...And in other news,

I was stuck in an elevator today.... after having a dream about it.




Just for laughs.....

WALLpaper?!?!

so what i thought was just an annoy faux finish with paint was really an annoying faux finish with paint on top of WALLPAPER!!! garr..... i curse laziness and all previous owners of our home. We are now behind probably 3-4 days meaning extra work for sarah nightly an perhaps a half day of vacation this friday. oh and because of all of this i think i have "white lung" seeing as i have inhaled large amounts of the crumbling drywall compound that is in between the paint and the wall paper.

EDIT: So apparently my very lay person speak is confusing it isn't the drywall itself that is in between layers it is the mud/Spackle/ "compound" or what ever you want to call it. whatever it is is is highly annoying as it crumbles between the lay of paint and layer of wallpaper. it is as if you were sanding new drywall not just stripping wall paper.

Side note: I have been thing i would like to make a tee shirt with a Rosie the riveter type of cartoon holding a spackling knife saying "I love to strip" I could wear it when ever i am doing home improvements and it would make me laugh.

Hi A. Terry!

So A. Terry reads my blog (so does RJ but he got his response in comment form.) Anyway, I am happy to know that this works even with a very small audience.

Today is Saturday, wow those weeks just fly by. Schools started over here this past week, and as if God Himself doesn't like to go back He rained upon us all week long. Bill and I were lucky, no wind or water damage, and we only lost power during the day while we were both at work anyway. Thank goodness for that.

Today we had dentist appointment and for the fist time since we started going to Maria neither of us had cavities (yea) So, apparently the last few times were really because of the bad care of previous dentists and lack of fluoride. We went to sears (again) and got more tools (again). I jokingly told Bill that he now had everything he needed to build our deck himself. he retorted with a dead serious tone that everything we had was cordless and for the deck he would have to buy all corded.... back to the drawing board on that. but we are making progress with our family room. there are now 2x4s in the hole and the drywall will hopefully be cut and mounted tonight. By the way i never realized 2x4s aren't 2x4 call me dumb but why?!? wouldn't you just make a 2x4 actually 2x4 or call it a 1.whatever by 3.whatever.

ok time to go help with the dry wall and maybe get to use the new power sander :)

alive and well

not that anyone blogs/ read the blogs any more. but I like to belive that some day with will be the perfered way to let people know that you are indeed alive and well. Tome at least it is prefered to a chain email or something in that vein.

anyway Bill and I had a decent rainy weekend and have started on our next big project. I think after this is done we will try to have a get together for all you local chicagoans. again we are taking before during and after pics.... i hope that we can get the dry wall up and ready to be painted by the weekend but we'll see.

Work is good for Bill and I. We will be posting info about the breast cancer walk (Making Strides against Breast Cancer) we are doing... we are looking for people to walk and if you don't want to walk to at least donate. I think Bill will be the one setting up the page. Basics: 5 mi non competative walk in Orland Park (at the mall) Oct (breast cancer awareness month) 21. more info forthcoming.

cough cough

so I've been sick but lets see if i can recap the goings on of late.

thursday we went out with lily peter and brian to celebrate the dual sib birthday.

friday was spent doing god knows what (probably watching movies on hbo)

saturday got our veggies and cleaned in the am and then left for a whirlwind tour of the burbs... in naperville we went to the spice shop and the wine shop and the kitchen store get spices wine and lunch boxes. Then we went to the best buy to look at stereo systems but ended up with only a new ds game. Next was Ethan Allen where we found a fabric we (Bill me and Megan our designer) could all agree on for our new love seat for the family room that needs to be redone. Then it was on to REI to see if they had winter boots yet (no!) and to look at back packs (to much padding!). Then onward and upward to Nordstroms to get my pants hemmed and to Sears where bill found large sets of sockety-ma-bobers and another (better!) cordless drill. we looked at the freezers too, but Bill and I have a hard time seeing eye to eye as i want the 21 cu ft energy star freezer that has a digital read out and bill wants the 14 cu ft dwarf of a freezer. We then went to the container store to get more plastic boxes that repel bugs from living in our shoes. Dinner at a place called claim jumper (meh for the service but thumbs up on the dessert). Finally we went and saw stardust. I found it to be very enjoyable, but i think many people just won't "get" it.

whew!

Sunday we got up and got ready for franks party (yay!). Picked up brian and christy and some jamba juice for my sore throat/ cough. Hung out at Franks for good food and some truly intense sun. Just as we're about to give in the party was moved into the ac (thank god!) and we hung out for a while longer before having to drop brian and christy off so that the latter to catch her plane. then after having some extremely frustrating times we got back on the highway and headed home. except that we had to stop at home depot and the grocery store on the way. by that point i was feeling really sick and went to bed, got up had some dinner went back to bed.

monday slept until 1130 got up had lunch back in bed by 2 slept until 7 something when bill got home had some soup and stayed up to look at speakers at the best buy near us for a little bit and then back to bed.

tuesday work. dinner of yummy chard greek bean salad and pizza followed buy a trip to yet another different best buy. this time coming home with some speakers and an amp which will keep bill busy until friday at least.

so now that you have a feeling of whats been going on I'm my life how about you drop a line, or even just a comment to let me know YOU are alive and well.

on deck for the week....

8/6 happy 2 years to us
8/10 happy birthday Giddo
8/11 happy birthday Maddy
8/12 happy birthday Lily and Brian

this is that time of year then i spend a lot at halmark... now and in late march early april.

1080p 300.... look at those abs

yes we went out and got 300 yesterday, impulsive but we figured it was a good movie to get for our blue ray. oh... yeah.... this weekend bill finally got his ps3 while there are still no games out that he wants, we wanted the blue ray player and the price is pretty good with that drop and really we don't need to wait for the 80 gig.

anyway in the specials on the dvd they show how they trained and the exercise routine (or lack of routine as then never repeated the exact same eroutine ever.

anyway not much else going on.... happy birthday to mimi on monday.

ok later