Did you know that contractors make so much money, they don't have to return calls? Or show up for scheduled appointments? I need a career change. Out of 6 contractors I made appointments with to come and look at the porch, one showed up. That's right one. And he stayed for all of 30 seconds. I am getting very tempted to just call the Vo-tech and see if the Masonry teacher needs a project for his students. I am betting they would show up. It would probably take 2 years to get the job done, but at least they would show up!
I'll call more Masons today and see what I can do. I'll stop complaining about that, for now.
Evan picked out some Midnight blue Irises. They came in the mail Saturday. He really wants to plant them. Problem is, where can we plant them??? I wanted to put them in the front, along the front porch, but that isn't going to work. I guess we are going to have to pot them for now, that way we can at least keep them from being trampled.
Today, Evan and I will attempt to transplant some of the yarrow, just to insure some of it survives. But, we'll wait till this afternoon. This morning we have inside chores to do. He was so helpful yesterday! Helped me with the laundry, dusting & even picked up his room without me asking!
Tomorrow I have my last followup from the surgery, hopefully! I still haven't completely regained feeling in my right thigh, but its not a big area so I imagine its not life threatening lol. I am feeling pretty good overall, rarely any pain around in incision and the pain up where my gallbladder was is pretty much gone, only a twinge now and then. So we'll see what he says tomorrow.
The smoking thing is pretty much the same. I still occasionally cheat with a real cigarette, but that seems to be only when Bill is around and then only a puff or two. But I am really not using the e-cig all that much, which is pretty weird I think. I use it more in the evening after Evan goes to bed. Bill ordered more cartridges. I am not sure why. I still have 3 1/2 left. Maybe he got them for himself. I hope so :)
Anyway, sitting here on my ass isn't getting anything done and I do need to get to the post office this morning and do some Zumba!
See ya.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
The Money Pit
Between Bill & Evan, my yard is now one big mud puddle. Sam helped a bit too. Bill has been digging out so he can put in a retaining wall in the back and then put in some brick pavers. I am sure it will be nice. However, now the yard is one huge mud puddle. Evan and Sam are very happy with it. I am not so happy. I have no problem with mud puddles. I like them. I do prefer, however, that mud stay outside. This is not happening. I imagine that I will live, but I am still not happy about the mud being dragged into my house.
No Call, No Show, for the 2 contractors who were supposed to come by this weekend about the porch columns. Figures. I have found a few more to call, but this time they are all masons. I don't even want to think about how much they will want to charge.
Bill has decided that he will probably call the roofer to come out and start this week, anyway. We will just have to figure out the porch columns later. I think, that if we supported the columns now, before the roofers start, we should be able to get away with waiting till the roof is done to get the columns put back in place. They are supporting the roof just fine at the moment, be we are pretty sure straightening them out and bringing them back to level, will involve completely ripping out the porch, & digging around the columns to expose the pillars. The joys of home ownership. When we filled out the forms for the historical society, they ask if your home has a name or what you would want it listed as. I think usually they want the name of someone significant who has lived in the home. We haven't had anyone really important live here. There was a butcher who lived here once, I bet alot of people at the time thought he was pretty important. He died in the house, on my birthday, back in the '30's. Anyway, we didn't put down a name for the house, but I think I should change that. I would like the plaque to read '1890 Money Pit'. Because that is exactly what it is.
Bill has presented me with about 19 colors that I have to pick 7 from. I thought we were done with the colors for the outside. I thought we settled on 4. I thought wrong. Bill has changed his mind. He really thinks we can come up with 7 different colors for the exterior if we really apply ourselves.
I really don't care at this point. As long as there is no blue, I'm good. Unfortunately, the colors I like, he doesn't. There is only so much paintable space available on this house! Why can't the shingles count as a color? or the Brick? That would be brown and Red, great two colors already picked. Oh I am just being cranky, I am sure we will figure it out. But he's asking someone who doesn't like to shop, not at all. Food shopping is okay, I really like food. But I dislike all other shopping.
