Remodeling - Day Forty-Four

Well it's the weekend and now that I'm back to work weekends are my only time to help Harry around the house.. so today’s Remodel task started off with Harry having to finished up the DVD racks with polyurethane. While he did that I started painting the accent wall in the Guest Bathroom. While standing on the seven foot ladder I lost my balance and fell to the floor. I manage to turn upright and avoid hitting my head on the sink or toilet but instead my left foot went right into the gallon can of red paint. I laid there for a moment trying to figure out if I had broken anything but every seem to be in order. I started to get up as Harry came running to see what had happened. As I looked down at my foot I realized that about 1/3 of the red paint had come out of the can and was now all over the walls, tile floor, paint tarp, bathtub, and my pant and sock. It was a mess but after a little cleaning up we managed to get all the paint up. I was sore but avoided some serious injuries.

After Harry finished the DVD holders he tackled the chicken wire around the 'garden'. We planned on using the chicken wire on the outdoor section for the dog. There is a small gap up on top and of course our dog has figured out how to squeeze out of it... so we plan on sealing up the entire thing. After the chicken wire he removed the old and falling down blue picket fence.

I continued to paint the guest bathroom.. I did all the walls and only had the trim and corners to take care of... but I was tired and sore from my fall so I called it a night and figured I would complete that room tomorrow.

Broken Jeep

Not the best way to start my day. Got up this morning and felt pretty good. Got ready for work, then go sidetracked and was running late. I jumped in my Jeep and started it up.. sounded good. Started to drive away and heard a sound that I hadn't heard before and it didn't sound good. I continued to drive down the hill hoping that the jeep was just cold but when I got to the main street it sounded worse. I got out and looked at the engine to see if anything was lose, but it all looked fine. I got back in and drove a half a mile and then the transmission slipped and my engine rived up. I thought to myself.. there is no way I'm going to work in this jeep so I turned around and headed back home. Luckily the jeep made it all the way home. I talked to Harry for a minute and then jumped into his truck to get to work. Not a good way to start my new job. I'll have to take my jeep in this weekend and have it looked it. Sounds like it's a bad transmission, which can be costly.. oh well such is life.

On the house front.. Harry continued to work on the DVD holders. They were light pine color but we wanted black to match our TV room.. so a few weeks ago my buddy Will and I sanded two of the DVD racks and today Harry painted the two and sanded and painted the third one. All he has left is a polyurethane coat and they will be good to go.

1st day on the Job

I've been out of work for three months and 2 days. It's the longest I have gone without a job. It was prefect because we moved and remodeled our house so the time off was much needed but having the house also meant I would have to work again if we wanted to continue to remodel the house. So today I went back to work for Max Post. I've been with them the past three years working on Season 1 of America's Toughest Jobs and then Season 5 of Deadliest Catch. This time I will be working on Season 6 of Deadliest Catch. Right now there are only two of us which is kind of nice but soon enough it will be packed with editors, loggers and assistant editors.

My first day was very quiet. I inventoried the edit bays to see what was needed. And helped out my AE with digitizing.

After being off for 3 months I didn't want to come back to work but once I was here it's like I never took any time off. It's nice being back in the same office on the same computer.

Let's hope this season goes a bit smoother then last season. :)

Last Day of Freedom

Today we had a lot to do since this was going to be my last day before heading back to work full time.

First we drove to Home Depot to return unused flooring and 2 screen doors. Well the returning of that stuff didn’t turn out to be that easy. We had bought the flooring at the Home Depot in Van Nuys with a purchase order type invoice, which I was told would make it easier to return the flooring if needed.. well that wasn't the case. Since we did not return it to the same store for some reason they could only give us a store credit, we're talking over $1100 but we did purchase more flooring and that was with a regular receipt but of course that was at home. So we decided that Harry would drive home while I stayed at Home Depot with the flooring. Once at home he tried to find that receipt… but couldn’t find it. So I told him to just come back and will take the credits as 45 minutes had already past and I was tired of standing there. A few minutes later it hit me that he may not has looked in all the places to I called him back just as he was getting back on the road and told him to look in another location and sure enough he found the receipt. So he got back to Home Depot and after another 20 minutes of craziness we got our refund... and it only took about 2 hours or so. Once we were done with we bought the box of power tools that Harry really wanted. We paid about 130 bucks for a power drill, a circular saw, a reciprocating saw, a flash light, a33 pc drill and driver set and 2 rechargeable battery packs... not a bad deal. Now that we are home owners will be using this stuff more often.

We grabbed some lunch as we were both starving as we didn't expect it to take 2 + hours to return the flooring. After lunch we headed to Bed Bath & Beyond in Santa Clarita. We picked up two more bar stools. We then went to Costco and signed up for a Executive Membership. For those of you guys who don’t know what Costco is, here a short explanation. Costco is a type of Wholesale/Big Box store with quite significant savings and the Executive Membership pays back 2% on all purchases. After we signed up we started to shop. This place was so big we didn't know where to start. So I picked a corner and we started going up and down the aisle and about about five aisle in our cart of full... it as crazy. We did about 1/3 of the store in two hours and by this time we had to get home to let the dog out so we figured we would come back on the weekend to do the rest of the store. We went to check out and Harry predicted that we had spent about $800 bucks and I said about $500. Well we were both shocked when the total was barely $400, we got a ton of stuff and some good deals. We plan on making Costco our first stop for anything.

By the time we got home it was late as our first stops today went alot longer then expected. I didn't get to do anymore house stuff and starting tomorrow will only have weekends to work on the house. But it was a good day.

New Job, Bar Stools and Lamps

I finally heard back from my former boss about possible coming back to Deadliest Catch for the sixth season. And of course as my life goes they want me back and want me to start the very next day. I figured I had a few weeks as we are still working on the house. But they need me so I managed to push my start date back one day so I can get some stuff done around the house before then.

So the first thing we did was drive to Bed Bath & Beyond in Palmdale to pick up the Bar Stools and the Lamps. We got a really good deal on the lamps, they came as a three pack, 1 floor lamp to 2 desk lamps. We headed over to the Bar Stools and knew we needed the 24" stools to fit our counter. We also knew that we wanted at least 3 stools but of course they had only 2. So we picked them up and planned to go to another BBB in the future to pick up one more.

Once we got home we started to assemble both bar stools. That was fairly easy and straight forward. While Harry assembled the second bar stool I started putting the floor lamp and table lamps together. After we were done we really were pleased with our choices. But we also figured out that we needed a total of 4 bar stools for our island to make it look nice. So when we go to pick up another one will pick up two more.

It's all about Kenobi

Today Harry and I decided to take a break from the house and go visit family (dad, brother, sister-in-law and nephew). We now live about 95 miles (1 hour 40 min) from them. So instead of us traveling every other week to visit will have to limit our visits to once maybe twice a month depending on our schedule. But we haven't seen them since we moved (a month and a half ago). So I got up early and made a few phone calls (dealing with previous utilities). Once Harry got up we got ready and headed out. Once we got there we hung out with everyone for an hour or so. Then went out to lunch with Dad (to our favorite Chinese food Hong Kong). Mike and Lora were going to a Wrestling match and Kenobi was at a babysitters. So when we got back we hung out with Dad and watched some TV. Around 5 we decided to head back as we knew it would take a few hours to get home. So in the end we drove for about four hours and spent about four hours with the family. Harry and I were finally able to take a group picture with Kenobi.. he is a little over 4 months and weighting in at a hefty 17.5 lbs. Man is he adorable.