Demolition Done!!!

I thought my house echoed before....YOWZA!!! Tuesday nite M&M got here and said "we'll get the appliances moved tonite"....and 3 HOURS later...the kitchen was G-O-N-E. Once we got started there was no stopping. The cabinets came down in minutes, the countertop cut in half and sledged out in seconds, and the base cabinets were gone in nothing flat. I was amazed!!! Here I was thinking this destruction thing would take a day at least and M kept saying "This is demolition....." and, wham, something else bit the dust. It was fun.

Wednesday we moved the rest of the furniture into the back bedroom, made a trip to Lowe's to get stuff to stub off the plumbing, went to Home Depot and ordered my faucet, shopped some for fridges for M&M and microwaves for me, and we went out to the newly rebuilt Lone Star Steakhouse in Middletown. Yum. We also spent a good while discussing what needs to happen in this house to make it "work for me" and be visitor friendly. I am going to reclaim the front room as a living room and move my art crap into the back bedroom. The dining room is huge and could absorb the computer/desk work space if pared down and a new desk was designed for the spot. I can have a couch!!!! I don't have a couch now...haven't had since I moved down here 16yrs ago.

The new Lone Star is very pleasant, nicely decorated (even the big longhorn on the wall over the bar was not tacky), very comfortable seating, bright, and no where near as noisy as before. This is a new design and the only one in the country. If it works well here in the test restaurant, then all new Lone Stars will be built like this one. I liked it very much. And the food was absolutely wonderful!!! I think it really helped that we were STARVING...hee hee. But it was very good. Better than before I think. The state of our waddling out of there spoke volumes. Mo and I thought Mark was gonna explode. hee hee

All in all, it was a very productive couple of days. We had fun, ate good, and worked hard. And now my old kitchen resides as a heap in the garage. It all will be hauled off by the contractor.

I had a day off Thursday and did some things that needed finished up (moved some stuff, reversed the doors on the fridge, cleaned the old stove to get it ready to sell..) and went back to work Friday. This morning I was up at 5ish and put a coat of primer/hider on the stencil in the dining room and cleaned up my painting tools by 6:30 . I ate soup for breakfast and am going to finish this post and fly to Lowes to buy painting supplies, paint, and do a little microwave shopping at Sears. I would like to get the dining room painted today. I need to figure out the color of the family room (the paint chips are stashed somewhere and I can't find them)...so will bring home chips and match it. I think I have a gallon, but want to make sure so I have paint to touch up with after construction is done. I need to pick out a color for the fireplace.

During our arm waving session in here, M&M suggested I paint the fireplace brick.....I like that idea immensely! I hate the brick. It is totally the wrong color for in here...it was when I moved in and the colors were still the previous owner's colors. I just know it was picked because it was on sale/discontinued/free/cheap.....just like the damn pink floor and everything else he built this house with. So I am gonna find a dark chocolate color and paint that damn brick!!!! Yipeeeee.

My new rugs for the family room, dining room and front foyer came yesterday, too. I didn't expect them so soon. Oh well, 3 more things to cram in the back bedroom. They look to be the perfect colors. We will see when I can get them rolled out onto the floors....that won't be for a while yet. pooooh.

Well, I suppose I should get off my butt and get this day under way. I have to work tomorrow for a little in the morning, so can't work too late today. Sooo...I am off like a dirty shirt!!!!!

My house echoes....

You'd think I was moving. The whole north end of the house is e-m-p-t-y. Well, except for the freezer, fridge and a couple dining room chairs. It echoes real bad. I don't like that. Oh well...gotta have the bad before the good.

What's left of my kitchen stuff is in my closet. Works pretty good. I have big shelves in there and I have Space Bagged a ton of stuff off the shelves and now I have dishes, food items, silverware, etc in my closet.

I went to Lowe's today to look for some GE compact flourescent bulbs that Duke Energy sent coupons out for, not there, went to Home Depot, not there....no one has the damn bulbs!!! What the freaking good are the freaking coupons if the bulbs don't exist!!!!! I am gonna complain. Don't send me cool coupons knowing I can't find the stupid things. Rude...just plain Rude.

I am all installed in my room. Chair, giant footstool, big TV, HD box, red table, toaster oven, toaster and all. It is rather cozy in here. Not uncomfortable at all. I am surprized at how much stuff I got in here! I am amazed I got all the crap out of the family room and the kitchen and into this end of the house. I did discover that I will HAVE to put the fridge in the garage.....it won't fit thru any of the doors down on this end of the house. Dammit. I wanted to keep it in the house. Oh well.

Well, gotta go answer the call of the dryer. Later......