This has been such a long week. I don't know who is more excited about tomorrow being Friday, me or my 7 year old. We have worked really hard on this house this week. The weather delayed the cleaning out of the garage 4 days but we finally got that squared away. The dog run is toast. We had that dismantled and is currently out by the curb. We have to rent a truck in order to haul all that stuff off to Custer Station because the city will not pick it up. Allen sure is proud of their trash collections.
So how many people does it take to change out a bathroom sink faucet? Well in my house, the question should be how many hours does it take someone to change out the faucet. Ha... Lara and I thought...hey we can change out the bathroom sink fixtures, looks easy enough, right? If only everything we thought was "easy" turned out that simple. Our cabinets under the sink give you about 12 inches of space to stick half your body in and then you have to slink yourself upwards and with one hand and a vice grip try to unscrew this cheap plastic thing holding the damn thing together. It took Lara hours but after a lot of cussing, grunting, and complete upper body numbness she made a miracle happen and got them both changed out. She just ROCKS! What would I do without her? Call a handyman from craigslist? Yep, you got me. :) Anyone who knows me knows I cannot be entrusted with anything that requires assembly. I know my limits...
Tomorrow morning the person from our realty office comes to take the pictures for the MLS listing. I cannot wait for the house to finally be on the market. We only have the nursery left to fix up but since that won't be included in the pictures we can do that tomorrow. Even though I am ready to move on from this house and into something with more room, I am going to miss my house. After 9 years I guess you are bound to get attached. I am really going to miss the nursery. Everytime I walk into that room it makes me smile because I think about the 2 months Lara and I spent getting that room together while impatiently waiting on the adoption to go through for Cristian. It was a long 2 months. We drew and painted a mural on 2 of the walls that matched his nursery crib set. Before that though we had to sand the walls because they are textured and I couldn't breathe right for weeks! So much dust! Memories... :)
Here are some pics taken with my phone of the new landscape in the backyard. I don't have any before pictures but just think holes to China all over the yard courtesy of my dogs, flowerbeds full of more holes, grass, and dirt, and grass around pool equipment and you will have a good image of the before... :) We planted Crotons, Canna's, Lily's, Moss Roses, Monkey Grass, and Nandina's. It will take a little while for them to fill out but I think it looks really pretty. We used dark mulch and then did gravel by the pool equipment and did all new sod in the back. It looks really nice. The pics don't do it much justice.
Cristian today was chatting about being vegetarian and just chattering random thoughts with excitement in the backseat..."I don't like that people eat animals Mims. It is just so mean to let animals get killed to eat them, isn't it Mims? I hate people who eat my special animals and I am going to tell them that they shouldn't eat the animals they should love them. Mean people. I hate mean people like that, don't you Mims? Mrs. "H" eats animals but I am okay with that because I love Mrs "H"." Then he goes right into singing the lyrics to the Katy Perry song playing in the car "E.T". LOL He is such a rambler sometimes and no, I didn't even have a chance to respond to anything he was asking before he rambled to the next thought. He is just too funny.
Speaking of vegetarian...I am starting to struggle. :( Not with not eating meat, I don't miss a thing about that, but more with eating a healthy well balanced diet without it. It was so easy to eat healthy when I ate meat. I could make lean chicken, 2 veggies, some fruit and I was good to go with a yummy dinner at less than 300 calories. Vegetarian dinner - not so easy to balance. Many of the items tend to be high in carbs or sodium and I can't really swap a meat alternative with each meal because that gets not only quite expensive but also many of the things tend to start to taste the same. I find myself eating way too much pasta or things like that which is not well balanced at all. sigh... I hope to find a happy medium soon. I wish I knew other vegetarians so that I could get ideas from the things they cook. Ah well...
This is officially the first day I will get to go to bed before 1am in so long that I can't even remember how long it has been. I have been so exhausted that my body just hurts. Even when I have finished working in the house and rolled myself to bed at 2 or 3am...I can't stay asleep long enough for it to matter. :( I'm so tired of the lack of sleep. I hate nights like that...sleep doesn't come easy and at times I wonder if it ever will. People say time heals all wounds...I say - even time doesn't have that kind of power. Lessens maybe...
