It’s been a week since summer camp ended and, so far, my days have been pretty full. My worry that I’ll suddenly have too much time on my hands doesn’t seem to be coming to fruition, and that’s a good thing. Each day, there has been some reason to get out of the house and interact with people for a bit. Generally, it’s been something fun, like going to Starbucks or out to lunch with a friend. There were a couple of exceptions, of course, like going to a funeral, but overall, it’s been a good week.
The week didn’t start off so good though. On Sunday afternoon, my sister’s car died which could have been disastrous. Our first thought was that it was the transmission and visions of massive amounts of money fleeing our bank accounts filled our heads. It ended up being the axle which could still have meant bankruptcy on our part, but in a rare bit of good luck, it was all covered under her warranty. That’s to that and AAA, we didn’t have to spend a dime out of pocket.
Odd thing – we were late paying AAA because we really just didn’t have the money for the annual fees. Last week, though, I suddenly became really uncomfortable at the thought that if my car broke down, I was screwed. My car (which is NOT covered any sort of warranty) has been unwell. I kept envisioning being stranded out on one of the semi-deserted roads that lead to the campus the summer camp was held and not having anyone to call for help. So I elected to forgo making some other monthly payments (and figure out how to catch them up later) and paid AAA. Good thing, huh?
Next week, I’ll probably be pretty much stuck in the house for about three days, so maybe I’ll devote some of that time to the resurrection of my room from the disaster area it has become. Tuesday, they’re coming out to rip out the cabinets in the kitchen. Wednesday, they’re going to work on the ceiling and drywalls. Then Thursday, they’ll be installing the new cabinets and appliances. Unless my sister is off any of those days, I’ll have to be here to “oversee” these activities, remaining in the general vicinity and being available to answer questions. Not too arduous, so I’ll have no excuse for goofing off.
What is arduous is this weekend when we have to remove everything from the kitchen, including the wallpaper. It’s hard to imagine how much crap those cabinets can hold and very little of it is anything that can be thrown away (since we can’t afford to replace it with new). Wallpaper does NOT come down as easily as it would seem like it should. I suppose that’s supposed to be a good thing but when you WANT it to come off it becomes a very bad thing indeed. Naturally, when the first strips didn’t just peel off the wall with ease, I dashed to my computer and googled it for the proper way to remove wallpaper. We’re going to try the water and vinegar method today – it that isn’t effective, we’ll be off to Lowes to seek out some sort of glue loosening solution.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m working on a new personal website. This past week was devoted to creating the template with the navigation menu and determining the best way to embed sound and video files – some creative parts with how it’s going to look and some technical parts with how to make it work. I’ve pilfered some from my previous sites, taking the things that I liked most of them and recreating them in the new site. But really, my primary focus isn’t so much to create a new site as to try out new techniques and to improve the old ones by using those new techniques. My problem – I’m so much rather work on this than tear down wallpaper or clean my room.
Speaking of wallpaper, I’d best get off my butt and get back to it. We must have it all done before they arrive on Tuesday. I foresee the potential for frantic activity Monday night doing everything we didn’t manage to get done this weekend due to inherent laziness on our part. I, for one, would MUCH rather be working on my site. Last night I discovered how to best include sound files and I want to play with that so bad. But alas, my duty lies elsewhere, so hence I must go forth and slay the wallpaper. Blech.
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Really enjoy your blog! Hope your kitchen remodel is soon done. Focus on the way it will look - maybe that'll help. (And a trip to Hawaii wouldn't hurt 
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