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8-5-13

What a weekend!

I am glad that I played hooky on Friday. I was able to rest, which was needed what with the epic cramps I was dealing with. The period that had once again alluded me for 10 days past normal came on in full force so Friday was a good time to combat that and not work.

We did a lot in the course of three days. This morning the tally includes the purchase of the major appliances (less washer/dryer), a closet being installed, bedroom painted, family room at Steve cleaned up, trees and plants cut at Steve, electrician secured and various other basic domestic activities.

Sadly, there was one bad thing in the form of multiple ear infections in the house. Both the boys had severe ear pain to the point that we were trying to flush them out with peroxide. Sadly, this didn’t seem to help, so Sunday morning I took them both to Urgent Care where it was discovered that Dax had an infection in one ear, and poor Bobby had it in both. It was swimmer’s ear, so at least we know what it is from. The doctor was quite impressed with how polite and calm both boys were despite what was clear to be a lot of pain. I was shocked at how mellow they were since neither of them slept well due to the pain. They are not allowed to swim for a week, which essentially keeps them out of the pool until we go on our mini vacation this coming weekend. It is probably good I took them yesterday so that they could get the meds to clear it up for hotel pool swimming fun.

Andy came into town yesterday afternoon and we took him to see Steve. He loved it! YAY!! He was saying how much bigger it is compared to pictures and he said he and Scotty thought it was a great place based on what they knew. The picture painted to them of course was much more grim and Andy said much of what he could see was only good and potential galore.

Ken and Andy are going to work on installing new doors and door frames in the bedroom at the old place today. Hopefully they can also look into replacing the window in there, too. The closet obtained is awesome in there. We picked it up at IKEA and it looks fantastic! The house is coming along. The garage looks to be the biggest pain still, even over and above the living room. However, I think the living room won’t be as bad since it is most pulling panels, which isn’t hard and then putting up panels, which is probably less of a pain than painting. The biggest thing I need to do right now is make some arrangements to get the piano moved to the new place so that I don’t have to worry about moving that around during living room work.

Tonight I have plans for dinner with Alyssa and Sarah, which should be awesome. I made them at probably not the best time what with Andy in town, but then again, this just allows Ken and the boys to visit with him more.

I am hoping to install the new cupboard handles this afternoon. I still need to go pick up another couple boxes from the Manhattan Beach Target, but I think that I can start getting this aspect done. I am just pleased to have little tasks I can work on.

The electrician will not start until we get the approval from So Cal Edison to do some new box, which I think takes place on Wednesday. Then the work will take about 2 weeks. This sucks only in the sense that other things can’t happen until that takes place. Ken and Andy are also going to start in on bathroom demolition. I think today I am going to start pricing cheap sinks and vanities and things like that. Budget amounts have been given to me and it sounds like more of the bathroom will be done by us than by a contractor. Not a huge deal since we don’t want anything fancy.

Andy was saying how he and Scotty have been reminding the Admiral and his wife that they are not the ones who will be living in the place. Even they have noted that they make statements about what should be done based on how they would want the place to look, not how we would like it. We told Andy how their mom had wanted to paint the dark paneling. He was appalled. He pointed out how good it looks. I also love that he was telling me that paneling is way in these days. This comes from him and Scotty who watch HGTV constantly. I am so excited! I am cutting edge. LOL!!

I have a lot of pricing to obtain now.