Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Posting Hiatus
Sorry for post silence, but the machine through which all my posts become gold is some what water spotted. In light of that I'm left with only my vocabulary with which to fend off you ravenous readers, and it seems to be lacking. I will persevere, and improve, but hopefully Gabe can fix my camera before I have to.
So whats up you ask? Well basement is almost done, (how long have I been saying that...) The base boards are 90% up, but need to be filled, sanded and touched up. Walls need a little touch up to, we may have kissed them with the sofa's a little to hard. The quarter round is lazying about in the laundry room, so I need to get on that as well. Finally the doors need to be painted (as do their frames.) These are just finishing touches, I hope I can get to them this coming week/weekend but I may not, and if not they can hold till after Christmas (except the doors at least need to be hung and have knobs.)
We got some amazing sofa's and an insane price, and we are soooo happy with them. That was going to be our big '07 purchase, but not only did we spend less for the set then what one sofa might have cost, we did it in '06 :)
I can't wait to have all my friends come out and see, I think most of my family has seen it, except Chris, Colin and Jack, but they will be here shortly, and will be befitting from its completion (can't wait.) PS Guys, I promise to have the guest bedroom setup before you show up, really :)
Big news coming, I think 80% of you know it, and 10% of you can guess it, and the other 10% don't know or care. I will fill you in on the skinny soon.
Until then, or until the camera is back in action, aloha!
So whats up you ask? Well basement is almost done, (how long have I been saying that...) The base boards are 90% up, but need to be filled, sanded and touched up. Walls need a little touch up to, we may have kissed them with the sofa's a little to hard. The quarter round is lazying about in the laundry room, so I need to get on that as well. Finally the doors need to be painted (as do their frames.) These are just finishing touches, I hope I can get to them this coming week/weekend but I may not, and if not they can hold till after Christmas (except the doors at least need to be hung and have knobs.)
We got some amazing sofa's and an insane price, and we are soooo happy with them. That was going to be our big '07 purchase, but not only did we spend less for the set then what one sofa might have cost, we did it in '06 :)
I can't wait to have all my friends come out and see, I think most of my family has seen it, except Chris, Colin and Jack, but they will be here shortly, and will be befitting from its completion (can't wait.) PS Guys, I promise to have the guest bedroom setup before you show up, really :)
Big news coming, I think 80% of you know it, and 10% of you can guess it, and the other 10% don't know or care. I will fill you in on the skinny soon.
Until then, or until the camera is back in action, aloha!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Yeah, what ever, ok...
I just couldn't help posting this, but hey when research about sex and socks hits the Tornoto Star, the editors here at Araska.org must comment.
Fear my might!
Ah yes, nothing scarier then a wet cat stretched out like a lazy butt. He took a shower this morning, and it was completely voluntary, weird weird cat.
Camera Ghosts
Well here are some terrible pictures of the basement. The camera has ghost spots that didn't show up in any other picures I took, and the colour is way way way way off. So until Gabe comes by to take some good pictures you will have to just envision how awesome it looks from these.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Basement!
Jeeze, my number one reason I haven't been blogging, is probably the number one thing I should be blogging about. Thats the freaking basement!!! Erin and I have been up to are eyeballs in work down there. Since I got back from San Fran I made a commitment to finish before Christmas, and I am making that deadline, come hell, high water, or lack of sleep and a sore back.
So the first thing we did, was admit we were in trouble. My leet spackling skills were in fact not leet. The walls remained an unfinished mess of mud, tape and looming effort. So I cracked, I dialed around, and spun threads out on the 'internets' seeking experts and mad skillz. I ended up hiring someone from the Hawthorne Villager Forums, where I loiter regularly. He did a great job, for a great price, in no time and my basement problems went from insurmountable to achievable.
Soldiering on from the mildly emasculating hiring of a contractor we moved into the safe territory of paint. We started with the realitivly non-controversial white flat ceiling, warm white baseboard trim, and wall primer, shocking rebeleous I know. Moving to the walls now that was a different story.
Shirking the time honoured myths of painting, we brought in our interior decorator, who thankfully works for the low low price of good company, and some fresh berries for her cute daughter. I'm speaking of my friend Rod, his colour co-ordinated wife Sara, and the now one year old Gabriella. So with Sara's help we had the courage to go with a COLOUR, which I different like this because its a tint with some chutzpa.
Painting is in full force, and my goal is actually to finish the second coat of paint tonight. I may only get halfway there, but we shall see. I will get some pictures up, because so much has changed since the last pictured post.
Post wall completion I have some trim and door work to do, but it is really second to cleanup, because we are flooring Sunday morning. I'm looking forward to that, because the place will look done at that point, although trim will need to be nailed up, but thats just icing on a 6 month to bake cake.
Lots of thanks to everyone who helped us get here.
G
So the first thing we did, was admit we were in trouble. My leet spackling skills were in fact not leet. The walls remained an unfinished mess of mud, tape and looming effort. So I cracked, I dialed around, and spun threads out on the 'internets' seeking experts and mad skillz. I ended up hiring someone from the Hawthorne Villager Forums, where I loiter regularly. He did a great job, for a great price, in no time and my basement problems went from insurmountable to achievable.
Soldiering on from the mildly emasculating hiring of a contractor we moved into the safe territory of paint. We started with the realitivly non-controversial white flat ceiling, warm white baseboard trim, and wall primer, shocking rebeleous I know. Moving to the walls now that was a different story.
Shirking the time honoured myths of painting, we brought in our interior decorator, who thankfully works for the low low price of good company, and some fresh berries for her cute daughter. I'm speaking of my friend Rod, his colour co-ordinated wife Sara, and the now one year old Gabriella. So with Sara's help we had the courage to go with a COLOUR, which I different like this because its a tint with some chutzpa.
Painting is in full force, and my goal is actually to finish the second coat of paint tonight. I may only get halfway there, but we shall see. I will get some pictures up, because so much has changed since the last pictured post.
Post wall completion I have some trim and door work to do, but it is really second to cleanup, because we are flooring Sunday morning. I'm looking forward to that, because the place will look done at that point, although trim will need to be nailed up, but thats just icing on a 6 month to bake cake.
Lots of thanks to everyone who helped us get here.
G
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