Da Hood

I love my neighborhood. It is the reason why I bought the place. At the end of one block is a park with a kiddy pool, basketball court and tennis court. On the other end of the block is a bike path.

At first I never really went down 'the hill'. At first I tried to rollerblade down it, but about 2 seconds into it I realized that half my brake was gone from hill.

I stopped thinking about it until my neighbor mentioned how great the path was along the river. I thought the river! I love the river. That made me decide to put my roller blades in my backpack until I reached the bottom of the hill. I slapped them on and found something great...the river.

Moldie-ta-mold mold

Holly really wanted natural wood floor in her bedroom upstairs. We removed the carpet and realized the floor was not what we thought it would be. The two floor boards on the outer edges from the walls ended up being replaced and only pressed wood.

This did not stop Holly. She still wanted to restore the floor. After about 20 hours of stripping the floors with brain cell killing liquid, we came upon a couple floor boards that should have been replaced. The boards were rotted about 2 inches down. At this point, Holly decided to give up and go with Pergo upstairs. Thank fricken God.

Sparky-sparks

This was the first sander I ever owned. It lasted through sanding the tv room floor and part of the craft room. I really loved that sander because it could fit a third of a piece of sanding paper. It was great! And for only $10.59 from Menards, I got my money worth.

Alas, all good things come to an end and old sparky died. It was really hard to toss it in the garbage.

The Great Mewdini

I was sanding the floors in the craft room and I opened up one of the windows so I could put a fan to have the dust go out. It did not even cross my mind that one of my cats would try to escape. I mean, they are both fed and I pay attention to the every once and a while.

Before I go to bed I count my cats. It is super easy...one-two. However, this faithful night I only had one. I checked out side and did not find Mewska. Then I was convinced she was in the vent. I spent about an hour trying to spook her out.

After a couple hours, I decided that if she wanted to hid, she could. I fell a sleep...but for only a couple hours. I woke up at about 5 am and decided to go looking for her. I put on a hoodie and grabbed my flashlight. I soon realized that I was wearing a black hoodie and black pants. I figured my neighbors may see my ninjamma's and think I was trying to break into the house.

I couldn't fall a sleep because I kept thinking about poor little Mew. She must have been scare, hungry and cold because I feed her and keep her warm. Then I started to think if I was a scared cat, where would I go. A-ha! The garage! Since some of my stuff was still in there, she may have gone in there for comfort.

I jumped up and ran to the garage. Yes she was in there and super scared. That is why she is now known as the 'Great Mewdini', the escape artist.

Since she pissed me off I figured I would post a picture of Mewska stuck inside a plastic bag while waiting for food.

TV Room

Before: I got all super excited when I started pulling up the carpet in the TV room and craft room and guess what I found? Hardwood!

Prior to buying the house, I pulled up carpet in a few choice rooms and found plywood. I was very sad. I love natural hardwood. However, when I pulled up the carpet in the TV room, I found hard-frickn-wood!

The bad part was that some one a long time ago when someone textured the ceiling they didn't put anything down. That lead to a bunch of sanding. Blah! I haven't spent that much time on my knees since flag day.
After

Doctor

During the attempt to finish off the floors upstairs, Holly and I had to wear masks to avoid frying our brians. After a couple hours of stripping the floors, we put on our masks. Every time we put on our masks we would always say "Doctor" to eachother.

"Doctor, Doctor....paging Doctor Dumbass. Doctor Dumbass to the emergy room." "It's Doctor Du-mass!" I don't know why I decided to say that, but it lead to us making up Doctor names for eachother.

Long story short, Holly is Doctor Du-mass (Dumbass) and I am Doctor Dou-she (Douche).

No Blue Pants

Unlike Homer Simpson, I hate pants, even if they are blue. It's probably because I have to wear business attire 5 of the 7 days a week. I always end up having a muffin top, and when they are too big, I have no butt.

So last night I was laying in bed playing games on my iPhone and I thought 'if I continue playing games, I will probably have to pee.' Then I realized if I have to pee, I have to get up. And if I have to get up, then I have to put on pants. If I didn't wear pants, Holly would make fun of me! AHHHH!!

I am super excited about Holly moving in, but I don't like this whole pants thing.

What every bathroom needs

I don't have a lot of room in my bathroom, but luckily there was a large cabinet for putting things in. I managed to put everything I needed. Ya know, extra shampoo, makeup and of course, what every girl needs, a cat.