So? Did you? I know I have not been the most exciting blogger lately and I really do apologize. I have been busy! Shocking as that seems, it is true.
Obviously not busy with work but let me give you the break down of excitement in Boringtown and the surrounding area.
Friday June 2, met cousin C and H at grandma's to move dressers and "stuff". That cousin of mine packed three dressers, a corner table and a sewing machine stand in the back of his truck and didn't lose any of it on the way home. Yeah! I have more stuff stored at another cousin's house.
Sat. June 3, butt crack of dawn, up to grandma's to start the move. Meeting of the minds commenced, not really any decisions so those of us, my two uncles and me, that stayed at the house had to make some administrative decisions, such as yes the dog pissed soaked carpet was coming out of the living room/dining room. 30 feet long, 12 feet wide. Boy was that fun. Plus the rotten, moldy shower had to be ripped out upstairs and and scrape the carpet padding that was stuck to the floor upstairs off of the floor. Let me just tell you that the two of us that currently work for a state environmental agency, probably should have had enough brains to wear masks when doing the scraping, but we were down to an area about 4 feet by 15 feet when we came to that realization, this is after scraping and sweeping the other 15x40 foot section. Yeah, we were in a hurry.
Sun. June 4, back up to grandma's to scrub the floors for 6 hours. Had to get the piss smell out of the house and scrape the padding from that carpet that was stuck to the hardwood floors up and hopefully get the house to smell better. Such a shame that we don't have time enough to refinish those floors before it goes on the market, I seriously think it would not be that difficult and would really increase the selling price on the house.
Mon. actually went to work. Found out that I did not have to drive my mom and Alex all the way up north come Friday and also discovered that my husband was planning on having his friend come down on the weekend to assist with installing our new backdoor, replacing the floor in Alex's bathroom where the toilet was ready to fall through due to previous plumbing issues that I did not get fixed in time and to replace the floor in the hallway to stop anyone from falling through that since the area in front of the backdoor was sagging quite nicely from the rain pouring right in the top of the door frame.
Tuesday, called in sick, stayed home and pulled up the tiles that I had in the hallway floor. Then mother reorganized my kitchen and we packed up a bunch of stuff that I wanted to keep but don't use, preparing for a real house even though I have no space to store shit in the the shed, made decisions to actually part with some of my treasures as well. Played softball.
Wednesday, went to work, tried to stay awake all day.
Thursday, stayed home and mom and I tore the bathroom apart. It took us from 8:00am to 4:00pm to fix the plumbing for the toilet, I had to install a shut off valve so that we didn't have to leave the water off to the entire trailer, during that procedure, busted the handle off of the shut off valve from the water main to the trailer, had to call the park manager to come fix that. Got water back to the house then removed the toilet and pulled up the crappy old linoleum. Made the decision to remove the vanity but since there are not shut off valves on those lines we made it up as we went. Shut off the main again, disconnected the faucet and took the vanity out then reconnected the faucet to the pipes and left it sitting there. Then since we still had an hour before I needed to shower before my chiro appointment we busted ou the shitty closet that was in that bathroom. We thought about pulling out the bathtub that no one ever uses and putting in a stationary tub since that is what that bathtub gets used for but decided that the two of us wouldn't be able to get the dang thing out by ourselves. So that was that for Thursday.
Friday, June 9. Steve took the day off and I went to work. Steve and mom showed up at the office about 9:30 and we went to Home G-spot, as Steve likes to call it. Picked up stuff we needed for the big Saturday project other then the plywood as we have no vehicle that can haul that big of stuff.
Friday night after I got home, loaded up mom and Alex and drove to Mauston to my aunt and uncle's house. My uncle convinced me to take a test for a job at the same place he works at so that is scheduled for tonight.
Saturday, June 10, drove back home and assisted Steve and B with the construction projects. They really did not have much accomplished in the 2 hours that B had been there other then they went into town and got the wood. So first project was to get the new floor into the bathroom since Steve had busted that out on Friday night after I had left. So they were dinking around doing that and low and behold the pipe started to leak, so off I go to the hardware store to get parts and tell them when I left, DO NOT PUT THE FLOOR IN TIL I FIX THE LEAKING PIPES, told them both twice before I left. I get back and they have the floor in place with no room for me to be able to see what I need to do or to reach under the floor to do the work as water is almost to point by then of spraying from the crack in the pipe. Because they couldn't turn the water off once they see it is leaking even though they were up and down the stairs that go right over the damn water main. So they had to cut a hunk out of the nice new floor and I fix the pipes and that is done.
They move on to getting the new door in since the old one was already laying in the yard and it was looking like it was ready to rain any minute. While they dinked around with the door and the floor I painted the bathroom walls since I did not have to worry about getting paint on the new floor as we are putting in a new vinyl. (if I ever post that I am thinking of sponge painting anything, would someone please smack me?) I had top paint that room three times to cover over my lovely dark blue and green that I had sponge painted in that room 3 years ago. It is nice and all I have to do is smooth the floor. Of course I asked that the boys pick me up a piece of thin plywood to go over the new wood so that I had a smooth surface to apply my new vinyl and they did not do it. Assholes. Well they got the door in and the wood down for the hallway floor. B left at 10:30 because of course we all know that J can't ever take care of her damn kids overnight, yet she can just go off gallivanting and leave B home alone.
Sunday, June 11, up at dawn to get to Grandma's to help her with her rummage sale. Then when that was finally done, we went over to her house. Just let me warn you if you are ever driving in Milwaukee and see a metallic, medium blue Dodge Neon* on the road, get the hell out of her way. My grandma drives like a bat out of hell. So I got to see her new apartment and sat there for a while with her and then came back home. Oh yeah and I bought her snowblower for Steve because I thought he was going to pee his pants when he found out she was selling it. The thing fit in my trunk but that will be fine for the size of our parking area that we have to remove snow from, if we ever get snow that won't just melt during the day when the cars are gone.
Monday, June 12, here at work and have to leave early to get to Milwaukee to take my test and hope to heck I get this job. It would be the recreation leader and sex offender treatment facility. Doesn't that sound fun? I actual think it does.
In other news, anyone know where my period is? I am too scared to pee on a stick and according to FF it isn't due to appear til tomorrow but the last few months I had some warning. Nothing so far. Just watch, with all the lifting, chemical exposure and stress of the past few weeks, I will be missing the period for this month and then what? Can anyone say, worry none stop, more then the last one even? I have to stop typing as my left hand is going numb. So I guess I will see what happens tomorrow, if the Bloody Plague appears or not.
Take care my darlings and sorry I have not been posting any comments to you, I have been able to squeeze in the daily read just no time to comment. Hopefully by July things will have slowed down enough to be more social. Take care and I hope you are still with me even though I am now a search and destroy mission of my house and Grandma's and not very exciting. Don't leave me, I promise more exciting posts someday again. ;)
