I got my internet and cable tv back this week. I was scheduled to have it hooked up on Wednesday, but that was the day we received about 6 inches of snow so I cancelled the appointment and toughed out another two days without tv.
I did rent American Gangster which was pretty good. I was expecting a little bit more, but oh well.
I will have pictures up soon as I get everything kind of set. The only problem I really have is trying to decide what I am going to do with a space of about 8x8 where it is wide open. The downstairs family room left a lot of space for me to fill. I know the previous owner had the area as a play area for their kids. I don't have kids and the nephews and niece do not come up enough for me to fill it will kid toys. I was leaning towards maybe a wood bench with storage inside it. Anyone else have ideas? I will get a picture of the space and have it posted somewhere on the internet for everyone's ideas to flow.
I did hang my Metallica Garage Inc subway poster in the garage today. So far, the office is finished. All the boxes are unpacked except for clothes but I need to get some shelving for the closet so I can finish that.
The family room is done except for the empty space.
The living room needs to be painted. The kitchen needs some touch up paint. And the two bathrooms need to be painted and I need to put up some extra towel racks. Overall, everything is coming along pretty well while not taking a day off of work.
And beginning Monday and continuing for the next two weeks, I will be once again working second shift so my sleep schedule will be once again changed. It should be interesting trying to stay awake until midnight when I am usually getting up around 2:45 in the morning. Only to go back to this early morning stuff again in two weeks.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Lots done on first day in house
Well, my parents and I accomplished a lot of work today at my new house.
I brought over almost all of my boxes of cds, dvds, tupperware, glasses, cooking pans, books, etc into the new house. Not put away, but away so I can get some cleaning and painting done.
The one thing I do not understand is the previous owners choice of leaving things on the wall and painting around them. They left voids in many of the rooms they painted which I will now have to redo.
We finished the three bedrooms upstairs today. They look real nice. I will go over tomorrow after work and check to see if we missed any spots in my the master bedroom. We filled all the hole marks in the other rooms preparing to paint them.
Tomorrow I will be getting some more paint for the family room. I will probably need two gallons because they have not painted that room before and the master was the same. We went through a full gallon of paint in the master while using only one gallon in the two other bedrooms combined.
I am now tired and am just going to relax the rest of the night. I cannot wait until I get all my furniture over here, but I have a lot of painting to get done in the next five days before this coming Saturday. If I feel the way I feel now on Sunday, I doubt I will be playing poker and just relax, hangout with Dave and Jamie, and play with Neil and Sammy. There would be no poker for me.
I brought over almost all of my boxes of cds, dvds, tupperware, glasses, cooking pans, books, etc into the new house. Not put away, but away so I can get some cleaning and painting done.
The one thing I do not understand is the previous owners choice of leaving things on the wall and painting around them. They left voids in many of the rooms they painted which I will now have to redo.
We finished the three bedrooms upstairs today. They look real nice. I will go over tomorrow after work and check to see if we missed any spots in my the master bedroom. We filled all the hole marks in the other rooms preparing to paint them.
Tomorrow I will be getting some more paint for the family room. I will probably need two gallons because they have not painted that room before and the master was the same. We went through a full gallon of paint in the master while using only one gallon in the two other bedrooms combined.
I am now tired and am just going to relax the rest of the night. I cannot wait until I get all my furniture over here, but I have a lot of painting to get done in the next five days before this coming Saturday. If I feel the way I feel now on Sunday, I doubt I will be playing poker and just relax, hangout with Dave and Jamie, and play with Neil and Sammy. There would be no poker for me.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Super Sunday- the day after
Well, that was a great game last night. I could imagine Neil yelling out "Did you see that?!?!" after the catch made by Giants' receiver.
Now, I didn't say anything like that after any of the commericals. They were probably the worse ones I have seen since I can remember.
I have closing in 3 days which is exciting. I think it will be more exciting when they hand the keys to me. I have a final walk through on Wednesday to make sure the house has not been destroyed since the house inspection. Paint has been bought. Clothes have been rummaged through and Amvets picked up 7 trash bags this morning.
I almost have everything packed. All I have left to pack up is one drawer of my desk and my file cabinet.
I also think I will be trying to pay attention to my diet now. With my work schedule being changed (which feels like is happening weekly), my eating habits suffer. I will be trying to work out more than I have in the past few months. I also want to learn to play guitar. But, that will wait until after I get moved into the new house and settled in a bit.
Thats it for now.
Dave and Jamie, I heard that you will be available to help move my stuff over to the new house next Saturday. When will you be coming over on that day? How much can Neil lift? I can let him get some of the lighter boxes.
Now, I didn't say anything like that after any of the commericals. They were probably the worse ones I have seen since I can remember.
I have closing in 3 days which is exciting. I think it will be more exciting when they hand the keys to me. I have a final walk through on Wednesday to make sure the house has not been destroyed since the house inspection. Paint has been bought. Clothes have been rummaged through and Amvets picked up 7 trash bags this morning.
I almost have everything packed. All I have left to pack up is one drawer of my desk and my file cabinet.
I also think I will be trying to pay attention to my diet now. With my work schedule being changed (which feels like is happening weekly), my eating habits suffer. I will be trying to work out more than I have in the past few months. I also want to learn to play guitar. But, that will wait until after I get moved into the new house and settled in a bit.
Thats it for now.
Dave and Jamie, I heard that you will be available to help move my stuff over to the new house next Saturday. When will you be coming over on that day? How much can Neil lift? I can let him get some of the lighter boxes.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The irony
I worked last night until 1:30am. I went to bed around 3:30 and was able to wake up by 8am. Go figure.
