ewwwww!!!
Wow, so long since the last blog! Wonder what I've been doing??? LOL
Oh yah, I got the flu--again. Meh.
Now it's spring and time to go outside and play instead of stiiing in
front of the computer all day. I did go outside one day, right before a
heavy rain was predicted, to plant two nandinas in the lil front bed
between the driveway and the porch. I used muscles I haven't used in a
million years--just to dig one hole! Yikes! I have 15 boxes of flowers
to plant, dunno how but I know I will. The front yard needs much more
no-brainer perk plantin, especially since the ice sotrm that blew down
what was hiding the eastside neighbors from me. Their backyard is so
frickin gross, ewwwww!!!
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02-12-2008 01:26 PM
Okay, it's official: I hate this house.
I know I told the realtor I could live in and I can, but......
I think part of why I hate it is there's no room to store stuff,
meaning store the stuff I never dealt with , the stuff I just threw in
boxes and stored in the 3rd bedroom which I don't have any more. So
maybe it's dealing with the stuff that I never dealt with that is the
problem.
But another part is that nothing fits in the kitchen and that bothers
me to no end because all my kitchen stuff is what I NEED to cook what I
have to cook! And I still have not found the spot where I can feed the
cats--they're still eating in the bathroom, which is another part of
why I hate this house because the bathrooms are too dayum small!!!
Actually they're not, but I came from having a bathroom as big as a
bedroom and so, yes, I'm spoiled.
And after having almost fallen in the bathroom (scary!) I moved "re-do
master bath" to the top of the priority list. All it will take is
removing the old ugly too big vanity and replacing it with a more
appropriately sized pedestal sink. Of course when I do that I have to
do something about the wallboard and the floor, but really, that's
pretty simple (haha).
Someone told me the "secret" of remodeling: Money, time, and patience.
As in, it takes more moey that you thought, longer than you thought,
and you better have the patience to deal with those two things. Someone
else told me it's also a lot more dirty than you thought. Great.
I can see that by the time I get through, it'll be time to put the
house up for sale. I barely have the patience to wait for that!!!
Okay, it's official: I hate this house.
I know I told the realtor I could live in and I can, but......
I think part of why I hate it is there's no room to store stuff,
meaning store the stuff I never dealt with , the stuff I just threw in
boxes and stored in the 3rd bedroom which I don't have any more. So
maybe it's dealing with the stuff that I never dealt with that is the
problem.
But another part is that nothing fits in the kitchen and that bothers
me to no end because all my kitchen stuff is what I NEED to cook what I
have to cook! And I still have not found the spot where I can feed the
cats--they're still eating in the bathroom, which is another part of
why I hate this house because the bathrooms are too dayum small!!!
Actually they're not, but I came from having a bathroom as big as a
bedroom and so, yes, I'm spoiled.
And after having almost fallen in the bathroom (scary!) I moved "re-do
master bath" to the top of the priority list. All it will take is
removing the old ugly too big vanity and replacing it with a more
appropriately sized pedestal sink. Of course when I do that I have to
do something about the wallboard and the floor, but really, that's
pretty simple (haha).
Someone told me the "secret" of remodeling: Money, time, and patience.
As in, it takes more moey that you thought, longer than you thought,
and you better have the patience to deal with those two things. Someone
else told me it's also a lot more dirty than you thought. Great.
I can see that by the time I get through, it'll be time to put the
house up for sale. I barely have the patience to wait for that!!!
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01-22-2008 02:16 PM
Eys. Well. I finally tried out the fake fireplace--the flames work but not the heat part.
It's a good thang I decided to relocate the rowing machine as where I
had it before was where they replaced the flooring (ie where the old
floor furnance was). As winter's progressed I've learned it is a "soft"
spot in the floor, and certainly not meant to withstand a 190 lb person
atop a rowing machine working out every dayum day..... uh-huh and when
I see that person, I'll tell them LOL
The kitchen looks hella better IMO and I found the most wonderful
wallpaper border to use in there for EIGHTY CENTS (okay plus tax). Okay
maybe it's not THE most wonderful border EVER but for eighty cents I'll
take it. Now if only there's enough of it.....
The DR rooms looks about the same (sigh) and the LR is a *bit* less
cluttered but basically I'm still living in the same two rooms I was
when I moved in. I have been too sick too much to do stuff and now it's
winter and I *can't* do stuff like caulking and priming and
digging in the garden, etc. Many's the time I wander thru the house
muttering "Shoulda bought the condo" and thinking I bit off more than I
can chew.
