So far, it has been a very strange day. I will say that, although I am very happy at the hard working contractors and their willingness to put in extra time to get the job done (GIT ER DUN), I am starting to get very TIRED of having people in the … [Continue reading]
I think I’m a Winter
I'm starting to talk like our contractors. My husband asked me, casually, what the tile guys were going to do with the cement shower base and cinderblock bench. "They're gonna beef it up real good" was what I actually told him. Because I now know … [Continue reading]
I has a sad
Have you ever had one of those days where you are sad, but not for a particularly valid reason, and that lack of a valid reason makes you even more sad? That was me today. As I swept up the dust, again, I started to feel limp and wrung-out, with … [Continue reading]
And this is what my life has become
I swore I wouldn't write another post about the renovation, and yet it consumes me, dear reader. My life is swallowed by the renovation, and the working around the contractor's schedule, and the I need to choose a light fixture thinking that I have … [Continue reading]
Enjoy the Silence
Now that the kitchen is done, which may have been the fastest, most efficient kitchen renovation known to man, the contractors are going to demolish our main floor bathroom, entryway, and fireplace, starting Wednesday. Originally they were going to … [Continue reading]
A few of HIS least favourite things.
My kitchen is done! My kitchen is done! I was feeling a bit concerned yesterday, and the day before, when a somewhat comical series of events took place that made the flooring installation take a full day longer than anticipated ("Hm. Well. This … [Continue reading]
I Don’t Know When, We’ll Get Together Then
The noise in my house is insane right now. The kitchen flooring is being very loudly ripped up and replaced, tiles are being demolished in the bathroom and entry way, and there is the loud sound of a Shop Vac and the omnipresent outside voices of … [Continue reading]