All Alone Again....

Well, Alex has gone home and I am all alone again. But, boy, did we get lots done while she was here!! I sssoooooo appreciate the help, kiddo.

I got the word "Construction" starts on Oct 19. YIKES! I have the garage to clean out, family room to finish packing, carpet to rip out in the dining room, lots and lots of covering things with plastic and bags and tape to keep the drywall dust out of, flooring to order (tomorrow), radial arm saw to sell or move whichever comes first, workbench in garage to move....and Lord knows what else. eeeeekkkkk. I have 4 weekends!!!

I have to go to Apple Creek (Amish Country) to meet the cabinetmaker and look at the progress/wood/final drawings on my cabinets next Friday.

I ordered my new stove and downdraft unit today...comes the 28th. On sale, yeah.

I will be insane by the time this is all over. I'm not too far from that now. And I am up in the middle of the nite worrying about all this instead of sleeping...I need to get myself turned around to go back to work on Monday (that means alarm goes off at 0330am!).

I need to get cracking in the morning...need to get the truck in for an oil change before it quits on me all together. And it needs to move to the driveway...poor thing...has been in the garage for 9 years...it will really hate me now.

Ok...that's it....get to bed NOW! Later.....

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!!