Here are this past week’s highlights:
- I installed my new programmable, digital thermostat all by myself last Sunday, and miracle of miracles, it actually works!!! Of course, the day after I installed it, the weather got warmer, so the heat’s been off. lol…What I learned from this experience:
- I have a heat pump. Who knew? Of course, the first thermostat I bought (for around $35) wasn’t heat pump compatable, so I had to take it back and exchange it. The units that were heat pump compatable and programmable started at $80 and went up from there. Figures.
- Murphy’s law extends to digital thermostats. There will always be that one wire that isn’t mentioned in the installation manual. Thank God for the internet, or almost a week later, I’d still be standing in the hallway, scratching my head and yelling, “But where does the “T” wire go???!!!???”
So that’s basically my week. This weekend I am hoping, hoping, hoping to get a good chunk of these kitchen cabinets painted. I am so tired of living in chaos!!! I know I do this to myself by starting these projects, but geez…I want to be done! Anyway, I woke up at 7:30 this morning (read as: My oh, so wonderful cats woke me up at 7:30 by pouncing on my chest) and got to work. As of right now, all of the cabinets in my kitchen have been sanded with the liquid sander/deglosser and have a coat of primer on them. Cabinets. Not cabinet doors. Those have not yet been touched. lol…
Other than the cabinets, I have no plans for the weekend other than the usual trip to the grocery store on Sunday. I lead such an exciting life! Monday evening I have a parent’s meeting at my daughter’s school to get information on her upcoming 4-day trip to Myrtle Beach with the chorus. They leave next Thursday morning, and she has to be at school by 4:15 am! That should be a fun day – up at 3 am and then work all day long! She’ll be home sometime next Sunday night, so Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I’ll be home alone and need to party like a rock star. Woohoo!
Time to go see if the primer is dry, I guess….
It's 2:25 pm and there is now 1 coat of paint on the cabinets. (Of course, it looks like it will need at least 2) Did I mention I'm only painting the *outside* of the cabinets for now? Yeah, it's very ghetto-looking. Hopefully it won't be as bad once the doors are back on…and maybe in the future I will do the insides, when I only have to do one cabinet at a time….
Ha! If you don't finish them now, they will forever be one coat of paint shy of being perfect.
If only you had someone to hang your light.
Yeah, tell me about it!
Dave, that was just cold.
That's ok, wait 'til he finds out I sold his ladder on craigslist.
I almost came over to do that for you tonight but then i remembered I had to work and I just got done a little while ago.
Yeah yeah yeah. lol…
hey… don't sell my ladder! Besides if you want to be really cold you put it on free cycle and give it away. Anyhow don't please.. I like that ladder 😉 I have fond memories of sitting on my roof for no reason other than to be sitting on my roof 😉 Oh and to mess w ith my antennas. I'm coming over Tuesday night.
You are a good son and brother Dave.
You wanna come be a chaperon for the Carmina Burana concerts I have this weekend? You can get FREE CULTURE!! All you have to do is follow kids around and look like you belong there. I'll give you a T Shirt for your troubles!! We could do dinner too! It's a full weekend gig, from Thursday until Sunday, you can attend ALL of them or just one concert….hehehehe
Wouldn't that be odd, considering I'm not chaperoning my own child's event? lol
sure, since mine is far more fun!