something so small is always so big-

   Empty computer room- waiting to have the floors re-finished.  I'm pretty sure the dogs are wondering 'where the hell did I put the couch?'

     The 'empty-furniture-less'  hall- with it's million of scratches.  

What seems too good to be true- usually is just that: 'seems'. A simple project- never remains simple, in this home. I'm sure in every house- actually.

The floors, which we had refinished in 2005, are in horrid shape- in the main run: hall, computer room kitchen. Mainly- due to 230lbs of dog[s] who will race each other to the front door, whenever they suspect someone/something may be on the other side. All kinds of things qualitfy here: squirrels, noices, wind, mail lady, get the picture. Being the floors are old... and super soft pine, well- they now look like shit. Heard about Mr. Sandless- [again- too good to be true] had them out for a consultation, seemed great- set it up. When the re-finishers came out [this is after clearing all 3 area's of all funiture- including Mr. Mac, so i'm on Alex's laptop- which I don't do well typing on laptops- and it seems really dumb to close windows with the red X on the right side. I've really have gotten use to using a mac] Re-finishers asked if the consultant- we'll call him: Dan, because that's his name.. If Dan did this water-test. The chemicals they use are water based vs. old-fashion oil-based. No- of coarse Dan didn't do the water test- or write 'satain finish' on the order form, because since when has someone actually have totally and competently completed something correctly when it comes to me: trying to conduct business, to have a project worked on in this house?

If there is one thing I hate most about the human race and human workfoce in this world it would have to be: laziness and stupidness. They seem to go hand-in-hand. I get really pissed off about Human error, as well. I'm the last to admitt I'm perfect, but when you have a simple job- with a friggin' check-list, how can you forget anything? I've worked 9-5er's.. that would classify any type of 'shift-work'... you work 9-5, 8-4, 1-5, etc.. Come- greet your work at the door, get a little lunch break, clock hits 'finishing time' [with the fred flinstone whistle sounding in the backgroud] and you leave your job, at the door. These are kind-of no-brainers. You go, do your work, leave. So- bitching about that crap- ??? = lazy. All through my marriage, I've been accustomed to the : job that follows you, even on vacation. You have to acutally WORK to make $$$, to get $$$, to be paid $$$. Sometimes you're done work at 5:30, sometimes you have to work until 11pm. Ok- just realized I got a bit off subject here... ...

The point- If Dan would have done his job correctly, we could have found out that Mr. Sandless, water-based products would not work well on our floors. We could have found this all out BEFORE we cleared 3 rooms of furniture. Now that we have these empty rooms, with the shitty-looking floors we were thinking: 'when's the next time we'll really want to move all this furniture out of here again???' Which brought on the : 'we'll do the floors ourselves.'. Why I thought I'd be able to pay someone $600, to come, complete my floors in one days time, everything look perfect and furniture back, etc... Well- I have no clue why I thought such a crazy thing.
With us renting the stuff- [as we have], buying the special polyurethane, etc.. and such- well- naturally $600 would have been a sweet dream come true. minwax- at your local home depot- only has a voc of 350. The stuff that is currently on our floors [Harco] has a voc of 450, we need that, there goes the easiness of the home depot trip. Thankfully a distrubtor is going to sell it to us- since we're not professional floor re-finishers. Although- I'll claim to be one, when this is all done. But Harco does make a 'gym coat' product, with even a higher voc. We'll inquire about that- so this may all end up being good and worth it- and the floors will be better than last time:) It's just this is the last thing that I really thought we'd be doing again. and now. and whatnot.

obviously~ I'm just bitchy. I need to hit the treadmill and I'm going to work on the hall ceiling. A small area that was done in 'popcorn style' yay!no. I've been removing it: via hot water, bucket and rag. I just want to get the inside finished. This would include this hall ceiling and painting the hall/stairwell to the attic. Really- it's not a TON of work- just some work the requires some skim-coating, and Larry's help with the ladder. I frankly have no effin' clue how I'm going to work in this certain area, how to postion the ladder. Yeah- it's a bendy one and all that. It's just hard to explain. The ceiling on the landing, itself, is 12 ft. high. But I have a landing- to put the ladder on. Just not a huge one- so this sucks, because you're very 'straight-up' when you're working. The acutally 'stairs' part, I need to figure out. Downstairs- we had floor, to lean the ladder across and such--- here, no flood to the side, just more steps going down. I mean- it had wallpaper there- so it can be done. It's just figuring it all out, w/out renting scaffeling equipment. Again-= ranting, bitching, complaining..


I"m acutally going to run tonight- shower now. Hall- work on it, figure it out. School work stuff... When Larry gets home [work] the floor nightmare will begin/continue. By next week- I hope to have great floors, in those 3 rooms. I still have yard work I'd like to finish up. I still love you house:) You still facinate me and make me smile:) it's all good...