whirlwind week
Jan. 7th, 2009 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
2eclipsemeatloaf, hanging out with jerad and rachel, hot-tubbing and cleaning were all successes yesterday.
it also left me very tired.
and the rest of the week looks worse(and better at the same time).
the way it is shaping up makes me fantasize about monday as a day of sleep as soon as i get home from work.
i dread the exhaustion i expect to feel.
today i will be using my community center membership for the first time. i stopped by yesterday and got scheduling for all the free classes. there is also a tai chi demonstration that is free tonight - but the classes that follow will not be free if i decide to sign up. i expect to get a work out, and then check out the demonstration and make decisions from there.
tomorrow we will have dinner with darla and john at there place
friday corrin is coming over to make soup and potentially stay the night.
saturday....is where the fun stuff begins.
i believe i mentioned the potential fireplace.
we are not sure what kind of helpful wonderful person/asshole the inspector is going to be. is he just going to look at the gasline(as required) or is he going to look at everything in our basement and try to fine us for not being up to code. we are not up to code for 2 reasons. one is that we have big plans for the basement and not all the walls are where they will ultimately be (for instance the furnace will have it's own room and so will the washer/dryer). it makes no sense to put in wires as if they are going to be permanantly there, when that is not the case. they will just have to be re-attached elsewhere later. they are not unsafe, but they are also not up to code. the second reason is the exposed insulation on the walls. the code for these walls was written with cellulose and fiberglass insulation in mind, not urethane foam, which is what we have. it is not terribly flamable and it does not cause respiratory illness once it has set up. it is not a danger to us, but neither is it up to code.
so with the inspector et. al coming on the 20th, and funds aquired from the in-laws for xmas, we will be VERY busy this weekend.
saturday we will move everything in the basement away from the walls and mostly out of the basement. i'm guessing our guest room is going to get VERY full of the things i don't want damaged.
everything must also come out of the hallway going to our garage.
this is currently being used as book/game storage, freezer area, and makeshift pantry as well as the entrance to our bedroom.
sunday, ralph (my father in law) is going to come down and we are going to hang drywall. i have been wanting to learn about hanging drywall for a while, but i wasn't expecting such a trial by fire. i am very excited about the prospect of having the basement closer to being finished. i am not excited in the least at the idea of cramming it all in to one weekend and being exhausted monday.
it also left me very tired.
and the rest of the week looks worse(and better at the same time).
the way it is shaping up makes me fantasize about monday as a day of sleep as soon as i get home from work.
i dread the exhaustion i expect to feel.
today i will be using my community center membership for the first time. i stopped by yesterday and got scheduling for all the free classes. there is also a tai chi demonstration that is free tonight - but the classes that follow will not be free if i decide to sign up. i expect to get a work out, and then check out the demonstration and make decisions from there.
tomorrow we will have dinner with darla and john at there place
friday corrin is coming over to make soup and potentially stay the night.
saturday....is where the fun stuff begins.
i believe i mentioned the potential fireplace.
we are not sure what kind of helpful wonderful person/asshole the inspector is going to be. is he just going to look at the gasline(as required) or is he going to look at everything in our basement and try to fine us for not being up to code. we are not up to code for 2 reasons. one is that we have big plans for the basement and not all the walls are where they will ultimately be (for instance the furnace will have it's own room and so will the washer/dryer). it makes no sense to put in wires as if they are going to be permanantly there, when that is not the case. they will just have to be re-attached elsewhere later. they are not unsafe, but they are also not up to code. the second reason is the exposed insulation on the walls. the code for these walls was written with cellulose and fiberglass insulation in mind, not urethane foam, which is what we have. it is not terribly flamable and it does not cause respiratory illness once it has set up. it is not a danger to us, but neither is it up to code.
so with the inspector et. al coming on the 20th, and funds aquired from the in-laws for xmas, we will be VERY busy this weekend.
saturday we will move everything in the basement away from the walls and mostly out of the basement. i'm guessing our guest room is going to get VERY full of the things i don't want damaged.
everything must also come out of the hallway going to our garage.
this is currently being used as book/game storage, freezer area, and makeshift pantry as well as the entrance to our bedroom.
sunday, ralph (my father in law) is going to come down and we are going to hang drywall. i have been wanting to learn about hanging drywall for a while, but i wasn't expecting such a trial by fire. i am very excited about the prospect of having the basement closer to being finished. i am not excited in the least at the idea of cramming it all in to one weekend and being exhausted monday.