Hello friends!
Today is Friday and the momma went to bed at 6am (again) only to be woken up at 7:50am by the phone. The guy said that they will be at the new old house in 15 or 20 minutes to deliver the new matress that she and the dad ordered last month. The momma told them that they would have to wait for her 'cuz with the rain, it was going to take her at least 45 minutes to get there! So she got up, and got dressed and ran out the door, then she thought, too bad, they're going to have to wait 'cuz she needed to go buy a GU24 light bulb (???) for the new front porch light first, so she went back to Home Depot!
She called them when she was 5 minutes away and they told her that they had already dropped the mattress off! She's like "where did you put it?" (thinking they propped it up against the garage) and they were like "the living room 'cuz the workers didn't know where you wanted it!"!! GRRRR!! She didn't have to wake up after all!! The day is NOT starting off well!!
So, she goes to the new old house since she was nearly there anyways and she sat on the new mattress and she checked out the basset hound tile they put in with the back splash (it looks GREAT!!) and checks out the bathroom. They haven't finished putting up the holders yet, but they got the new shower curtain rod up (it needs to be there to pass inspection for whatever reason), but she noticed that they put knobs on all the bedroom doors instead of those push down kind that she had asked Freddy for. Well, Freddy forgot to tell Joe, so Joe told John to get the turning knobs,not the push down knobs! The momma was not happy, so she texted Joe, but he didn't text her back right away (meetings) so she decided that since she couldn't do anything else at the new old house and instead of going back to the right now house and coming all the way back for her nail appointment, she would see about getting a pedicure while she waited to have her nails done! They had an opening, so her day just got a little bit better!!
After her appointment, she was going to get a hot dog at Sonic, but then she thought of Freddy and John working so hard back at the new old house, so she went back to see if they wanted her to get them anything. Freddy had already left for lunch, and John had brought his, so he told her thanks anyways. So just as the mom was leaving, he says "oh, by the way, they taped this to your front door yesterday afternoon" and he handed her a notice from Hayward Water District. It said she has until 12/5 to pay her delinquint bill or the water will be shut off! WHAT!! She hadn't received a bill since they moved out - how could this be?!?! So she gets in the BUV, hits up Sonic drive-thru and heads down to city hall to find out. She found a parking place down the block, grabbed her umbrella and headed inside at 12:30pm, only to find out that the revenue office closes at noon on Fridays! You've GOT to be kidding, right?!?!? Nope! So the momma talks to the lady at the information booth and she tells her that we moved out of our house on June 10th because of the fire and we're supposed to be moving back home next week, so we really need the water to stay on, so she really needs to pay it! So the lady makes a phone call and they open the revenue office for the momma!! Woo hoo! The lady at the revenue office hears the same story and she looks it up and says "yep - it says here your bill was returned because the city doesn't forward its mail even though it was only a temperary address change!" and she let the momma write her a check without any penalties!! YAY!!
The momma has to go help take out Christmas trees at the Masonic home tonight, and she knows the dad isn't going to want to go with her, so she calls up La Imperial and gets dad one of their Super Beef Burrito's. On the way over, she gets a text from Joe, the contractor that says "Yaaaay!" so the momma writes him back and asks if we passed inspection and he writes back "No, I just signed up for Progressive insurance". Then he wrote her again and said "Yes, we passed!" So the momma wrote him back and told him that she was going to have to hurt him! :-) WOO HOO!! We passed!! We can really start moving back home now!! The momma was getting SO worried since she goes back to work on the 10th and they are picking up the furniture and rental stuff on the 14th!! What a great day this is turning out to be!! Then Auntie Terri calls and tells the momma because of the rain, they cancelled the holiday parade she was supposed to be in for the school tomorrow, so she could come and help her on Saturday instead of Sunday!! More good news!
But, because the momma has to be up at the Masonic Home by 5:30pm, we don't get to go to the dog park AGAIN!! Poor Sasha!! And poor dad!! She's just going to drive him bonkers!! (hee, hee). Anyways, when the momma got home (almost 9pm) she loaded up the back of the BUV with all the boxes she had in the garage and she packed up some things that she knows she won't need at the right now house any more (cookie sheets and stuff and cake mixes so they know how to setup the shelves in the new pantry) and put them in the BUV, too!