Oh, we did go to a few garage sales yesterday morning. The very first one we went to, had Jazz Sneakers...in my size!!!! They fit great and had only been worn a couple of times. Yay! I got them for Zumba. And for cheap!!! I love cheap! I also finally got the Zumba book & dvd I ordered. I think I am going to like this DVD better. It has 60 minutes of music on it. I was playing the dvd yesterday and Evan was dancing around having a great time. Bill was not so impressed. He came downstairs and said he felt like he was in Miami. LOL I love it. There are not many things I miss about Florida, but the music and awesome Cuban food are two of them. Since Evan and I have a ton of cleaning to do today, I think we will listen to the very motivating latin music while we do. Really loud. It should confuse the neighbors,, heheheheheheheheh.
So that said, I am off to wage a losing battle against dust, mud and laundry :)
No Call, No Show, for the 2 contractors who were supposed to come by this weekend about the porch columns. Figures. I have found a few more to call, but this time they are all masons. I don't even want to think about how much they will want to charge.
Bill has decided that he will probably call the roofer to come out and start this week, anyway. We will just have to figure out the porch columns later. I think, that if we supported the columns now, before the roofers start, we should be able to get away with waiting till the roof is done to get the columns put back in place. They are supporting the roof just fine at the moment, be we are pretty sure straightening them out and bringing them back to level, will involve completely ripping out the porch, & digging around the columns to expose the pillars. The joys of home ownership. When we filled out the forms for the historical society, they ask if your home has a name or what you would want it listed as. I think usually they want the name of someone significant who has lived in the home. We haven't had anyone really important live here. There was a butcher who lived here once, I bet alot of people at the time thought he was pretty important. He died in the house, on my birthday, back in the '30's. Anyway, we didn't put down a name for the house, but I think I should change that. I would like the plaque to read '1890 Money Pit'. Because that is exactly what it is.
Bill has presented me with about 19 colors that I have to pick 7 from. I thought we were done with the colors for the outside. I thought we settled on 4. I thought wrong. Bill has changed his mind. He really thinks we can come up with 7 different colors for the exterior if we really apply ourselves.
I really don't care at this point. As long as there is no blue, I'm good. Unfortunately, the colors I like, he doesn't. There is only so much paintable space available on this house! Why can't the shingles count as a color? or the Brick? That would be brown and Red, great two colors already picked. Oh I am just being cranky, I am sure we will figure it out. But he's asking someone who doesn't like to shop, not at all. Food shopping is okay, I really like food. But I dislike all other shopping.
Oh, we did go to a few garage sales yesterday morning. The very first one we went to, had Jazz Sneakers...in my size!!!! They fit great and had only been worn a couple of times. Yay! I got them for Zumba. And for cheap!!! I love cheap! I also finally got the Zumba book & dvd I ordered. I think I am going to like this DVD better. It has 60 minutes of music on it. I was playing the dvd yesterday and Evan was dancing around having a great time. Bill was not so impressed. He came downstairs and said he felt like he was in Miami. LOL I love it. There are not many things I miss about Florida, but the music and awesome Cuban food are two of them. Since Evan and I have a ton of cleaning to do today, I think we will listen to the very motivating latin music while we do. Really loud. It should confuse the neighbors,, heheheheheheheheh.
So that said, I am off to wage a losing battle against dust, mud and laundry :)
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Idiot of the Week
Friday....
I am pretty sure I am delusional. I always had this dumb idea that as I got older, I was getting smarter. That is apparently not the case. I have had allergies since I was very little. Not just a little sniffle here and there, but severe, choking on my own snot, can't breath, sort of allergies. I suppose it would be good for me to avoid those things that trigger my allergies. The only problem with this course of action is that I am allergic to EVERYTHING. Maybe not rocks, if they don't have dirt on them, but pretty much everything else. All animals, cats. dogs, rabbits, ferrets, cows horses, not sure about pigs. Anything with feathers. Anything that grows, trees, flowers, grass, small children. Anything and everything. You would think, that since I have had this little issue since I was little, that I would be expecting my allergies to get really bad in the spring. The trees starting to bloom, should have been a big clue.
But no, not me. Why? because I am an idiot. Who doesn't pay attention. When Aden started getting snotty, I thought , 'well, I have the neti pot, I'll just make sure to use that twice everyday, and with that and the benedryl, I'll be fine.
But when around 12pm yesterday, when I suddenly couldn't breath or stop sneezing, for some strange reason, I was very surprised.
