Today is Tuesday, July 4th and it's time to write again. By the way, Happy 4th of July to everyone. Well let's see what has happened since I last wrote, the dry wall guy's came out last Wednesday, June 28th, but didn't show up between 7 and 8 a.m. they got there about 9:00, so needless to say Danny wasn't a happy camper since he had to get up at 7:00 am. Poor guy, I really think he can't wait to see us go, anyway the worker's were there all day putting up the dry wall and didn't even finish. Personally, I didn't think it was that big of a job, but what do I know, so they said they would be back the next day, Thursday, at 7:00 am to finish up. (yea right) They did show up at 7:00 am with a third guy this time, the first 2 stayed maybe an hour but the other guy they brought did all the tapeing, masking, and touch up jobs we had. He was there almost all day doing that, plus, he was singing as he worked. Have no idea what he was singing because it was all in spanish and Danny wasn't there to help us. Well, after the worker's did show up at 7:00 am Danny went in the spare bedroom and went back to sleep before he had to leave for work. I have to admit I layed down on the living room couch and took a short nap too, Dave was working on the computer and on conference calls, and Kim was working on her computer doing home work, a nap sounded good to me. Kim had to work at Red Robin for the lunch crowd and got home about 4 pm. We stuck around and went out to dinner with her since Thursday and Tuesday too are Danny's late days at work, he works from noon to 8:00 p.m.
Friday we had no worker's here but Dave and I, oh forgot the 3 dogs too, Danny was at work and Kim was doing homework at first then she was in the ONE and ONLY bathroom crinking her hair for work because she had the lunch hour shift again. We had a lot to do because Fernando was coming up Saturday morning again to work on the tile. My job was to prime the dry wall, which is like painting it, Dave's job was making a mold so he could pour cement for the shower step or something like that. Dave's job required a lot of cuzing, I guess, because he did a lot of that. After those jobs were done we started setting up all the new bathroom cabinets, which is a lot of work because you have to get everything level, thank goodness when all the tile work was put in most of the floors were level but of course the cabinets aren't. Danny then called in the afternoon and said Fernando could work on Saturday, only, and had to be home Sunday, but Monday he could come back up and stay all week to finish the work. Dave said it didn't make any sense for him to come up for 1 day just come on Monday, July 3rd and stay until the work is done. Dave and I didn't finish levelling the cabinets, with Fernando not coming up it gave us an excuse not to keep killing ourselves, we now had Saturday to finish the work. I was really happy about that because on Saturday Danny would be there to help Dave and I got a break. Kim got home from work, Danny got home from work a little bit later and we all went out to dinner. Saturday, July 1st, we got to Kim's at around 9 am and Dave and Danny started working on the cabinets again. Danny was going to do tile work but, thank goodness, he helped Dave with the cabinets, me I watched "Eight Below" a Walt Disney movie with the dogs, if you haven't seen it it is a movie about dogs. Kim was working at the hospital from 7am to 7pm but the guys did join me in watching the movie on the 2nd half. After the movie we all got back to work, them on cabinets me on the front bathroom. We always thought the grout in the tile in that bathroom was brown, it's not, it's green. I did a lot of cleaning between the floor and the shower and boy what a difference, it looks like a new bathroom. Can't blame Kim or Danny because they never use that bathroom and when you don't use it you think it stays clean, I learned that the hard way and so are they. With both of them working and going to school plus having 2 dogs you just don't realize how dirty things get.
Anyway, Dave and Danny quit working about 5 pm and did clean up, it was Saturday night so that means the car races. They were having fire works that night and big races so Danny said he would wait until Kim got home so Dave and I could go, so we left about 6 pm. We have been going since right before Father's Day and there has been hardly anyone there, but boy was it packed Saturday. There was a long line to even get in, so needless to say we got to see a lot of the oildale,bakersfield ect people. After watching a few of them, walk around, Dave turned to me and said these people at really starting to scare me, I told him if we stay much longer I'm going to start smoking again and get tatooed and pierced everywhere. That way we look like we fit in. Danny and Kim never made it to the races she was tired plus the place was so packed we all agreed it wouldn't be enjoyable. We left about 10 pm and drove to Kim's house to pick up Valley and go home.
Sunday, since we had the day off, we decided to drive down to David's and Jodi's for Riley's birthday party. Kim was working again at the hospital 7 am to 7 pm and Danny wanted to sleep all day so we dropped Valley off with him and drove down to Simi Valley. We went to David's for a couple hours and had a nice time. We didn't want to stay to late because of the traffic, when driving down the traffic the opposite way of us was bumper to bumper. Do you know we got on the road about 3:45pm and didn't slow once, I was amazed. We got back about 5:30 and went straight to the motor home and called Danny. He was at the casino and we said we would meet him back at home at 7pm and when Kim got home we would go to dinner. When Kim got home we went for chinse food, went back to the house, we picked up Valley and went home. It was a long day with all that driving.
Fernando showed up Monday morning at 9 am and the tile work started, Danny went to work so Dave and Fernando worked together. Kim had homework so she went to Barnes and Noble to read and I went back to work cleaning the rest of the front bathroom. Fernando and Dave worked all day and I decided when Danny got home from work, because Kim has class from 5+ to 9+, that we would go home and let the guys visit without us, that way if Fernando had any bitching to do about Dave he could get it out of his system without Dave knowning about it, Ha Ha.
When Dave and I came back the next day, July 4th, Fernando and Danny had kept working and didn't go out to dinner until Kim got home from school. Today was another all dayer, and come to find out we didn't get enough tile to finish the shower, Dave calculated wrong, so the big tile we have two boxes to many and the small tile, which we need, is two boxes short, oh well shit happens.
That's it for now on the construction work, forgot to mention while here my leather car seat split at the seam last week so we had to find someone to fix it. Dave found a place and we dropped my car off last Thursday and they had it until Saturday and boy what a great job they did. Instead of leather, which Dave always wanted and I didn't, they put material, which they matched completely with the dark gray on the outside and the light gray in the inside, it looks great. One more thing I have to mention before I cut off for this weeks update, my court date that was suppose to be July 12th has now been changed to August 1st. This is the court date with the labor board going after Hallmark for not paying me for my vacation time, will keep everyone informed on what happens.
Better cut off for now, Love you All