I woke this morning to find my darling husband reading in bed beside me. It was cute. He decided that today was the day we would get the bedroom furniture moved around. So he got up and showered, and we both had breakfast, then went back up to move everything around. I the process we got rid of a bunch of stuff .. several bags of trash and a couple of bags of clothes and stuffed animals I don't need to cling to.
So now the chest of drawers is against the back wall of the closet, the bed is against the opposite wall, and my dresser is against the wall by the closet. In addition, I fixed the ceiling fan. Plus hopefully the rods for the curtains momma gave us will be able to stay up soon, once the goop stuff dries. If not, well, I dunno, but we'll find some way of getting them to stay.
Showing posts with label home improvements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home improvements. Show all posts
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Two Weeks
It has now been twoo weeks since Brandon and I started visiting the gym. Two weeks, and already I can tell a difference. Especially in my energy level. Not just while we're exercising, but all day, really. It feels good, in fact. And while at the very beginning it seemed like even walking 40 minutes was going to be difficult, today I did 40 minutes on the elliptical. With only about a minute rest. And I kept my heartrate where it needed to be. Go me!
This weekend I think is going to be another working around the house weekend. jason wants to do some furniture moving upstairs, which I'm perfectly okay with. We're trying to get a little more room in the room, so moving one the chest of drawers into the closet seems the best option. We'll see, anyway.
This weekend I think is going to be another working around the house weekend. jason wants to do some furniture moving upstairs, which I'm perfectly okay with. We're trying to get a little more room in the room, so moving one the chest of drawers into the closet seems the best option. We'll see, anyway.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Success!
Ceiling Fans Purchased: 2
Injuries: 1, so far. (Hurt my thumb on a search for the screw driver.)
Circuit Breakers Tripped: 1, but it got tripped three times.
Ceiling Fans Installed: 2
Missing Charm Bracelets Found: 1
So, we finally ... after piecing together one complete ceiling fan from the parts of two boxes and bringing the rest back to get a repacement ... have ceiling fans installed in my office and in the guest room. Once we got the one in my office done .. which went pretty easily really .. we went to dinner with his folks, then came back to put the other one up. and that went fine, once we rigged a washer because the screw head was too small, and tripped the breaker three times. And the washer search turned out to be a good thing, because I found the charm bracelet I've been missing since we went to NYC. In 2006. It's been missing a year and a half. I was -convinced- I'd left it somewhere. But it appeared in a cigar box that's been sitting on my desk forever.
So, today was, all in all, a success. Tomorrow I hope to get the curtain rods upstairs put up, and the curtains hung. Once that's done, I think all will be well. In about a month I should get my new desk. They're going to come and put it together and everything which is a wonderful thing for me ... so long as I'm not working when they try to come by. We all know how my luck is with that sort of thing.
And now, I think it's time to get some sleep. Somehow I ended up with extra hours tomorrow, for some project I barely understand, but I guess I'll figure it out. Not like the store doesn't always help me, anyway. But I don't wanna be there all day.
Injuries: 1, so far. (Hurt my thumb on a search for the screw driver.)
Circuit Breakers Tripped: 1, but it got tripped three times.
Ceiling Fans Installed: 2
Missing Charm Bracelets Found: 1
So, we finally ... after piecing together one complete ceiling fan from the parts of two boxes and bringing the rest back to get a repacement ... have ceiling fans installed in my office and in the guest room. Once we got the one in my office done .. which went pretty easily really .. we went to dinner with his folks, then came back to put the other one up. and that went fine, once we rigged a washer because the screw head was too small, and tripped the breaker three times. And the washer search turned out to be a good thing, because I found the charm bracelet I've been missing since we went to NYC. In 2006. It's been missing a year and a half. I was -convinced- I'd left it somewhere. But it appeared in a cigar box that's been sitting on my desk forever.
So, today was, all in all, a success. Tomorrow I hope to get the curtain rods upstairs put up, and the curtains hung. Once that's done, I think all will be well. In about a month I should get my new desk. They're going to come and put it together and everything which is a wonderful thing for me ... so long as I'm not working when they try to come by. We all know how my luck is with that sort of thing.
And now, I think it's time to get some sleep. Somehow I ended up with extra hours tomorrow, for some project I barely understand, but I guess I'll figure it out. Not like the store doesn't always help me, anyway. But I don't wanna be there all day.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Ceiling Fans Purchased: 2
Injuries: 1, so far. (Hurt my thumb on a search for the screw driver.)
Ceiling Fans Installed: 0
Today was Worldwide Knit In Public day, and I did celebrate, in my way. I knitted in public when we went to IHOP this afternoon. We had too many things going on for me to go to the event in Charlotte, sadly.
We had to go to the furniture store Jason's mom works at and order the new desk I'm getting for my room, and then after IHOP we went to Home Depot and picked out two ceiling fans, one for my office and one for the guest bedroom brandon claims as his room. Jason said that his dad insists that we can repair the ceiling fan upstairs pretty easily, so we're not going to replace it. Yet.
We also got a nice set of grilling tools, since we do an awful lot of grilling now, and living in the south as we do, that grill can get an awful lot of use. And we decided on the patio set we'd really like. Of course, it's $900 and teak. But I called my mom, and instead of getting a Wii (sad!) she's gonna send us a check to put towards our patio set. So that's really nice. And it accomplishes what she wants, which is to get us something we really want that we wouldn't buy for ourselves.
Injuries: 1, so far. (Hurt my thumb on a search for the screw driver.)
Ceiling Fans Installed: 0
Today was Worldwide Knit In Public day, and I did celebrate, in my way. I knitted in public when we went to IHOP this afternoon. We had too many things going on for me to go to the event in Charlotte, sadly.
We had to go to the furniture store Jason's mom works at and order the new desk I'm getting for my room, and then after IHOP we went to Home Depot and picked out two ceiling fans, one for my office and one for the guest bedroom brandon claims as his room. Jason said that his dad insists that we can repair the ceiling fan upstairs pretty easily, so we're not going to replace it. Yet.
We also got a nice set of grilling tools, since we do an awful lot of grilling now, and living in the south as we do, that grill can get an awful lot of use. And we decided on the patio set we'd really like. Of course, it's $900 and teak. But I called my mom, and instead of getting a Wii (sad!) she's gonna send us a check to put towards our patio set. So that's really nice. And it accomplishes what she wants, which is to get us something we really want that we wouldn't buy for ourselves.
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