I tried the neti pot. To late. Already so stopped up, it won't work. So I started popping benedryl like they are tic tacs. Nope that isn't working either. Tea? Lemon juice? Hot lemon juice with Honey? Crown Royal, in tea with lemon & honey? Well, the teas did work, i didn't try the crown and tea, which I know works very well. I also understand why it works. If you drink enough, you just don't care that snot is running out of your nose like water out of a garden hose. Which it is.
Evan, is also very snotty, but I am quite convinced that he is alot tougher than I am or his isn't as bad as mine. Bill will tell you that he doesn't have any allergies. That is complete BullShit. He doesn't have them very bad. Just a day or so of occasional sniffling, when the elm tree out back blooms.
So, Evan passed out about 6:30 last night, shortly after the benedryl kicked in, I didn't hear from him until about 12 am. Thats when I noticed that Bill wasn't even home yet. He left for work at 7 am and didn't get home till 1 am. This schedule still sucks. But at least he is off today and tomorrow. The bad thing is I do not want to go outside with the evil pollen monsters.
Evan does. I just need to get to the store and find something that will work. Claritin? Zyrtec? Who knows, maybe I'll get them all and just start trying them all until I find a good cocktail that will banish the snot. My Head feels like it going to explode, I really hope it doesn't. Well I do and I don't. I do, because then my head wouldn't throb, I don't because if it did, no one but me would clean it up.
I will probably go with Claritin, since I have taken that before. Why am I not taking it now?? Because I am a dumbass. If I had started taking it on Aden's birthday, I probably wouldn't wouldn't be suffering right now, but like I said, I can be a real idiot.
I want to have a good weekend, since Bill is home. I want to enjoy these two days and play outside, maybe grill something, enjoy the evening since I know Evan isn't like Aden and will be in bed and completely asleep by 7:30. I really should go and get Bill up. He doesn't like sleeping more than 6-7 hours. And I am hoping that if we can get the grocery shopping done we can be back before the next contractor calls to come by today. I still can't find a brick mason, they just aren't in the phone book. If they are they certainly aren't listed under Mason. The only thing under Mason is Masonic Lodge. Maybe I should call them. Surely they would know a guy.
Whatever, I will live. My allergies were this bad the first spring after we moved up here. I ended up taking Claritin an Nasonex, with a benedryl chaser at night. That worked pretty well except that I had all of the listed side effects with the Nasonex. I am fairly certain that bee wanted me dead.
Saturday.
Well, we went with Claritin for Evan and Claritin D for me. After about 6 hours it seemed as if it was working for both of us. Evan was feeling pretty good so after the trip the grocery store, Evan and Bill went outside to work in the yard. I stayed inside, there was less pollen, not much less, but a little bit.
Bill wants to put in a retaining wall in the back yard. there is a pretty sizable hill and after looking at his plans, I agree it will be nice. That will give me a little courtyard sort of area, Bill will get his BBQ area with seating and the boys and dog will get the rest of the yard to run rampant in.
Its been raining on and off, so the back yard is pretty swampy. Evan loves to dig so thats what he and bill did. They dug, big huge areas of mud now take up most of where I like to sit in the back yard. Bill did discover that someone else must have had the same idea about the retaining wall. While digging he found a good portion of a brick wall. Didn't find the rest of the wall, but about a 3 x 2 section, intact. It has been added to the brick pile.
Bill also broke up a good section of my concrete sidewalk in the back. He says he will replace it with brick. He better.
Evan was so covered in mud. He probably had mud a few inches thick all over him. I had to make him take everything off, before he came in the house. Now I have completely confused him. I tell him all the time, that we don't go outside naked. Then I go and have him take his clothes off before coming in the house. At least most of our neighbors have young kids, they will understand I am sure.
While I washed the mud off, Bill grilled chicken. It was nice. Evan passed out about 6:30....sweet!!!! So we watched a movie. It was 21 with Kevin Spacey, the one about the kids from M.I.T. that count cards and wins loads of money in Vegas. I guess it was a good movie, it would probably have been better if I understood what the hell it was they were doing. But then, my math skills are not all that great. Bill liked it alot. But, he really likes math.
Today, the boys will head out to the hardware store to get pipes so Bill can start on the back bathroom, a bicycle pump, and misc other things that guys just have to get whenever they go to the hardware store.
