so in addition to working a full day sunday, matt worked from 6 am yesterday morning to 11 pm last night. he went in at 5:30 this morning--i hope he doesn't stay that late tonight--i miss him!!! thankfully his deadline is tomorrow, so at least i'll get to see him tomorrow night!
the guys came today to prepare our current floors for the installation of new ones. i made a chocolate cake and had coffee going so they would do a great job! also, the estimate of the project includes a certain number of hours for preparation+ installation and if they work less than those hours, we get charged less. and since i wasn't able to be present to check when exactly they left, i'm hoping the cake was enough of a guilt trip for them to be honest. ha! we shall see... so our floors are bare with some putty and junk (i don't know what it is, but it is smelly) that made the floor level. and they predicted that it would only take until noon tomorrow before the whole job is finished--yay! that is one day earlier than predicted!
i did this raw foods detox diet thing a little while ago to help get my kidneys/liver/etc. back in order and cleansed out and boy can i tell a difference now. everytime i eat something with refined sugar or preservatives, i get an instant headache. i used to drink one coke a day (which i thought was limiting it pretty nicely, anyways) but now i haven't been able to get through more than 5 sips without getting a headache. also, anything like ranch dressing, chips, cheetos, or things with partially hydrogonated oils are an instant headache, too. talk about a deterrant from unhealthy food!!!!! it's fantastic! let me know if you are interested, anyone!
hey! i just heard my honey walk in the door--i'm out!!!
Sunday, March 06, 2005
yesterday we finished tearing up the deck, rented a uhaul, loaded it up with our demolished hot tub, deck wood, carpet, and padding. then we drove up to our friend eddie's house and picked up his carpet (they're doing wood floors, too) and other junk and drove to the smelly dump!
everything was going so quickly and smoothly (unlike our last trip to the dump with a uhaul so weighed down with concrete pieces that the axles were bowed and the wheels were scraping against the bottom of the truck), we couldn't believe it. and we shouldn't have, because it was too good to be true. the dump was about 10-15 minutes away from the uhaul place and we had to refill it with diesel fuel. very long story short, we tried about 9 gas stations in the area and no one had diesel. two of them were supposed to, but their pumps weren't working. to add insult to injury, the roads we were on were right by the busiest mall in san diego, so we had mall traffic of people coming and going on a saturday AND the stoplights were out. it took FOREVER to get anywhere! so frustrating!!! the icing on the cake was when we were trying to pull out of a gas station driveway into the lanes of stopped traffic, what did we see trying to get through all the cars? an ambulance. everyone was moving aside and the ambulance was actually getting through pretty well. until the woman in front of us blocked it. we backed up and motioned for her to angle into the parking lot driveway, but she was NOT getting it. soooo, the ambulance headed right for us, trying to take a shortcut through the parking lot. but we were so huge we were blocking most of the driveway. so matt threw it in reverse, backed up quickly, and the ambulance got through safely. and we backed right over a big chain-link fence! ha! we finally just went back to point loma and filled up there, dropped off that uhaul, and made it home in a grand total of 2 HOURS. whew!
our reward was a nice cookout with friends and a fire in their firepit outside that evening. we had a great time.
i'm bummed, matt has to work today.
but i do need to run some errands and get in a bike ride, so i'll be doing that--but i'll miss him! hopefully he will get some comp time and be able to take off that friday when mary and justin are in town.
speaking of that, only 5 more days until the burns family arrives!!!
have a great day everyone!
everything was going so quickly and smoothly (unlike our last trip to the dump with a uhaul so weighed down with concrete pieces that the axles were bowed and the wheels were scraping against the bottom of the truck), we couldn't believe it. and we shouldn't have, because it was too good to be true. the dump was about 10-15 minutes away from the uhaul place and we had to refill it with diesel fuel. very long story short, we tried about 9 gas stations in the area and no one had diesel. two of them were supposed to, but their pumps weren't working. to add insult to injury, the roads we were on were right by the busiest mall in san diego, so we had mall traffic of people coming and going on a saturday AND the stoplights were out. it took FOREVER to get anywhere! so frustrating!!! the icing on the cake was when we were trying to pull out of a gas station driveway into the lanes of stopped traffic, what did we see trying to get through all the cars? an ambulance. everyone was moving aside and the ambulance was actually getting through pretty well. until the woman in front of us blocked it. we backed up and motioned for her to angle into the parking lot driveway, but she was NOT getting it. soooo, the ambulance headed right for us, trying to take a shortcut through the parking lot. but we were so huge we were blocking most of the driveway. so matt threw it in reverse, backed up quickly, and the ambulance got through safely. and we backed right over a big chain-link fence! ha! we finally just went back to point loma and filled up there, dropped off that uhaul, and made it home in a grand total of 2 HOURS. whew!
our reward was a nice cookout with friends and a fire in their firepit outside that evening. we had a great time.
i'm bummed, matt has to work today.
but i do need to run some errands and get in a bike ride, so i'll be doing that--but i'll miss him! hopefully he will get some comp time and be able to take off that friday when mary and justin are in town.
speaking of that, only 5 more days until the burns family arrives!!!
have a great day everyone!