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4月11日 Snoozeless-Day 17I have gone as fer as I can go.
Well the living room is done, put back together, clean (well what I consider clean), and things have come back to some sort of normalsy. The only thing that is missing is my beloved. I hope she likes what we have done with the place.
Tired and going to bed,
Chao for now,
Scott 4月9日 Snoozeless-Day 15Well to answer my own question of what was under the living room floor we found out. 6.5 pounds of sugar sand drywall dust from the original installation and lots of yuck! It just seemed like the layed the carpeting without sweeping the floor. This was nasty. But tomorrow brings new carpeting and cleaning and replacing all the furniture and stuff we had to "make places" for. In other words we have one big room with nothing in it but a chair and a TV and 7 other rooms that you cannot even move in. Pure chaos I tell you. But it is only temporary and hopes are high for a cleaner more comfortable environment.
Thanks to all of your words of encouragement bring this project to completion.
Scott 4月8日 Snoozeless-Day 14I fought the house and the, HOUSE WON!! A wise man once told me is that the only time you will be done working on your house is when you die. I am beginning to see the wisdom in this statement. It just seems that the more we do, the more we see that needs to be done. Does anyone else have this problem? It just bothers me that I go into peoples million dollar homes to install security systems and everything looks, so, finished. I guess money can overcome anything.
Nick, Lee and Alex have been helping me as well as being a never ending source of amusement. Nick and I are counting the days till Snooze returns and then we go to Florida for some much needed R&R.
Tomorrow we get to put the kitchen back together (grout has to dry and be treated) and then we get to pull all the carpeting out of the living room. What fun! There is that meat grinder idea again.
Oh well, my sincerest hope is that when Snooze comes home to her "nest" she will find it clean, functional and relaxing.
Tomorrow: What is under the living room carpeting anyway?
Chao for now,
Scott 4月7日 Snoozeless Day 12Captains Log: As much as I think that I am in charge of the maintenance and upkeep of the place in which I reside the more I realize that this house has control over me. Constantly breaking or wearing out. Constantly beckening like sirens in the night air "fix me, fix me". It is like a ship who is in charge of the helmsman I tell you.
But seriously. After finishing the laundry room my first mate (Nick) had a marvalous idea. Why not just continue to tile into the kitchen. "Well why don't we just stick our weaners in a meat grinder we will have just about as much fun" was my response. But after much thought I did like the idea that while Snooze is away it would be the ideal time to complete such a large undertaking. But why stop there why not the living room? So we ordered new carpeting for the living room. As a matter of fact if Snooze does not come home soon we are going to run out of floor and have to find other floors in which to keep ourselves busy. Or not.
Actually I am quite excited the idea of finishing the one I have and afterward sleep for oh till Snooze comes home. Nick and his friend Lee have been a huge help and by Tuesday we should be able to get the refridgerator out of the living room and stove out of my office (we had to put it somewhere) and life back to some order once again.
But wait, there was order before? Let me contemplate this while the meat grinder is running.
See ya,
Scott 4月2日 Snoozeless Day 7We are now in day 7 without our beloved Snooze. I talk to her as much as I can through VOIP (which be the way if you don't know what it is find out. It is very cool). So far Nick has been a hugh help with everything and just plain fun to be around. My project, the rear hall is all done but the painting and trust me it has been a project. Anytime you have to remove part of your house and rebuild it it is just so much fun (can you sense the sarcasm in my voice). But after this is all said and done I hope by doing this it will make my beloved Snoozes life happier.
She asks me why I take on major projects only when she is away. Well the answer is it is just eaisier. I love my wife but she is so smart that while I am in the middle of the project she always thinks of other options that if I were to build it during construction it would be "easy". Of course "easy" usually doubles the amount of time necessary for completion. Not to say that her ideas are not good. Just time consuming.
Example. When we lived downstate (Detroit area) I was finsihing the basement. In said basement was a cloths shoot from the first floor. Well where I was finishing the ceiling it would have rendered the close shoot unusabel. So she came up with the idea of re-routing the clothes as they came out of the shoot through a series of slanted smooth drywall sheets and depositing into a hidden closet. The amazing thing is is that it really worked well. But in the mean time added 4 days to the project. That already took me a month of evenings.
Also she is not crazy about me tearing the house apart while she is here because it really is a major inconvience to herto loose part of the house that she considers her work area for the duration of the construction project. Being that this is her domain it makes me feel guilty putting her through these problems
If you have not already assertained I love my wife and want to make life as easy for her as possibel. I know I'm just the lovable slob type. So sue me.
March 31st was our 22nd "garbage day". Garbage day you ask? Well we met on March 31, 1984. On the day before the anniversery of this date she asked me if I remembered what the next day was. Actually I knew. But to cover this up I gave the answer to the question she asked most often "Garbage Day". So that is how March 31 has beccame "garbage day" and always will be.
Well we are still alive and kicking and missing the women of the house like crazy,
Chio for now,
Scott 3月30日 Snoozeless Day 5I decided that day 4 was just to short to post anything. Let's see I worked 8 hours, installed the subfloor in the back hallway with the aid (?) of three teenage boys. Then after picking up the big pieces of trash fell on my face and slept till this morning.
If you notice the paragraph above I questioned the actual "aid" I received last night. Not that I am not appreciative of their efforts God no I could not have done it without them. But I look at it this way. My rear hall is 5'3" wide and 11'2" long. So I buy three 4' X 8' piece of subfloor. After installing the first two I look outside and cannot for the life of me find a piece over 60.5". Where did the wood go? Why did I have the equivilant amount of wood but not a sheet long enough to cover the width? I ask. Nick and Alex: "You were going to cut it anyway". Yeah well they had Taco Bell for lunch and I will guarantee something more will be cut later but I did not want it to be my complete boards. Oh well. I had to support and piece it in.
The house looks looks like a herd of small cows has just run through it so I guess cleaning is the order of the day.
My knee, back, arms virtually my whole body feels like I have gone a couple of rounds with somebody but this to shall pass.
After reviewing post made from previous days I did find it interesting that F15's fly over my daughters house which in turn woke my wife up more than disturbed. My daughters answer was "you will get used to it". I have a question. For years my daughter stayed in a room adjacent to the living room. In said living room is a closet. In said closet is a bunch of electronics with a cooling fan to keep them, well, cool. Every night before she went to bed she would make sure that "that darn fan" was turned off because it was to noisy in her room. Now we are not talking about a big fan. No we are talking about a 2" computer fan. Now she can sleep through F15's? Either she is growing up or going deaf.
Oh the pain, the pain,
Scott 3月28日 Snoozeless-day 3Nothing much has changed since Snooze has left. Well maybe the fact that the kid moved into the other side of the bed. The dog has taken up residence between us and is on a sleeping mission to kick us both out. There is no floor left in the laundy room so we are having to teach the cats a new spot to "GO" in. And there has not been one inch of fibre knit, spun, dyed, mangled, tangled, kinked, given a celery mesage and protein pack, Navaho plied (I still have not found the Navaho for this), bulked, worsted or sock weight. When she left it stopped. At least here. Now I know my Snooze better than just about anyone. And I believe that by the time she leaves Okinaw drop spindles will be a hot commodity. That is just the way she is. And I love her for it.
She is in the middle of her day and I am in the end of mine. So I will call it a day. Snooze if you read this, I Love You......Goodnight |
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