Still no phone...

I want to call people. I'm cut off. I WANT MY PHONE!

Bell is now telling me after blowing the fifth deadline that a technician will be coming by my house tomorrow morning. Yippee. Let's see what happens this time.

Mom and Dad are coming up this weekend. Dad is going to be putting the trim on the walls, fixing the sink in the downstairs bathroom, and helping me rebuild my closet. Mom is going to have fun with the boy.

I did about 20 runs up and down the stairs at the apartment last night. Almost got everything out in the last car load. Only things that are left are the cleaning supplies that J is going to use tonight to clean up. YAY!!! No more stairs!!!! YAY!!!!

To update on The Boy.

He is not doing well with the backup of the backup of the failed backup. He has actually stayed with Sirage before but that was when we wasn't even a year old yet. He doesn't remember her at all and channels Satan when we pull in the driveway until we pry his little fingers off of us and hand him to Sirage. Then he is carried into the main room while we are leaving and he is reaching for us over her shoulder, screaming as if someone is breaking his legs. I cried to work the first two days....until I phoned after I got to work and found out he is playing with the other kids, laughing and having a good time. Today I tossed him to her and waved as we shut the door in his face, but I know he is fine. Thank GOD Sam is back next week!

Anyway, will write something out at home over the weekend and post on Monday.

Buh Bye! :)

Bell phone home....

So it’s time for me to update the blog. I would have done it sooner but we have been without a telephone line/internet since Thursday of last week. Will see if we have a dial tone when we get home tonight.

ANYWAY,

Will cover everything in point form just to shorten then telling:

Tom P., our electrician, came to the house and got the heater in the Mater Bedroom installed. Also, found out that the nice ceiling fan in the Master Bedroom was badly done and took it out.

Phone was cut on Thursday morning

Bell Expressview guys show up on time and are GREAT! We now have tv.

Carpet was due to arrive at 10 am, no show, nothing, nadda. Am told at 4:30pm that they had had truck troubles. Fuck you very much.

No phone as of Thursday evening.

Carpet sales guy drives out the laminate that night so that my dad and uncle can install it tomorrow and says the transition pieces are coming with the carpet tomorrow.

Carpet gets installed Friday morning, different carpet installed in the master bedroom, don’t mind too much because it’s a better one.

Carpet guys didn’t bring the transition pieces for the laminate, cue me driving to Perth to pick them up.

Get them back to the house and they are still the wrong pieces. Sales guy will bring them by sometime early next week.

Dad and uncle install the floor over the course of the day.

J and I start packing stuff into the truck and get two truck loads to the house Friday night.

First night of sleep at the house with the boy, J and I. Still no phone.

7am Insulation guys show up on time and finish within quote. GREAT GUYS! J

Movers are a hour late but are overall wonderful. For 6 hours work and $559 all our furniture is moved in.

Saturday night, still no phone.

Sunday is unpacking and bringing 4 car loads of loose stuff to the house. Big Thanks to Jeff for helping.

Sunday was getting the TV’s and entertainment units put together and working. Most of the kitchen is unpacked as well.

Sunday night, me freaking out at Bell about still not having a phone. They tell me they switched software and that 3000 other people are in the same boat. Ask me if I care, GIVE ME MY PHONE!!!!!

Monday, back to work, Ryan with yet another back up because S couldn’t take him this week. Siraj is great but Ryan has a massive freak out over being left with a stranger. Will not take him there for the rest of the week until Samira is back on Thursday.

Quoter for the Seamless Eaves troughs coming tonight at 5pm.

I want my phone.

Back to work tomorrow...

