I’m on the fence about whether or not to do red or yellow knobs on the doors and drawers. Your thoughts?

The heat wave has finally broken, and we’re all rather comfy at 77°F at the moment. We’re still running around half-naked and Eddie is eating freeze-pops as though they will be banned sometime tomorrow, but thankfully the animals aren’t dying of the heat/humidity any longer. With any luck, the next time weather like that rolls back in, we’ll be in the new place with the a/c.

Eddie spoke to the office yesterday and confirmed that we won’t need to pay our last month’s rent, which gives us an extra $750 in the bank, which will be put towards the truck’s repairs and getting the rest of the new place finished off. With any luck this week we’ll be able to actually finish the bedroom, providing that we can get the storage totes out of there so that we can actually get to all of the walls. I also want to get the cabinets doors finished off. I know that I’ve been posting about those damned cabinets for 4 weeks now, but this time I mean it - I will be buying knobs and putting up the doors this week.

Aside from working on the new place there’s not a helluva lot happening this weekend. We’ll be going to the movies on Friday, and hopefully playing some WoW on Saturday night and since I decided to grab myself a level 19 Ghost Saber which I’ve managed to get to level 41 (out of 70 remember) I know what I’ll be doing on Sunday.

I’m feeling better. Eddie brought me chicken tenders on Friday night because I was able to eat half a can of soup without tossing my cookies, but made me agree that I would not drown them in hot sauce as is my normal procedure for such food, so I ate the most bland tenders ever. Yesterday I ate some popcorn chicken for lunch and then had actual meat for dinner, neither of which gave me much trouble aside from sitting in my stomach like a lump of concrete. I’m still a little low-feeling, probably a bit of leftover dehydration and all the fun that goes with that sort of thing.

Eddie took the truck to get inspected on Friday and it didn’t pass. According to the garage it will be about $1500 worth of work, which is bullshit because I priced out the parts and it’s about $250 worth of parts at most from what I can see. So I’m going to call Dad today and see if he can fix the broken bits if we buy the parts, or if he knows some unscrupulous garage that would be willing to pass the truck for us, because we’re good people and all, and good people drive safe vehicles. Right?

We’ve pretty much finished the living room at the new place, and it looks fantastic in blue and white. The trim needs to get done again because when we did the white walls yesterday it became apparent that “Brilliant White” is not the same as “White”, or as Eddie calls it “not white”. The kitchen is nearly finished as well, with just the cabinet doors to be put up. They all would have been put up last week, except that I underestimated how many screws it takes to put up 21 cabinet doors and had missed about a dozen hinges in my original painting of them (they were hiding under some newspaper on the counter), so they needed to get painted yesterday as well. And I’m going to paint the kitchen bricks white, because they look terrible and it will drive me crazy until I make them match because I’m just that OCD about that sort of thing. Unfortunately we forgot to take the camera over there again this week so there are no updated pictures, but I promise some next week.

In geekier news, our WoW guild is coming back together as strong as ever after the original founding GM left. We’ve got 3 healers (druid, a paladin, and a priestly level 70 bank-alt), so we did a bunch of instance runs over the past few weeks to see how well everyone works together and we’ve got a decent flow with each other which is fantastic. It also helps that during these runs everyone who doesn’t have much experience with the eleventy-billion Outland instances (*cough*me*Eddie*cough*) has gotten some fairly decent new gear out of them.

Yesterday was the blessed last day of the long work week. It was capped of with a bang when I dealt with a gentleman on the phone who wanted to know why he couldn’t just et a bag of Cialis instead of just 4 tabs at a time, because “it’s not like I’d be hurting anyone.” He also wanted me to fax his MD to see if we could get him a rx for Viagra instead because it works better for him. “Sure, it doesn’t last 36 hours,” he says, “but then again neither do I.” This was a fine way to end the week, especially considering that I got the crazy lube-lady’s questions about some Durex Tingle lube, where she came up to the register and loudly asked me (and pretty much anyone within earshot) “IS THIS STUFF GOOD FOR BODY MASSAGE OR IS IT JUST FOR THE PRIVATES??!?”

Last night I decided that I was going to get myself not one but two little pets in WoW and scored myself a Worg Pup and a Smolderweb Hatchling. Eddie and I hiked our way to Lower Blackrock Spire and managed to kill a lot of baddies and not die once, although there were a couple of hairy points where we were overrun with tiny spiders and it was so not cool. It was definitely nice to check out an instance that was once considered a really difficult place to go, since pretty much no one goes there anymore. I’m also considering going out and taming myself a Ghost Saber for a pet, but to level that thing from 20-70 will suck all sorts of ass and I can’t see myself with the attention span for it. But then again, who knows what I could do.

Today is painting day. We’ll be hitting up Walmart for some paint and then going to someplace else to get some knobs for the doors because I’m determined that we will finish this kitchen. The plan is that we’ll pick up some light blue and some creamy white and get working on the bedroom and the living room, providing we can freely move about the bedroom. We definitely need to look into some better lighting in the apartment because some of those little lamps just won’t cut it in the winter when it’s dark for most of the day. I’m not sure what we’ll be doing later tonight, since who knows how long we’ll stay at my mom’s.

Tomorrow is Eddie’s birthday and I haven’t bought him anything yet, mostly because I’m a terrible wife and have no idea what the hell to buy him at all. He wants to go to the flea market, and hopefully my body won’t rebel against this and I won’t be running to the bathroom every 10 minutes while we’re there, because damn it all, I like looking at flea market junk just as much as the rest of my family.

We got an assload of work done in the kitchen today. We put another coat of yellow on the walls because there were some spots where even 2 coats of primer didn’t stop the wallpaper motif from showing through. We did the cabinet frames and the drawers all white. I filled some screw holes in the cabinet doors, sanded them down, then painted everything all white. We removed 2 pairs of sliding cabinet doors because it would have been impossible to paint them without resulting in the doors getting stuck shut, and it looks a lot better without them.

So the plans for next weekend are as follows:

• paint the hinges for the cabinet doors
• finish trim in kitchen
• put the doors back up
• paint the walls in the bedroom, providing that we can move things out of there
• paint the living room if we can’t get things out of the bedroom