Monday, January 28, 2008
10 days away
That is how many days until I see a big dip in my checking account and my savings. 13 days until I begin painting and moving things over to the new house. Today and tomorrow I get to work second shift because of vacations being used currently and then back to my normal shift by Thursday. That's right, tonight I will be working 4-5 hours past my normal bed time. This should be interesting. I already cannot wait until the weekend so I can sleep in and get my normal sleep.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sorry, I was sleeping..........
It has been awhile since I have posted anything and since I do not get to talk to many people anymore because my sleeping schedule has been flipped upside down, I thought I should update the blog.
My shift has moved back to the mornings which means I wake up around 3am so I can get to work at 4am. It is so early that McDonalds is still not serving breakfast that early. Sometimes on my way in I will grab a hamburger and a diet coke for the caffiene.
It is nice getting off around noon, but it sucks feeling so tired and ready for bed by the time 6:30 rolls around. I am usually asleep by 7:30. The weekends begin early too since I woke up last Saturday around 4am. It didn't help that I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning losing money playing poker.
I am getting close to closing on my house. Only 3 short weeks away and I will be owning something which will make ensure that I need to keep working for a couple more years. I just mailed out my last rent check to Norm and let him know my intentions. I will be moving some of my smaller things over during the afternoons once I take possession on February 9th at 5pm. I think I will be painting that Sunday so the house will be empty and not need to move things out of the way or cover anything. Then I can touch up the paint again once I slam something into the wall when moving in.
I am planning on making the big move on 2/16.
The funny thing is I will be getting a bill for water and the Comcast cable for the first time once I move into this house. Until now, I have been paying Karen's water bill and John's Comcast bill.
My Grand Cherokee needs a new battery which will be replaced on Saturday (I think, we will see if the weather changes my mind for me). My gas mileage has taken a nose dive since the job change too. My Jeeps miss the nice long drive on 94 for up to 30 miles of open lane driving, but it usually ended up being only 20 miles because traffic would stop before I had a chance to exit the expressway.
My shift has moved back to the mornings which means I wake up around 3am so I can get to work at 4am. It is so early that McDonalds is still not serving breakfast that early. Sometimes on my way in I will grab a hamburger and a diet coke for the caffiene.
It is nice getting off around noon, but it sucks feeling so tired and ready for bed by the time 6:30 rolls around. I am usually asleep by 7:30. The weekends begin early too since I woke up last Saturday around 4am. It didn't help that I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning losing money playing poker.
I am getting close to closing on my house. Only 3 short weeks away and I will be owning something which will make ensure that I need to keep working for a couple more years. I just mailed out my last rent check to Norm and let him know my intentions. I will be moving some of my smaller things over during the afternoons once I take possession on February 9th at 5pm. I think I will be painting that Sunday so the house will be empty and not need to move things out of the way or cover anything. Then I can touch up the paint again once I slam something into the wall when moving in.
I am planning on making the big move on 2/16.
The funny thing is I will be getting a bill for water and the Comcast cable for the first time once I move into this house. Until now, I have been paying Karen's water bill and John's Comcast bill.
My Grand Cherokee needs a new battery which will be replaced on Saturday (I think, we will see if the weather changes my mind for me). My gas mileage has taken a nose dive since the job change too. My Jeeps miss the nice long drive on 94 for up to 30 miles of open lane driving, but it usually ended up being only 20 miles because traffic would stop before I had a chance to exit the expressway.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Past couple weeks
I visited Karen, John, and James and met the rest of my family in KC for Thanksgiving. Once again, I was able to visit on less than 2 hours of sleep like I did when coming for the Alice in Chains show a month earlier. The trip was fine with little traffic, but there were some cops here and there.
It was a great dinner and visit with everyone challenging each other on how desert could eat within the the two day visit. I think there were a few people who tied at the end. Also fun watching John open a beer, fall asleep, and then wake up to drink the disgusting warm beer.
I was also able to avoid setting an alarm clock. Eventually, the kids will remember there are toys in the room I was sleeping in. If not, then my siblings will remind them I was still sleeping and needed a wake up call.
The trip home was good also. The kids behaved and Neil had a few moments of going to stir crazy but we were stopping in the near future anyways. Sammy was good. I think Dave and Jamie have gotten lucky with having kids less than 6 months old travel well. Sammy's trip wasn't as a big test compared to the trip to New York during a snow storm.
I am now up to over 5000 songs on my iPod and only have a little over 3G available for additional songs before having to pick and choose which songs will remain.
I might be getting New Year's Eve off. My boss is not sure what we will be doing for the holiday as of yet. We are working the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's, and it would make sense not to start machines for less than a day while being down the day before and after, but we will see when the holidays come closer.
That's all I got.
It was a great dinner and visit with everyone challenging each other on how desert could eat within the the two day visit. I think there were a few people who tied at the end. Also fun watching John open a beer, fall asleep, and then wake up to drink the disgusting warm beer.
I was also able to avoid setting an alarm clock. Eventually, the kids will remember there are toys in the room I was sleeping in. If not, then my siblings will remind them I was still sleeping and needed a wake up call.
The trip home was good also. The kids behaved and Neil had a few moments of going to stir crazy but we were stopping in the near future anyways. Sammy was good. I think Dave and Jamie have gotten lucky with having kids less than 6 months old travel well. Sammy's trip wasn't as a big test compared to the trip to New York during a snow storm.
I am now up to over 5000 songs on my iPod and only have a little over 3G available for additional songs before having to pick and choose which songs will remain.
I might be getting New Year's Eve off. My boss is not sure what we will be doing for the holiday as of yet. We are working the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's, and it would make sense not to start machines for less than a day while being down the day before and after, but we will see when the holidays come closer.
That's all I got.
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