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Paint and Stain

We picked the paint and stain for the walls and chair rail in the kitchen.  We decided to paint the bottom half and keep the same color on the top half.  Even though we are keeping the same color on the top we are still going to need to paint it because of the crappy quality of paint that the builders used.  So these are the colors that we have:

The green is for the bottom and the top is the tan color.  As for the chair rail it will probably be a classic oak or pecan color. I have taken before pics so when we get it done. At least close to done because we need a lot of the tan color so that won’t get done for a while. I will post the after ones as well. Hope it turns out like we want it to. Even if we don’t like it the chair rail will be saving our kitchen wall from this slow painful death it is experiencing and the lower half of the wall will be protected and washable.

Morbid Much?

I work with this guy that can say some pretty strange things at times.  Like today we were waiting on one of our employees, we will call her Mary, to get here to take the shuttle from work to the airport.  (Saves us from having to pay for parking at the airport.)  Mary calls and says that she is running late and she is on her way.  I pass that onto our van driver who asks about the next van run. I let him know it doesn’t have anyone scheduled on it so he walks away.  Few minutes go buy and he comes back and asked “What if a guest comes and needs to take the shuttle but can’t because I’m not here, he misses his flight and misses his daughters funeral?”  Funeral, come on!  I know that is a possibility but funeral?  Why did he choose funeral and not business meeting or just left it a missing his flight home?  This guy never cease to amaze me with what he will come up with.  Did I mention he thinks he is a rocket scientist.  Um no don’t think so.

The month gone by

Has it really been over a month since I posted last?  Okay I won’t play stupid I know it has been.  So to get you up to date I will let you know what has been happening (in no particular order)

1. Dealing with new neighbor that doesn’t like things going into his yard.  We bought a badminton set and the birdie kept ending up over the fence into his yard.  The kids went to get it one afternoon and he told my 8 year old daughter that if it happened again that he was going to throw it away.  What a meany head.  To solve the fence problem we play in the front yard.  Now we just walk on there grass to get it.
2. Tried cleaning out the garage several times.  Only to get enough of it clean that we can fit a car in there.  That only lasts a few days and then we start all over again.  Any suggestions on how to fix this?
3. Discoverd that the table and chairs we have, well just the chairs really, hit the cheapy “ceiling” paint and leave huge gouges in the wall.  Went and bought some chair rail at Home Depot on Saturday.  Now to decide whether to stain it or paint it.  Hubby wants stain and I think paint would hold up better.  I think hubby will win this one.  So eventually I will have a kitchen that has a chair rail that looks something like this:

Illusions

This is so neat to me.  I just love how you can make things with your hands.  Tehe that was funny

Reversed

Wow I haven’t posted in a few weeks.  I guess I just haven’t had much to talk about.  Along with that I have been catching up on LOST online during my time at work.  When the show first came out I watched the first few episodes and stopped watching because they were up against another show I liked better.

So this evening I get up and see on the news that Windsor, Colorado was hit by at least an F3 tornado.  For is being that close to the mountain range they don’t see that many tornado’s.  When they do they are maybe a F1.  So when I heard about the tornado I called my dad.  He works just a few miles from where the twister hit.  I thought it sort of odd that I was calling him to ask him if everyone was okay.  In the past they called us after a tornado has come to close for comfort to us.  After talking with him for a few minutes and found out that he was okay we talked more about what had happend.  I found out that if he hadn’t turned around because he forgot his paycheck when he left work he would have been right in the middle of this nasty work of mother nature.

Houses are without roofs and walls.  A daycare is having to close.  The Kodak processing plant that is in this town has been shut down till Monday because to many of there transformers were blown when the twister swept through the town.  They also fear that some of the automated equipment may have been damaged when the transformers went out.  So if you do plan on having any x-rays anytime soon this should prove to be interesting.  This plant produces the majority of x-ray films and other motion picture film.

Though only one death has been reported and all of my family safe and accounted for it is almost odd that I would be calling my family to find out if they were okay from a tornado.

Dropping Dead

We moved all of out things out of the apartment this weekend and part on the beginning of the week.  We are officially out of that darn apartment.  I turned the keys in today.  Can you believe that they are going to charge me $85 to clean the appliances?  That is just highway robbery!!!

1. Move out of apartment.

Done

2. Clean apartment

Done but apparently not well enough

3. unpack brand spankin new house and find a home for everything we just moved.

Far from being done.  anyone want to come volunteer to help with that.  I am just to tired.  Moving and working is not very fun

Home Owners

We signed all of the papers for the house today.  Me and Hubby are officially homeowners.  In a way it is a little unsettling.  One funny thing that hubby said during our signing it that is takes half a forest to build the house and the other half for all the paperwork to get the loan.  That folder was huge.

The other funny thing was that when I went to get the keys the builder for some reason had 8 sets.  That means that we have 16 keys for our new house.  Good grief how many keys do you think we need.  Think 4 would have been more than enough.

Closing

Today we are closing on our home for sure.  We got all the stuff into them that they asked for and got all of the credit issues taken care of.  So this weekend P-A-R-T-Y at my new house.  Okay it won’t really be a party but we will be moving a bunch of stuff.

Days Gone By

Tonight for the second time in just a few weeks the family and I went rollerskating. I haven’t been in years before this. I am sore everywhere now. I love to skate and both kids aren’t to bad at it. While I like this skating rink I still miss the one I grew up going to. Hardwood floors to skate on, benches to sit on, places to hang your coats and other things. Those were the days when you didn’t have to worry about anything. Though skating is how I biffed it good and took out my right knee.