The momma went on-line to check her e-mails. She got one from Smith and Noble saying they were having a 40% off sale, so she went to their site and ordered the new honeycomb blinds for the 2 front windows. They will be gray like the carpet! She saved over $150!! Then she opened the e-mail from the website where she found curio cabinets to replace the one we lost in the fire and the company that makes the ones that her and the dad had been looking at were having a sale, too, so she ordered 3 different curio cabinets - all in black, two for the living room and one for the bar area. With that sale, she saved over $190!! She was SO happy and the dad was even impressed! :-)
Saturday, the momma had to get up super early to go help at the Masonic Home again! She had to be there by 7:30am! The only good thing about decorating day, is that the momma always brings Ziploc bags so she can bring home leftover scrambled eggs and sausage for us girls!! Auntie Terri called her at 9:30am and said that she was on her way down so they could go over to the new old house and line the shelves in the kitchen cabinets, so the momma came home just after Auntie Terri got here and they left right away so they could go to Big Lots for shelving paper! She called Auntie Terry and told her that they would be at the new old house if she wanted to come by and she said yes, she'd be there in a little while, and she did and she brought the grandma with her.
When they got to the new old house, they unloaded the BUV and the momma gave Auntie Terri a tour of our house 'cuz she hadn't seen it yet (only pictures). The momma noticed that they hadn't washed all the grout stuff off the backsplash tiles, so they decided to go to the Dollar Tree to get sponges and a ruler (so they could measure for the shelving paper), so they did. The momma found some new glasses and plates (since they don't have any except for the rented stuff) so she bought those, and she bought some dishwasher soap (so they could wash the new dishes) and a bucket to hold the water for cleaning the backsplash and counters and some dish cloths too! 8 plates, 8 glasses and all that cleaning stuffs for under $40!! Way to go bargain shopper mom!!
The mom had found some purple curtains with white polka dots for their bedroom at Wally World earlier in the week. They were from a company called Eclipse and they said that they were for kids rooms and would block 99% of the sunlight so that the kids could get good sleep. However, when the dad came over today to hang up the curtain rods, the found out that they were going to let in a LOT more than 99%!! And since the momma bought curtains that were super long, the dad and Auntie Terri tried folding them in half to see if that would work. The length was perfect now, but they still let some light in. :-( Auntie Terri told the momma that she could sew them up the sides so they don't have to use safety pins (since the momma doesn't know if her sewing machine was ruined in the fire or not), so since he couldn't hand the curtains, the dad went off to the garage to see about making us girls a step for the back door. You may remember that the momma ordered a new back door with a large doggy door built right in. But when we tried to use it the first time, it was too high from the ground up to the doggy door so only Sasha would jump in! Apparently, they think that if you have a large breed dog, they will have tall legs and will need the doggy door 3 inches from the bottom of the door!! I'm going to have to write to them and let them know that is not always they case!! :-)
Anyways, they got a lot done, although it didn't look like it... Auntie Terri put the shelves in the pantry and they put the cake mixes and stuff away. They opened up all the boxes that the momma brought from the right now house and they washed all the new Pampered Chef stuffs (the grandma dried while Auntie Terri washed); Auntie Terry lined the bottom 2 shelfs for all the cabinets and the momma put the shelves together inside the new fridge. The dad couldn't find his level, so they couldn't hang the long curtain rod in the living room, but he didn't want to leave the windows uncovered any more, so they took the 3 panels that they bought for the living room and they put a couple of nails above the windows so they could put the curtains on them. One panel covered one window, so they covered the 2 in the living room and the one in the bar. The dad found an OLD comforter out in the garage and they put that one up in the entry way! Problem solved for now!
On the way home, Auntie Terri said to the momma that they should go to JoAnn Fabrics to see if they could find some black material to put in between the curtains to help make them darker, so that's what they did! They went to JoAnn's and the momma told one of the workers what they were looking for and she told them they had blackout material on sale for 50% off!! They even found some lavender thread to match the curtains! Woo Hoo!! Auntie Terri is the BEST!! The momma will take her out to breakfast to Country Way for doing this for us!! :-) I'm going to have to write to Eclipse, too and tell them 75 is NOT 99%!!!
