MOVING DAY!!!!!! (Remodeling Day - Twenty-Five)

The Day is finally here.. were are official moving too our new house. I didn't think this day would ever come. Though the new house isn't done with remodel or painting the major stuff has been done. I'm very excited to move in so this new house feels like our home, because so far it doesn't. Yes I go there everyday to work but then go back to the rental to sleep. I'm hoping with this move the house will actually feel like it's ours.

The day started with some more packing as I couldn't get it all done the day before. Harry had to run an errand while I went to Ralphs to rent a carpet steamer. Once Harry got back we headed to U-haul to pick up our truck at 10:30am. On the way there I realized that my drivers license had expired two day prior on my birthday and though I renewed it I hadn't gotten my new one yet. Was afraid I wasn't going to be able to rent it. So we get there and before we start I mention that my licenses had expired but is renewed and valid. She asked if I had anything to prove that and of course I didn't since I thought about it while driving there. Well they need a valid DL so I could not rend the U-haul. I then asked if Harry could rent it with his Austrian DL and she said no that he would need an international DL, which Harry then said.. "Oh I have one of those" and gave to the lady who said great this will work. As she was filling out the form she got an error and then informed us that he International DL had expired 3 months prior and we could not use it. Now we are screwed, as we can't rent the U-Haul without a valid DL. So I get on the phone and start calling and texting friends hoping one would be willing to come help us out. The folks I did get a hold of were either busy or working... so we hit another dead end. I then figured I'd go to the DMV and see if I could get proof that my license was valid. So Harry and I drove to the DMV, stood in line for about 15 minutes and got up to the counter. I explained my situation and she was happy to print me out a temp DL. So we headed back to the U-Haul and rented the truck. Now our schedule was off by an hour with this unexpected detour.. we were determined to get back on track.

As we were loading up the truck my friend Will came over to pick up a few items that we no longer wanted. Once he was done we finished packing up the truck. We got the 17' truck and got almost everything loaded. We had forgotten our tools so we couldn't dismantle the bed and we left a few odds and end that we would pick up tomorrow. We also packed up Harry's truck with some of the overflow. It took a lot longer to load the truck then I expected.. but then again it was just Harry and I. We got done around 3:30pm

So we were off.. I drove the U-Haul and Harry drove his truck. Along the way Harry stopped to pick up some lunch as we were starving. I got to the house about 15 minutes before him. We ate lunch and did a few things around the house. We hooked up our TV to Direct TV and with a little assistance got that all working. We watched a little bit a TV before heading out to unload the truck. We first unloaded stuff to our back deck that we knew was going into the house. We then drove the truck over to the garage to unload stuff that will be either in my Toy Room or storage. It was night fall when we finally got done. We had some dinner and watched some TV. Since we haven't gotten our mattress for our new bed we just put on the floor the queen mattress of our old bed, now the guest bed.. it was a long day but things are finally coming together

Final Packing Day

Today was spent packing up the old rental.. all day long we packed and packed and packed. This was all the stuff that we kept around while we were living there and man was there a lot. I didn't expect so many boxes but it never stopped. By the end of the day I was about 90% packed but I was still disappointed as I wanted everything packed and ready to go for tomorrow. Oh well you could only do so much and man am I'm tired.. tomorrow is going to be a very long day...

Remodeling - Day Twenty-Four

Today we got an early start as we had a ton of things to accomplish. So we loaded up the truck and headed out to our house, and got there a little before 10 am. Harry started by finishing the paint job on the door jam of the office door, while I did some touch up work on the office closet. Once that was done I put the doors back on the office closet, and oh was that fun.. not a good way to start the morning. I finally got the doors on I moved on to putting the new silver door knobs on the office door.

Harry then moved on to taking off the door of the linen closet so he could paint it. Once the first coat was done he took the hardware outside to spray paint silver. After he did that he helped me "attempt" to put the office door back on. It took a few tries as the hinges were first on wrong, then backwards.. but we finally got it to work.

