present to us

so some of you know that last year we got two dogs, besides being weiner dogs and crazy it became horribly apparent that I was completely allergic to them, we found them wonderful homes and decided that we weren't a dog family. Then in March when I could take no more sinus infections I broke down and got allergy tested, I am apparently not allergic to dogs... I am however very allergic to dust- uhmmmmmmmmmmm we have an old house, and trees... even in this horrible anti-preserve the environment state we live in, there are still some trees. So we read books on dog breeds and found the most hyper allergenic dogs breeds, then from there narrowed it down to how a breed would fit in with our family... then we applied to rescue a Bichon Frise... I'm assuming we got turned down- they never responded, they don't believe in adopting out to families with younger kids. Anyway long story short we found a breeder who charged for papered bichons 25 $ more then the adoption place. Now I don't generally agree with breeding critters any more, I know I have had several purebreds I even tried to breed the Siamese cats, but if I can't even be considered to help a dog, we even filled in the fostering section of the app. then screw them. I was just going to go over and take a peek, they had 2 13 week olds and a new 2 week old litter, I figured we would all go home discuss it and wait for the 2 week olds to be weened... mind you the hubby was whining about timing, and potty duty... well he held one of the 13 week old girls and yes we left with her. Her name is Daisy and she is wonderful... except that she really has taken quite too much to the hubby. She hasn't made any messes yet... knock on wood... she just flops in your lap and stays put... ahhhhhhhhhhhh... a lap dog! So there is my present for my bathroom accomplishments... but I suppose I'll share!

the sight of sweet success

Well I got 6 tiles down... and it looks SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET! Hopefully I'll be able to grout tonight and tomorrow we should get the sink completely in! Next step is the gross step... gotta take the toilet up so I can tile that area... since we put the toilet in last year it won't seem so yucky, I dunno, it's seems so much worst when it's not your pee and poop residue in the pipes. Definitely a job for the hubby and he has already volunteered... that's my trooper, yep I'm doing 95% of the work... but he'll take care of the ultra disgusting stuff 100%!!!

tiling

okay... so today I begin to tile the bathroom!!!! Right now I only have to do under the sink so I can get the sink finally permanently in place... but it's a start!!!!!! I'm trying to decide what my reward should be for finishing the bathroom. Once the outside painting is completed we are buying a ceiling fan for the porch that is a tad more expensive then we would generally allow to spend on such a fixture. I should be kind and tell the hubby he can do his shed... but where is the reward in that for me... other than he won't bug me anymore:) Any ideas?

okay so...

... this is why sometimes it's not so great to be me. While we are on vacation Mr fix it is going to put a base down on the sub floor in the kitchen so I can start tiling. Well he mentioned that the glue would have to come up... in places its hard, no longer tacky and quite thick, I'm not sure if the previous people actually knew they were putting down linoleum. So I said I'd take care of that, cut some costs, make it easier, put my time in... well I really didn't quite know what I was doing, and I've been digging and scraping with chisels and floor scrapers for 3 hours... I got 7 tiles up and the sub floor is beautiful... now lets count my blisters!!!!! So I gave in and called Mr fix it to see if there was an easy way to do this task... he laughed... FOR 10 MINUTES... I was only supposed to scrape up the loose stuff, it should have taken 3 hours if that for the whole kitchen!

Call me Shelia Villa!

house painting

Mr fix it will finish painting my house... I was kinda wondering how I was going to get all the way up to the top... better muscles then I! We can honestly say we worked on it when and where we could! I'm now starting on the kitchen floor... it needs to be scraped. So progress on the bathroom will stop for a few days... maybe weeks... but the plumbing is done now!!!!!

problem procrastinated and then fixed

yeah... I slacked and I procrastinated on the sink issue then I got an idea and it worked. basically the sink has feet and then sub feet for leveling... they screw in and all the way out lowering the sink 5/8ths of an inch! I'll have to find a different way to level the front out, but that won't get in the way of the trim on the half wall. Even though I worked a double yesterday... 6am to 11pm with a 2 hour lunch, I got the bead board almost all cut and up, just need a last piece about a foot in length. Plus it's all painted. Plus the trim is almost done too. half of that is painted as well! All in all it looks like my end "o" month time line will work!

I've also been busy planning the Breaking Dawn midnight release party for my Borders store... tomorrow I have to build a mini coffin. I can't say what for as of yet! I've set the hubby up for making our mixed Cd overhead play list. I've also come up with an original game, and embellished on a few that we have to do. Costume is almost ready... really just very plain and simple. Not revealing that yet either!!!

In other news I finished My Horizontal Life... very entertaining, now on to homework for work, I'm reading Un Lun Dun right now to see if it is appropriate for my group, so far so good... I'm not really into the story, but I love how the book has random drawings on the pages... that's cool!
The craft went over super well on Sunday, and the boss loved it... I sent her pictures!.

WHY WHY WHY WHY

Throwing a small tantrum... so why is it that I make some incredible progress on a project, incredible... only to have the hubby come up to me with that scared out of his pants look and tell me "it looks great but how is this part right here going to work" That's about the time that I realize at step 1 I forgot about something very important... like the fact that the tile will raise the sink about 1/2 an inch and I've got just over an 1/8 to work with. Needless to say I'm not a happy camper today. I got almost all of the bead board and trim work done yesterday now I've got to figure out how to fix my boo boo. I'm going back to throwing my tantrum!!!!!!!