Friday we went to the Chart House for dinner so no work got done on the house. Filet mignon and seared tuna - life is sooooooo good. I wore capri pants to the resteraunt and didn't take a goooood look in the mirror before we went out. When I got home, I crossed my legs and something cought my eye. I had a 1 inch wide, 2 inch long stripe of paint on my leg. It looked like Rob and I got in a paint fight before we left the house. Pretty damn funny if you ask me.

Saturday was a preperation day. In the AM we prepared Rob's appt for an Open House. In the early afternoon we went to the hardware store to prepare for working on the house. We pulled the cabinets out of the kitchen to prepare for tiling and flooring.

Additionally this is the time of year when there are friends/family in town every weekend, my Father stopped by with a pizza on Saturday. Gotta love visitors with food. When the day was ove,r we didn't get a lot accomlised but we were prepared for Sunday.

Sunday, we got a lot accomplished. Connie stopped by to get a 'before' look at the house. She said the house looked a lot bigger in person...... hmmmm, maybe I should put a disclaimer on the before pictures "objects on internet are bigger then they appear"

I got all the vinyl wallpaper out of the bathroom. It was an icky job, I would stand on the lip of the tub and smear enzyme remover all over the wallpaper while the enzyme remover dripped down my arm into my armpit and down my side. Eugh, just thinking about it makes me squirm and itch. I had a hard time getting the removed under the vinyl paper so I did a lot of scraping. I'm sure it was pretty funny to watch me, I was complaining and making icky, blechy noises and mutternig under my breath. Then, I would run outside and pour water on my arms becuase when the enzyme dries it itches. At least it's over and under the wallpaper is blue walls, painted to match the tile. Ironically, the blue paint matches the drywall! HA!

Since we are talking about the bathroom, Rob did the wiring and we have a GFI unit in the bathroom, an outlet on the back of the bathroom wall in the spare bedroom and electrical ready for the medicine cabinet lights.

I sanded down all the bits and pieces of spackle in the kitchen and painted the walls with primer. Boy was that a satisfying job!

While I waited for the primer to dry I spotted Rob while he climbed on the steep roof to patch up a hole that was dripping on his new drywall and then landing in a puddle in the basement every time it rained. The poopie pipe that runs up to the roof had a breach where the tar holds the pipe to the shingles. Thank goodness we decided to make the bathroom bigger or else we never would have found that leak. That was a nerve racking experience, I hate seeing him on the roof, it's just too damn steep. He was very carefull and meticulous about all of his movements but I was still concerned.

While I was stanging in the knee deep wet grass, watching Rob on the roof, I was doing a science experiment. We have mosquitos the size of flying elephants and they are multiplying like bunnies. After itching and scratching my way through last week I went out and bought the heavy guns, I bought DEET. I deet-ed my ehtire body except my face and stood in the middle of mosquito central and didn't get bit once. I am ready to start doing advertisements for Off with DEET!

After the roof ordeal I was ready to really taunt the mosquito's by mowing the lawn with our brand new 4.5 horsepower lawn mower however the grass has not dried out enough from the monsoon so we called it a night and went home.

Oh, I forgot!!! I cooked my first dinner at the new house! I brought the crock pot over, plugged it in and let the crock pot sit on the kitchen counter (which is actually in the living room) for 6 hours. Rob pointed out that our Pork BBQ is the first dinner smell of many in that house.