After the office door was put back up, Harry started painting the door jam of the linen closet and than put up a second coat on the door of the linen closet itself. After that it was time for lunch... we were so tired of out food eating it the past month we opted for Denny's.

After we had gotten back form lunch, I got busy with some touch up work while Harry finished the the second coat of paint on the door jam of the linen closet. I then started to put the doors of the closet in the guest room back in. And like the office doors it presented itself as a challenge but I finally got them on and looking good.

Once Harry was done with the linen closet door he moved on to the door of the guest bedroom. He removed it and painted his first coat. While that dried he took the hardware outside and spray painted it. While the first coat of paint was drying we tried to put out the screen door, as I wanted to start bringing in some of the furniture that we purchased a few weeks back. We had the hardest time with the screen door and my tempter had gotten the better of me and if you know me that doesn't happen often but I ripped the screen door from the track and broke one of the wheels. But it was still usable so all wasn't lose.

We then took Harry's truck to the garage and loaded up some of the furniture.. yes our property is that big that we drove to the garage from the back door. We loaded in the couch and as we were walking in the screen door got tangled in my feet so I tossed it aside (kind of forcefully) and sure enough it hit the side of the deck and tore a huge hole in it. So now we have to buy a new screen door for the back door. So it took about four trips back and forth before we got all the furniture in. It's finally starting to feel like our house.

After that Harry put a second coat of paint on the door of the guest bedroom, since he was running out of daylight that was going to be the last thing we did for the night.

This was a tough day.. it was my Birthday and though I got Birthday tweets, and facebook greetings and a few calls this day wasn't that great. I was super tired and not feeling great and my emotions went up and down all day long. I so didn't want to be doing this on my birthday but knew we had to do this in order for us to move in on Friday. I'd be in a crappy mood and then get a call or tweet and be happy, then something stupid would happen and my mood would change. I just think 24 days of remodeling and painting is taking it's toll on me. I can't wait for this to be done soon.

My 39th Birthday

It's my 39th birthday today and we have been so busy with the house that we didn't plan anything. My mood went up and down all day long. I was not happy that I had to paint for the 24th day, it was very frustrating having to be there all day. All the big stuff had been done so it was baseboards, doors, door trim and touch ups and it's very tedious work. I knew we had to be there because we plan on moving in on Friday and the place is far from being ready.. but it didn't make being there any better... but I did have moments of happiness when I would get birthday Tweets or wishes on facebook. And I'm happy to say that I got a ton of them so that was nice. I also got calls from my mom, dad, and brother along with text from my sister in law and calls from friends Darla and Will. So it wasn't all bad.. just not the way you want to spend your birthday. We did plan to go out afterwards for a birthday dinner but we got out so late and both were so tired we decided to not go out. :( Oh well... Next year will be the big 40 and I'm going to have an AWESOME party.

Remodeling - Day Twenty-Three

Today we got our usual start and left the rental in Reseda around 10 am. Shortly before 11 am we got to our house. We managed to find some space in the garage for the stuff we had transported to the house. After we were done with that we started another day of painting. I'm sooooooo tired of painting!!!!!

First on the list was some touch up work in the guest room. Harry managed to touch up the most of the spots that needed touching up before running out of paint. Guess we should have gotten a gallon of the accent paint instead of just a quart. Going to have to buy another quart...

The next thing on the agenda was to paint the door of the office and the door jam in the same white as the baseboards. Harry started on that project while I did a ton of touch up work in the living and dining room, mostly floor boards and ceiling.

About mid day Harry and I left to pick up more painting supplies and also we wanted to get some silver door knobs at Lowe’s. While we were out we picked up lunch as well.

After lunch I continued with the touch ups work in living, dining and TV room, while Harry put a second coat on the office door and on the door jam. While he did this I went out back to spray paint the door hinges and screws silver to make them the same as the new door knobs. We didn't want to have to buy all new hinges and figured this was the best solution as both Harry and I hate the gold/brass color. And I have to say they turned out pretty nice. By the time we ran out of daylight we were had spray painted all the screws and hinges for the office door.

