In other news, I was up for most of the night with a twitchy leg. It was quivering and twitching all night and kept waking me up. It sounds like nothing until you're actually contemplating cutting your leg off so you can finally get some decent sleep. I did find one position that was okay if I held my leg a certain way. Then I would fall asleep and move so then of course in about 45 minutes I would wake up again. It was still twitching a little on the way to work but now it has stopped. Angie says I need to eat more bananas. Usually I have about 6-10 bananas a week in my smoothies but I haven't made them this past week because I've been so tired and cold in the mornings. So I need to get back into that and keep up with my smoothies. That or cut off my leg. Either or.
Speaking of being cold in the mornings, I am absolutely freezing right now. Today is supposed to be 70 degrees so I am wearing a handkerchief skirt and my small slip on shoes and only brought a light jacket. Since I park in my brother's garage my car stays fairly warm so that usually is enough to get through the morning chill. Today however I took the dogs to LD and then stood outside chatting. So that made me cold. Then I blasted my heat in my car all the way to work so I was nice and toasty but then I get to the office and the AC is on to 60 degrees. Doesn't sound cold but it is frigged because it blows right on me. So I am sitting here shivering. My toes are so cold. I may go track down my sister and steal her sweater and put it on my feet for a while until the cold air cycles out of here.
It is true I would rather be cold than hot but that doesn't mean I enjoy being freezing cold while I'm sitting here pretending to work. Even my fingers are cold! I want a blanket!
The flu study at work is FINALLY over! No more working Sundays. No more dealing with the crazy flu people as much. Thank goodness. Since I worked yesterday I have tomorrow off! YAY! That is a good thing because I have about 15 things on my to do list that I can only do at home. Since I spend the majority of my time outside of home that doesn't help me much. And the best part, I get to sleep in tomorrow! That means I'll probably wake up within half an hour of when my alarm would normally go off but it still counts because I won't have to listen to that damned alarm. Days off are a blessing! Though I still train in the evening so it is not a complete day off. Still makes me happy though.
House news:
Pretty much finished ripping up the flooring that needed to be ripped up. Found some gnarly flooring under the carpet in the spare bedroom. It made me laugh because I can't imagine anyone wanting that on their floors. We'll be laying new carpet in the bedroom to cover this and then getting new linoleum in the bathroom, kitchen and laundry room. Someday I'll lay down tile but for now, linoleum will do.
I spent a lot of time pulling nails and hooks and screws out of the walls this weekend. It was astounding how much was in the walls and just randomly everywhere. I would have loved to see what was going on when the previous owners lived there. It must have been a hodge podge of just everything imaginable.
My mom has been working hard in the backyard to make it habitable. I really want to get that done so that I can bring my dogs over more often. If my dogs could be there more I could work on the house more because I wouldn't have to go home to take care of them every so often. Right now though there is just so many nails and random junk around that it isn't safe. Not to mention that the fencing is extremely unsafe.
This week a lot of stuff is really starting to happen at the house. At this moment concrete is being poured for my new porch. Cheaper than a wood porch and I won't have to replace it in a couple of years. Also it will be nice to be able to use the front door again without climbing up and jumping out that huge hole. Tomorrow the electrician will be rewiring from top to bottom so that we can use the electricity in the house without burning it down. The sheds in the back will be getting bulldozed either tomorrow or the next day. Then this weekend we will be scraping the outdoor trim and repainting that before it gets too cold. Though... it is supposed to snow on Friday so we may have to put that off. I am going to paint the trim that is blue now a dark green. The gutters that we put on will also be a dark green. That should all happen fairly quickly here. And we have also made the decision to put in a furnace instead of doing electrical heating. I kept going back and forth but at this point I just need to make a decision and get some heat in that house so that it isn't unbearable to work in. Windows will be done hopefully next week or the week after. We are still getting a couple of bids there to see what we can afford.
I feel like things are really starting to get going on the house, which is fun to see. I feel overwhelmed by it and I've been so busy that I have hardly been able to do anything on it. Thank God for my parents who have been there almost every day doing something. They are incredible people and know MUCH more how to do this than I do. I would be so lost without them.
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| Flooring in the walk in closet |
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| Flooring in the bedroom |
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| Dad hard at work |
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