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Trenton, Ohio, United States
I am a big kid in an older body. I refuse to grow "old", although some would say different. I drive too fast, laugh too loud, and annoy the hell out of my boss...hee hee. I love my job! Nontraditional female. I love tools, drove a truck, have a job planning/organizing maintenance of a bottle line for a "major brewer", don't wear makeup or dresses, but I am still a girl.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Well under way....

I tried to post some pictures and that didn't go too well. Will have to play with it later and post some. I am not the most computer savvy person in the world...just slow.

Let's see....The doorway to the dining room is cut out. And low and behold, what did we find, but the gas line running right down the middle of the doorway....poop. Oh well, they got that moved today after much gnashing of teeth...it was a very icky job. Up in the attic one minute and down in the crawlspace the next. Everyone expected it to run up from under the house and the stupid thing runs down from the attic.

The "vestibule" is all framed in and is really cool.

The wiring is just about done. Can lights are positioned and wired, circuits are run for the fridge, microwave, the range hood, and added switches for over sink lights. They got the phone jack lowered so I don't have to sit the phone on a pile of phone books to reach the plug (dinky short cord or way too long cord wadded up on the counter). I think I will have some extra receptacles when all is said and done. Oh, and got the circuit run for the range hood and figured out what all that is gonna take to install.

I was doing some research on the laptop out in the family room and kinda rubbed my elbow along my side and a damn bee nailed me! Hurt like a son of a gun!!! Jim had to knock him off my arm..the damn thing had his stinger buried in my arm and couldn't get loose. I had hold of the laptop with one hand and couldn't drop it to knock the stupid bee off my arm. Jeez. I had a nice fat welt where the venim was pumped in...that has flattened out now, but it is still a big red spot and kinda hot. Stupid damn bee. I haven't been stung in years....can't say that now...hee hee.

Tomorrow they start rocking. Hanging drywall that is. They are gonna fix a few cracks and such and have to replace all the rock they cut away to chase wires, pipes and such. They will frame in the doorway to the diningroom and cut out the doorway to the vestibule (mini mud room) and finish frame it and rock everything. Jim thinks they will start taping and mudding on Monday. Looks like I am going to have to paint ceilings whether I like it or not. Lots of drywall work on the ceiling.

I should be able to paint (prime) everything next weekend I hope. He is bringing the baseboarding in too and I can get a coat or two of paint on them also. Shouldn't take too long to slap a coat of paint on the baseboarding...can do that after work.

Well, I gotta go get sleepy. My ACM at work starts tomorrow and I need my beauty sleep. ACM is bi-annual maintenance time we get to tear into big projects on the line. We tear machines apart, replace lots of parts and put them back together. Hopefully it all runs after that. That is the plan anyway... hee hee.

Later.....