Been staying somewhat busy since I last wrote. Last Wednesday Dave and I started tearing out the built in cabinet by the fire place at Kim's. That cabinet, come to find out, was put in by the builder of the house because once the cabinet was out to could see that they had never finished bricking the fire place plus it had an unfinished wall. Thursday, Dave worked on patching the wall and fixing the unfinished fire place, I was doing the kids laundry and cleaning their house, no bathrooms though, I hate bathrooms. Friday Dave primed the wall for painting and in between we ran to the park to play pickle ball. Friday night Danny painted the wall to match all the other walls, with the cabinet gone it looked really good, after all it was a 30+ year old cabinet. Saturday Danny mowed the lawn while Dave worked on something, but damn if we can remember. I took off later to Longs and Danny and Dave worked on the kid's taxes. Saturday night Dave and I went to Bakersfield Speedway for the car races, Danny said he would stay home and cook Kim dinner when she got off work, which he didn't because he was playing X-Box and lost track of time.
Sunday Dave, Danny and I went to breakfast, Kim had to work again, then did some running around for some padding for the wood flooring they needed to put in from where we took the cabinet out. When we were leaving Home Depot, Dave had bought some spray paint for the ceiling, where the cabinet was, and we were in self checkout. Of course the spray paint set off the alarm for the manager, I wasn't paying attention but the manager was asking Danny for his drivers license, Dave looked over and said the spray paint was for him, why did he need Danny's license, the manager said "Oh, are you with them?" meaning Danny, and Dave said YES! Prejudice, weird seeing right in front of your face, we laughed it off but if you really thought about it, it really wasn't funny. Brown skin, shaved head and dark sun glasses on your head, it really makes you think about how you really perceive things, does that sound right? Hopefully you know what I'm trying to say, I know with someone covered in tats, I'm very prejudice, they could be great people but I look down at them, which really isn't right. Enough of that crap.
Sunday Dave and Danny finished the floor then we started moving the desks and table around. We made the dining room back into a dining room, we moved my mom's old desk into the alcove where the cabinet used to be, now that will be the computer desk again. It looks really good with the changes that have been done, it really opens up the house.
Today, Monday, Lowes came by and measured the 3 bedrooms for new carpet, the baby's room needs to be done really bad so we might as well do the other 2 rooms too. When we get back at the end of May, Dave has this great plan, so we can save money, is that he and I will paint the whole outside of the house, because it needs it really bad. I think that's it, I'm all caught up again.
Happy 53rd Birthday to my brother Marty, and Happy 29th Anniversary to Dayna and Marty.
Monday, April 07, 2008
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Sometimes prejudice can hit you smack in the face. Poor Danny. Going to be a papa and mistaken for a hoodlum. On a lighter note: Save money and paint the outside of the house ourself? Yuck! Seems like you guys are doing a ton of work, but all in time for baby, so I guess it can be considered somewhat of fun work. Has Kim decided on a theme for the nursery yet?
Boy, you guys sure are working your butts off! Any chance of making it up our way? If not, I guess we will just have to come down to Bakersfield. - Kelli
We were hoping to make it up but timing is wrong right now. We leave here 4/22 and have to see Dave's side of the family. We just got news that his nephew has a cancerous tumor in his back so we need to see him. His nephew is the same age as his Dad, Dave's half brother, when he died of almost the same thing. Dave's aunt is turning 90 this summer so we need to see her, plus other relatives. While we are there we are going to go by and see Uncle Bob and Jim too. Then in the middle of May we have a wedding to go to in Simi Valley, so as you can see no time to come see you guys before the baby is born. Did you see Kim's picture on Marisa's blog? We are going to teach Kim and Danny, mainly Danny, on how to set up a picture site to people can see her. She started a blog too, berlyg.blogspot.com
Now that Kim has a Phanfare account, they can post pictures there. It's easy to use and people can order pics through the site too.
Geez! You guys ARE busy! Don't worry about not making it up. It does give us a great reason to come down to CA. We (Alex) have bookmarked Kim's blog. It is fun to read. I meant to leave a comment on there that I agree with Danny, the X-Box is not stupid! - Kelli
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