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I love weekends. I'm going on 1 year and 3 months out of grad school, and having a weekend with no homework still makes me squee!
Last night's costume presentation at the Museum of Science went really well. People were excited, we had a really good showing, and dinner with friends at the 99 afterward was fun (photos to come, potentially videos). We had less than expected staying at the house from Rochester - a Wookiee, a 7 months pregnant Padme, their 3 year old stormtrooper and only 2 more guys. I left them all this morning for ballet (more kick butt than usual it seemed, the teacher told me I did really well today), and at some point Brian will come home and we'll figure out what's going on tonight (I'm not sure how long the NY folks will be here, so we may have to miss a birthday party).
Its so nice out! I was going to go to the car wash and be lazy post the butt kicking ballet class, but the line was 15 cars long, sticking into the street. I came home, had lunch and got to cleaning the house a bit inside, washing my car for the first time in the driveway (I need to get some good soap, and a brush to reach over the roof with), and dragging some of a pile of trash from our back yard out to the front of the house. In our cleaning spree of the basement about 2 months back we threw all of the trash out the bulched, planning to rent a dumpster later. Given that we'll need to get one for our back porch remodel, I thought that we should throw out on the street now what we can (basically, everything but the old and large chunks of wood that have nails sticking out of them) and toss the rest in one dumpster later (when we do the porch job). The porch itself looks strong but the entire steps (the foundation of them and the step tops themselves) are quite rotted and need to go. Still, it should be a relatively simple and inexpensive thing to do, and I'll feel much safer after we do it!
Its always neat to see how fast our trash can find other homes after its dragged out to the sidewalk. We had an old broken tile saw from my Dad that just needs a part ordered from the manufacturer to work again. A contractor pulled up in his truck and said he'd be up for the challenge. I mean, the amount of times we'd need a tile saw around, didn't really support keeping one in the basement! There were also a ton of old pipes, new PVC pipes, Some weird long metal tools that seem like they may have been used for cleaning chimneys or something (old and in antique, seriously, they were stuffed up in our basement ceiling), an Etch a Sketch, and some huge cardboard boxes. I've been catching up on LJ in the living room on the couch and looking out the front bow windows that are open, and I've seen no less than 10 cars stop so that people to examine things. Technically I shouldn't be putting trash out until tomorrow night after 7 PM, but there is no way that yard was getting cleaned up at that point.
Related, I love the stuff you can find in old houses. ( Read more... )
Last night's costume presentation at the Museum of Science went really well. People were excited, we had a really good showing, and dinner with friends at the 99 afterward was fun (photos to come, potentially videos). We had less than expected staying at the house from Rochester - a Wookiee, a 7 months pregnant Padme, their 3 year old stormtrooper and only 2 more guys. I left them all this morning for ballet (more kick butt than usual it seemed, the teacher told me I did really well today), and at some point Brian will come home and we'll figure out what's going on tonight (I'm not sure how long the NY folks will be here, so we may have to miss a birthday party).
Its so nice out! I was going to go to the car wash and be lazy post the butt kicking ballet class, but the line was 15 cars long, sticking into the street. I came home, had lunch and got to cleaning the house a bit inside, washing my car for the first time in the driveway (I need to get some good soap, and a brush to reach over the roof with), and dragging some of a pile of trash from our back yard out to the front of the house. In our cleaning spree of the basement about 2 months back we threw all of the trash out the bulched, planning to rent a dumpster later. Given that we'll need to get one for our back porch remodel, I thought that we should throw out on the street now what we can (basically, everything but the old and large chunks of wood that have nails sticking out of them) and toss the rest in one dumpster later (when we do the porch job). The porch itself looks strong but the entire steps (the foundation of them and the step tops themselves) are quite rotted and need to go. Still, it should be a relatively simple and inexpensive thing to do, and I'll feel much safer after we do it!
Its always neat to see how fast our trash can find other homes after its dragged out to the sidewalk. We had an old broken tile saw from my Dad that just needs a part ordered from the manufacturer to work again. A contractor pulled up in his truck and said he'd be up for the challenge. I mean, the amount of times we'd need a tile saw around, didn't really support keeping one in the basement! There were also a ton of old pipes, new PVC pipes, Some weird long metal tools that seem like they may have been used for cleaning chimneys or something (old and in antique, seriously, they were stuffed up in our basement ceiling), an Etch a Sketch, and some huge cardboard boxes. I've been catching up on LJ in the living room on the couch and looking out the front bow windows that are open, and I've seen no less than 10 cars stop so that people to examine things. Technically I shouldn't be putting trash out until tomorrow night after 7 PM, but there is no way that yard was getting cleaned up at that point.
Related, I love the stuff you can find in old houses. ( Read more... )