Once we were home and ate some dinner we headed out to Staples to pick up our office desks. We did some research online and found a desk that we both liked.

Today also marks the one month anniversary of the day that we got the keys to the house ... and still we haven’t moved in !!!

One of these days!!!!

Remodeling - Day Twenty-Two

Today started our day pretty much at the usual time. We packed up the truck and headed out around 10 am and got to the house shortly before 11 am. We just finished unpacking the truck when I got a phone call from Direct TV asking us if they could stop by earlier. Of course we said yes. Shortly after that our contractor arrived and started with the finishing touches.

While I was dealing with the guys from Direct TV, Harry started painting the inside of the closet in our office. To amuse himself he wrote a message on the inside of the closet. Once I was done dealing with the guys from Direct TV I joined me in the office and started working on some touch up work. The Direct TV guys were done quickly. They couldn’t hook up the receivers, since our TV's were still at the rental, so we will have to do it ourselves, which shouldn't be a problem.

By the time we were finished with the office our contractor let us know that he was finished as well and was ready to leave. He will most likely be back in a couple of weeks for Phase 2 of the remodel (Guest Bathroom, Kitchen and Toy Room). But before that happens Harry and I have to reassess the money situation as this phase one remodel cost us more then we had planned as we never planned to put a $6000 hardwood floor in.

After Danny had left, Harry and I and drove to Palmdale to pick up a few supplies at Home Depot. While we were out we picked up lunch as well. We got back and saw that Daisy had left her paw prints on the freshly painted windowsill. Luckily the paint was already dry when she got up there and we just wiped it clean. What is funny is her paws were on every windowsill on every window she could look out of.

After lunch I went into the living / dining room to deal with more touch up work, while Harry went into the guest room and started painting the inside of the closet in there.

So we are getting closer to finishing and it can't come soon enough.. now it's time for the time consuming little detail stuff.

Guess that's it for today.. seems like this is all I every blog about these days but to be truthful this is truly all I have been doing for the past month.

Day of Rest... yeah right!!!!

Today we took the day off from remodeling. Every week we need at least one day to recoup.. but we did anything but rest. We are so busy with the new house that we forget that we still have a ton of stuff here at our rental that needs to be packed up. So we spent today packing, catching up on emails, trying to watch some TV but feeling guilty because of all the stuff that still needs to be packed. I can't wait till this is all over...

Remodeling - Day Twenty-One

Today we got a really late start, first we went to Home Depot and picked up a more supplies for the remodel, I think we have spent over $1500 in paint alone. After that we drove back to the rental, packed up the truck and headed out to our house, we didn't get there until 1 pm. On our way to the house we picked up Panda Express for lunch. We finally started working around 1:30pm

Our contractor was busy redoing lots of the baseboards in the TV-Room, Living and Dining Room.

Harry started to put a second coat of paint on the accent wall in the master bedroom, while I taped off the remaining ledge, and then painted the first coat. Harry painted the third coat on the accent wall and then a second coat on the two ledges and I started to tape off the inside of the closet.

Once that was done we pulled out the closet doors and I started to paint one of them while Harry started painting the inside of the closet. After I was done with one door Harry took the second door and I continued to paint the inside of the closet. We had just enough daylight left to get done with the second coat of paint on the closet doors.

So today was spent in the Master Bedroom but we got a lot of tedious work done today.

I keep saying it will be one more day.. but I have no idea when this painting hell will end.

Remodeling - Day Twenty

Today we started our day at the usual time, around 10 am. We tried to find stuff that we could put into Harry pickup truck but there wasn't much that was ready to go. Which is good because it means we have taken quite a bit of stuff to our new house and only the big furniture items are left. Once we were done packing the truck we headed out. We decided to pick up some lunch and choose Panda Express. We got to the house around 11.30 am. After lunch we unpacked the truck and started the painting. No sign of the contractor today, found out he had some family issues to take care of so today will not be his last day.. it's not planned for tomorrow.