So the weekend from hell is over. J and I are now two second coats away from having four out of five rooms painted. J stayed last night until 1 am to finish the edging in the office, I had a nightmare so I was up at 5:30am today and at the house by 6:15. I got alot of work done before I headed home at 9:30. Picked up the boy and the husband, went to Home Hardware, got to have some quality time at the house with the boy. I had gone to Walmart yesterday morning and bought the last covered "turtle" sandbox in the store (THE DEALS! Got a $40 sandbox for $25!!!) AND the Lil Tikes adjustable basketball net. Man does he love the net! I took him home for a nap at noon and brought him back at 2. I got the master bedroom's first coat of color on before we had to head home. Laundry called. So now that I have three loads of laundry run through the machine, folded and put away, what do I do? I go back to the house and put the first coat of color on the office. I'm so tired I am not coherent to J so I don't know how coherent I'm being here.

Tomorrow is second coats on the MB and the office. Hopefully J also get's the edges in the kitchen primed. I really want to have all the painting done before my parent's get here on Wednesday night.

Ta for now!

Kay

Night off...

So after today we decided that we need the night off. We have been working almost non-stop for three days and I can see the toll it is taking on Mom and Dad. Not including me, J, Lori, and everyone else that has been coming by to help out. Tonight I got some major snuggle time with the boy in the new recliner in front of "The Backyardagans", very fun show with lots of singing and pretty colors! :P Anyway, I'm going to bed as soon as I get the boy there himself.

Today included two trips to Home Hardware (they are saying, "Great to see you again" when they see Dad and I coming now), one trip to the dump where the old dishwasher found it's final resting place, raking the yard of all debris and garbage, weeding, hanging laundry on my clothes line and folding it later to bring it in the house, finishing the painting in my hobby room, watching my baby run through his yard like a maniac, and finding out our babysitter's Dad is an electrician who is willing to come out the house and fix all our nagging electrical issues. Tomorrow is one more trip to the dump, priming the living room, kitchen and master bedroom. Mom is going to come with me to my Weigh-In meeting at lunch and then Mom and Dad are off to the cottage for a rest for the weekend. They will be back up here for Wednesday night of next week.

It's ten after eight, time to do Night Night with the boy.

Blog ya later!

Kay

God my feet smell! :(

Sorry for the grossness. I just started typing and the stench hit me. I've been in my sandals all day in and out of dirt and God-knows-what so I'm guessing I'm taking a shower before bed.

ANYWAY....

So the dishwasher is still there. Yes, we are pissed. No, there is nothing we can do about it except bend over and take it without the K-Y. They also used us as their personal dump. There was a ton of shit stuffed between the shed and the fence that I dug out, the crappy old wooden patio table, about 50 cans of paint got left in the storage area, random crap still in the shelving all over the house, not including the dishwasher, ironing board, rusted snow shovel, and de-humidifyer that they left at the bottom of the driveway to be "picked up" by "some guy" that never came. All this will be taken to the dump. Dad and I made the first of many trips today and got rid of all the carpets that were ripped out. The funny thing is there were twice as many because instead of ripping out the old contruction grade stuff from the 70's, they just lay the new stuff down over top and used the old stuff as the underpad. Very stinky, very dirty, and as my Dad and I can attest, VERY annoying to rip out. Ripping out the carpets, unscrewing all the hardware, chipping out the "Nail Boards" that held the new carpet down, taking a putty knife and shaving all the old black foam from the old carpet off the floor, ripping out the underpading in the living room, finding all the staples that had been used to secure it and pinching out the bits of foam with needle nose pliars then hammering them into the floor, filling all the holes in the walls with dry wall composite, and washing all the walls down took the first day. Not to mention my Mom sanitizing the main bathroom. Why is it that your parents know how to find all the dirt that you didn't know existed? Anway, THANK GOD our friend K.Ch. was there, as well as one of my bridesmaids, and my Aunt and Uncle stopped by for the evening. This got the bulk of the nasty work done in the first day. Today was Dad and I going to the dump first thing in the morning, Lori and I priming two bedrooms, Dad and I patching the crappy hole that the pig/dogs that lived in the house before us put in the wall for their air conditioner, K.Ch. came again tonight to help with priming the living room, and J, Lori, and I completed the Boy's room. It is a lovely shade of sage green. There was also a total of 5 trips to Home Hardware.

