Lowe's

8-26-13

Ouch.

Ok, so I am a little sore this morning. We did a lot of work over the weekend. As it stands now, our “living room” is now in our old bedroom. The living room is panel free (aside from a couple small ones high up that we need to cut since it looks like they are behind the banisters). We will get new panels this week to put them up. We might also be leaving it as hardwood. We spoke to a potential renter yesterday whose daughter has severe allergies and carpet is just asking for a harder time. We told them if they want to rent, we have no problem getting the floors redone instead. They really love the place what with the size and it being next door to a long-time friend (the guys have known each other since they were 5!) and down the street from parents and another set of friends. I liked them a lot and hope that they rent.

The concrete stairs were removed from the family room at Steve. Matt and my dad got a jackhammer and did most of it. I got to man the hammer for a bit, which I gotta say was freaking AWESOME. So much power. I loved it.

My mom sanded and made the cutting board look like new. It is gorgeous now. She is going to do the oil on it sometime this week.

The kitchen floor will go in this week.

The POD will be picked up from Halldale and moved to Steve on Tuesday. We then have one week to unload it into the garage since they pick it up next week.

On Friday night we picked up the vanities, the medicine cabinets, the tub, the new panels for the family room, tiles for the bathrooms, and insulation for the family room. Holy fuck, it was a lot of stuff. We were at Lowe’s for something like 3 hours. It was nuts.

Panels will be the construction of choice this week. We will need to put up panels at both places. Once this is done, we can schedule carpet at Steve. I would like to do that since it will make that room done and then we can move some things in there.

Ken said we will start painting Steve ourselves. I am excited! I have the colors picked out for our room. I have to decide on the shade for the guest room. I need to paint in there first since then we can get carper down and make that a functional room to store some things in. Our room will be next.

Sadly, nothing can be done until this fucking electrician gets his ass in gear. He isn’t coming until at the soonest Wednesday. Grr…

Perhaps this afternoon we can load the truck with the couches and a couple other things. We would have done that Friday but the Lowe’s adventure ended up taking longer.

I sold the stove to an extremely excited couple so I feel very happy about this.

My body aches, but hopefully things will start moving along now.

Tonight Bobby has soccer practice so Dax and I will come along this time. There is a track around the field, so we are going to walk the track during practice. I figure I have 90 minutes in which I can do this, which is all kinds of good. This extra exercise twice a week is not a bad thing, and it will keep me stretched out.

I spoke to the sergeant at the South LA shelter on Friday. He was actually quite nice and we spoke for a while. I told him about the people at his facility, and he apologized profusely about them. They are new and he said partially due to my experience, they are doing some additional training this week to discuss how to talk with the public more. He also talked to me about the puppy, and I was able to offer some advice on proper listings and how truly they are not doing the dogs a service by listing them as something they are not. The puppy I was interested in ended up not being a lab but a Chihuahua, which as I pointed out was not what I had driven all that way for. I told him that even though yes, they may mostly have pits and Chihuahuas, they need to let us know this. Even if they say it is a mix between the two. He was shockingly receptive to my suggestions and told me he was glad we had spoken since they need this kind of feedback. I felt like I did a good thing.

We broke the news to our neighbors who were quite bummed. Maria was sad and her family said they would miss us. As much as I am ready to move, I will miss our neighborhood. It is a good group of people.