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By heather | May 13, 2009
First, the latest on the kitchen…
Just like everything else in our house, figure out the approximate time to accomplish a task and then double it to fix repairs made by previous owners, who like us had no idea what they were doing, but unlike us were too stupid to hire someone to fix things. This picture is showing our old floor, and the floor underneath that, and then the subfloor which revealed itself to be not only water damaged but patched with drywall compound. I guess it’s a step above the toothpaste I used to patch wall holes in college.
The fridge is currently residing in the dining room. And also the dishwasher is on the front porch and we have a great black hole where the dishwasher used to be. Luckily we have a contractor who also happens to be a good friend or ours and since he will likely be eating dinner in the completed kitchen and visiting regularly he has a vested interest in making sure this little project is done right and so we have a new subfloor! Woot!
Amazing the things you get excited about when you’re smack in the middle of renovation hell. That was yesterday. Today the new floor went down and the new subfloor didn’t like it and they are trying to break up with each other by creating big air bubbles everywhere.
Next, I’ve finally updated the blogroll and have many lovely new additions. I looked at it the other day and it’s been so long since I’ve done anything blog-maintenance related that I couldn’t remember how to edit it. It seriously took me an hour tonight to figure out how to update the links. This update was prompted by an award from one of my yogi friend/bloggers, Janaki.
A Lemonade Award is given to bloggers who show a positive attitude, gratitude, and a willingness to share their ideas, support and online friendship. In other words, people who make lemonade when they get lemons!
Hooray! I’m going to break the rules of the award and nominate everyone in my new blogroll. I did some serious trimming this time, and although there are a lot of blogs left that I only stalk there are a lot of community friends too.
Finally, moving on to potty training. Today was our first accident free day. Another WOOT! Of course the poor kid hasn’t pooped in two days because he likes to wait for the diaper, but it’s progress. I need to write a whole other post documenting this from start to finish because I think that it’s entirely possible that I’m going to block out the first painful weekend and not remember the basics when it’s Emily Kate’s turn.
Topics: Alex, home improvement, toddler stuff | 4 Comments »
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May 13th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Ok, so we USED to have the same floor. And now I’m jealous.
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May 14th, 2009 at 1:03 am
Congrats on the floor! Congrats on the potty! Wait, toothpaste is not an acceptable adult form of wall patch?
May 14th, 2009 at 11:30 am
I remember tearing open walls and then cursing the former owners who had done the jankiest of repair jobs on everything. The worst! And then it takes extra time to fix their bad fix, ugh. At least you guys are moving in the right direction though!
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May 17th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Look at those sheets of linoleum!! I’m loving the drywall compound and water damage finds.
Hang in there!!
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