PHEW! I'm cooked. I hurt in so many places. Everything is in such chaos. I'm so so so tired.

Anyway, that was my self pity line. On the positive side we have our new Hemnes bed from IKEA built and in the bedroom with our new mattress. We are sleeping great! Most of the nasty work is done, now we are just doing punch out work like painting, installing new garbage holders in the cupboards, fixing the leaking sink, etc. I'm just so happy that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel with this. A week from tomorrow the carpet and laminate is being installed and all the Bell stuff is going to transfer over to the house. The moving company is going to come on next Saturday and take all the big stuff for us like couches and the treadmill.

It feels so much like fall right now. Some of the trees on my way into work have started to turn, there was no humidity today and had a really stiff breeze so it was nice and cool. Mom cooked a turkey in the oven at the house...I don't know. The smells, the sounds, it all makes me feel so at home in this new place. I met one of my neighbours, Lynda, today. She seemed very friendly...considering my parents dog scared her cat into running away. The dog did this through a fence. Anyway, she seemed very nice. Also, the city sent an entire crew into our neighborhood and are installing curbs across the street from our house. I'm assuming they are going to come over to our side at some point.

Must go shower. Must go take Advil. Must go bed.

*death*

Got the KEY!!!!

So we have the key. Got it from Bill at around noon. Preceding this I had gone in with the bank draft and taken the paperwork over to the other lawyer. We waited for my parents to come so that was another hour. 1pm comes along and we are driving over to the house. I'm excited as hell. Practically running beside the car. And that's when we get there.

The people are still there.

Their crap is all over the driveway. The dishwasher is still at the bottom of the driveway. They are still there.

I'm not impressed. I pull in and the woman comes right out and we start talking. Apparently she was told that she had until 5pm. Bullshit, but what can we do. Their stuff is all there. We give them until 5:30 and leave. Dad and I, mostly Dad, build our new bed, Mom and I go get Ryan 2 hours early, and we are going to have dinner before we do Take Two on the ceremonial opening of the front door.

If they are still there we are just going to start bringing in our stuff anyway. Screw'em.

Ciao for now,

Kay

Waiting, waiting, waiting....

So it's 8:45 on Monday morning and I'm at work. Am technically on vacation but I have to wait for my branch of HSBC to open so I can ge the draft of my mortgage to take to my lawyer. Did a little work, got breakfast....SIGH!!!! I WANT MY HOUSE NOW!!!!

Didn't sleep much last night. Helped J with a report he has to do every month.

Anyway, will update once we are in the house.

Buh Bye!
:)

AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

HOLY COW!!! TWO MORE DAYS!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Will blog later! :)

Kay

Real Conversation MSN style Vol. III

J says:
ok
K says:
Okay what?
K says:
I had closed the window....
K says:
Speaking of windows, close the bedroom window.
J says:
ok
J says:
You told me something, I said ok...
J says:
You put money on the credit card. Me: ok
K says:
ok
K says:
:D
J says:
wtf

Another Weekend Gone...

So it's Sunday night. We got a ton of stuff done on Saturday. My favourite was us popping into the Sears appliance/furniture store with Grisa. J and I ended up picking out a recliner/rocker for the family room in a moment of impulse! It was a floor model sale so it was half off. LOVE the deals! Speaking of deals, J went to Canadian Tire and bought out half the tool department because everything was on mega sale. Don't ask me to name all he got. It's massive the amount of saws, levels, laser-this, laser-that he got.

The boy made me want to pull out my teeth tonight. I don't know what got into him. J went for his walk and the boy started crying and wouldn't stop for about a half an hour. I chipped him some ice and gave him some "purple", (Motrin), and that seemed to calm him down. I kept asking him where the owie was but he wasn't showing me anything. SIGH! Sometimes I feel like I know what I'm doing with this whole parenting thing, but then a night like this comes along and makes me feel like a newbie again! :(

ONE MORE WEEK UNTIL WE CLOSE!!!!!

