I miss having Dad around...it's so quiet now.
I posted some reno pics on my other blog. I finished the final coat of blue on the cupboards...and now have a few days break for paint to cure before I can seal grout and such.
Right now, lots to do. Maybe even sleep!
Must run...
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Zzzzzz.....
So. Tired.
It's been 2 nights in a row up until midnight doing kitchen stuff. (and a bit of MSc work...because I'm really really behind. Heh. Nervous? Why no...eep)
Nothing makes you cheerful like trying to slide on side panels to a stove at midnight when you're tired.
According to the guy in the store "they just pop right on!"
Um yeah...sure...if you're coordinated. It took Dad and I over half an hour and much crank...
BUT the stove is now in the kitchen *with* sides, ready to be installed today by Mr. Gas Dude. And Dad is putting in the range hood too... Then this weekend I can paint the cupboards and grout the tile...and maybe get my kitchen (and spare time and sanity) backby NEXT weekend...
oh lordy...
It's been 2 nights in a row up until midnight doing kitchen stuff. (and a bit of MSc work...because I'm really really behind. Heh. Nervous? Why no...eep)
Nothing makes you cheerful like trying to slide on side panels to a stove at midnight when you're tired.
According to the guy in the store "they just pop right on!"
Um yeah...sure...if you're coordinated. It took Dad and I over half an hour and much crank...
BUT the stove is now in the kitchen *with* sides, ready to be installed today by Mr. Gas Dude. And Dad is putting in the range hood too... Then this weekend I can paint the cupboards and grout the tile...and maybe get my kitchen (and spare time and sanity) backby NEXT weekend...
oh lordy...
The whole is merely a sum of all it's parts
The wheel went kaplooey (highly technical sciency term) on our elliptical.
Boo. It's an easy fix...but we just have to get the wheel part...which of course noone stocks, but we can order in. J, who wants to work out still, is determined to use it even with the wonky wheel...which hopefully won't screw it up any more than it is now...The part broken is the wheels on the bottom front that look like giant rollerblade wheels. Luckily I can get a new set thru where we bought it from in a week...so that should get us back on track soon. My J is most cranky when he can't work out. He just can't get into walking or running outside, but loves this, so hey. I'll do whatever I can to get it fixed...
On another topic: we're quite pumped, as a few days ago we envisioned a little workout area in our basement down my my craft room and now are itching to get at making it happen. We have to get rid of our old washer and dryer first (anyone? They're free-seriously come on over...) and redo some storage shelves and then I can make some floor to ceiling curtains for to hide them and make it look neat and uncluttered. That will leave a little workout area at the foot of the stairs, which we have even daydreamed about running stereo speakers to and then moving the elliptical and other kit into. Right now the elliptical is in the middle of our downstairs living room...which works, but we're currently revamping the back part of it (which was our office) to make it into J's studio area for him to work in now that the office is upstairs. We couldn't figure out where else to put it. It will be a bit of hardcore moving/reorganising, but it will be cool to have a little area where we can leave out the elliptical, my weights and all that jazz. A little workout area. Cool. Does that make us more fit somehow, just by being in that room? :)
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I've gotta say - this getting organised thing is pretty awesome. We still have a long way to go, but we're getting there bit by bit. Painting the house sort of high jacked that for a little while, as the weather finally was warm and dry for the first time all summer so we had to make it priority to get it done, but now that it's done, it's back to Operation Organise. I'm hoping to have our areas done and set up for winter so we can hibernate and really use the spaces in our house that aren't being used to their full potential.
Exciting times...if we can actually do all we're thinking of, it'll be neat. It won't cost us too much...it will just take time and effort. But someday...whoo!
On the plus side, I'm happy to say we have totally finished painting our house.
Mehee! All I need to do is put the smiling metal sun (purple!) on the front of the house and hang our mailbox back up.
Tadah!
It really looks great. As there's always something, our yard itself is rather neglected, so it will be a weekend of yard work -the vines in our front yard have shed their leaves...so now instead of a gorgeous green front yard you can just see all the weeds that were hidden under them. (Ugh...I loves me my weeding...not), It's nice making our home better. It's exhausting but utterly fulfilling to sit back at the end of the day with a beer in hand and survey our domain and think "Yeah! WE did that!"
