My Week Off…

Well I’m 3 days into my week off and I’m enjoying it immensely! The thing of it is though, all the time off I had this summer, it was occupied doing large projects. Be it building a deck for my parents, helping rebuild a shed for my in-laws, or redoing a room for Patrick, I always had something on the go. This time around, I’ve had a lot more free time and not quite sure what to do with it. I wouldn’t mind going out golfing or seeing some friends of mine but the problem is it’s during the week and no one is around. Plus since I do have this time off, I’d feel guilty taking off for an afternoon or a night and leaving Deb with Patrick. This mainly for 2 reasons; Number 1, when I’m home, Deb gets a break (Even though she says she doesn’t like me home because I screw up her schedule) and Number 2, I want to spend as much time with Patrick as I can. You can see my dilemma.

Oh well… maybe I’ll figure something out as the week goes on. I’ll try to keep you posted.

I Fixed It!!!....

And better yet... I did it without electrocuting myself... again.

To rewind a little bit, I came home monday night (9ish) and the nursery and Patrick's room had no power except for one receptacle. I got my handy, dandy tester out and it said I had a ground/hot reverse which blows. Usually means that the hot wire is grounding somewhere which could be in a wall (Which Deb had just painted). It also means that getting near a receptacle can be dangerous because it's easy to get a shock. I know this first hand. Last time this happen, I lost the hair on my right hand and forgot my name for 20 mins... But it was fixed when I came to! I just didn't want to have to shock myself again to fix it.

Anywho... long story short, I replaced the remaining receptacles, cleaned out the boxes, cut and taped all the wire inside each one and now it works... WITHOUT the shock therapy. WOOHOO!

In the words of a great great man... "If they don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."

Ultrasound Results!

Well It's official!!! Deb's having a... ummm... healthy..... ummmm... very shy baby... :) Sprout wouldn't uncross it's legs so we never got a clear shot of the sex. The technician and I thought it might be a girl for the first half of the ultrasound then weren't so sure for the second half. Oh well!! As long as Sprouts Healthy!!!

Lets try this again!!

This is the third time I’ve tried writing in the blog! I get pretty well done then the dumb thing erases everything except the first sentence. I get frustrated and just leave it. This time… on the advice from Anna, I’m typing it in word and just copying it over.

Getting on with things… I had 3 weeks vacation which I spent going to a great wedding in Shelburne for my friends Josh Fender and Lisa Scarfo. Outdoor wedding… beautiful day…. Great food…. All around great wedding! Congrats you two!

Then we spent the following week and a bit at my in-laws house helping my Father-in-law replace the roof on his shed and side the whole thing. It was a homemade shed that was pretty big. Took a long time plus I got wicked sunburn the first day so it made the rest of the days so much longer.

Moving along, we came home and spent a couple days on Patrick’s new room and closet. The whole room was sanded, painted and the closet was built from the ground up. A LOT of work but it really turned out well. Patrick moved in shortly afterwards and seems to be happy.

My in-laws came up shortly after and my father-in-law and I moved top soil from my pool area and spread it around the lawn in the dead spots. I also used some to build up and level off the side of the house so when I put a fence in there… it should be close to even and will look nice. The problem is, I reburned my shoulders and arms so it was VERY tiresome and painful. However, while doing this work, I did come up with an idea to extend my pool fence and build a nice, large deck for my pool area. Should look good. Maybe next year or this fall, I’ll get started on it.

I then worked for 3 days. I figured I would be going to work to an easy few days but it turns out they had problems while I was away so when I returned, we were doing some pretty serious jobs with only a couple of experienced people (everyone else was on vacation). Long story short and not to get too complicated, we ended up trouble shooting to no end for the 3 days. VERY frustrating.

Now on to this week. I have yet another week off which is nice. Just taking things easy and doing a few things around the house. Deb has started redoing and painting the nursery for Sprout. She really wants to get it done quickly because I go back to work next week and it will be solid for several months so she won’t have time to do too much.

And that’s my life in a nutshell up to this point.

OH! I also saw Superman returns and Pirates of the Caribean: Dead man’s chest. Both excellent movies.