Harry started painting the Master Bedroom accent walls in the deep red (which is going to take at least 3 coats to cover nicely). I started taping off the skylights in the Living Room. Once I was done with the taping I then started painting them. Harry came out to inform me that we were out of the "red" paint so he was done for the day in the Master Bedroom. He went outside to catch a nap while I finished painting the skylights.

Once I was done with that I moved on to the Coat Closet, I was painting it the color of the majority of the living/dining room. While Harry went and touched up some walls in the Master Bedroom and the closet doors in the Office.

By the time we were done it was getting dark and we were not going to use those heat lamps to light up any room (we already made that mistake once). So we called it a night.

We should be done with the majority of the painting tomorrow, but I won't hold my breath... Will see what happens...

Stay tuned for updates.

KOTG Microcast #8 Quest for Skype

A few weeks back Jenni and I got together with a few Guildies over Skype to discuss our favorite webseries…

Guildies who participated in the chat:

• Belrand
• Chris F.
• Jeff V.
• Nas
• Phil aka GrrAargh
• Lydia
• Tynesha
• Higlet

We hope to do one of these skype calls every month or so. If you are interested in joining us please email us at Knightsoftheguild@gmail.com

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Remodeling - Day Nineteen

Today Harry and I had to get up super early (well for us) since Living Spaces was going to deliver our furniture between 9.30 and 11.00 am. So we got up by 8 am, packed up the truck and left for the house. Shortly before we got on the freeway I got a call from the delivery guys just to confirm that they had the right directions to get to our house in Agua Dulce, they had already left so we were racing them to the our new place. We got to the house a little before 9.30 and a few minutes later the delivery guys from Living Spaces showed up. We had them put the furniture in the one car garage, since the remodel isn’t finished yet and didn't want it to be in the way. Once that was done, Harry and I unpacked his truck and checked on the progress of our contractor.

To our surprise he had finished framing the fireplace and it looks FANTASTIC, and it's not even stained yet. It will be absolutely gorgeous once it is stained. Danny still has to grout the master bathroom and the tiles on the fireplace.

After admiring the fireplace, we started to pull the trim tape in the Entrance and Kitchen, and there were quite a few places where some touch up work had to be done. I started with that right away. Harry started painting another coat in the master bedroom. He went pretty fast doing it by himself. After that he went into the office to pull of the tape and again there were a number of places where some touch up work was needed. Once that was accomplished I taped off the ledge in the office and we started painting the ledge with an accent color. We choose to use the main color of the bedroom as accent color for the office and it looks quite nice. Once we were done with that, we painted the doors of the closet in the accent color as well.

During that time our contractor was busy redoing the baseboards. He made some progress but still has a long way to go. I really don’t think that he will be done by tomorrow evening as he has said. I have a feeling that it is going to take him at least 1 day longer. But we’ll see about that.

After we were done painting the closet doors in the office, I finished some touch up work, while Harry went into the bedroom to pull off the tape. Again there are a number of spots that need some touch up work, but we have come to expect that now. After that I started taping off the accent wall in the bedroom and Harry started painting the trim. We have decided to paint the accent wall in the master bedroom in a very dark red and it looks AWESOME. But it will take at least 1 or 2 more coats of paint until the wall is completely colored. Once it is done it will look amazing. If I could have my way, I would have painted the entire bedroom in the accent color, but Harry said it would be too dark for him.

After we finished that wall we were tired, it had been a long day so we headed back to the rental.

Video Blog - Remodel Day Eighteen

Remodeling - Day Eighteen

Today Harry and I got a late start. By 11 am we were done packing up my truck and headed out to our house. While we were on the road our contractor called and asked us to pick up another box of tiles at Lowe’s. So we stopped by Lowe’s and picked up the tiles, then picked up some lunch and headed to our house. By the time we were done with lunch and unpacked the truck it was about 12:30 or so. Our contractor had started framing up the fireplace and we will have to pick out a stain for the wood that goes best together with the hardwood floors. Guess we’ll be stopping by Home Depot this evening again. Our contractor Danny still has some tile work in the Master Bathroom to do but the fireplace needs only grout. Danny picked out the grout for the fireplace, but he asked that Harry and I to pick out the grout for the master bathroom.

