Two Mommies and a Shmoo

Thanks for the comments and offers.

I’m still here. Plugging away.

I just wanted to post a quick update on our status.

Work is okay. I’m really coming to terms with keeping happy and just going in, working, billing and going home. I’m not taking anything personally, I’m not wasting time. I’m just going to toe the party line.

The basement is going well. I had a little spat with the permit department on Friday but we’re fine now (until the inspector comes out for the pre-permit inspection and finds the work already done).

Lois’ father completely took over the project. This is absolutely perfect.

I moved everything out of the basement a/k/a bonus room during the week last week. Saturday morning, Pop-pop came over at 8:30 am. By 11 am, he was done framing. By 4 pm, he was done with the sheetrock and the electrical. Every 12 hours since then, he’s come over and done more drywall compound (barely enough time to let dry).

Today is the final drywall compound layering, possible 1st coat of paint and maybe even the hung ceiling.

I have only been at Homo Depot 4 times in 3 days. Not too bad, right?!?!

Friday night involved a near-breakdown for me at the Homo Depot when we moved the Shmoo from our cart into a race car cart. 10 minutes later, I innocently asked Lois if she moved her wallet out of the old cart when we’d moved Shmoo. We spent the next 30 minutes wondering around the store looking through carts, approaching customers, employees, etc. and me losing my patience until Lois found it in some unsuspecting person’s cart. Big release of breath. We didn’t get home until around 10 pm. We hadn’t eaten dinner, we were pissy and starving. I actually (gulp) okayed a trip to McDo.nalds’ and didn’t feel one single bit guilty. Hence, the lack of progress on the 10 week weight loss front.

I will run to Homo Depot tonight and pick up the carpeting, the padding and whatever accoutrements necessary.

Tomorrow, we finish painting and do the carpet. Voila, a finished bonus room/guest room/play room.

This past Friday night (at around 10 pm), we scrapped the ½ bath idea and we’re very happy with it. That would have been much more of a p.i.t.a. and much more costly.

In the meantime, we have an ass-hole neighbor who reported us to the condo association for not parking in our garage and using our garage for storage. In 2.5 yrs, we have parked in the garage and parked my car in front of the garage. For 3 f-ing days, while we are undergoing some obvious interior construction, we have been unable to park in the garage and I’ve parked in one of the 10 extra spaces next to our building. And we get f-ing reported?!?!

My love (or lack thereof) for our condo development has reached a breaking point and we are now going to do a full push to sell come October 1st. I want to get the C.O. for the bonus room and don’t want to try to show the house while our Norwegian visitors are here.

But come October, we’re doing everything we can. If we can’t sell then, we have no choice but to stay for a long time.

I did find another house online that I’m falling in love with. And it’s the first one that Lois actually really liked too. I’m not going to physically look at it, though, because I don’t want to have to deal with the disappointment if I fall even more in love with it and can’t put an offer down due to our situation. Maybe if it’s still on the market in 2 weeks, I’ll look at it and consider a hubb.ard clause (contingent on selling my place). We’ll see.

I’m trying to keep my stress levels down. It’s not easy, but I’m trying.

And because we don’t have enough going on, I am charting my cycle this month but we’re not TTCing this month. My cycle is 24 days long and I ovulate somewhere between Day 9 and Day 18. This will be fun to pinpoint. Sigh.

I’m totally off my diet (I suck) but still need to lose 15 lbs by October 3rd. ugh.

Things will be better tomorrow night.

That’s when the Norwegians arrive!

T minus 29 hours and counting.