Thursday, August 02, 2007
Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen things I can hardly wait for:
1. Doors on the bathrooms. For various reasons, there is not a bathroom in the house where you can have complete privacy. I have added to General Patton's best advice: "Never pass up an opportunity to pee when you find a bathroom with a door".
2. A clear driveway. There is so much stuff piled there: beams, plywood, siding. Shingles are supposed to come today. Cars? What a silly idea!
3. A clear lawn. The driveway won't hold all the stuff. Where they have used up piles, there are patches of dead grass. Between the piles, there is overgrown grass. Interspersed among the piles are pieces of broken glass (former windows) and more nails than I knew existed. Let's just say I won't be winning the Yard of the Month award.
4. Windows. The front window where the fireplace will be is boarded up. Ditto the to-be window over the kitchen sink, which used to be a door. The room functioning as our living/bedroom had the window broken out by an over-zealous sweeper the very first week of construction. The outer walls of the loft have been framed in now, but those windows are boarded up. Now I find out, after many promises to the contrary, that the hurricane-proof windows we want will take another 3 - 4 weeks to get here.
5. Complete walls. All the way around the house. We are still missing a couple of walls where the den meets the loft, and almost the entire house has a little space between the roof and the outer walls.
6. My kitchen. I miss baking! (I bet my customers miss my baking, too.) My kitchen right now is a microwave and toaster oven in the back hall, and the bathroom sink. Oh, and the refrigerator in the living/bedroom.
7. Home cooked meals. Eating out every night gets very old, very fast.
8. My ice maker. The plumbers and electricians have made a habit of disconnecting things, then disappearing for weeks. One of the things that got disconnected was the water supply to the ice maker. I am a spoiled brat about the ice. Now that I'm used to getting it without having to open the freezer door, it seems like a huge imposition to have to get ice the old-fashioned way. I have lectured myself about women in Africa walking six miles to get drinking water for the day and what kind of horrible, selfish creature am I to whine about the temporary loss of my ice maker, but you know what? I'm horrible and selfish but dammit, I miss my ice maker!
9. Clear sinuses. It won't happen until the dust is gone. The dust won't be gone for several more weeks.
10. My bed. We have the mattress on the floor, but for some reason it doesn't feel right and I end up sleeping on the couch more often than not. My back is not happy.
11. My promotion at work. Same job, just "Senior" attached to the title. I pointed out to them that the "senior" had better refer to experience, not age! The best part is that it comes with a nice, fat raise. I think it should have gone into effect yesterday. We'll see how long it takes the paychecks to catch up.
12. Opportunity to blog, to visit people, to chat with my neighbors. Between work and the incredible number of decisions to make, I have no leisure time.
13. A mind that can absorb things other than remodeling.
1. Doors on the bathrooms. For various reasons, there is not a bathroom in the house where you can have complete privacy. I have added to General Patton's best advice: "Never pass up an opportunity to pee when you find a bathroom with a door".
2. A clear driveway. There is so much stuff piled there: beams, plywood, siding. Shingles are supposed to come today. Cars? What a silly idea!
3. A clear lawn. The driveway won't hold all the stuff. Where they have used up piles, there are patches of dead grass. Between the piles, there is overgrown grass. Interspersed among the piles are pieces of broken glass (former windows) and more nails than I knew existed. Let's just say I won't be winning the Yard of the Month award.
4. Windows. The front window where the fireplace will be is boarded up. Ditto the to-be window over the kitchen sink, which used to be a door. The room functioning as our living/bedroom had the window broken out by an over-zealous sweeper the very first week of construction. The outer walls of the loft have been framed in now, but those windows are boarded up. Now I find out, after many promises to the contrary, that the hurricane-proof windows we want will take another 3 - 4 weeks to get here.
5. Complete walls. All the way around the house. We are still missing a couple of walls where the den meets the loft, and almost the entire house has a little space between the roof and the outer walls.
6. My kitchen. I miss baking! (I bet my customers miss my baking, too.) My kitchen right now is a microwave and toaster oven in the back hall, and the bathroom sink. Oh, and the refrigerator in the living/bedroom.
7. Home cooked meals. Eating out every night gets very old, very fast.
8. My ice maker. The plumbers and electricians have made a habit of disconnecting things, then disappearing for weeks. One of the things that got disconnected was the water supply to the ice maker. I am a spoiled brat about the ice. Now that I'm used to getting it without having to open the freezer door, it seems like a huge imposition to have to get ice the old-fashioned way. I have lectured myself about women in Africa walking six miles to get drinking water for the day and what kind of horrible, selfish creature am I to whine about the temporary loss of my ice maker, but you know what? I'm horrible and selfish but dammit, I miss my ice maker!
9. Clear sinuses. It won't happen until the dust is gone. The dust won't be gone for several more weeks.
10. My bed. We have the mattress on the floor, but for some reason it doesn't feel right and I end up sleeping on the couch more often than not. My back is not happy.
11. My promotion at work. Same job, just "Senior" attached to the title. I pointed out to them that the "senior" had better refer to experience, not age! The best part is that it comes with a nice, fat raise. I think it should have gone into effect yesterday. We'll see how long it takes the paychecks to catch up.
12. Opportunity to blog, to visit people, to chat with my neighbors. Between work and the incredible number of decisions to make, I have no leisure time.
13. A mind that can absorb things other than remodeling.
4 Comments:
Bless you. Seriously. My daughter is only re-doing her kitche and her
house is in total dissrray. I cannot imagine what you are so graciously coping with.
I am particularly with you re no. 7. When we moved in to our last house we effectively didn't have a functioning kitchen for three months. They curry house on the corner used to reserve us a table in the end, and I put on a stone.
Just think how nice it will be when it's done, I am sure it will be worth the inconvenience.
Some day. :)
yikes
i got exhausted just from reading it.
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