I had my first apple candy. If I had it before I couldn't remember. I was surprised to discover that it was just a caramel covered apple, then I thought 'well, what else could it be?'. Silly me.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Apple Candy
I had my first apple candy. If I had it before I couldn't remember. I was surprised to discover that it was just a caramel covered apple, then I thought 'well, what else could it be?'. Silly me.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Basement Bathroom
0. This is one of the forgotten pictures I neglected to take before the demo... oops. I'll just have to describe it with words : It only had a sink with 60's laminate countertop on some 60's old wood cabinet, a yucky looking toilet with a huge gap from the wall behind it facing out towards the door, the main drain plumbing was encase in the same kind of 60's wood cabinet as the sink away from the wall. All very yucky and brown/orange with linoleum on the floor and wall behind toilet along beside the sink.
1. Stage ONE demo - you can see the main drain (for toilets upstairs) on the left without the cabinets that it was inside of the plumbing parts on the lower right where the sink was.
This is the view from the doorway - sink was on the left toilet was on the right. All that was left was the linoleum floor and wall and a little bit of plumbing.
2. Stage TWO - this is where our main drain for the house happen to be so the whole floor was dug up. New drain pipes are put in. The walls are re-framed, moved over into the hallway a little bit to make room for a neo-angle shower. This s the view from the doorway.
Left of the doorway, through the wall you can see the drain pipe on the right, it is moved so that it will be hidden in the wall right between the studs.
This is the view from the other side of the wall behind where the sink was.
This was my house's main drain pipe dug out of the ground. Rusted and no good. Reminds me of the movie Titanic. Adios!
They've poured the concrete back for the ground and rough-ins are all in! I'll try to post the pics tomorrow. The light is getting brighter at the end of the tunnel! I'm started to get very anxious to see it all come together.
1. Stage ONE demo - you can see the main drain (for toilets upstairs) on the left without the cabinets that it was inside of the plumbing parts on the lower right where the sink was.
This is the view from the doorway - sink was on the left toilet was on the right. All that was left was the linoleum floor and wall and a little bit of plumbing.
2. Stage TWO - this is where our main drain for the house happen to be so the whole floor was dug up. New drain pipes are put in. The walls are re-framed, moved over into the hallway a little bit to make room for a neo-angle shower. This s the view from the doorway.
Left of the doorway, through the wall you can see the drain pipe on the right, it is moved so that it will be hidden in the wall right between the studs.
This is the view from the other side of the wall behind where the sink was.
This was my house's main drain pipe dug out of the ground. Rusted and no good. Reminds me of the movie Titanic. Adios!
They've poured the concrete back for the ground and rough-ins are all in! I'll try to post the pics tomorrow. The light is getting brighter at the end of the tunnel! I'm started to get very anxious to see it all come together.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Update without pictures
... b/c I'm too lazy to upload the pictures and sort them and it's getting late and I have to meet with the contractor and electrician tomorrow at he house in the morning which means I have to get up extra early to drop the kids off at the babysitter's. But I decided to put in an entry anyways, besides the fact that I haven't for a long long time.
Kitchen - we wanted to just move the dishwasher to beside the sink but part of the countertop will have to be cut off and refinished which leads to
'we're better off just get new countertops considering the labor that will require to make it look ok'
to
'we're really better off to get new cabinets (at least the lower ones) to have the new countertops on since again it'll take a lot of work cut, secure, refinish, etc. to make it look ok'
to
'we're better off to get new upper cabinets as well since it'll take a lot of work to make it match the lower cabinets'.
So that was how our meeting with the kitchen cabinets' guy went. I don't think we're being upsold. I'm comfortable with our decision. So let's move on.
A change of subject - after reading a bunch of posts on Nie Nie's blog I feel very much inspired to treasure motherhood especially while my kids are still young. I hear a lot of encouraging pronouncements (in many places like the radio, tv...) of how being a mother is the hardest job and an important job and so on but to be truthful deep down I'd always thought when my kids are old enough that is when I will get myself a job and hopefully build a career and then I would show myself to be a respectable and responsible person, that I'd be doing my best to be independent and making more tangible/measurable contribution to the family especially financially. Nie Nie's blog changed my outlook. I feel like I can finally embrace motherhood as my high calling. I've accepted that this is what God's plan for me is and it's just as good as any other of God's plans. I'm not saying that I've decided never to get a job outside of the home, if it happens it happens, I'm saying that my attitude has changed and I'm no longer looking into the future but I'm looking into the now and focusing on making the most of it. My kisses, hugs, and love are worth a lot more than I'd thought. It's the best of me and I want to give the best that I can to my children!
Kitchen - we wanted to just move the dishwasher to beside the sink but part of the countertop will have to be cut off and refinished which leads to
'we're better off just get new countertops considering the labor that will require to make it look ok'
to
'we're really better off to get new cabinets (at least the lower ones) to have the new countertops on since again it'll take a lot of work cut, secure, refinish, etc. to make it look ok'
to
'we're better off to get new upper cabinets as well since it'll take a lot of work to make it match the lower cabinets'.
So that was how our meeting with the kitchen cabinets' guy went. I don't think we're being upsold. I'm comfortable with our decision. So let's move on.
A change of subject - after reading a bunch of posts on Nie Nie's blog I feel very much inspired to treasure motherhood especially while my kids are still young. I hear a lot of encouraging pronouncements (in many places like the radio, tv...) of how being a mother is the hardest job and an important job and so on but to be truthful deep down I'd always thought when my kids are old enough that is when I will get myself a job and hopefully build a career and then I would show myself to be a respectable and responsible person, that I'd be doing my best to be independent and making more tangible/measurable contribution to the family especially financially. Nie Nie's blog changed my outlook. I feel like I can finally embrace motherhood as my high calling. I've accepted that this is what God's plan for me is and it's just as good as any other of God's plans. I'm not saying that I've decided never to get a job outside of the home, if it happens it happens, I'm saying that my attitude has changed and I'm no longer looking into the future but I'm looking into the now and focusing on making the most of it. My kisses, hugs, and love are worth a lot more than I'd thought. It's the best of me and I want to give the best that I can to my children!
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