The first room Harry and I ended up painting today was the Office. While I taped off the trim Harry was busy painting the walls. We made pretty good progress and were finished with the first coat of paint in the office way earlier than we expected.

After the office we started with the Master Bedroom. Again I started taping off the trim, while Harry started painting the walls. Apparently our master bedroom is larger than the office as it took us a lot longer to finish the first coat of paint. We were done with the master bedroom by 6.30 pm.

After a short break we went back to the office to start with the second coat of paint. The only problem with that was that we were slowly running out of daylight and we had no light in the office. So we took our contractors construction light and started painting the office. Shortly after we had started the second coat in the office we were sweating like we were out in the direct sunlight, as that construction light gives off a ton of heat. But we knew we had to finish the second coat of paint regardless. So this time I painted the majority of the walls while Harry painted the trim.

While painting the office I got a call from Living Spaces informing us that they will be delivering the furniture that we purchased two weeks ago tomorrow between the hours of 9:30am and 11:30am. That put a wrench in our tomorrow plans. Danny asked up to pick up a few finishing things for the house and we had planned to pick them up in the morning before heading up to the house.. but when I say morning I mean around 10am. But now we had to be at the house by 9:30am which meant we would have to leave our rental by 8:30 and be up even earlier.

So we got home from a long day of painting, dropped off the dog and then turned around and went to home depot to pick up some supplies.

We finally go home around 10pm and were exhausted. And tomorrow we will be getting up early to get to the house before the delivery truck.. with our luck the truck with show up right at 9:30am.

The adventure continues....

Dinner and a Movie

Tonight I went out and had dinner, at Islands, with my buddy Christopher. It's been a while since we hung out so it was alot of fun catching up on our lives. After dinner we headed to AMC to catch the movie "9"

This movie looked interesting so I was happy to hear that Christopher wanted to see it as Harry didn't really have any interest. I won't go into great detail but the movie was good, not great but far from bad. I liked the story it was simple. I did wish they went into more detail about the 9 creatures, why 9 was there any significance? The machine monster were pretty sweet, especially the snake type one... very creepy stuff. This movie had some top notch actors and was animated beautifully. I look forward to watching it again.

Knights of the Guild Podcast Ep 8 pt1

Knights of the Guild Episode 8 Part 1

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 8 part 1 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• First up we have our monthly Vorkism.
• Our location today is at Gamestop as we wait in line for the new expansion game The Spiers of Dragonor.
• We talk about Season 3 and have some fan reactions to the first 2 episode that have aired.
• We have some Guild news about the two season box set and the comic book.
• We interview crew member Jay about his experience working on season 2 & 3.

• We find out what the actors and crew are up too.
• We have a special report from Dragon*Con
• We thank our Donors
• Mention important links
• Mention our recent Contest winners
• Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

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Remolding - Day Seventeen

Today we got up early, packed up the truck and headed to the house. Once we were done unpacking the truck we went inside house and started to clean the new floor, we did the TV room first and started to lay down brown paper over the work so nothing get's on them. We then cleaned the dining and living room floors and noticed that they still looked white and sure enough it was dust, so we cleaned them for a second time and ran our finger across them and still got dust on it. We think we need a better mop as it's going to take a few more cleaning before we finally get them looking great. We then moved onto painting. While I taped up the rest of the kitchen Harry went into the office and sanded down some spots that he had spackled yesterday. Once he was done with that he went back into the kitchen and started putting a second coat of paint on the window area in the kitchen, while I painted the walls above the ledge. After we had finished that we pulled out the fridge and painted behind the fridge as well. Now the kitchen is completely done !!!