I will go to a few garage sales, the library & post office. Aden, Nana & Papa all made it to the lake without incident. Papa did get a little lost, 50 miles worth of lost, but they did eventually make it and Aden didn't get car sick. They did have to stop every 40 minutes or so because Aden had to pee. I wonder if it had anything to do with them giving him his own bottles of water to drink while they were driving??? Nah. I am sure that him drinking 4 bottles of water had nothing to do with it:)
I am pretty sure I am delusional. I always had this dumb idea that as I got older, I was getting smarter. That is apparently not the case. I have had allergies since I was very little. Not just a little sniffle here and there, but severe, choking on my own snot, can't breath, sort of allergies. I suppose it would be good for me to avoid those things that trigger my allergies. The only problem with this course of action is that I am allergic to EVERYTHING. Maybe not rocks, if they don't have dirt on them, but pretty much everything else. All animals, cats. dogs, rabbits, ferrets, cows horses, not sure about pigs. Anything with feathers. Anything that grows, trees, flowers, grass, small children. Anything and everything. You would think, that since I have had this little issue since I was little, that I would be expecting my allergies to get really bad in the spring. The trees starting to bloom, should have been a big clue.
But no, not me. Why? because I am an idiot. Who doesn't pay attention. When Aden started getting snotty, I thought , 'well, I have the neti pot, I'll just make sure to use that twice everyday, and with that and the benedryl, I'll be fine.
But when around 12pm yesterday, when I suddenly couldn't breath or stop sneezing, for some strange reason, I was very surprised.
I tried the neti pot. To late. Already so stopped up, it won't work. So I started popping benedryl like they are tic tacs. Nope that isn't working either. Tea? Lemon juice? Hot lemon juice with Honey? Crown Royal, in tea with lemon & honey? Well, the teas did work, i didn't try the crown and tea, which I know works very well. I also understand why it works. If you drink enough, you just don't care that snot is running out of your nose like water out of a garden hose. Which it is.
Evan, is also very snotty, but I am quite convinced that he is alot tougher than I am or his isn't as bad as mine. Bill will tell you that he doesn't have any allergies. That is complete BullShit. He doesn't have them very bad. Just a day or so of occasional sniffling, when the elm tree out back blooms.
So, Evan passed out about 6:30 last night, shortly after the benedryl kicked in, I didn't hear from him until about 12 am. Thats when I noticed that Bill wasn't even home yet. He left for work at 7 am and didn't get home till 1 am. This schedule still sucks. But at least he is off today and tomorrow. The bad thing is I do not want to go outside with the evil pollen monsters.
Evan does. I just need to get to the store and find something that will work. Claritin? Zyrtec? Who knows, maybe I'll get them all and just start trying them all until I find a good cocktail that will banish the snot. My Head feels like it going to explode, I really hope it doesn't. Well I do and I don't. I do, because then my head wouldn't throb, I don't because if it did, no one but me would clean it up.
I will probably go with Claritin, since I have taken that before. Why am I not taking it now?? Because I am a dumbass. If I had started taking it on Aden's birthday, I probably wouldn't wouldn't be suffering right now, but like I said, I can be a real idiot.
I want to have a good weekend, since Bill is home. I want to enjoy these two days and play outside, maybe grill something, enjoy the evening since I know Evan isn't like Aden and will be in bed and completely asleep by 7:30. I really should go and get Bill up. He doesn't like sleeping more than 6-7 hours. And I am hoping that if we can get the grocery shopping done we can be back before the next contractor calls to come by today. I still can't find a brick mason, they just aren't in the phone book. If they are they certainly aren't listed under Mason. The only thing under Mason is Masonic Lodge. Maybe I should call them. Surely they would know a guy.
Whatever, I will live. My allergies were this bad the first spring after we moved up here. I ended up taking Claritin an Nasonex, with a benedryl chaser at night. That worked pretty well except that I had all of the listed side effects with the Nasonex. I am fairly certain that bee wanted me dead.
Saturday.
Well, we went with Claritin for Evan and Claritin D for me. After about 6 hours it seemed as if it was working for both of us. Evan was feeling pretty good so after the trip the grocery store, Evan and Bill went outside to work in the yard. I stayed inside, there was less pollen, not much less, but a little bit.
Bill wants to put in a retaining wall in the back yard. there is a pretty sizable hill and after looking at his plans, I agree it will be nice. That will give me a little courtyard sort of area, Bill will get his BBQ area with seating and the boys and dog will get the rest of the yard to run rampant in.
