Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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3:30 am
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Work started on our sills on Monday. Now there is actually stuff holding our house up, not magic. The kitchen floor is no longer spongy but now it sticks up in a couple places. At least it's supported.
We got an orange kitten a week and a half ago from my boss. His? Name is Miska and he is adorable even if he did try to escape through a hole in the wall last night. Also yesterday Big Cat caught and killed a red squirrel that got in (the house had a gap where a sill wasn't in place yet.
We are having Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday because I work Thursday and have church in the morning. We haven't even planned a menu yet.
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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11:56 pm
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We're getting pellets delivered for the stove Saturday. We have to vote tomorrow morning, and Wednesday morning is the historical society meeting. I have to pack up a trunk or two so we can put away our garb. I made a beef barley soup Saturday night and invited my in-laws over. Tonight we're having the leftovers. I want to cook for more people, too. (I also want to build the bench in my kitchen so we seat more people easily). But that has to wait until we actually get the lumber off that shed.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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4:36 pm
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To do: rebraid hair, feed my boss's cats
When we get home: move pellet stove from garage to house, set up bookcase
The chimney sweep should be at the house at noon tomorrow. After another week or so, the contractor should be able to start on my house
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
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11:45 pm
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My parents came up for the weekend, which was interesting (I didn't know there were so many ways to hint at grandkids). At least they were helpful and the walls (but not ceilings) are pretty much painted and we can start moving stuff in. Finally. We bought a new light for over the stove and a new ceiling fan as the old one doesn't work. Now we just need to install them. I'm thinking tonight we'll get electrical tape and put in the sconce and put away books
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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12:24 pm
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The tub faucet leaks (no plumbers putty). The toilet shut-off valve leaks. The vanity isn't in yet. But I got to pee inside my house this morning! The walls everywhere except the library are cleaned; the tall walls are painted, but not thoroughly edged. The chimney sweep comes in a week, we buy the pellet stove next Saturday. My parents are coming up to help this weekend. The short walls aren't painted at all. We haven't started in on the kitchen as we're waiting on the sill work. I sign the loan for the sill work this weekend. It's only bothering me as I seem to be driving twice as much as I can afford to spend on gas.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
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1:40 am
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I don't want to go to work in the morning. I want to stay home and paint and help with putting the bathroom together. I could take a bath- no shower yet- but my shampoo isn't here so I can't wash my hair for work. Oh well. I guess I can shower between shifts in the morning.
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
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1:28 pm - calling all hands
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For a painting party this weekend. We have the paint for our studio floor and for the non-log walls and ceiling in the house. We only have one roller and a couple brushes for edging, so bring a tool, a tray, a dropcloth if you need one, a really tall ladder if you have one, and let us know when you can make it and what you can bring.
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
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2:21 am
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We are on our way to my cousin's wedding. Currently we're in Ohio, and it's 10pm. We've been on the road since 4:50 am. It was my turn to drive last, and was going a steady 70. Now it's my mom's turn and the seat is odd for her and she's topping out at 60. It's annoying especially because I want to get there so we can all go to bed, and because as long as I was having a conversation I was good to drive a while longer.
So the Dweezle and I went into the rest stop and saw a woman looking spiffy, and then we looked down and she was wearin llbean shearling slippers.
Tomorrow we put Dweezle in a suit for the wedding. Should be interesting.
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
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3:57 am
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Disregard the posted time; it is now 11:50pm and my mom's friend is about ten minutes away. We're at the new house and don't have a toilet yet. Correction: we have a brand new toilet waiting to install. We have new floor for the bathroom waiting to install. We have yucky old carpet partially ripped out waiting for Matt to wake up so we can use the screw gun to move the piece of wood holding me back and also so we can discuss the state of the vanity (do we take it out to put floor under? What about the tub? I hadn't realized the wall only goes to the top of the toilet. The subloor doesn't look too bad, I think. The carpet only had one nail in it but has lots of mouse poop on it. Yuck. And Lowes doesn't have any murphys oil soap and I just bought a wood house. This is our second night camping in our house.
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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10:02 pm
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We close on our house tomorrow at lunchtime. It's going to be a busy day with a house meeting at work in the morning, then picking up Dweezle early from class, then closing, then back to work. Friday we'll be able to go to the house in the morning and do some measuring and cleanup before going to the ReStore ond lowes to get some stuff to start us off. Kitchen reno this weekend.
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
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6:34 am
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I'm working overnight tonight and tomorrow evening to make some extra cash as -hopefully- we will buy our house this week. The seller agreed to finance with a selling price of $74000. We are going to be house poor, and have to do lots of renovations. Dweezle wants to display his armor in the living room - should be interesting. I just want it to be ours already.
Anyway, I have to clean the bathrooms, sweep and mop the floors, and dust the living room before clients get up in three hours. The floors have to be dry by then, so I should get going.