So anyways - then they went to Costco so the momma could get a couple of their hot dogs and a grilled turkey & provolone sandwich for the dad and a couple of those chocolate dipped ice cream bars they roll in almonds (dinner and dessert) and then they went home so Auntie Terri could head back over the hill before it started raining too hard again!
Oh - I almost forgot to tell you that Sasha got into stuff again when they were gone!! The momma had a bag with doggy Halloween costumes on a kitchen chain. She bought them at the dollar store in October (she really only bought them 'cuz the doggy in the picture looks SO much like Casper!), but Sasha decided today was the day to take them out of the bag and try to open them! She then shredded the rest of the paper towels (I'm not saying she got back on the table, but that's where they USED to be!)! Day 4 of not going to the dog park!! I wonder if the parents will EVER learn?!!?
Despite Sasha being Sasha, the dad fed us before the momma got home... he even put scrambled eggs in our dinners! I was SO surprised, but not as surprised as the momma was when she got home and he told her we'd already eaten!! The momma went to bed at 8pm 'cuz she was in such shock! OK, maybe that wasn't the reason, but she did need a nap!! :-)
Well - that's it for today! Not sure if they're going to do anything tomorrow, but there is LOTS going on next week! They start moving stuff out of storage and back in to the new old house on Monday!! The momma is getting super excited, but anxious about having to go through 800+ boxes, too!! We're supposed to have Christmas at our house, but we may have to put that off . We'll see... the momma says it depends on how many boxes there still are on the 23rd (I'm not sure she's kidding)! Cross your paws for us!! :-)
One last thing before I go... the momma got an e-mail from the website she bought the curio cabinets from and they won't be delivered for 8 - 10 weeks!! YIKES!! Oh, well - I did hear the dad say that we don't need them right away! Guess he got his wish!
So, my friends, until next time... Thanks once again for your continued love and support!
Until next time...Hugs!
~Madden and the Smokin' Hot Hounds~
Sunday, December 2, 2012
November 26-29, 2012
Hello friends!
This has been a VERY busy week so far with LOTS going on with the house and doctors appointments for both me and the momma!!
Dad worked different hours this week. He went in at 6am and got off at 2:30pm 'cuz he was filling in for someone who was on vacation. On Monday he had a little bit of a melt down 'cuz he couldn't find the key to the cage age work. He ranted and raved for about 20 minutes before he found it hiding in his bag!! THEN he calmed down! The rest of the day went way better
The momma got called to the house Monday afternoon. George and Jaime wanted to finish painting the house before the rains came on Wednesday (very wise!), so the momma went over there and let them in and gave them the key from the lock box so they could lock up when the doors were dry.
When she got home, the dad was home from work, so they went to JC Penney's to look for window coverings for the new old house. They found some paisley drapes for the living room, but you have to order the honeycomb blinds so the momma said she could do that on-line for cheaper so they went home and the momma took us to the dog park to meet our friends. When we got home, George called and said that they couldn't get the lock-box to close and wanted to know what to do with the key. The momma called one of our neighbors and she said that he could drop it off with her, so that's what they did.