Cheers,
M E
So how many people does it take to change out a bathroom sink faucet? Well in my house, the question should be how many hours does it take someone to change out the faucet. Ha... Lara and I thought...hey we can change out the bathroom sink fixtures, looks easy enough, right? If only everything we thought was "easy" turned out that simple. Our cabinets under the sink give you about 12 inches of space to stick half your body in and then you have to slink yourself upwards and with one hand and a vice grip try to unscrew this cheap plastic thing holding the damn thing together. It took Lara hours but after a lot of cussing, grunting, and complete upper body numbness she made a miracle happen and got them both changed out. She just ROCKS! What would I do without her? Call a handyman from craigslist? Yep, you got me. :) Anyone who knows me knows I cannot be entrusted with anything that requires assembly. I know my limits...
Tomorrow morning the person from our realty office comes to take the pictures for the MLS listing. I cannot wait for the house to finally be on the market. We only have the nursery left to fix up but since that won't be included in the pictures we can do that tomorrow. Even though I am ready to move on from this house and into something with more room, I am going to miss my house. After 9 years I guess you are bound to get attached. I am really going to miss the nursery. Everytime I walk into that room it makes me smile because I think about the 2 months Lara and I spent getting that room together while impatiently waiting on the adoption to go through for Cristian. It was a long 2 months. We drew and painted a mural on 2 of the walls that matched his nursery crib set. Before that though we had to sand the walls because they are textured and I couldn't breathe right for weeks! So much dust! Memories... :)
Here are some pics taken with my phone of the new landscape in the backyard. I don't have any before pictures but just think holes to China all over the yard courtesy of my dogs, flowerbeds full of more holes, grass, and dirt, and grass around pool equipment and you will have a good image of the before... :) We planted Crotons, Canna's, Lily's, Moss Roses, Monkey Grass, and Nandina's. It will take a little while for them to fill out but I think it looks really pretty. We used dark mulch and then did gravel by the pool equipment and did all new sod in the back. It looks really nice. The pics don't do it much justice.
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Cristian today was chatting about being vegetarian and just chattering random thoughts with excitement in the backseat..."I don't like that people eat animals Mims. It is just so mean to let animals get killed to eat them, isn't it Mims? I hate people who eat my special animals and I am going to tell them that they shouldn't eat the animals they should love them. Mean people. I hate mean people like that, don't you Mims? Mrs. "H" eats animals but I am okay with that because I love Mrs "H"." Then he goes right into singing the lyrics to the Katy Perry song playing in the car "E.T". LOL He is such a rambler sometimes and no, I didn't even have a chance to respond to anything he was asking before he rambled to the next thought. He is just too funny.
Speaking of vegetarian...I am starting to struggle. :( Not with not eating meat, I don't miss a thing about that, but more with eating a healthy well balanced diet without it. It was so easy to eat healthy when I ate meat. I could make lean chicken, 2 veggies, some fruit and I was good to go with a yummy dinner at less than 300 calories. Vegetarian dinner - not so easy to balance. Many of the items tend to be high in carbs or sodium and I can't really swap a meat alternative with each meal because that gets not only quite expensive but also many of the things tend to start to taste the same. I find myself eating way too much pasta or things like that which is not well balanced at all. sigh... I hope to find a happy medium soon. I wish I knew other vegetarians so that I could get ideas from the things they cook. Ah well...
This is officially the first day I will get to go to bed before 1am in so long that I can't even remember how long it has been. I have been so exhausted that my body just hurts. Even when I have finished working in the house and rolled myself to bed at 2 or 3am...I can't stay asleep long enough for it to matter. :( I'm so tired of the lack of sleep. I hate nights like that...sleep doesn't come easy and at times I wonder if it ever will. People say time heals all wounds...I say - even time doesn't have that kind of power. Lessens maybe...
Cheers,
M E
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