Its been raining on and off, so the back yard is pretty swampy. Evan loves to dig so thats what he and bill did. They dug, big huge areas of mud now take up most of where I like to sit in the back yard. Bill did discover that someone else must have had the same idea about the retaining wall. While digging he found a good portion of a brick wall. Didn't find the rest of the wall, but about a 3 x 2 section, intact. It has been added to the brick pile.
Bill also broke up a good section of my concrete sidewalk in the back. He says he will replace it with brick. He better.
Evan was so covered in mud. He probably had mud a few inches thick all over him. I had to make him take everything off, before he came in the house. Now I have completely confused him. I tell him all the time, that we don't go outside naked. Then I go and have him take his clothes off before coming in the house. At least most of our neighbors have young kids, they will understand I am sure.
While I washed the mud off, Bill grilled chicken. It was nice. Evan passed out about 6:30....sweet!!!! So we watched a movie. It was 21 with Kevin Spacey, the one about the kids from M.I.T. that count cards and wins loads of money in Vegas. I guess it was a good movie, it would probably have been better if I understood what the hell it was they were doing. But then, my math skills are not all that great. Bill liked it alot. But, he really likes math.
Today, the boys will head out to the hardware store to get pipes so Bill can start on the back bathroom, a bicycle pump, and misc other things that guys just have to get whenever they go to the hardware store.
I will go to a few garage sales, the library & post office. Aden, Nana & Papa all made it to the lake without incident. Papa did get a little lost, 50 miles worth of lost, but they did eventually make it and Aden didn't get car sick. They did have to stop every 40 minutes or so because Aden had to pee. I wonder if it had anything to do with them giving him his own bottles of water to drink while they were driving??? Nah. I am sure that him drinking 4 bottles of water had nothing to do with it:)
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Stopping Smoking Day 12, Allergies, Neti Pot, Masons & Zumba in a Haunted House
Its like day 12 or so of the stop smoking saga, I am having a hard time keeping track lol. But, I am doing pretty good. Now I am to where I can go without a real cigarette, but, I still occasionally want one. Or just a puff or two of the real thing. It appears that my little experiment is working. I switched the cartridge to the chocolate flavor, and it it so yummy. I like it better than the vanilla one. The vanilla one was great too. The tobacco flavored one was pretty good, but I still don't think it is tobacco flavor. What flavor it is, is a mystery to me, but it is pretty good too. I have given myself one more week to cheat if I want to with real cigarettes and then no more.
One of the companies that we had set up to give us an estimate on the columns showed up yesterday. Ninety minutes late and no call. I hate that, I really do. Before I get side tracked and start ranting about why I dislike tardiness, I'll just get to what he said. He said it can't be done. Simple as that. Mudjacking will not work, Better fine a good mason. Then he left. He only looked briefly at the front of the house. I would have preferred a bit more of an explanation. The only reason I can think of, would be how the columns are made. They are hollow inside, we think, and sitting on pillars of brick. So, injecting concrete under the pillars wouldn't work. But then, I don't know, I am just guessing. We do have a few other companies scheduled to come out, so we'll see what they say. I will in the mean time go ahead and call some masons to see what they have to say. I already know that by going the mason route, its going to be pricey and very time consuming. I do not want to wait 3 months for the roof. I want it done now. So I had this idea for Bill.
Use house jacks to jack up the porch, next to each column to get the porch roof up to level. Then we can have the roofers do the roof and worry about the columns after. We can't wait on the roof, nor can we wait too long on the columns. If we do the roof, before the columns, then we will be wasting money having the porch roof done. Once we have the columns fixed, it would end up pushing the roof line up. We'd have to have the roof rebuilt.
I really think it can be done, as long as the roof is pushed up where it should be, before the roofers start. Then the mason can take his time, rebuilding the pillars under the columns. We already own 3 or 4 house jacks. We had to have them when Bill first started working on the house and had to bring a couple of floors up to level. Some idiot had sawed through a floor joist in the basement. So that is where we stand on the roof/column/cluster F***.
Have I mentioned that I am not all the fond of contractors????