On Tuesday, the momma went to bed when the dad got up (getting to be a habit with her), and they called to say that they wouldn't be ready for final inspection on the house until next week. The momma was NOT happy, so she talked them into asking for final either Thursday or Friday and they agreed to try for Friday at the latest. She then had to call everyone and postpone deliveries until after inspection (she was NOT happy!). Before the dad came home, she went to Home Depot to buy a back porch light with a motion sensor on it (city requirement to save energy) and she needed to buy the new knobs for the bathtub and a new longer spout to go with the whirlpool tub. Since she was there, she looked and found very cute toilet paper & towel holders and bath hooks that match the knobs for the tub and the new sink. We left a little early going to the dog park 'cuz the new purchases needed to be at the house so the contractor could finish putting them in on Wednesday and she also needed to get the house key from Donna. It took the momma 30 minutes playing with the lock-box to get it to work, but she finally did and was SO happy 'cuz Sasha barked the entire 30 minutes!! Boy that girl has some lungs on her!! :-)
On Wednesday, the momma went to bed at 6am, but had to get up at 8am so she could go to the dentist. Then she came home and loaded up the cans and plastic bottles into the BUV for the recyclers and then went to her knee doctor. He told her that she still has a lot of arthritis in her knee so he's not sure that the little sewing he did on her meniscus is going to help her much, and that in maybe 10 or 15 years she's going to have to have her knee replaced! News could have been better, but at least he gave her until the 10th before she has to go back to work! When she was leaving, the contractor called her and asked her to stop by the house, so she did. He told her that there is a problem with the drain on the new tub - its not draining! The plumber said that the 60 year old, 2" steel pipe only has an opening of maybe 1/4" and needs to be replaced. She said OK, lets do it. She then talked to the John the tile guy and asked if he could put a basset hound tile in the middle of the back splash. He told her it wouldn't be a problem, just make sure its there tomorrow! So, some bad news, but some good news, too! She then went to the recyclers and got $90 for her bottles and cans!! THEN she came home and got me and took me to my eye doctors appointment. My doctor was VERY happy that my eye pressure was only 13 (needs to be under 20) and told the momma that in January I can take my one drop every other day to see how my eye reacts before my February recheck. The momma made an appointment for me AND Teddi and then we went to our new old house to drop off the basset hound tile. No one was there when we got there, so the momma let me sniff around the house and check it out! I was SO happy to be back home!! My tail wagged SO fast and I walked really fast from room to room to room and then I went outside and checked out all the junk in the backyard! Boy did I have a good time!! But then we had to go home and get the sisters and we went to the dog park to meet our friends. It was a pretty good day!!
On Thursday, the dad was supposed to work late, but then he didn't so he and the momma went to Big Lots to look at the cafe' tables they have to see which one they might like to get for the new old house. They don't want a regular table and besides - Sasha can't seem to keep off the one at the right now house which does not make the momma happy AT ALL!! Maybe if it was 3 feet tall, she couldn't get up there!! We'll see... Anyways, then they went to a couple of other places and then over to the grandma's house. She wasn't there, but the dad visited with her neighbor for a while, and just as they were getting ready to go out to eat, the grandma came home. She was so happy to see them. The dad helped her change a light bulb, and the momma got some things that they were storing under the grandpa's bed and then they went out to dinner. They did not get home in time to take us to the dog park, so Sasha wasn't happy! She got up on the table and took a couple of packets of graham crackers the momma had there, but she couldn't open them so she hid them all over the house. She knocked over a roll of paper towels when she was up there, and since she couldn't get the crackers open. The momma and the dad were NOT amused! Its supposed to rain for the next four days - I hope the momma and dad are ready for Sasha not being able to get out and run!! Not sure what we're going to do with her!! Guess we'll have to wait and see... wish us luck, K?!?!
Well, that's in for now. We're supposed to have the house finished tomorrow AND they're coming to do the final inspection sometime in the afternoon! Wish us luck!!
More later!
In the mean time, thanks once again for your continued love and support!!
Hugs!
~Madden and the Smokin' Hot Hounds~
This has been a VERY busy week so far with LOTS going on with the house and doctors appointments for both me and the momma!!
Dad worked different hours this week. He went in at 6am and got off at 2:30pm 'cuz he was filling in for someone who was on vacation. On Monday he had a little bit of a melt down 'cuz he couldn't find the key to the cage age work. He ranted and raved for about 20 minutes before he found it hiding in his bag!! THEN he calmed down! The rest of the day went way better
The momma got called to the house Monday afternoon. George and Jaime wanted to finish painting the house before the rains came on Wednesday (very wise!), so the momma went over there and let them in and gave them the key from the lock box so they could lock up when the doors were dry.
When she got home, the dad was home from work, so they went to JC Penney's to look for window coverings for the new old house. They found some paisley drapes for the living room, but you have to order the honeycomb blinds so the momma said she could do that on-line for cheaper so they went home and the momma took us to the dog park to meet our friends. When we got home, George called and said that they couldn't get the lock-box to close and wanted to know what to do with the key. The momma called one of our neighbors and she said that he could drop it off with her, so that's what they did.