Eys. Well. I finally tried out the fake fireplace--the flames work but not the heat part.
It's a good thang I decided to relocate the rowing machine as where I
had it before was where they replaced the flooring (ie where the old
floor furnance was). As winter's progressed I've learned it is a "soft"
spot in the floor, and certainly not meant to withstand a 190 lb person
atop a rowing machine working out every dayum day..... uh-huh and when
I see that person, I'll tell them LOL
The kitchen looks hella better IMO and I found the most wonderful
wallpaper border to use in there for EIGHTY CENTS (okay plus tax). Okay
maybe it's not THE most wonderful border EVER but for eighty cents I'll
take it. Now if only there's enough of it.....
The DR rooms looks about the same (sigh) and the LR is a *bit* less
cluttered but basically I'm still living in the same two rooms I was
when I moved in. I have been too sick too much to do stuff and now it's
winter and I *can't* do stuff like caulking and priming and
digging in the garden, etc. Many's the time I wander thru the house
muttering "Shoulda bought the condo" and thinking I bit off more than I
can chew.
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01-22-2008 01:57 PM
Well. It turns out I did NOT move boxes at all-just told the heat and
air guys to come in thru the garage. They did a very nice, neat job of
installing the new outlet in the kitchen, which has had the effect of
not only warming the kitchen even more but also making my line-dry
clothes dry faster. Poor Scott, the biggest (and oldest) of the heat
and air guys had the fun chore of crawling around in the crawl space to
do what someone else was supposed to have done months ago: properly
sealing off the old floor ducts. I said "Time to lose weight?" and he
replied "NO! Time to gain so I am too fat to do this!" LOL
Shortly thereafter I fell into a funk. It took me daaaaaaays (daze) to
figure out what the problem was (blood sugar/blood pressure too high)
and in that funk I had locked the garage door manually and forgot to
put the sign on the button for the door-the sign that sez, in
ultra-bold print, DO NOT USE! MANUAL LOCK ENGAGED! Right, so what do
you think I did? Eys, hit the button and stood there, once again,
muttering "Fcuk! Fcuk! FCUK!" as the door merrily went up and down,
going nowhere. Eys, I have Once Again Broken My Own Garage Door. Fcuk.
Because I do not have the $$$$ to fix it right now. :-P
So. I really have nothing else to do except gather (yet more) ideas for
rennovations, since I can't afford to do any . And I found these two
blogs--
muskegojeff.blogspot.com
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suileeka/706979625/in/photostream/
which just cracks me up because it looks like something I would expect find in my equally craptacular lil home.
Ah, and the new abbreviation? "P.O." meaning "previous owner." Who
usually did leave you p.o. ed at some "innovative construction
technique" they perfected. Or not. Usually not!
Well. It turns out I did NOT move boxes at all-just told the heat and
air guys to come in thru the garage. They did a very nice, neat job of
installing the new outlet in the kitchen, which has had the effect of
not only warming the kitchen even more but also making my line-dry
clothes dry faster. Poor Scott, the biggest (and oldest) of the heat
and air guys had the fun chore of crawling around in the crawl space to
do what someone else was supposed to have done months ago: properly
sealing off the old floor ducts. I said "Time to lose weight?" and he
replied "NO! Time to gain so I am too fat to do this!" LOL
Shortly thereafter I fell into a funk. It took me daaaaaaays (daze) to
figure out what the problem was (blood sugar/blood pressure too high)
and in that funk I had locked the garage door manually and forgot to
put the sign on the button for the door-the sign that sez, in
ultra-bold print, DO NOT USE! MANUAL LOCK ENGAGED! Right, so what do
you think I did? Eys, hit the button and stood there, once again,
muttering "Fcuk! Fcuk! FCUK!" as the door merrily went up and down,
going nowhere. Eys, I have Once Again Broken My Own Garage Door. Fcuk.
Because I do not have the $$$$ to fix it right now. :-P
So. I really have nothing else to do except gather (yet more) ideas for
rennovations, since I can't afford to do any . And I found these two
blogs--
muskegojeff.blogspot.com
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suileeka/706979625/in/photostream/
which just cracks me up because it looks like something I would expect find in my equally craptacular lil home.
