Memory Lane

As you’ve read here before, the building I now work in for my contractor position is the building I used to work in when I worked for the Bank. I only officially worked in that building for about a year but the whole time I worked for the Bank I was only a stone’s throw from that building and was in and out of it all the time.

That building was the first time I ever had an office all to myself and it was an office with four walls that went all the way to the ceiling and a door! Can you imagine? It was in that building that my department finally gave me a raise and some respect. They were afraid I was going to leave even after the Bank was bought by a bigger Bank and they laid me off. As it turns out, sometimes when the bigger Bank lays people off they don’t really mean it because that’s when I was asked to stay and got a raise and then moved into my own office.

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She’s Going To Make It After All

My friend, JP, got the job! Congratulations!

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Because I Know You Are Dying To Know

Spring is only 4 days away, hurray!

It is chilly, rainy and dreary today but it is so hot in the office that I’m wearing a t-shirt.

The only moisture on the floor of the basement this morning was where the cat puked-at least he went downstairs.

Whitneyhouston checked herself into rehab–does she actually make music anymore or does she spend all her time getting high with her husband?

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May I Have Some More?

The new commercial about the Gap’s stress-free khakis is a commercial I could watch over and over again. Woof.

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It’s Beautiful, I Cried

As promised I’m posting pictures of our newly improved basement.

What the trench looked like going into the garage:

What the trench looked like with the drainage system in place:

The garage wall after the job was completed :

Where I hope to do laundry some day:

Basically, they cut a trench in our floor and then laid their patented pipe and filled with gravel. Then they applied a plastic film to the wall and then put a rigid plastic sealer over that. After all of that, they put down concrete to make our floor complete. Then, they cleaned everything up so that you can hardly tell they were there. The excellent thing is the concrete has a citrus smell to it so there’s none of “what’s that smell” going on while it cures.

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You Win Some

Yesterday the basement was finished. I’ll have more about that over in the House Proud section later. I’m so excited that space will soon be really and truly ours and not something akin to a jail cell.

We worked on some of the already downed trees (thanks to Isabel-that witch) and decided that the trees that have popped their root balls should go ahead and meet the chainsaw since they’ll eventually go over. We successfully got one tree to fall in the forest (and, lo, we heard it). Another tree has been dangling a hugemongous limb over our driveway since the hurricane and we decided to tackle that tree too.

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Drink my liquor, From an old fruitjar

I’ve read a boat-load of articles this week that have kind of depressed me: what Dubya did or didn’t do on the morning of Sept11; what it means to be a real Christian and not what’s being passed off these days; the bustling trade of cadavers–and that was before the recent stories broke; why dickcheney will never try to be president–he’d have to give up too much power; and, in general, articles about what’s wrong with the world.

As a reaction I thought I’d list things that are good (you may or may not agree):

Elvis songs will always make me smile
The sky is a beautiful shade of blue today
Daffodils are taking over the yard
Babysitting the Niece tomorrow night
The way my fat-as-a-house cat finds me first when he needs to feel better
Breakfast Burritos
Blood oranges are in the market
Losing weight
Good music, good friends and good food
Hearing about someone else’s good news (congrats JW on the promotion)

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Why?

Why does this stuff keep happening? The misanthrope in me answers because we’re too damn stubborn and ignorant to not do it.

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He’s Crafty

Our blind old cat has for years entertained us with his ability to open cabinet doors. He stands on his hind legs and uses his front paws to open them. He’s also pretty good at opening my closet doors even the one with the heavy mirror on it. While building the porch, we joked about putting a little door knob on the screen door so he could get on and off the porch.

This morning is the first day of the basement waterproofing and, to prevent the cats from going downstairs, we closed the door to the basement. The door to the basement is a bi-fold french door. Generally speaking you have to firmly press on the door to get it to open. We’ve always had luck with keeping cats or small children out of the basement with this door. Until today.

That darn cat figured out how to open the door. I’m sure once the jack hammer starts up down there he’ll go into hiding, but this morning he was insistent about going downstairs.

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What’s Good

Our wedding anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks and I’m happy to say we’re moving out of the “7-year itch” phase of the marriage and onto the “my god, we’ve been married forever” phase.

Since the big 8-year anniversary is coming up (ok, maybe that’s not forever), I’ve been thinking about things that are good about being married. I thought I’d share the one that came to mind this morning after I got out of the shower: getting someone to put lotion on your back is a pretty good thing.

I didn’t say my thoughts were earth-shattering.

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