Next on the agenda was the Entrance. After I taped off the walls Harry started painting the remaining wall the same blue accent color that we had used in the dining and living room. While he did this I was busy with some touch up work in the kitchen and started taping off the beams in the living and dining room. After Lunch Harry put a second coat of paint on the accent wall in the Entrance.

Once we were done with that we turned our attention to the 2 beams. While I painted the major surface of the 2 beams with the roller, Harry used the ladder to do the trim. But all our hard work paid off.. we finished painting the living and dining rooms, both hallways, kitchen, pantry, entrance, TV room and Guest Room.

Tomorrow we will be taking a day off, but on Wednesday we’re back painting !!

Remodeling - Day Sixteen

First thing we did today was head to Home Depot... We had to pick up 15 more boxes of laminate hardwood flooring, 1 can of paint for the living room, paper to protect the hardwood floor, painters tape and some cleaning supplies. We spent another 1100 bucks at Home Depot. Once we were done shopping it dawned on us that we had brought my Jeep instead of Harry's pickup truck. We managed to fit all the stuff we had bought, but it was quite a tight fit. Once we got back home we put all the supplies in Harry's truck and used the remaining space to fill it up with stuff that had to go to the house as well. We got to the house around 2 pm.

Once we had finished unpacking the truck we checked on the progress that our contractor had made. They had managed to get about half of the floor in the dining room done and it was looking AWESOME. We then had a quick bite for lunch and then jumped into painting.

I first taped off the remaining walls in the Kitchen. Once that was done I then started painting the remaining walls above the ledge while Harry started painting the walls around the window in the kitchen. We really like the color and it’s already hard to imagine what the kitchen looked all white. While we were doing that our contractor made a lot of progress with the floor and had sanded down the texture wall in the office.

After finishing up with a few minor touch ups in the kitchen Harry and I went to work in the office. By the time I tapped off the one wall and windows we were only able to get a little bit of paint on the walls as night was falling and there is no light in that room. Danny and his helpers stayed a few hours late so they could finish laying down the laminate hardwood flooring. They got about 99% of it done, still have a few things to complete but it looks great. We now have a beautiful hardwood floor in the TV-Room, living and dining room.

Tomorrow Harry and I are back for more Painting!!! We are sooooo over painting..

I will keep you guys posted on the progress !!

Video Blog - Flooring goes down

Remodeling - Day Fifteen

Today Harry and I got an early start. We got up around 8 am and started packing up the truck. After that was done we headed to Home Depot to pick up more paint and a new painting poll, since Harry broke one yesterday. By 10 am we had reached our new house. The first thing we saw was a little out of the ordinary, the garage door was open. So as we got to the front door I asked Danny our contractor if he had opened the door.. he said yes..because he had brought to more worker and they wanted to start working on the hardwood floor, which is in the garage. This was unexpected news as we didn't expect the floors to go down until next week. So we quickly went inside to see the progress.

They had pulled out the carpet in the TV-Room and started laying down the Hardwood Floor. Our contractor had also made some progress in the Office and the Master Bedroom with re-texturing the wall and he had made substantial progress re-tiling the fireplace.

After checking out all the new construction work, Harry and I started putting up a second coat of paint in the Pantry. Once that was done we started painting the kitchen. When we opened the paint can I wasn’t quite sure about the color. This is the color that Harry wanted on the walls. So we put a little of paint on one of the kitchen walls. I looked at it from several different angels and still wasn’t quite sure if I liked the color or not, neither was Harry. When the color finally started to dry we were happy with it. But it's defiantly not your typical kitchen color.

For lunch we ordered pizza from a local pizzeria and expected that what you usually get in LA. There were 2 surprised with that. First one pizza was about 25 bucks and the second surprise was the size of the pizza. That thing was huge. All five of us barely finished one pizza and we had ordered two, so there are plenty of leftovers.

