Sunday, February 24, 2008

What are we doing?

Instead of complaining about how other people aren't updating their blog, I thought we'd update ours.

So what are we doing...

Right now: Watching Zoolander: "That Hansel's so HOT right now"; oogling Careese; watching Elmo's Potty Time (for the 20th consecutive time); eating Cape Cod Russet Potato Chips (is there a difference in taste? Still don't know); Lucy's sitting under my leg.

Today: Taught Nursery (more like crowd control because out of the 12 kids we had, half of them were over-rambunctious and the other half were cranky). (AND might I add, there were at least four runny noses in there, despite our letter out to the parents? Too bad one of them was Evan! Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites!) Went home teaching (trying to do better at this--I am, after all, a HT district rep...). Figured out how to get algae off vinyl siding.

"Orange Mocha Frappucino!!"

Over the weekend: Put laminate flooring in the kitchen with the help of Uncle D. Installed a new entryway light because Bev wants to keep the one we had up.

Over the past week: Repainted Evan's room.

Derek Zoolander, "A Model, Idiot?"

Over the past couple weeks: Painted the final wall in our family room (don't know why we didn't paint it the first time around). Installed a new dining room light and light in Evan's room. The dining room is too bright now so we're going to have to paint the room to darken it.

"I'm sure there's a lot more to life than being really really good looking...and I plan to find out what that is."

Last last weekend: Andrew came over to help install laminate flooring in the dining room. Quite the adventure since that was all of our first times...plus it was Andrew's first time using the saw he bought a couple years back from Amazon...found out it didn't have a laser guide like he thought...he was a little bummed about that.

"A Eugugolizer: One who speaks at funerals?"

Past few weeks: Replacing the vinyl flooring in the bathrooms with...newer vinyl flooring.

"The Derek Zoolander Center for kids who can't read good...Look out...Tushy Squeeze!"

Getting the house ready to sell is so much *fun*. We're fixing up stuff we wanted to do a long time ago! After the flooring was all done, Bev keeps saying, why didn't we do this earlier!?!

"The Mine Sha_t" - I never noticed that!

"I think I'm getting black lung, pap"

"Merman...cough cough...Mer MAN"

Sorry, I shouldn't have the TV on while blogging, I keep getting distracted. Anyway, it's so much harder trying to get housework done with two kids around. We were going to do new countertops by ourselves. We even went as far as

"are you not aware that I get all farty and bloated with a foamy latte?"

sorry...as far as buying the countertops and sink from Ikea (of course) and Home Depot

"What is this, a center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children how to read, if they can't fit inside the building!...The center has to be at least, three times bigger than this!?"

But time is running short, and we decided maybe we should do new granite countertops instead of laminate...especially in this tough market, we need this house to sell! So instead of spending a couple hundred bucks we're spending almost a couple thousand! ...for something we'll enjoy for a few months. Yay!

"So must you become Derelicte"

We're going to take out the countertops ourselves and do our own plumbing...wish us luck!

"Keep pulling the sweater, eventually, the whole thing will unravel"

Yes, seven years later, I still heart Zoolander.

Pictures to follow.

2 comments:

Michelle said...

oh how very exciting! i love doing house things. it's such a nightmare thinking about the list, but then once you get started and come closer to finishing it's grand.

when reading post was reminded of random picture of mugatu on our long ago ward directory. probably the only mugatu to ever appear on a ward directory ever. wish there were byu ward directory awards because you guys would win fo sho.

Michelle said...

please feel free to be enthralled with my awesome skills in written english. when reading back on previous comment could not help but notice that it is barely understandable but no matter i will continue to write this run on sentence until i can remember what the heck i started using the computer for and why i'm not doing it...