Weekend In Review

Well, let's recap the weekend...because I'm confident I didn't get all this done as planned.

Friday

1. Errands: Target, AC Moore, bank, Sherwin Williams, grocery store completed!
2. Pull up linoleum in the morning room to prep for new flooring. completed! {more on this later...}
3. Gym? ...didn't happen. Lost track of time while pulling staples out of the floor.
4.Do something outside. Anything. sat on the patio in the evening
5. Clean the house. I have decided that cleaning the house is going to be temporarily disbanded until the construction (or de-construction as it may be) is finished. I'd be dusting all.day.long.

Saturday
I'm not even going to go through this list individually. Why? Because the only two things that happened were laundry and ironing. And ironing didn't happen until Sunday. We spent 90% of the day pulling up underlayment (the Mr.) or prying staples out of the floor. When I wasn't pulling staples, I was sitting on the patio in the sun relaxing or straightening the kitchen and such.


1. Go on a picnic with The Mr. {perfect weather}
2. Get the last pictures for our "name frame"
3. Order said pictures.
4. Spread mulch?
5. Laundry.
6. Iron clothes {because I won't have time on Sunday}

Sunday - And none of this happened.

1. Tape master bath for painting.
2. Paint master bath
3. KKPsi meeting?


Pulling up the linoleum was fast. The Mr. had a time pulling up the underlayment because of the ridiculous amounts of staples used to fasten it to the subfloor. And I mean ri.dic.u.lous. At the edges of the board there were at least 2-3 staples per inch. They just went crazy with the automatic stapler. So pulling staples up was my job. One by one I muscled those things out of floor. It took me probably 8 hours total (spread over 3 days) to do the morning room. The foyer won't be so bad. The kitchen? Could potentially be the end of me. We haven't pulled up the linoleum in there yet to see the damage.

I haven't started pulling staples in the foyer yet. Why? Oh, because we found MOLD between the underlayment and the subfloor at the threshold of the front door. Nice, black, mold. It wasn't just a little bit like we found at the backdoor in the morning room. There was little enough there for us to just clean it up with bleach and feel okay about it. We feel like it is probably due to the floor being laid while the subfloor was still wet or damp. If there were a leak issue with the front door then it would most likely be showing signs of rot since we're working on two years in the home and we've had A LOT of rain this year. To be safe (and not sorry) we are calling the builder today. Hopefully someone will at least come out to look at it...even if they offer no help in fixing it.

So that is why I didn't get my whole list done. :)

I did buy the paint for the master bath this weekend though since there was the Sherwin Williams sale going on. When the hardwoods get installed, the Mr. and I will probably alternate on taking time off work to be home. If I don't have any work to do from home, I will probably take that opportunity to paint the bathroom. I'll be essentially confined to the upstairs anyway - so why not just paint then?

I'll keep you posted on the mold issue...

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Weekend Wrap Up

Where did the weekend go?? Gosh! I'm going to give you the highlights.

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I have put up the 2009 Christmas decorations (and I have a feeling the 2010 decorations will look oddly familiar...) :) I had to get some stocking hangers (Lowes) and some more ornaments to decorate the mantel this year. It turned out nicely and perhaps I'll share some pictures soon.

Speaking of Christmas decorations - I mentioned that I was going to try my hand making this hat. I realized that I didn't mention that it was going to be our tree topper as opposed to the traditional star or angel or something like that. Well, I tried. And I tried hard to make this hat. I told The Mr. at about 3pm Saturday afternoon that perhaps I should have just bought the hat. He kept saying no, it's fine. You can do it.

Fine. I can do it, but I needed break.

As of today, the hat has been purchased. :) The supplies ended up being more than the hat cost...plus the time and frustration.

I think he caved because he could tell that I wasn't happy with the quality of what I was producing. Could I do it? Yes. Would it be done by Christmas? No.

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Clemson. Oh, Clemson. You should have been the ACC Champions but who knows what happened. We lost the game to Georgia Tech but that's okay. CJ Spiller played a helluva game and hopefully he gets a good spot in the NFL. But first, CJ for Heisman.

That's all about that. My blood still runs orange.

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I turned 26 yesterday. Everyone keeps telling me that puts me into my "late" 20s. I suppose so, but really I don't feel any different than I did when I turned 24 or 25.

