TA-DA!!!!!

I have internet!!! Wireless internet!!! After two routers, 3 phone calls and 2 chat sessions....Alex and I finally got this thing to work. I am so pleased. I would have been lost if not for the help from Alex. They were asking for stuff I had no idea even existed. Poor kid...just about all she has done since we got here yesterday is futz with this stupid wireless setup on my new laptop. Whew....what a mess. But I am in my room with the laptop on my knees and surfing away like a mad woman...I am supposed to be sleeping...hee hee.

We discovered today that Space Bags are really fun to pack and suck the air out of. The Cube is the one we bought..3 different sizes. Man, can you cram a lot of stuff in them!! And they are a blast to vacuum the air out of. They squish down into funny shapes...they don't look anything like the nice neat cubes of blankets and pillows the box pictures. They look like something the cat hacked up....only much bigger and shiny. Gotta get some more of those.

Well, I should go to bed. Lots to do tomorrow.......

Well, the Numbers are in....

I have gotten both bids for cabinets and construction....and I am underway!!! Both were below what I was expecting and I am tickled to death. Now the hard part starts....the packing up of all this junk! I have to pack the kitchen, of course, and the dining room and the family room and the foyer antique buffet and the back bedroom, so I have somewhere to stick all the other packed up stuff. The truck will have to vacate the garage until this is all over as the appliances will move out there and the demolition junk will move out there. Oh this is gonna be a big mess!!!!

Oh well, I will love my new kitchen all the more for living thru the mess. Ellen says this is so. (She just finished getting her kitchen gutted to the studs and redone) And Alex is coming down this next week to job hunt and help me pack....bless her little red head. I sooooooo appreciate the help! I have way, way too much "stuff"........

I am typing this on my new laptop. I bought a Dell Studio 17". I like it so far, but am having trouble getting things to run on it. Am totally fed up with trying to get the wireless thing going...can't get this thing to pick up the router signal when it is sitting right next to the damn thing. I am about ready to pitch both out the window. Won't, but would like to. No games work, my free security won't work (had to buy Mcafee, which toasts my crackers real bad), can't get anything all the way uninstalled if I want to get rid of it.....aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggghhhh!!!!! I am not a guru by any means and need the assistance of one...my neighbor is a guru and I think I will let her play with this to see if we can't get some of the programs I want to run on this. The wireless thing I need real bad when construction starts...I have to move my living space to my bedroom and I want this in there with me.

Am up in the middle of the nite again....maintenance day has grown to two shifts in the next day or so and 4 more on the weekend. This is not good...being down on the weekend...we are supposed to be a continuous line..that means 24/7...and we are fastly approaching a 5-2 line...5 days a week (if that now) and 2 days down on the weekend. Not good. So I am stewing about getting everything put together and my head won't let me sleep. So I am up and going to work in a little while. I have to get my premaintenance day presentation together this morning and it doubled to 2 shifts just before I went home yesterday afternoon. Another aaaaarrrrrrgggghhh.

Well, gotta go get dressed, fed, teeth brushed and out the door. Have fun!!

Getting not quite so scary....

I had a very long talk with a gentleman in Amish country that is giving me a bid on my kitchen cabinets. What a treat!!!! He was funny, knowledgable, had some great suggestions, and really understood what I want to see in my kitchen. I am excited to see the bid. He will call Monday evening with it. I am sooooo hoping it will be substantially less than the stock cabinets I had priced out at one of the "Evil Empire" big home improvement stores. I would love to have a handcrafted kitchen....Mo is jealous. hee hee

They (the Amish furniture makers) are having an open house mid-September...I am going!! I want to see where the stuff gets made and meet the two craftsmen I have talked to in person. And where better to spend a weekend than in Amish country!! Absolutely beautiful.

I have not heard back from the Contractor yet. I hope it isn't going to make me change the project because it is too expensive. I would love to have the kitchen I designed (with lots of help from M&M) for the last 8 years I live in this house.

I spent the day yesterday in the closet.......man o' maneschevitz, did I get ruthless!! 5 big bags of clothing to Goodwill, 3 bags of goodies for Mich, and 4 huge bags of crap to the curb. I got all 10 boxes of salt&peppers on the top shelf in my closet. Whew. I now have plenty of room for the artwork that will be stored in there during the kitchen redo. And I actually have a space for my luggage set. Imagine that. And, yes, Alex, I wore my Darth Vader mask the whole time and feel just peachy today!! See...I can learn new tricks!!

I just got back from Wally World....and I am so tickled. I bought 2 new pair of jeans...A WHOLE SIZE SMALLER!!!! AND THEY FIT!!! Charging on with the diet. Just had a huge salad for breakfast.....

Gotta go start laundry and start working on the back bedroom...more storage for the redo.