Moving right along. Aden was absolutely miserable yesterday!!! I wasn't too back until about 4:30 pm then the pollen started kicking my ass. Then I was miserable for the rest of the night. It was so bad, the neti pot didn't even work, but that was probably because I waited to long to use it. I am praying for rain today. Just one day, with rain, so we can breath for a little while.
Nana & Papa should be here about dinner time to fetch Aden. Evan is so excited that Aden is leaving, He packed Aden's bags yesterday. Brotherly Love, its such a beautiful thing. Evan thinks they should come and get Aden this morning.
About 3 weeks ago, the boys started telling me that there projector was coming on by itself. Its this thing for babies that projects stars and moons on the ceiling or wall and play lullabies. I've kept it because they really like it.
Anyway, so this projector appears to have taken on a life of its own. I have even heard it start playing when no one is in their room. I thought maybe since it was getting old, maybe the wiring was loose or something inside it. Or that maybe it was playing if someone jumped or something to close to it. The boys and I tried jumping next to it to see if it would start playing, it didn't. Sam doesn't have thumbs so I am pretty confident that she isn't turning it on. Who knows maybe the ghosts just like Brahms. Whatever the cause it is pretty amusing. It goes off at the strangest times.
I am still doing the Zumba. I still love it. I have decided though, that while I love salsa music, I am not all that fond of HipHop. Some of it is okay, but it just isn't something I get all excited about. So, I thought I would figure out my music to do Zumba too. I have settled for now on Santana, because I have always loved Santana. A little Aerosmith, I was pretty surprised that Walk this Way, works for Zumba. Those are my additions for now, other than those I'll stick with the music that is typically used.
I have started working on a new knitting project. I am working on a hat with cat ears. Dark gray with pale pink inside the ears. The knit is very tight and I am worried that the hat may end up to small for the person I am making it for. I might get to see this person in a couple of weeks, so I wonder how tacky it would be to go up and measure his head? It seems a little strange, but since i am the one running around with a measuring tape, it may not seem that odd to the people I assault with it. They all know I am prone to odd behavior. I am also having a little trouble with the band for the hat. The light gray I had picked out looks a bit stupid, I may need to get another color or just do the band in the same gray as the rest of the hat. I am sure I'll figure it out, eventually.
Still haven't been able to find out if Bill will be able to take off for Passover. His mom wants to do it the 19th, but Bill has to work. Somehow Fran has it in her head that she has to have the first or second day. I can't seem to convince her that it does last 7 or 8 days depending, and we could easily wait until Friday or Saturday to have the dinner. Bill is off on Fridays, we could actually attend. I would hate to miss passover, it is by far my favorite of all the Jewish holidays.
I am sure we will figure that out too. Its going to be a really long day. The boys are going nuts waiting for Nana & Papa. I should go work on laundry and get the rest of Aden's stuff packed.
One of the companies that we had set up to give us an estimate on the columns showed up yesterday. Ninety minutes late and no call. I hate that, I really do. Before I get side tracked and start ranting about why I dislike tardiness, I'll just get to what he said. He said it can't be done. Simple as that. Mudjacking will not work, Better fine a good mason. Then he left. He only looked briefly at the front of the house. I would have preferred a bit more of an explanation. The only reason I can think of, would be how the columns are made. They are hollow inside, we think, and sitting on pillars of brick. So, injecting concrete under the pillars wouldn't work. But then, I don't know, I am just guessing. We do have a few other companies scheduled to come out, so we'll see what they say. I will in the mean time go ahead and call some masons to see what they have to say. I already know that by going the mason route, its going to be pricey and very time consuming. I do not want to wait 3 months for the roof. I want it done now. So I had this idea for Bill.
Use house jacks to jack up the porch, next to each column to get the porch roof up to level. Then we can have the roofers do the roof and worry about the columns after. We can't wait on the roof, nor can we wait too long on the columns. If we do the roof, before the columns, then we will be wasting money having the porch roof done. Once we have the columns fixed, it would end up pushing the roof line up. We'd have to have the roof rebuilt.
I really think it can be done, as long as the roof is pushed up where it should be, before the roofers start. Then the mason can take his time, rebuilding the pillars under the columns. We already own 3 or 4 house jacks. We had to have them when Bill first started working on the house and had to bring a couple of floors up to level. Some idiot had sawed through a floor joist in the basement. So that is where we stand on the roof/column/cluster F***.