Ah, and the new abbreviation? "P.O." meaning "previous owner." Who
usually did leave you p.o. ed at some "innovative construction
technique" they perfected. Or not. Usually not!
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01-05-2008 02:25 AM
So, today is Friday which is not so good since I spaced out and all day have thought it was Saturday.
So since my last blog, life was exciting for a bit what with the ice
storm knocking out the electric for 4 days. I found out I can't deal
with temperature below 45 degrees F, it is possible to eat pretty well
without a frig or freezer (it's just time-consuming) and that I CAN
still read a novel for hours at a time (like I used to) when I don't
have the computer to play with. But I really really really missed not
being able to watch a film any time I wanted to. I had to recall them
in my head, which helped pass the time, because there was a lot of time
to pass as I lay buddled up in sheepskin and sable in my cuddly chair
with cats pressed up close all around me. Basically it was hard to move
and I was not real motivated to move because it was FRICKIN COLD! There
is nothing like your bathroom being cold as an outhouse to encourage,
um, constitutional rapidity, I must say!
And I still haven't bought a dryer. Mollie is chewing my clothes
because she was weaned too early and is stressed, is what I found out.
IMO she also likes the smell of the laundry soap. I also found out I am
starting to not really care so much what I wear, just as long as it's
clean. This is mainly because my wardrobe has been reduced down to
whatever will fit in this one suitcase that Mollie can't get into LOL.
So what else? Well the new windows did get installed and hopefully the
pictures I took of the process are good (haven't checked em yet). I am
very pleased with the garden window in the kitchen even tho it is a
beeotch to keep clean. It made hella difference in the amount of light
coming in and the kitchen does not feel dark and closed-in any more.
Unfortunately to get the new windows installed I had to, eys, MOVE
BOXES AGAIN. They eneded up all stacked in the soon-to-be-media room
and it's very depressing scene in there. Not to mention there'sd a wee
little path from the lving room to the kitchen that has to be very
carefully negotiated. All of which is soon-to-be moot as the freakin
heat/air guys are coming back Wednesday to install a new outlet
and some other things and guess what--I have to MOVE BOXES AGAIN to
they will be able to work.
If you, dear reader, are moving soon here is a tip for you: Make
everything you own fit into 10-12 boxes and say hell with the rest!!!
So, today is Friday which is not so good since I spaced out and all day have thought it was Saturday.
So since my last blog, life was exciting for a bit what with the ice
storm knocking out the electric for 4 days. I found out I can't deal
with temperature below 45 degrees F, it is possible to eat pretty well
without a frig or freezer (it's just time-consuming) and that I CAN
still read a novel for hours at a time (like I used to) when I don't
have the computer to play with. But I really really really missed not
being able to watch a film any time I wanted to. I had to recall them
in my head, which helped pass the time, because there was a lot of time
to pass as I lay buddled up in sheepskin and sable in my cuddly chair
with cats pressed up close all around me. Basically it was hard to move
and I was not real motivated to move because it was FRICKIN COLD! There
is nothing like your bathroom being cold as an outhouse to encourage,
um, constitutional rapidity, I must say!
And I still haven't bought a dryer. Mollie is chewing my clothes
because she was weaned too early and is stressed, is what I found out.
IMO she also likes the smell of the laundry soap. I also found out I am
starting to not really care so much what I wear, just as long as it's
clean. This is mainly because my wardrobe has been reduced down to
whatever will fit in this one suitcase that Mollie can't get into LOL.
So what else? Well the new windows did get installed and hopefully the
pictures I took of the process are good (haven't checked em yet). I am
very pleased with the garden window in the kitchen even tho it is a
beeotch to keep clean. It made hella difference in the amount of light
coming in and the kitchen does not feel dark and closed-in any more.
Unfortunately to get the new windows installed I had to, eys, MOVE
BOXES AGAIN. They eneded up all stacked in the soon-to-be-media room
and it's very depressing scene in there. Not to mention there'sd a wee
little path from the lving room to the kitchen that has to be very
carefully negotiated. All of which is soon-to-be moot as the freakin
heat/air guys are coming back Wednesday to install a new outlet
and some other things and guess what--I have to MOVE BOXES AGAIN to
they will be able to work.
If you, dear reader, are moving soon here is a tip for you: Make
everything you own fit into 10-12 boxes and say hell with the rest!!!
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