Less pain less writing - I'll take it
Oct. 3rd, 2015 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzSure I'll write now - as long as I'm avoiding something else.
Gym:
Today is squat day, on schedule, though I missed DL and bench this week. I think I'm going to go cautiously, warm up way too long, go to my favorite empty gym...and really, really, really try to watch what I do. I would normally be on down week, I need to do form over all else (no shame in dropping the weight, you say it now do it), and...I travel this week so I'm probably going to miss far more workouts along the way. I may be able to stay on schedule-kinda if I ditch religious this-day this-lift. Just hit it if I've had at least one day off. I could Mike my way through combined workouts...why not DL and bench the same day?
My gf's out of town, so I'm sort of unfettered and missing her at the same time. I keep sending her pictures of the cat. Last night I had a solo-date-night of beer (ok starting with friends), old video games, kittie, and watching american greed. Geekin' hard.
Do other people get pissed off at people who pull half a car space into a space at the end of a parking area on the street (parallel parking) so invariably a space is wasted?
Fucking house:
Moving - I didn't really choose not to get quotes from movers, but I did fail to get moving quotes...it's like I just didn't get around to it. However when I priced a move from downstairs to upstairs, it was quoted around $700 which is why I went with friends. EVERYONE tells me to use movers (but I lift weights!?). However last night friends noted prices of moving an apt locally for $4-500 (one not so local) including packing. WTF...I thought I was avoiding spending $2500 +, if it's like $500 fuckyeah as renting a truck alone is $100 minimum and easily $200.
Oh really the house:
Brick stain - is harder than it looks, as the contractor points out the nice exposed brick wall is red brick with light gray mortar covered ONLY with clearcoat. The long stair/hall wall is clay brick, which is sort of a yellowish brown) with yellowish mortar to match. The problem is whatever stain we use on the wall will also color the mortar. He's right, in our test areas the mortar is not only brown - but we're losing the color change from the mortar to the bricks which gives the wall the appeal - it's not a big one-color wall, it's a pattern of color changes. So I may just clear coat it...or go with some minimal red stain in the mix. Hellno we're not painting each brick around the mortar.
Paint colors - screwed up on my whites and didn't pick a trim color, so I really need to do that and fast. I may hit SW this weekend (Scott noted one is near me in DC, another is the one here in Arl).
I felt like there was more to say. Ohshit forgot to call the gas co...
I still need to get appliances, which is harder than it sounds. Like mattresses, different models aren't very different but vary by store so price-comparisons are hard. I think I'm going to just take the risk of scratch and dent - may shop for them today. Where is that list of what I need...
Yesterday I hit happy hour near my place - ran into Jordan who was waiting for the subfloor tile material to arrive. I wasn't allowed upstairs as the last layer of finish was put on the floors now that most of the work was done. The top floor is mostly done...my god. Really? The closets are done, trim is done, mudding done...even the bathrooms are coming together (I saw the radiant heat tubes going under the shower!)
I'm going to be there by halloween. Neat.
Skipping a million details I'm sure, but I need to call the gas co.
I'm suffering a bit from stress - kinda had a cussing meltdown in the office the other day to the degree it alarmed a friend. I think the constant weight of money-bleeding, the stock market taking 20% off something I need to sell soon to pay bills, a shutdown, a huge series of cases this month, and all the tasks that NEED to be done for the house or delay and lose yet more money...it is all doable, I can handle it, but there is definitely a stress effect. Horrible time to have an injury, worse when I don't even know when or how it happened. No pop. When I've moved in, licensed if that happens, and the old place is filled with rent coming in? Perhaps then it'll be less madness and I can return to a more level state.
Gym:
Today is squat day, on schedule, though I missed DL and bench this week. I think I'm going to go cautiously, warm up way too long, go to my favorite empty gym...and really, really, really try to watch what I do. I would normally be on down week, I need to do form over all else (no shame in dropping the weight, you say it now do it), and...I travel this week so I'm probably going to miss far more workouts along the way. I may be able to stay on schedule-kinda if I ditch religious this-day this-lift. Just hit it if I've had at least one day off. I could Mike my way through combined workouts...why not DL and bench the same day?
My gf's out of town, so I'm sort of unfettered and missing her at the same time. I keep sending her pictures of the cat. Last night I had a solo-date-night of beer (ok starting with friends), old video games, kittie, and watching american greed. Geekin' hard.
Do other people get pissed off at people who pull half a car space into a space at the end of a parking area on the street (parallel parking) so invariably a space is wasted?
Fucking house:
Moving - I didn't really choose not to get quotes from movers, but I did fail to get moving quotes...it's like I just didn't get around to it. However when I priced a move from downstairs to upstairs, it was quoted around $700 which is why I went with friends. EVERYONE tells me to use movers (but I lift weights!?). However last night friends noted prices of moving an apt locally for $4-500 (one not so local) including packing. WTF...I thought I was avoiding spending $2500 +, if it's like $500 fuckyeah as renting a truck alone is $100 minimum and easily $200.
Oh really the house:
Brick stain - is harder than it looks, as the contractor points out the nice exposed brick wall is red brick with light gray mortar covered ONLY with clearcoat. The long stair/hall wall is clay brick, which is sort of a yellowish brown) with yellowish mortar to match. The problem is whatever stain we use on the wall will also color the mortar. He's right, in our test areas the mortar is not only brown - but we're losing the color change from the mortar to the bricks which gives the wall the appeal - it's not a big one-color wall, it's a pattern of color changes. So I may just clear coat it...or go with some minimal red stain in the mix. Hellno we're not painting each brick around the mortar.
Paint colors - screwed up on my whites and didn't pick a trim color, so I really need to do that and fast. I may hit SW this weekend (Scott noted one is near me in DC, another is the one here in Arl).
I felt like there was more to say. Ohshit forgot to call the gas co...
I still need to get appliances, which is harder than it sounds. Like mattresses, different models aren't very different but vary by store so price-comparisons are hard. I think I'm going to just take the risk of scratch and dent - may shop for them today. Where is that list of what I need...
Yesterday I hit happy hour near my place - ran into Jordan who was waiting for the subfloor tile material to arrive. I wasn't allowed upstairs as the last layer of finish was put on the floors now that most of the work was done. The top floor is mostly done...my god. Really? The closets are done, trim is done, mudding done...even the bathrooms are coming together (I saw the radiant heat tubes going under the shower!)
I'm going to be there by halloween. Neat.
Skipping a million details I'm sure, but I need to call the gas co.
I'm suffering a bit from stress - kinda had a cussing meltdown in the office the other day to the degree it alarmed a friend. I think the constant weight of money-bleeding, the stock market taking 20% off something I need to sell soon to pay bills, a shutdown, a huge series of cases this month, and all the tasks that NEED to be done for the house or delay and lose yet more money...it is all doable, I can handle it, but there is definitely a stress effect. Horrible time to have an injury, worse when I don't even know when or how it happened. No pop. When I've moved in, licensed if that happens, and the old place is filled with rent coming in? Perhaps then it'll be less madness and I can return to a more level state.
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Date: 2015-10-03 03:18 pm (UTC)Yes we were just cursing someone out for this in Portland the other day. Especially vexing in a place where parking is hard to come by.
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