Today

January 23rd, 2010

Today was busy.

Got up early, took the d-o-g out, made all sorts of notes for things I’d need for the rest of the day, and got ready to go!

Mom picked me up and we went over to look at how much it’ll cost me to do the living room, dining room, part of the front hallway, and the master bedroom in hardwood. We’re talking roughly $4,000. It was an awesome deal on hardwood, though; and we did over estimate how much I’d need. Seriously, if you’re buying hardwood, it definitely pays to order from what they have in stock. If you’re buying in Guelph, The Carpet Store on Speedvale is the best for your buck. We also worked out the price for carpet up the stairs, that hallway, and the office & guest bed. It’ll be rouhly $1,000. So hopefully the bank does give me at least an extra $5,000 for home improvements.

After the hardware store, we decided to go to the paint store to start looking at paint chips. Okay, so it’s probably very early to start looking into that, since unlike hardwood you don’t have to book someone to measure, then come back and install, and if they have the exact wood you want in stock, to have them put aside some boxes for you until nearly April! (We’ve already planned for the painting to be done the week of the 15th, the hardwood guy to measure the 17th, then the hardwood install guy to come back the following week, and then for him to be done before I move in sometime march 28 – 31) Anyways, so I have the colours picked out for the downstairs bathroom (to match my painting) and the guest bedroom. I’m in the process of picking out a painting for my living/dining and the red/orange for my accent wall in there. Oh, and then the kitchen, which I think will happen after my living/dining, and of course that pink room needs to be something else! I’d tell you my thoughts, but I don’t really have anything substantial, other than NOT PINK!

After paint, came lunch, lens mill, pick up pepper, go to moms, hang out, then go out to roots for Canada sweatshirts, only to find that we’d have to be an infant under 6 months to buy one that would fit us. Then to Old Navy, and the only sweatshirts they had only had a maple leaf on and an even bigger “Old Navy”… not something I’d put in the Canada section.

After that, my day gets boring. Dinner, mom spilling lasagna in the oven, knitting, playing with Pepper, coming home to an ambulace, a fire truck, and two police cars… and finding nothing and no one in the hallway who could tell me anything.

Planned Sunday School tomorrow too. The theme this week is “Promises” and they want a craft… sooooo… I figured that since I have the Grade 3 & under class, we’d draw pictures of a promise we’d like to make (clean our room, help with dinner, be nice to Kristel…) and then we’ll make a frame out of popsicle sticks and they can then bling them out. It is amazing how many Promise Crafts there are that require writing!