Have I mentioned that I am not all the fond of contractors????
Moving right along. Aden was absolutely miserable yesterday!!! I wasn't too back until about 4:30 pm then the pollen started kicking my ass. Then I was miserable for the rest of the night. It was so bad, the neti pot didn't even work, but that was probably because I waited to long to use it. I am praying for rain today. Just one day, with rain, so we can breath for a little while.
Nana & Papa should be here about dinner time to fetch Aden. Evan is so excited that Aden is leaving, He packed Aden's bags yesterday. Brotherly Love, its such a beautiful thing. Evan thinks they should come and get Aden this morning.
About 3 weeks ago, the boys started telling me that there projector was coming on by itself. Its this thing for babies that projects stars and moons on the ceiling or wall and play lullabies. I've kept it because they really like it.
Anyway, so this projector appears to have taken on a life of its own. I have even heard it start playing when no one is in their room. I thought maybe since it was getting old, maybe the wiring was loose or something inside it. Or that maybe it was playing if someone jumped or something to close to it. The boys and I tried jumping next to it to see if it would start playing, it didn't. Sam doesn't have thumbs so I am pretty confident that she isn't turning it on. Who knows maybe the ghosts just like Brahms. Whatever the cause it is pretty amusing. It goes off at the strangest times.
I am still doing the Zumba. I still love it. I have decided though, that while I love salsa music, I am not all that fond of HipHop. Some of it is okay, but it just isn't something I get all excited about. So, I thought I would figure out my music to do Zumba too. I have settled for now on Santana, because I have always loved Santana. A little Aerosmith, I was pretty surprised that Walk this Way, works for Zumba. Those are my additions for now, other than those I'll stick with the music that is typically used.
I have started working on a new knitting project. I am working on a hat with cat ears. Dark gray with pale pink inside the ears. The knit is very tight and I am worried that the hat may end up to small for the person I am making it for. I might get to see this person in a couple of weeks, so I wonder how tacky it would be to go up and measure his head? It seems a little strange, but since i am the one running around with a measuring tape, it may not seem that odd to the people I assault with it. They all know I am prone to odd behavior. I am also having a little trouble with the band for the hat. The light gray I had picked out looks a bit stupid, I may need to get another color or just do the band in the same gray as the rest of the hat. I am sure I'll figure it out, eventually.
Still haven't been able to find out if Bill will be able to take off for Passover. His mom wants to do it the 19th, but Bill has to work. Somehow Fran has it in her head that she has to have the first or second day. I can't seem to convince her that it does last 7 or 8 days depending, and we could easily wait until Friday or Saturday to have the dinner. Bill is off on Fridays, we could actually attend. I would hate to miss passover, it is by far my favorite of all the Jewish holidays.
I am sure we will figure that out too. Its going to be a really long day. The boys are going nuts waiting for Nana & Papa. I should go work on laundry and get the rest of Aden's stuff packed.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Allergies, Gravy, Vacation and Contractors Galore
There is alot of sniffling going on. Snot galore. Aden has perfected the Sinus Salute. That's where he pushes his nose up with his hand. Not sure if he thinks that will push the snot back in or what.
But, its not just Aden, we all seem to be suffering. I just love pollen.
Nana & Papa are heading down to the lake for vacation and have decided that they want to take Aden with them. I wish they would take Evan too, but the both of them together are way to much for Nana to handle for a week. Evan is still in full maniac mode. But, if I can figure out how to control Aden's allergies by tomorrow afternoon, I guess I will let him go. Its good for the boys to have time apart. There is alot less fighting when they are separated lol.
Gracie has been bringing the kitten, Gravy to the door several times a day and during the night as well. She cries, then he cries. I think she may be biting him to make him cry. She wants us to let Gravy in. I don't think so. Mama did that to us, twice. First when she dropped off Gracie & Monkey, and then again when she brought Dart. I am not taking care of the baby for her. She stole it, she can take care of it. I have my own babies to take care of.
The roofer did in fact show up yesterday. So the final contact was signed, the colors picked out, the shingles selected. We are just not clever enough to come up with the typical seven colors used on Victorian houses. We did pick out four. That's about as gaudy as I can get.
