Our life

According to the little thingy on my iGoogle page, we are 34 weeks along today! Yay!!!! Baby and Mommy are doing great. Daddy’s wiped out, but good too. The baby has been a dancing fool in there, which of course can be a bit painful to C. He/She will begin “lightening” in the next week or so.

In class this week, we had “the tour”. Covered all the important places, and saw a couple of newborns in the Nursery there. So dang cool.

We slept at Oz’s again last night as the fumes were just too much at the house with the floors still being done. They should be completed today. So we’ll go up to the cities today and register for our Baby Shower (Target and Babies r Us). We also have to stop at Home Depot to pick up a couple of “band aids”. Think she’d mind if I extended the registry there? If its a boy, he’ll need tools right away.

Posted a bunch more pics over on flickr from the week too.

Wednesday night, I had 5 hours of work to finish in 3. The floor guy was scheduled to come Thursday morning, and we I still had stuff in the bedrooms that needed to be taken out/finished up.  So I gave C a kiss goodnight up at Oz’s, and got to work about 10pm. Crawled into bed “early” again. Just about 2am.  But everything was done.  The rooms were ready.  Woke up to the phone ringing a full 1.5 hours after my alarm should have gone off.  Gotta remember the little dot means PM, not AM.  I haven’t gotten ready that quickly in a long time.

Talked to the floor guy, and let him know the key was up at Oz’s work.  She got there about 820 or so, and he was waiting.  Had we known he would be so eager to get started, I would have left him the key here.

We got home last night after some much needed chiropractic care.  We weren’t sure how the fumes would be, so I came in alone to get our “stuffs”.  Good thing too.  The fumes were pretty heavy.  Went to check out the rooms.  Couldn’t really tell, as the fumes damn near knocked me on my ass as soon as I opened the bedroom door.  He left the lights on, and now I can see why¹.  So I slept on Oz’s couch (full size bed there. Pregnant wife who is used to our king.  who needs the comfort more?).

Today, I plan to finish up the guest bath.  Though I’m worried.  The fumes are rather heavy today, and I’m in my office, on the opposite end of the house, 1 floor down.  I can feel the fumes getting to me as I type (which is why there will be typos and not my usual style).  Maybe I should change this to “respirator friday”.  And the plumber will be here too, to tackle our issue.

But what I saw through the window this morning amazed me.  He did a fan-freaking-tastic job so far.  I would consider them done, but I know he still has 1, if not 2 more coats of poly to do.  I can’t wait to see how they will look when he’s done!  Don’t worry, I’ll show you too.

1. he has a key to the house, sole proprietor. Like me, he’ll work late/overnight.  A quick stop in, look through the window, will tell him if its ready for coat 2/3 [↩]

So on Tuesday. I should have been at work. Instead, I sat at home with a spine that was either on its way towards recovery (after chiro visit) or complete and total failure (I made that part up). As of Wednesday, recovery seems to be where I’m headed. Still tender. Wrong step and I go into hobble mode. Moving my neck the wrong way reminds me of the feeling you get when you shove your finger into a lamp socket that’s on. Not that I’ve done that… at Gradmom’s house when I was a kid…. a few times….

So, to cover the events of Sunday evening and Monday. Sunday evening, I kissed C goodnight, and went back to the house to do some more work. Touched up the Nursery, throwing down another coat of Green. Then started cutting in the master bedroom’s “accent” wall.

Barnum helped point out the flaws. He then took off and found something to play with. So I finished up the master bedroom on my own.

But not until after I made my mark.

I was just about ready to start on the ceiling in the nursery when I realized it was closing in on 130a. Decided bed might be a better option.

On Monday, I started at about 630a, working on the Ceiling in the nursery. Turned into pretty much an all day event.

Zeke showed up around 700a and began right away on the ceiling in the master. He then moved on to prime the guest room, and finally the walls in the master bedroom. He took off about 100p, and I shot over to Oz’s for lunch. Back to work by 130p or so. Got fed up with the screen door that kept falling apart. Rather than replace it, I over-fixed it.

Oz helped me with the clouds. Tis nice to have another artist in the family (C’s the other one). The directional video said that this is a fun activity for kids. She also noted that children tend to do it very well because they don’t overthink it. We watched the video twice, and discussed several times, until we started. I’ll have to agree on the overthinking thing.

This process was both fun and exhausting. Nothing like standing on a ladder, looking straight up, with an arm up too, moving in several directions at once. But it was so worth it. Our little one will awaken to a beautiful, partly cloudy day in a warm climate.

Did some more touch up in the master, then started disassembling the bedrooms, getting things cleared out for the floor guy that’s coming Thursday. So far, we’re a little behind schedule, but things are shaping up really nicely!

Hard to imagine that in less than 2 months, the room across the hall from our room will have an inhabitant that is equal parts C and I. Hopefully, he/she will get C’s looks.

So damn cool.

Sunday was a fun day (whoa-a-whoa). Oz came over about 9ish with C’s truck (we left it up there the night before). So we sent C on her way, and got down to business.

After yesterday’s fiasco, I know precisely what color goes on what wall. So we worked on the yellow, including the actual wall that was supposed to receive it. Part way through the painting process, I grabbed the tripod and camera. Just cause C couldn’t be there didn’t mean that we couldn’t take pics for her.

We knocked off for lunch about noonish. We then started on the green. Oz cut in (as she’s more detail oriented, and doesn’t shake like a crack whore), then I rolled it out.

After rolling things out, I felt a bit ambitious, so I tried this whole “freehand” cutting-in. Oddly relaxing. You can only focus on the line, and have to keep a steady hand. So it was truly a test for me.

After getting the green to a point I felt was good for now, I cleaned up and headed up to Oz’s for “sunday dinner”. Oz, C, G&G, Bk and Mk were all there. We enjoyed burgers and hot dogs, beans and a fantastic potato salad. Lp and Kp stopped up with home made Cheesecake, and toppings (Cherry, Blueberry and Peaches). After cheesecake, we had the originally planned Poppy-Seed cake that G makes for all special occasions (Sunday Sunday Sunday!). Death by goodness.

Dl calls to let us know the I.S.S. will be swinging by. So after some logistical work, we head up to his place to watch it zoom by. Pretty flippin awesome.

With a full tummy, and still in the throes of a sugar high, I head back to the house to continue painting. C sends me off with a kiss and a hug, and a request: “Please don’t stay up too late, and take some time for yourself”.

I did. I took that time for myself setting up the camera. And it was “early” when I went to bed.

Cutting it in with a real paint brush

She’ll see that when the looks at the pics

Roll roll roll your paint. Careful, don’t you spill….

He was very helpful, letting me know where I missed

I’ll now go check things out, then put up the basecoat in the nursery. Zeke should be here in about 30 minutes to knock out the Master, then prime the Guest (and maybe roll that out too). That will give me time to focus on the Nursery. I need to recut some yellow, as I messed up Oz’s clean lines that she left when I “tried” cutting in as nice.

I sure hope our baby enjoys his or her nursery as much as we are. By this time next week, it will be ready for furniture. In 2 weeks, it will be ready for the baby. In 2 months, it will be ready for the traffic.

So cool….