After Lunch Harry and I finished up painting the first coat on the kitchen walls between the counter top and the ledge. Once that was done, we pulled the tape off the pantry and inspected the quality of our paint job. There were a few places where we had to do touch up work. Once that was accomplished we checked the paint job in the kitchen as it was already dry, so we started putting up a second coat of paint. While we were doing that Danny, our contractor started ripping out the tile in the Entrance. By the time Harry and I were finished with the second coat of paint in the kitchen our contractor had almost completed laying down the floor in the Entrance.

After the the contractor had left we pull tape off in the kitchen where we no longer needed it. Not quite sure what happened, but we had to do quite a bit of touch up work. After that we finished the final wall in the dining room (at least the first coat).

It was around 8pm and we were exhausted so we headed home for the day.

15 days of painting and not an end in sight.

No Painting Today

Today we stayed in our rental as we had Bill (owner of our rental) bringing over a few people who are interested in renting the house. We still have quite a bit of packing to still do. So attempted to finish packing up my toy room. I have done a few hours here and a few hours there but only made a dent. This time I jumped in and packed up about 98% of it. All that is left are some books and that room will be done. We only have a few more things to pack. Most of it is daily stuff that we use and won't be packed until the day before we move.

Our Family Got Bigger

Today in Austria our family grew. My sister-in-law, Harry's sister Greda married Bernd. I wish them all the best.












Herzliche Glückwünsche

9/11

Eight years ago that horrible event took place that changed The United States forever. Today I will take a moment of silence to remember all those we lost.

Remodeling - Day Fourteen

Today we headed out to our house around noon and got there around 1.30 or so. First on the agenda was the a short video for Harry's sisters upcoming wedding (tomorrow). We had come prepared with a speech, but that didn’t make the video any easier. Harry got a kick out of the screw ups, especially me trying to say Congratulations in German. Harry thinks that the ‘Making of the Wedding Video’ is way funnier than the video itself.

Once that was done we continued painting the pantry which went fairly quickly. After that I put a second coat of paint on the trim in the hallway, while Harry started to put the first coat of paint on the remaining wall in the dining room. He couldn’t finish the upper half of the wall since he had broken the long painting pole. So in order to finish the rest of the wall we will have to buy an new pole first and more paint.

Will this every end!!!!!

Video Blog - Paint, paint and more paint

Remodeling - Day Thirteen

Today we went to Home Depot to pick up a couple of supplies. We needed 1 additional can of paint for the living / dining room, 2 cans of paint for the Office. We also picked up more paint rollers. Once we were done with that, we headed to Ralph’s since we needed some lunches and soda for the house. After Ralph’s we headed back to the rental in Reseda. We packed up Harry's pickup truck with another load and headed out to our new house.

Once there we unpacked the truck and checked how much progress our contractor had made. He started to lay out the tile in the Master Bathroom and was dealing with the texture of the one unfinished wall in the dining room.

I started taping the trim of the Pantry area. When our contractor Danny went to lunch Harry put a second coat up in the Hallway. The only thing that needs to be done in the hallway is, the trim. It needs another coat of paint. That’s was something Harry didn’t get finished before our contractor came back from lunch and started dealing with this wall again.

By that time I had made some progress taping up the trim in the pantry area (did I mention I hate taping trim) so Harry could start painting the trim. By 4.30 Harry had painted all the trim in the pantry and I had almost finished painting the shelves. We had to leave at 4.30 pm, since our current landlord wanted to show the rental to prospective customers. Tomorrow we will have to finish the first coat of pain in the pantry area, and then put a second coat of paint on the trim in the hallway and maybe we can start with unfinished wall in the dining room.

Contractor will finish the office windows today, hopes to finish the master bedroom and start to work on the fireplace tomorrow and finish the fireplace and start the master bathroom and then finish the master bath and trim in the entire house on Saturday. He will then do floors on Monday and should be done by Wednesday.. at least that is his plan.. if it happens that would be great as I really want to move in next week... guess will wait and see.