But, and there always is a but, we can't start the roof until the porch columns are leveled back out. I wanted to know why that wasn't brought up last year when we were getting the estimates for the roof and was told that they have settled alot more since then and will have to be fixed first, before we rebuild the roof. If we don't, then it will be a waste of time doing the roof, because if we try and jack up the porch roof later, it will damage the roof. Lovely, just flippin' lovely. So I spent yesterday trying to track down companies that do mud jacking. My first estimate is at 11 this morning. I have a total of 6 companies coming out. Bill was impressed. Why I don't know, maybe its because I have no problem just calling people. He doesn't like the phone very much, and I am pretty sure if I left it up to him, we'd be waiting till next May before we saw any contractors :). He's really not that bad, but he does really hate calling people :).
The good thing about mud jacking is that it can be done in any weather, so we won't be stuck waiting until it's nice to get it done. The only issue we may run into is the fact that the columns are set on top of bricks. But, I guess we'll find out soon enough. I only hope that this doesn't run through the budget have set for the rest of the outside work. Like the fence. I really, really need that fence. Sam has slipped her collar 2 days in a row. I am very tired of chasing her. The collar is as tight as I can get it.
As far as Aden making the 3-4 hour trip, I can't decide what to do about his car sickness. The pediatrician said Dramamine was fine to give him. But, I looked up the dosage and that is about what a dose of Benedryl is for him. Maybe I'll save the money on the Dramamine and just give him a dose of benedryl. Its the same active ingredient. I'll have to call his doctor to see for sure, since he is taking claritin as well. I know that when my allergies get really bad I can take both. But then I'm alot bigger :)
Whatever, I am sure it will work out fine.
But, its not just Aden, we all seem to be suffering. I just love pollen.
Nana & Papa are heading down to the lake for vacation and have decided that they want to take Aden with them. I wish they would take Evan too, but the both of them together are way to much for Nana to handle for a week. Evan is still in full maniac mode. But, if I can figure out how to control Aden's allergies by tomorrow afternoon, I guess I will let him go. Its good for the boys to have time apart. There is alot less fighting when they are separated lol.
Gracie has been bringing the kitten, Gravy to the door several times a day and during the night as well. She cries, then he cries. I think she may be biting him to make him cry. She wants us to let Gravy in. I don't think so. Mama did that to us, twice. First when she dropped off Gracie & Monkey, and then again when she brought Dart. I am not taking care of the baby for her. She stole it, she can take care of it. I have my own babies to take care of.
The roofer did in fact show up yesterday. So the final contact was signed, the colors picked out, the shingles selected. We are just not clever enough to come up with the typical seven colors used on Victorian houses. We did pick out four. That's about as gaudy as I can get.
But, and there always is a but, we can't start the roof until the porch columns are leveled back out. I wanted to know why that wasn't brought up last year when we were getting the estimates for the roof and was told that they have settled alot more since then and will have to be fixed first, before we rebuild the roof. If we don't, then it will be a waste of time doing the roof, because if we try and jack up the porch roof later, it will damage the roof. Lovely, just flippin' lovely. So I spent yesterday trying to track down companies that do mud jacking. My first estimate is at 11 this morning. I have a total of 6 companies coming out. Bill was impressed. Why I don't know, maybe its because I have no problem just calling people. He doesn't like the phone very much, and I am pretty sure if I left it up to him, we'd be waiting till next May before we saw any contractors :). He's really not that bad, but he does really hate calling people :).
The good thing about mud jacking is that it can be done in any weather, so we won't be stuck waiting until it's nice to get it done. The only issue we may run into is the fact that the columns are set on top of bricks. But, I guess we'll find out soon enough. I only hope that this doesn't run through the budget have set for the rest of the outside work. Like the fence. I really, really need that fence. Sam has slipped her collar 2 days in a row. I am very tired of chasing her. The collar is as tight as I can get it.
As far as Aden making the 3-4 hour trip, I can't decide what to do about his car sickness. The pediatrician said Dramamine was fine to give him. But, I looked up the dosage and that is about what a dose of Benedryl is for him. Maybe I'll save the money on the Dramamine and just give him a dose of benedryl. Its the same active ingredient. I'll have to call his doctor to see for sure, since he is taking claritin as well. I know that when my allergies get really bad I can take both. But then I'm alot bigger :)
Whatever, I am sure it will work out fine.
Monday, April 4, 2011
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