Archive for September 1st, 2008

our house…

Well, we’ve gotten a lot done on the plumbing and are hoping to have the rough inspection done this week, as well as the final plumbing inspection on the guest bathroom to get it over with. All the water lines are in and the water is on, and we don’t have any leaks–although we’ll be checking again tomorrow to make sure we don’t have any slow ones that may not have shown up right away. We need to pressurize the drain lines to test them, and install the shower drain pan and fill it for the inspection and we’ll be ready to go. My dad’s coming over tomorrow to work on that and hopefully we can get it all ready to go.

We’ve decided to bring our electrician back in again for the rough in rather than trying to do it ourselves. He came out today to go over some things and get a quote ready, and he’ll be in here next week while Firefly is out of town to get that done. It’s perfect timing since she sleeps during the day, so he can work without worrying about keeping her up. We’ve also decided to have him wire for an overhead light and fan in our bedroom. Right now we only have bedside lamps in there, and it’s kind of a pain in the ass. We did have an outlet that was switched, but when we took out the wiring in the bathroom the circuit got broken (there was a switch for the light in there). He’s going to disconnect those outlets from the switch so they’ll be permanently on. With the bathroom torn out he has access to the ceiling from in there and can run a wire up easily. That will be a nice upgrade.

The vanity that we ordered is in and it looks great, even sitting in the middle of Firefly’s office. We’ve got all our fixtures. We have almost all of the lighting that we need, with the exception of the light/fan for the bedroom. What fun.

why am i still up?

It’s 4:30 in the morning here and I can’t sleep. I was working on homework for a while, then putzing around on the interwebs. I really should go to bed. Firefly will be getting off of work in two and a half hours, but I wish she was here now. My brain is working overtime about nothing in particular, or at least nothing I’d like to talk about. It’s hot in here. We’ve been trying not to run the air conditioning, although the temperatures are getting back up into the 90s during the day. I’m almost to the end of this quarter. Just two more assignments for my humanities class, one of which I’m almost finished with, and one quiz and the final exam left for my math class. Firefly’s birthday is Friday. I don’t have a gift and I’m not sure if I’m going to get anything. We’ve been spending a lot on things for the bathroom and are going to have some pretty major expenses pretty soon what with doctors and swimmers and all. We’re going to another theme park on Saturday, but her work has rented the entire park for the day and we get in free. Hopefully that means short lines again. I’m not looking forward to next week, though. She’ll be out of town for training starting on Sunday and coming back Thursday night. It’s bad enough working two completely different shifts. At least she’s not second shift, that was even worse. I’d leave for work at 7 in the morning, she’d be gone by the time I got home, I’d stay up and wait for her to get home around midnight, we’d stay up talking and catching up, get a few hours of sleep and do it all over again.

I just heard something running around on the roof. That was a little freaky. Okay, I’m going to stop rambling aimlessly now and go try to sleep.