Not much . . .

Not much going on right now.  Not much blogging, not much remodeling, not much picture taking, not much of anything. 

The room seems to be back to normal, a few unexpected leaks here and there.  A few power outages to test the system.  That is a shocker, talk about the deer in the headlights look of panic.  What will happen when the power goes out with a 260 gallon fish tank in your family room?  Not much, just a few more leaks from pipes not sealed as planned. 

I've been fingerprinted, I've showed all my forms of identification, filled out all my forms, I'm ready for my new job that starts April 1st.  I told my new boss that I may call in sick my first day of work . . . April Fools!!!  She did not think that was as funny as I did.

The policeman at the police station was very nice about my fingerprints.  I wore a white shirt that day.  Not the thing to wear when being fingerprinted and my nose itched the entire time.  At the station, next to the black ink pad is an industrial size container of baby wipes.  I wonder how often they have to refill that gallon size container of baby wipes?  I haven't been called back to the police station, so everything must have checked out okay.  Whew!!

My friend JediMama has a blog, (check it out), and she has a nine year old son that attends gymnastics with my A.  Occasionally I read up on her blog and laugh out loud.  Her son, The Boy, and my A have said similar things lately, it makes me laugh how similar they are.  The Boy, the cutest little guy at gymnastics, apparently listens to "new" music like A does.  The Boy told JediMama that Michael Jackson is cool.  Beat It, Billy Jean, and Thriller are on the top of his listening chart at the moment.  A asked me a few days ago as I sang along to The Eye of the Tiger, "How do you know all those words?"  I said that I listened to those songs when I was about her age (wink, wink).  OK, I listened to them when I was in high school.  
Then, nine year old A asked me, "Was the music static-y?"  As in the music on the radio is so old-fashioned that the radio was static-y. 

A asked another question recently about The Wizard of OZ.  "When you watched it on TV was it all in black and white?"  And the best, "When did they invent color?"  As if the entire world was created in black and white and someone invented color one day in 1956, when the movie came out in full Technicolor on television sets across the country (--that is if you had a color television back then).  Out of the mouths of babes oft times come gems. 

Let the laundry begin

Yes.  The washer is fixed.  After two and a half hours, the washing machine repairman fixed it.  Who knew it took that long to fix a washer?  This weekend will be filled with laundry sorting, adding laundry detergent, drying laundry, hanging laundry, folding laundry and putting away laundry. 

The tank is running smoothly and leak free, at the moment.

I was able to enjoy my favorite shows on Thursday evening:  Survivor, CSI and The Mentalist.  The new room with the comfy couch and TV which we managed to work this week was a joy, so nice. 

We are going to watch my sister's boys play hockey this evening.

See you next week with clean fresh clothes and more sanity than I have had in a few weeks. 

Enjoy your weekend!!

Progress, Stop. Progress, Stop.

It seems the odds are against us.  Or maybe the odds are with us.  However that works, I'm not sure. 

We make a little progress then we have to stop. 

This last week or two, it seems, has been just that.  The first water test resulted in a few leaks.  We drained the tanks.  We fixed, re-glued, a few joints in the pipes.  We thought we had the leaks stopped.  We poured in the sand.  We set in the rocks.  We filled the tanks with water and salt and . . .  more leaks. 

The nice carpenter man came over to finish the cabinets above the tank to enclose the lights and the plumbing. 

Our lives came to a screeching halt on Friday evening.  No TV, we had too many remotes, four to be exact, for the big screen TV/Cable/Speakers, oh yes, and the new DVD player.  We had to ask the neighbor to come over and fix the TV. 

In the meantime, during all the commotion on Friday: the plumber, the carpenter, the stone man, the electrician, the cable TV man.  The internet and the phone were disconnected in the attic.  Do you know what that can do to a girl that is totally dependent on internet and phone for her job?!  Two days of missed appointments!!  Not to mention no blogging, no surfing, no nothing. 

The room is almost back to normal.  We are still waiting for a plumber to come and fix two leaks then we can start this small-scale ocean up again, cycle the water for two months and see where we sit as far as ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, salinity and then maybe we can add a few creatures. 

Now we have to get the washing machine fixed.  It broke during all the towel washing.  We obsessed over spreading towels on the carpet to prevent traffic dirt from all the people coming and going.  We washed towels on a nightly basis.  Needless to say we have clothes piling up in corners. 

GREAT!!  What is next?  Hopefully the progression will begin and the stopping will be at a minimum for a while.