:)
Boo. It's an easy fix...but we just have to get the wheel part...which of course noone stocks, but we can order in. J, who wants to work out still, is determined to use it even with the wonky wheel...which hopefully won't screw it up any more than it is now...The part broken is the wheels on the bottom front that look like giant rollerblade wheels. Luckily I can get a new set thru where we bought it from in a week...so that should get us back on track soon. My J is most cranky when he can't work out. He just can't get into walking or running outside, but loves this, so hey. I'll do whatever I can to get it fixed...
On another topic: we're quite pumped, as a few days ago we envisioned a little workout area in our basement down my my craft room and now are itching to get at making it happen. We have to get rid of our old washer and dryer first (anyone? They're free-seriously come on over...) and redo some storage shelves and then I can make some floor to ceiling curtains for to hide them and make it look neat and uncluttered. That will leave a little workout area at the foot of the stairs, which we have even daydreamed about running stereo speakers to and then moving the elliptical and other kit into. Right now the elliptical is in the middle of our downstairs living room...which works, but we're currently revamping the back part of it (which was our office) to make it into J's studio area for him to work in now that the office is upstairs. We couldn't figure out where else to put it. It will be a bit of hardcore moving/reorganising, but it will be cool to have a little area where we can leave out the elliptical, my weights and all that jazz. A little workout area. Cool. Does that make us more fit somehow, just by being in that room? :)
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I've gotta say - this getting organised thing is pretty awesome. We still have a long way to go, but we're getting there bit by bit. Painting the house sort of high jacked that for a little while, as the weather finally was warm and dry for the first time all summer so we had to make it priority to get it done, but now that it's done, it's back to Operation Organise. I'm hoping to have our areas done and set up for winter so we can hibernate and really use the spaces in our house that aren't being used to their full potential.
Exciting times...if we can actually do all we're thinking of, it'll be neat. It won't cost us too much...it will just take time and effort. But someday...whoo!
On the plus side, I'm happy to say we have totally finished painting our house.
Mehee! All I need to do is put the smiling metal sun (purple!) on the front of the house and hang our mailbox back up.
Tadah!
It really looks great. As there's always something, our yard itself is rather neglected, so it will be a weekend of yard work -the vines in our front yard have shed their leaves...so now instead of a gorgeous green front yard you can just see all the weeds that were hidden under them. (Ugh...I loves me my weeding...not), It's nice making our home better. It's exhausting but utterly fulfilling to sit back at the end of the day with a beer in hand and survey our domain and think "Yeah! WE did that!"
:)
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Well...we are 95% done our house painting.
*grin*
Yup - we did it! One 12 hour day of prep and scrape and fill and prime and 2 hardcore days of painting while teetering on scaffolding and ladders and all that's left is a bit of trim for me to finish up this afternoon. I'm taking the afternoon off...just so it is finished. I don't know how long the weather will hold, so I want it done...
And you know what? If I may brag a bit I must say - it looks AWESOME. We changed our minds on colour right before we went to get the paint so instead of grey with red trim/accents our house is now darker grey and purple. PURPLE!
Fantastic.
The grey is totally finished and tbe front door is already done a nice deep purple and we have 1 coat on the accent parts of the front, the mailbox and the metal sun for the front of the house. Only about an hour's work on the purple and we'll be done...
I ache all over and I could have gone to bed last night right after supper, but we did it :) It was exhausting, but so very very worth it.
Yay for us!
*grin*
Yup - we did it! One 12 hour day of prep and scrape and fill and prime and 2 hardcore days of painting while teetering on scaffolding and ladders and all that's left is a bit of trim for me to finish up this afternoon. I'm taking the afternoon off...just so it is finished. I don't know how long the weather will hold, so I want it done...
And you know what? If I may brag a bit I must say - it looks AWESOME. We changed our minds on colour right before we went to get the paint so instead of grey with red trim/accents our house is now darker grey and purple. PURPLE!
Fantastic.
The grey is totally finished and tbe front door is already done a nice deep purple and we have 1 coat on the accent parts of the front, the mailbox and the metal sun for the front of the house. Only about an hour's work on the purple and we'll be done...
I ache all over and I could have gone to bed last night right after supper, but we did it :) It was exhausting, but so very very worth it.
Yay for us!