Remodeling - Day Twelve

Today we went to Home Depot to pick up the Laminate Hardwood Floor. If we have measured the rooms right we need about 1.000 square feet. That would be roughly 60 boxes. When we got to Home Depot we only saw only 24 boxes. The next thing we did was to look for a sales associate. He found us another palette that had 26 boxes. So we ended up with 50 boxes. We decided that for right now that’s enough and if we really need more we can always go back and get another 10 boxes.

After that we waited for the guy to do his magic with the forklift and bring the palette down from the top shelf. Once that was accomplished I went and paid for the floor while Harry went and got the truck and drove the truck to the loading dock. The forklift guy put the hardwood floor into back of Harry's pickup truck and man that stuff is really heavy. Once we were done with Home Depot we drove back home to pick up Daisy and tie down the flooring with the cargo net that Harry had recently bought. After that we headed to the new house. All in all the hardwood floor cost us, so far, 3.500 dollars. If you add what we’re going to pay our contractor to install the hardwood floor, the entire thing will come to about 5 Grand. Luckily we don’t redo 1000 square feet every day !!!

Once we got to the house we had to unload all 50 boxes of laminate flooring, We put them in the garage for the time being until the carpet is pulled up in the living/dining and TV rooms.

After we were done with that we had to paint again. Surprise, surprise !! First we put up a second coat of paint in the Entrance. We then had to put a second coat of paint on the pillars of the Kitchen. While Harry was busy with the second coat of paint on the pillars in the kitchen, I started taping the trim in the Hallway to the guest room, bathroom and office. Once the majority of the trim had been taped off, Harry started painting the majority of the walls, while I painted the trim. We didn't have a lot of time but got quite a bit done. We're getting closer to finishing and that's good.

Video Blog - The Remodel So Far

Figured out that I can take video with my still camera and can upload to my blog.. so this is the first video on the remodel.

I take you on a tour of our remodel Day 11.

Focus goes in and out.. but what can you expect from a still camera.

Remodeling - Day Eleven

Today we got a early start as well. We packed up the truck and headed out. We got to the house around 10 am. We checked the paint job we did yesterday and we did a fairly good job. But we knew that we had to put a second coat on, since here and there the white still was coming through.

First we finished the two small spots in kitchen that we couldn’t finish yesterday. After that was done we started with the second coat of paint in the living room. I painted the majority of the walls and the upper trim, while Harry did the lower trim and then moved over to the kitchen walls that are exposed to the living/dining room. Around noon we were pretty much done with the second coat of paint in the living and dining room, took us about eight hours to do the first coat yesterday and only two hours to do the same thing today. Shows you how much time taping off trim and ceiling takes.. After lunch I started taping off the entrance way, while Harry finished painting the wall leading to the laundry and did some additional touch up work in the TV-Room as well.

When I was finished taping the trim/ceiling in the entrance way, Harry started painted the majority of the walls. We then turned our attention to the last 2 pillars in the kitchen. While I taped off the trim ( btw I was hating life, taping off trim is not my cup of tea) Harry started painting the pillars. We were done around 5 pm and decided to call in the night, since we both were quite tired. Who knew painting was so physically and emotionally exhausting !!

Tomorrow we will put a second coat on everything we painted the second half of today. Then we have the living and dining room painted as far as we can, since our contractor still has to finish one of the walls first, before we can paint it.

I will keep you guys posted on the progress !!

KOTG Microcast #7 Quest for Blizzcon

Last Month Jenni and I were lucky enough to volunteer for The Guild booth at Blizzcon. We were also lucky enough to record some audio from our days at the con.

• We start with my intro as I head to Blizzcon.
• I find Jenni and we hear what she did the previous night with the Guild cast, crew and fans.

• We then go behind the stage as the Guild cast wait to go on stage for their panel, both Jenni and I interview cast members.
• Then there are some Q & A from the Panel
• After that we hold a raffle, we gave away 4 Zunes

• And finally we are done and head back to our cars.

The audio is okay, we were using our portable recorder.

Hopefully we brought a little Blizzcon to those who could not make it and for those who did, hopefully we brought back some fun memories.

Thanks, Kenny & Jenni

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