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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
The To-Do ListTime is ticking, and it's ticking pretty fast. Let's see what's in store for the next seven weeks: 1) Living Room - Danielle and I need to decide on living room furniture. We've seen every type of couch arrangement ever made and visited every furniture store in Michigan. I think we have it down to one style. Now the hard part will be selecting the fabric. If we get gray slate, we can have the sectional couch in a week. If we select any other color, it will take 8-12 weeks for the couch to arrive. I'm pretty sure if we select any other color than slate, I'll have to repaint the living room. 2) Kitchen - Danielle and I put 1/3 down on the kitchen. Cabinets are supposedly ordered. Next, we need to go to Creative design center and pick out handles, sink, counter top and faucet. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but if you examine our decision-making process you'll find that simple decisions take congressional inquiries and evaluations that take months. Hopefully it will be simple. Nonetheless, cabinets won't arrive until the middle to end of September. Ouch. Baby is due October 6. It takes a little over a week to complete the work. 3) Crib Bedding - If baby arrived today, he/she would sleep on a bare mattress. We still haven't decided on a bedding set. Congressional Inquiry, remember? It will take us the full seven weeks to decide on what bedding to put in the crib. Add the complexity of deciding on a rug, and you can see, we have major hurdles to overcome. 4) Painting the kitchen - This is a big issue. Painting the kitchen is no small task. Do we paint before or after the cabinets are installed? Since a large portion of the drywall is being cut and re-fabricated, it only makes sense to paint AFTER the cabinets are installed. So I guess I will be painting the kitchen in the two weeks that I'm off on FMLA. 5) Painting the family room - Guess what? The family room needs to be repainted too. That I could do right now and it shouldn't be too big of a deal. The hard part won't be prepping the room for paint, taping edges, carpet, and trimming out corners and trim. The hard part will be deciding on a color. That may take weeks. 6) Family room carpet - Baby is going to need a place to crawl since our whole house is hardwood flooring. Danielle wants new carpet in the family room. I agree, we do need new carpet. Question is, what comes first, the carpet, the paint, or the kitchen (the appliances will need to be put somewhere when they're doing the kitchen floor)? 7) New side entrance door - Danielle and I have talked about it. It's not a priority. It would be nice to have. Probably no chance in getting a new door before baby is born. Too many decisions. 8) Kitchen table - Danielle wants a new kitchen table. I bought it from my cousin, Lilly, about eight years ago - solid oak. Very nice table. We're going to replace a $1000 solid oak table with a $200 beechwood table. At least it will look nice for a few months. Again, decision making process will probably push this into December. Probably better to wait for the kitchen to be complete. 9) Buying dishwasher and microwave - We still need to purchase a dishwasher and microwave for the new kitchen. I'm going to make an executive decision on these and just buy middle-of-the-road. This task needs to happen before kitchen is complete, obviously, since contractor will have to install them. 10) Birthing classes - We have birthing classed to go to. They're mainly set up to teach Danielle how to breath. I'm pretty sure that I won't leave the classes with enlightenment and epiphanies. They teach the father how to support his wife? What's the alternative, me yelling at my wife? C'mon. 11) Infant CPR - Danielle signed us up for this class. I know CPR. I've taken first aid and lifesaving courses ever since I was a cub scout... no... I learned mouth-to-mouth back when I was taking swimming lessons at the YMCA. I tried giving CPR to a newborn kitten in college. I don't think I'll have a problem with this course. I hope I don't fall asleep in class. CPR classes are set up to teach CPR to the lowest common denominator human. I need to take something a little more challenging like skydiving CPR or underwater scuba CPR... or performing a kidney transplant using one of my kidneys and a pencil. Now that would be an interesting class! Seven weeks. Lots to do. posted by Dino at 5:56 PM (permanent link)
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