Paintercize
I'm seeing how many calories can be burned going up and down and up and down up and down and up and down up and down and up and down up and down and up and down up and down and up and down up and down and up and down up and down and up and down up and down and up and down up and down and up and down a ladder with a paintbrush and paint scraper...
I'm priming and painting the trim and siding on my house. It's taking a while as the time I booked off to do this was rainy the whole time so I'm picking away at it now after work before sunset, much to the entertainment of my neighbors.
Painting burns calories right? :)
I'm priming and painting the trim and siding on my house. It's taking a while as the time I booked off to do this was rainy the whole time so I'm picking away at it now after work before sunset, much to the entertainment of my neighbors.
Painting burns calories right? :)
Reunited and it feels so good :)
I finally got out for a run this morning....it's been too long. The weather has been rather craptastic this spring, but it's finally up above zero in the mornings so I psyched myself up to go out today...it stopped raining by the time I left, so it was chilly but nice. I ran 3 minutes and walked 4 minutes 6 times. I'm hoping to add 30 seconds to the run part every week until I'm up to run 5 walk 2 and then stick with that, adding reps of the run/walk thing. My knees are happier when I do that. It was a beautiful morning out...birds everywhere, and zillions of gophers. So glad to be back out there...
This weekend I got some yardwork done (please tell me I am not the only one who *loves* playing with the whipper snipper?). J and I also had a great relaxing weekend together - went out for a play friday night and to a great lounge for drinks and tapas after that. Saturday was relaxing together too...a bit of chores and a lot of rest. So nice.
This week is continuing with organising my life...working on my room downstairs to get all the stuff from the renos out of there and either stored organised-like in boxes or back in the rooms they came from. It's hard to go through and purge things, but in the end it is good. A lot of stuff I've found I can't even figure out why we kept in the first place, so it's good to declutter a bit. Then I can be back in my room again...to make glass and sew and al the fun stuff I love to do to relax. We have company coming the end of the month for a week or so, so I want the house in reasonable shape by then...AND our new stove (!!!) is arriving which is kicking off operation pimp my kitchen...which I'm totally stoked for. We've picked out the tiny glass tiles for behind the stove and larger subway style tiles for backsplash that my dad is going to help us put in. We will also need to cover in the top of the cupboards, as the stove vent fan will heave to vent out and that will cover it up. I am going to build some glass panels to go up there (all frank lloyd wright style) so it will look amazing...whenever it's actually done. We want to sand down and refinish the cupboard doors too...so it'll take a while to do. There's no way I'm going to start that until after the company is gone...tearing the house apart before people come to visit is not a nice thing to do...I'm so excited though...the new gas/convection stove is coming this weekend! Meep!
Gotta go. Duty calls...
Music to run to: Brother's Gonna Work it out - Chemical Brothers
This weekend I got some yardwork done (please tell me I am not the only one who *loves* playing with the whipper snipper?). J and I also had a great relaxing weekend together - went out for a play friday night and to a great lounge for drinks and tapas after that. Saturday was relaxing together too...a bit of chores and a lot of rest. So nice.
This week is continuing with organising my life...working on my room downstairs to get all the stuff from the renos out of there and either stored organised-like in boxes or back in the rooms they came from. It's hard to go through and purge things, but in the end it is good. A lot of stuff I've found I can't even figure out why we kept in the first place, so it's good to declutter a bit. Then I can be back in my room again...to make glass and sew and al the fun stuff I love to do to relax. We have company coming the end of the month for a week or so, so I want the house in reasonable shape by then...AND our new stove (!!!) is arriving which is kicking off operation pimp my kitchen...which I'm totally stoked for. We've picked out the tiny glass tiles for behind the stove and larger subway style tiles for backsplash that my dad is going to help us put in. We will also need to cover in the top of the cupboards, as the stove vent fan will heave to vent out and that will cover it up. I am going to build some glass panels to go up there (all frank lloyd wright style) so it will look amazing...whenever it's actually done. We want to sand down and refinish the cupboard doors too...so it'll take a while to do. There's no way I'm going to start that until after the company is gone...tearing the house apart before people come to visit is not a nice thing to do...I'm so excited though...the new gas/convection stove is coming this weekend! Meep!
Gotta go. Duty calls...
Music to run to: Brother's Gonna Work it out - Chemical Brothers
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