On Tuesday, the momma went to bed when the dad got up (getting to be a habit with her), and they called to say that they wouldn't be ready for final inspection on the house until next week. The momma was NOT happy, so she talked them into asking for final either Thursday or Friday and they agreed to try for Friday at the latest. She then had to call everyone and postpone deliveries until after inspection (she was NOT happy!). Before the dad came home, she went to Home Depot to buy a back porch light with a motion sensor on it (city requirement to save energy) and she needed to buy the new knobs for the bathtub and a new longer spout to go with the whirlpool tub. Since she was there, she looked and found very cute toilet paper & towel holders and bath hooks that match the knobs for the tub and the new sink. We left a little early going to the dog park 'cuz the new purchases needed to be at the house so the contractor could finish putting them in on Wednesday and she also needed to get the house key from Donna. It took the momma 30 minutes playing with the lock-box to get it to work, but she finally did and was SO happy 'cuz Sasha barked the entire 30 minutes!! Boy that girl has some lungs on her!! :-)
On Wednesday, the momma went to bed at 6am, but had to get up at 8am so she could go to the dentist. Then she came home and loaded up the cans and plastic bottles into the BUV for the recyclers and then went to her knee doctor. He told her that she still has a lot of arthritis in her knee so he's not sure that the little sewing he did on her meniscus is going to help her much, and that in maybe 10 or 15 years she's going to have to have her knee replaced! News could have been better, but at least he gave her until the 10th before she has to go back to work! When she was leaving, the contractor called her and asked her to stop by the house, so she did. He told her that there is a problem with the drain on the new tub - its not draining! The plumber said that the 60 year old, 2" steel pipe only has an opening of maybe 1/4" and needs to be replaced. She said OK, lets do it. She then talked to the John the tile guy and asked if he could put a basset hound tile in the middle of the back splash. He told her it wouldn't be a problem, just make sure its there tomorrow! So, some bad news, but some good news, too! She then went to the recyclers and got $90 for her bottles and cans!! THEN she came home and got me and took me to my eye doctors appointment. My doctor was VERY happy that my eye pressure was only 13 (needs to be under 20) and told the momma that in January I can take my one drop every other day to see how my eye reacts before my February recheck. The momma made an appointment for me AND Teddi and then we went to our new old house to drop off the basset hound tile. No one was there when we got there, so the momma let me sniff around the house and check it out! I was SO happy to be back home!! My tail wagged SO fast and I walked really fast from room to room to room and then I went outside and checked out all the junk in the backyard! Boy did I have a good time!! But then we had to go home and get the sisters and we went to the dog park to meet our friends. It was a pretty good day!!
On Thursday, the dad was supposed to work late, but then he didn't so he and the momma went to Big Lots to look at the cafe' tables they have to see which one they might like to get for the new old house. They don't want a regular table and besides - Sasha can't seem to keep off the one at the right now house which does not make the momma happy AT ALL!! Maybe if it was 3 feet tall, she couldn't get up there!! We'll see... Anyways, then they went to a couple of other places and then over to the grandma's house. She wasn't there, but the dad visited with her neighbor for a while, and just as they were getting ready to go out to eat, the grandma came home. She was so happy to see them. The dad helped her change a light bulb, and the momma got some things that they were storing under the grandpa's bed and then they went out to dinner. They did not get home in time to take us to the dog park, so Sasha wasn't happy! She got up on the table and took a couple of packets of graham crackers the momma had there, but she couldn't open them so she hid them all over the house. She knocked over a roll of paper towels when she was up there, and since she couldn't get the crackers open. The momma and the dad were NOT amused! Its supposed to rain for the next four days - I hope the momma and dad are ready for Sasha not being able to get out and run!! Not sure what we're going to do with her!! Guess we'll have to wait and see... wish us luck, K?!?!
Well, that's in for now. We're supposed to have the house finished tomorrow AND they're coming to do the final inspection sometime in the afternoon! Wish us luck!!
More later!
In the mean time, thanks once again for your continued love and support!!
Hugs!
~Madden and the Smokin' Hot Hounds~
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