Painting the Master Bath

So much stuff planned this weekend...

Today I finally started to tape off and paint the Master Bathroom. Harry and I decided that we would so an accent color (a taupe/greenish color) on one of the ledges and then on the other wall as well as the water closet. Our main color will be a chocolate brown. Things started off great, I got the taping down and we started to paint. Around 1:30pm I realized I need to go to the post office to pick up a package that had been there a week and I had to get it before 3pm. So we headed to town and go the package, while in town we grabbed a bite to eat at Chills. When we got back home we were totally wiped. We watched some TV and after a while it took every bit of energy that I had to get back into that master bathroom and finish painting the access color. Luckily we did and I have to say it turned out pretty good... not to much bleeding.

So that's pretty much all we did on Saturday in regards to the house work. So much for getting a ton of stuff done. I had planned to do the Brown in the master bathroom but I really want to get to work on our garage so we can started planning my toy room.

Prepping Master Bathroom

After my visit with my Dad I got home around 6pm and started working on prepping the master bathroom for painting over the weekend. We still have boxes of stuff all over the place so that is what I did first. I put away and organized all our bathroom products. Now it's ready to be taped and painted. I took a short break to make some dinner for Harry and I and catch up on a little TV. Well that was a mistake as I was exhausted from a long day I never returned to prepping the bathroom. But at least it's cleaned up and should take too long to tape off the walls. Back to painting this weekend... joy...

Visiting Dad

Today I took off work to visit my Dad in the hospital. I knew it would be a few hours to get there and with the GPS it found a back way driving the 138 to 215 that it said was quicker. I went by myself as Harry decided that he didn't want to go. As I was driving Dad actually called me and asked if I would swing by the house and pick up some clothes for him. I told him I was going a completely different way and wasn't anywhere near his house but I could stop by a store and buy him what he needs. So that is what I did. I stopped by Walmart and picked him up some underwear, shorts and a T-shirt. I got to his room around 12:30pm.

He had tubes all over the place but he looked in good spirits. He said that they did the angioplasty and he was feeling much better. I spent about three hours chatting with him and visiting.

Found out that he indeed had a heart attack, this was he second in two years. And two of his heart valves are in good shape just needed a bit of cleaning, but the two other aren't fairing so well. They aren't bad enough to justify heart surgery but they aren't the most healthiest of valves. The Doctors want Dad to come back on a regular bases so they can keep in eye on those valves. If they get worse then he'll need to have them replaced. They are currently putting him on more meds to try and help control the issue.

He should be getting out of the hospital on Saturday or Sunday.

So not the greatest of news but it could have been so much worse.

Again thanks to all my twitter and facebook friends for moral support.. it helped very much.

Dad in Hospital

Today around 5pm my sister-in-law called me and said that my brother had just called 911 for my Dad. I immediately called him to find out what had happened. He said it looks as though Dad is having another heart attack.

An hour later he called me back and informed me that Dad was in bad shape. Several of his heart valves were clogged and several were in bad shape. He was currently in stable condition and they were going to do an angioplasty on the clogged valves.

There was nothing I could do, which was the worse part. I had informed my boss that I would be taking off tomorrow so I can go down and visit him.

I'll keep you posted

PS.. thank you to all my friends on facebook and twitter for all your wonderful support.. really meant a lot to me.

PGA Screeners

Finally got my first movie screeners for the award season.. been waiting all month. First one I got was "The Stoning of Soraya M." Sounds like a really heavy movie.. not sure I'll be watching this one. I'm hoping more will arrive soon.

Making Changes

I love when you are finally done and very happy with the final results, but realize that you left something out and have to go back and re-edit.

Might sounds simple but when I'm down with editing the podcast I output (which takes about 30 minutes), then I run it through levelator (which levels out all the audio, which takes another 30 minutes) but that leaves it in a .aiff format which doesn't work for podbean so I then have to bring it into Audacity and output it as an .mp3 and that take about 15 minutes. And finally if I remember I bring it into itunes to add the photo. So once I'm done editing the piece there is still another hour and 15 minutes of outputting before it is ready.

I had to go back and cut in the piece that I forget and then start this process over once again. Oh well the piece had to be in there and It think this pt 1 or Ep 10 turned out pretty good. Can't wait to post it.

Editing my Podcast

After a long day of work I came home and started working on editing KOTG ep 10 pt 1. I had already went through the hours of audio and cut it down to what was needed. I am not cutting it all together with the bumpers and dissolves and making it all pretty. Should be done tonight but won't post it until Nov. 15th. Ep 10 pt 2 is still waiting to be cut down before being assembled.

Clash of the Titans

I am a huge fan of mythology so of course when I was a kid I loved Clash of the Titans.

When I think of my favorite childhood movies, along with Star Wars, Willow, Krull, Last Starfighter and of course Clash of the Titans so when I heard they were making a re-make I was a little skeptical but figured I would give them a change.. well I started to see pictures a few weeks ago and they looked pretty good.. well moments ago they released the very first teaser trailer for the new remake and all I have to say is WOW... it looks AWESOME... I can't wait to see this movie. This trailer really got me pumped for this movie.

Satellite Internet

Today I was feeling a bit better but still having some stomach issues and it still feels like someone is poking my eyes from the inside.

But today our Satellite internet company HughesNet was coming by at 9am to install our new internet service. I don't know much about Satellite internet but because of where we live and lack of any kind of broadband service this was our only option. We currently have an internet service and though it's better then dial up it's a far cry from DSL or Broadband.

Yesterday I did some research and found HughesNet. They had six different speeds to choose from. Since Harry and I are big into the internet we went with a fairly fast speed. We choose their Elite service, just two shy of there fastest. It's going to cost up $120 month but if the speed is even close to where they say it will be.. it will be worth the money.

After three hours our new internet was up and running.. we did a few speed tests and were very pleased with the results... now will have to see if it continues.

I've heard some not so good thing with Satellite service but all we can do is hope for the best.

After that I dragged myself to work.. I'm not feeling 100% but I'll survive.

Still Sick but it's Work Time

Still not feeling great but it's Monday and time to for work. I probably would have stayed home and rested but I had two new employees starting today so I have to be here to meet and greet and fill out new paperwork. And of course neither of them were coming in until 4pm. So I struggled through the day going back and forth from my office to the bathroom.

During the day Harry finally had it with our home internet so I did some research and ordered a Satellite internet service.. should be getting that installed in a few days.. hopefully that will take care of our horribly slow internet.

After work I went home and rested a bit, but then I did a little editing on my Knights of the Guild podcast as it's needs to be done by the 15th.

Painting the Master Bath... Not!!!

I haven't been feeling 100% the past few days but nothing serious... well that kind of changed in the early AM. Around 3am I woke up sweating and starving (like major hunger pains). I got up and made me a sandwich and started to feel a little better. Woke up around 8am and was feeling okay.. I had some breakfast and that when it began.. for the rest of the day I was in and out of the bathroom.. I was feeling horrible and it felt like someone was poking my eyeballs from the inside. Needless to say I did very little painting or prepping the bathroom for painting. It bummed me out as I really wanted to get that done but I just didn't feel good. Hopefully next weekend will be the weekend we finish our painting.

I was so exhausted that I was ready for bed by 7pm.. but managed to stay awake until 11pm.