I had a great birthday. Very relaxing and got several things done. The things I didn't get done (like folding the laundry or cleaning the bathrooms) will happen at some point this week...just not today. I enjoyed a day just letting what feels like my responsibilities fly to the wind.

The highlight of the day? The Mr. made me stuffed shells. Stuffed shells are my favorite dinner food. My mom would always make me stuffed shells for my dinners when I was growing up. The Mr. had never had stuffed shells before (and obviously never made it either). He did a great job - two thumbs up!

Followed the stuffed shells up with some ice cream and I was a happy camper.

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And last, but not least, I promise I'll clean up this mess of a blog soon.

Anyone want to suggest some color inspirations? I need a jumping point. I was thinking grey and yellow - I love the color combo but I don't feel it being "pulled off" here.

Please leave your suggestions after the tone. :)

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Weekend Recap

Let's see how I did this weekend... green is "complete".

Friday

• go to the gym for weights & cardio
  
• remove stickers on Taurus back window
• wash & vacuum cars
• deadhead flowers
  
• finish Heidi's cards
• eat dinner with our neighbors

Saturday

• cut cardstock for favor card order
• print first layer of favor cards
• finish painting the "Welcome" sign
• research recycled papers for Beth's invites and save the dates
• work on art for 1/2 bath
  
• organize user manuals & paperwork upstairs
• watch football :)
  

Sunday

• put away miscellaneous items in the morning room corner
• clean windows
• dust all fan blades
• wipe down fridge
• finish inventory of the pantry
• start inventory of the freezer
• eat dinner with Beth and Bryan
  

Monday

• print the second layer for favor card order
• relax & finish the things that weren't finished.

Not too shabby. By Monday I had run out of steam and also remembered that I needed to go to the grocery store. Plus there were a few recipes I wanted to try and I also went to the gym in the afternoon - so no time for cleaning. Ha Ha!

Now let me show you The Mr.'s weekend project:

First he rewired the two light fixtures in the foyer so they are on the same switch (yeah - don't ask why they weren't before...we can't figure it out). Then ran the wire from the light closest to the door to a junction box.

Jumpered off the wire in the aforementioned junction box and ran it onto the porch. Added some junction boxes and jumpered more wire. (He also battled with the siding...that was ridiculous!)

And at the end of the weekend - we have two ceiling fans on our front porch. A little slice of southern heaven!

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Weekend Recap

There's nothing more relaxing than a three-day weekend. Mustang gave us Good Friday off this year (and I say this year because I don't remember having it off last year...).

And to clarify when I say "gave us the day off" I mean you had to option of working 4 10 hour days OR taking 4 hours of PTO. We don't really get "days off" for free.

We woke up on Friday morning and ran a few errands while the guys worked on the retaining walls in the front yard. We packed and did a few things around the house before hitting the road and got on the road to Charleston around noon...right about the time that the sky opened up and the rain was pouring down. Come to find out the weather was nasty in the upstate this weekend (hail, torrential downpours, and the like). Charleston? It was sunny and amazing. The weather was fantastic. Dauge's cousin, who he hasn't seen in 10-15 years, is now stationed at a base close to Savannah, GA so he came up for the weekend too. Friday was low key - just hanging around, catching up, and drinking some mojitos. Yum. :)

Saturday was also low key. For me anyway. Dauge spent most of the day rewiring his parents bathroom and installing a bathroom vent. Apparently houses built in the 1960's didn't come with bathroom vents...so one desperately needed to be installed. At this time of year it's not too bad because you can open the window and shower. In January or in July - forget it. You're either freezing or sweating when you get out of the shower. I'm pretty excited about this new accomodation that the hubs installed. He did an awesome job. I wish I had a picture of how disgustingly dirty he was after it was all said and done.

Sunday we had Easter lunch with the family before we hit the road. It was delicious, but I ate entirely too much food. I think that both sets of our parents want to spoil us with food when we go home. There's always dessert and delicious side items. Everything is so yummy - but the scale doesn't think it's nearly as yummy. I had to keep telling myself the whole weekend "You'll regret that on Wednesday when you stand on that scale!"

All-in-all it was a good weekend. I hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

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