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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3:25 am
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I had a yummy dinner of collards, quinoa, & baked fish just now. I hadn't made quinoa in a while.
To clear our heads from the incompetent appraiser (still no house; we're angry) we (ok, I dragged dweezle along) went shoe shopping to find something to wear to my cousin's wedding- I bought some black flats @ payless and then we went hiking on chick hill. The sun was setting by then, so we turned around after a little while. Then we looked at the gps & realized we hadn't gotten to the steep part yet. It was 89 degrees when we were on our way there. I think that's the hottest day yet this season.
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
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5:52 am
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Still no house :(
I haven't been online for a while because my phone wasn't letting me log in. It's all better now.
I have so much going through my head I can't get it all out. Anyway I've been soung like a broken record so there's no point in repeating myself.
I switched houses at work and I don't know what I think of that.
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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10:22 pm
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I started making buttons for my cuffs last night (I would have finished, but kept falling asleep). I made four buttons. The first was too big and looked funky. The second looked good, but was still a little bigger than I would like. The third was a good size, but didn't get the right shape. I am happy with the fourth button and I want to make another just like it. That shouldn't take more than ten minutes. After I make that, attach both buttons, and create the loops for the buttons to go through, I will alter the hooks and eyes. The stripes on the skirt are not quite level, but to fix it I'd have to detach the entire skirt then reattach abd rehem. I can live with it the way it is. I'm at work now, and I may go in early tomorrow for a meeting so I want to do my laundry tonight and that sewing and get to bed early. I want to start making a partlet. I think I'll work on a pattern while the dress is still on the dressform in the living room. I want to be able to wear the partlet during the sunny part of the at GNEW and at night under the goller. I also can't forget to trim the skirt on my wedding gown.
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
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7:40 am
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The dress is done. I may have to add one more set of hooks and eyes. The main lacing cord is shared with the green dress and eventually I want to change all the black cotton cord with steel aglets to brown wool cord with brass aglets. I eventually want to put a different stiffening piece in the front panel. It can wait. The dress is done (a year and a half after staring it) and entirely handsewn. I could cry I'm so excited. Now I want to get a partlet made and the bottom few inches trimmed off my wedding dress so it's lighter on my shoulders as I'll have to wear it while my red dress is at arts & sciences @ GNEW given that it has hooks and eyes and my only long cord will be on display (&therfore not wearable with the green dress). I may not even take the green dress to GNEW. Goodnight.
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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6:28 pm
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I worked an overnight last night at a house I don't usually work at. Normally it is easy, with very little client interaction. Instead I had 4.5 hours of hell trying to get one from floor back to bed. I was so exhausted when I got home that it was hard to fall asleep. I set the alarm to wake me after 8 hours, but I awoke after only 5.5. Now I'm tired again, but I want to sew. My dress has a little over 2/3 of the hem left, two sets of hooks and eyes to add, and cord to make. It's almost done!!
In other news, I bought a dressform yesterday. They were on sale at JoAnn, so the deluxe was the same price as the regular model. The regular is a pretty "plum" color, but the deluxe has a crotch for fitting pants. I got the deluxe. It's blue. My overtime from last night will almost cover it. That plus the three hours I'll get friday will cover it all.
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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12:44 am
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We are almost ready to send our loan back to the underwriter. It's out of our hands now. All I need to do is get homeowners insurance and email the estimate on sill replacement to the lender once I get it.
My dad is coming up the week before GNEW and was hoping to stay at the new house. It's looking more likely that he'll camp in the yard. That could get interesting given that it is sorely neglected, filled with brush, and generally scrubby.
I talked with my dad this morning and he said the paperback boxed set of Harry Potter is coming out July 7 so I should have my copy after Great Northeastern.
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
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4:38 am
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Ah, the fire in the pit is lovely with the loons in the background. We brought our cans of soup for dinner around a quarter of ten- and we have to be up in the morning. It's half past midnight and Matt just added more wood to the fire. We have to leave at 10:45 in the morning to meet the chimney sweep before I go to work.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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5:04 am
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Wow. I haven't been on lj for a while. The chimney sweep is coming Monday and I want my house! Special O is this weekend so its a little extra overtime. I got 21 hours each of the past 2 weeks. I got Sunday off, though. I'm liking this whole working evenings thing.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
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7:58 am
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Memorial Day weekend plans have changed. Our loan has changed. We can't close on our house until the end of next month because of all the work that it needs (otherwise known as our summer to do list). We have to get a septic inspection (Monday) and a contractor's estimates for work on all the safety issues (one of the ladies I sing with is coming Sunday to go through the house so she can do the estimate). To make this weekend more exciting, I am singing midday on Saturday, working Saturday night, and picking up a washer/dryer for the house on Friday afternoon. Somehow I'll have to find time to sleep.
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