Peace out, yo mamma, and all that jazz.

Kay :)

Happy! Happy! Happy!

I don't know what I did but I am feeling GREAT today! I'm wearing my new Eddie Bauer tank top that I got for 60% off, so not only am I looking good I got the deal! I woke up after a great nights sleep, got my little boy to go potty (By the way, we are making real progress with that! He goes first thing in the morning most mornings. The only problem is we have having difficulties on the mornings when his little soldier is at attention. Then he becomes a fountain! :) ), before breakfast I went out to exercise so I don't have to worry about doing it tonight.

J and I have our regular babysitter booked for 1pm and we are going out, just him and me! WOOT! I love the couple time! We don't know where we are going yet. We might go visit our friend's Grisa and pick up some boxes, or we are thinking of going shopping in the Chinese grocery stores on Sumerset. Not sure, we'll see.

House update: Nothing new, just doing packing.

Weight watchers update: Weigh-in on Friday equals me losing 2.5 lbs last week! Have offically lost 33.5 with only 18.5 to go! DOUBLE WOOT!!!

Must go. Am cleaning house and doing laundry while we wait for the babysitter to come.

Blog ya later! :)

Kay

DOUBLE WOOT!

OH MY GOD! This is insane! The ass-clown actually Express Posted it so we have our down payment! WOOT! We are now officially ready to buy the house!

I’ve booked a babysitter for the next couple weekends so that J and I get stuff done. Also she is going to be there all day during the 27th so that we don’t have to worry about Ryan when the moving company is working.

I’ve gotten the names of some local contractors for eaves troughs. I’m very curious about how much it’s going to cost….

Anyway, other then that we are going to start packing in earnest now! We have only 10 days until we close and we are going to be working that whole week leading up to the move. Movies and CDs are going to be easy to pack up. I’m thinking that a lot of the kitchen stuff that is little used can be packed as well. I’m getting J to pick me up some big, black, garbage bags so that I can clean out the linen closet tonight or tomorrow.

Hmmm…what else….

We have to buy the primer for painting

Have to buy CLR to clean out the washer, it’s just covered in build up. I’m hoping that we can replace it within a year.

All of my gadgets and paraphernalia from my curio cabinet can be packed away.

*Note to self: Must label EVERYTHING*

I know there is a ton of random stuff in the top of the linen closet that is going to have to be packed.

At least there are two things that I know of that aren’t going to have to be moved to the new house. Ryan had two diaper leaks in the same day. Nix on one of his rugs and my computer chair coming. They are both in the trash. :(

Anyway, must go and get some more lists together. Blog ya later.

Kay

Ps – You know that blogging has become my personal scratch pad? I have gone back to that original blog about stuff I have to do about four times to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything! J

Woot!

Yay! Something went right! Our line of credit just came online, about a week early! This relieves a lot of pressure off my mind. No we just have to wait for the incompetent ass-clown who has J's money to get it too us from New Brunswick and we're flying! :)

Anyway, only 11 more days! YEHAAAAAAA!!!!

Cheers,

Kay

Yarg!!!

I got a pinched nerve in my neck this morning lifting the Boy out of the car. I couldn’t turn my head, couldn’t lift my arms above my head, it sucks. I think to myself, “Hey, at least it’s massage therapy day at work. I’ll get a rub from Fujio and I’ll be all good.”. Doesn’t he call me to tell me he has to cancel all appointments today because his massage chair got stolen out of his car last night! :(

Anyway, 13 days and counting! The following has been completed:

Carpeting/Laminate ordered and booked for installation

Bought a weed wacker, the “Grass Hog” is it’s name!

Bought our new bed, it went on sale for $70 off so we couldn’t wait.

Got all the Bell stuff set for the move.

Got all my books packed.

J and I both went through all our stuff and did a massive “purge”.

Am going to be starting to pack all the extra sheets and towels in the next couple of days.

Anyway, lots going on. Blog ya later!

Kay