I guess I will give the good news and progress first, both Art and I ended up with a 3 day weekend! WOO-HOO! That basically never happens, but some of the mowers are down on the farm and since the mechanic took off for the holiday weekend, there was not enough equipment to mow, and long story short Art didn't have to work. That doesn't mean I didn't put him to work at home. :) We got so much done - we organized the storage room and then moved about 16 rubbermaid containers of stuff in there, emptying out the closet in the nursery in the process. Then all the small piles of stuff placed around the house were found homes, instead of temporary resting places. We did more work outside, finished all the laundry, organized the bedroom and bathrooms, and even started the dusting and vacuuming. It was a lot of work, and I could barely move each morning from being sore, but I am so glad the organization is about done. There are still small projects here and there, but those do not have to be done before the baby arrives. The only thing left to do before the baby is clean all the wood work, walls, baseboard heaters, and windows. And let me tell you, in an old house that is not a small task! We will split it up by room and do the smaller rooms on weeknights and the larger rooms on Sundays. We took a break one day to run some errands and head to Lowes for the blinds. Well, turns out Home Depot had a better sale so we decided to go with them for the blinds. The guy is supposed to call today to set up an appointment to come and measure the windows in the house (we are having them install them). We also decided to bite the bullet and do the whole house. Good bye tax refund, it was nice knowin' ya! All in all, I am VERY happy with what we accomplished this weekend.
Now the set backs...we went to breakfast yesterday morning (the special was PECAN PANCAKES, I got them with fresh banana on top and thought I was eating at Uncle Bill's in OC, it was FANTASTIC!) so neither one of us was hungry for lunch and when we went into the fridge in the evening, Art noticed his milk was not that cold. The thermostat was set at 37, but the thermometer I put in there was reading 50. The freezer is set at 0, but is reading about 15. So, we have no clue when it happened since neither of us were in the fridge since the night before. I turned down the temp and let it sit overnight, this morning...still 50! So all of our food is spoiled. :( We just got the fridge in August 2006, it is not even 3 years old and it wasn't cheap! Luckily, since we did get a higher-end fridge, we also got the service plan. So, Sears will be out to my house on Thursday to look at it. In the meantime, we have to leave our food in it and let it continue to spoil so the repair man can vouch for the food in there. Sears said they only refund you up to $250 for food, but I had a lot of meat from Sam's in there and I still have the receipts for everything, so I will be fighting.
Life is never boring around here!
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