Updates to my last entry.

So where to begin....well I have been working at the hospital quite a bit, I am on day 4 of a stretch of a 7...yay I can see the end coming! I am still coughing a storm...but sorry to say the phlegm has disappeared and is now just a dry cough, so i have no gross disguisting stories about my mysterious illness for my blog today.

The house is apparently painted the right color. I have not witnessed this myself but am told so by reliable sources that the house is the proper color now. I will check on that this weekend and maybe if my loyal blog readers are lucky they will see a picture of the paint color choice that had been choosen to be displayed on the walls in the house. Also the cabinets are in the house (and they are the correct cabinets...haha). The railings are stained to match the cuboards now (still haven't seen this myself either.) And the painters were suppose to be done painting by today but my source doesn't think the painters are done yet either.

So a bit of progress in the ever marching saga of house building. I mean from the possession date originally being October of 2006, I would say that we are not that far off schedule...(notice my sarcasm?)

So anyways I have three wonderful days left of work at the hospital then it is off to the tropical setting of Manitoba. Anyways it is late and I should sleep.

The official pondering buzz.

So this is the way I feel. I have had this head cold for about four days now and it is not getting any better. I wake up and my head feels like a storage facility for phlegm, and I have never felt like my head is going to explode the way I have over the last few days...yes it is true, my head may explode...so try not to stand to close me till this all blows over.



So aside from feeling yucky, me and Ashley met Rick, Nathan and Rob D. to do some quadding yesterday. It was fun and once I got going (no I did not get past the first gear), it was a piece of cake. Mind you Rick and Rob D. felt it was not a good idea to teach me how to go into reverse until I could drive the quad properly in first gear. So needless to say I got stuck at the edge of the field parked in the direction of a dirt pile. So Rick had to push my quad backwards to get me aimed in the right direction so I could continue on in learning how to drive the quad. I was actually laughing so hard because I really suck at quading. Rick was very helpful out in the field and was very encouraging to me during my moments of stupidity where I couldn't get the quad going again and kept stalling. He's a good teacher. Ashley on the other hand did really well, she actually made my quad driving look really, really, really bad.



So we had fun until the boys decided to call it quits....which we all agree (well Ashley, Nathan & I) that we should have spent more time out there. But this is something we will attempt to master at a future date because it is quite fun. But I have never been good at driving a manual, I love automatics. So Nathan's gonna try to get us to try an automatic quad sometime when we have time to go out and practice our quadding skills. Don't laugh....I will become good and master a jump or two. Just wait and see.



Other than not to much happening around here. The house is coming along, the driveway is ready to go...but in need of repairs because they finished the driveway on a day that was to hot resulting in gigantic cracks all across the driveway. So someone is going to fix that. The painters painted the interior of the house the wrong color (due to someones dyslexic ways). So the carpenter is done for now until the finishing carpentry needs to be done after the flooring is in. Next comes the cabinets and then the painters will regrace the house with their presence and paint the house the proper colors...I will be there to make sure they get it right the second time around. Then comes the flooring, then after all that the carpenter will come back in and finish the finishing carpentry....somewhere in between I think the lighting goes into...and then voila the house will be done.....so I hope....so the projected date of possession may hopefully be August??? heehee no one really knows at this point and time!...actually they never gave a possession date after they failed to meet the October 2006 possession date. (long story!)


So while all this is happening and my dad will be here to take care of business, I am heading off to Manitoba for the first week of July...so for my fellow Manitoba readers (I actually don't know how many of you read this.) I will be around from the 3rd to the 8th staying with my auntie arlene. So that is some exciting news! I need the vacation.



Now I should probably go study because I have my last final exam on Tuesday before the summer begins. So if you don't mind I am going to head off to read up about Freud and Erickson and their views on how development occurs over the lifespan....it isn't actually that exciting.



Ps- I do promise to keep my blog updated a lot more than it has been. I realize that it has been awhile since I have blogged and I apologize to all my loyal blog readers.

For the finale...

So it is pouring rain outside and it feels like minus 30 degrees inside...mostly because for some reason the airconditioners are still running even though it is cold outside. I am sure by tomorrow the sun will be out and it will return to the hot, hot +30 degree we've been having. So I figured I would take a moment to blog.

I finally picked out and decided on the colors for the house...which everyone had me second guessing my decisions and making me really wonder if I should be allowed to pick colors because I know nothing about interior design. But finally I picked the colors and what is done, is done. If it looks horrible, then I will repaint every square inch of the place myself...heehee probably not!

They are putting the siding up on the house finally, but they don't get very far from day to day mostly due to the fact that when I drive by and check on the progress, I only ever see one man working...I feel bad for him because the front of the house and part of the side of the house goes up two complete stories and working on ladders and scafolding yourself is NEVER recommended. So hopefully when I drive by, the other guy is just on his lunch break or whatever. I can believe that there are two people putting up siding...it makes it seemingly go by faster.

So they are going to begin to paint the interior of the house and then hopefully we can get in and start doing some flooring! Yes it is a project for my dad and Nathan...I will try to help but I am quite busy with work right now and school. I have a huge paper due on Monday and the question I have to focus on is: DO PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DIE?
It touches on whether or not euthanasia should be allowed and legalized or should it remain unlegalized. So I have to get the views of two medical professionals or someone else..heeehee now this paper is due next week Tuesday and I have yet to seek out advice or help from anyone about this...I am such a procrastinator but I am telling you that it will turn out to be an amazing wonderful paper on my part. I do great amazing work in the midst of stress and chaos!

Color schemes a plenty!

Okay so I may not be so bold as to make my living room look that insane! But Today I spent sometime browsing through the showhomes here because I was told I cannot paint the trim in the house and the doors in the house, the same as the wall color. I honestly don't think it would look that bad, but apparently it's never been done before and will look funny.
So I took to the showhomes and honestly whoever decorated them has some serious taste issues. They may quite possibly have been worse than this photo! The first house had the whole mono-tone thing going for it, just plain old white and beiges...yuck!! The second house was getting closer to my taste minus the bright red painted throughout it mixed with the browns. The third house was closer which had the browns throughout (which I very much love!!) but then the baseboards and trim were an offwhite color, too close to white. I am not one who likes the color white in a house. White trim use to be the "In" thing to do but honestly it doesn't look good, it collects major amounts of dust and dirt and they do eventually turn black if left uncleaned.
So after having browsed the showhomes I sought out the help of my dad and Nathan to help me decide. I am now looking at new paint options for my walls and they want to start painting this week. But nothing has seemingly gone right with the building of the house in the first place. This house is definitely behind schedule!!!
So anyways other than my misadventures with the house it was a beautiful +32 degrees outside today. The kids spent the afternoon playing in the spray pool and having so much fun. It hopefully tired them out enough to sleep well tonight. We also spent a bit of time with Ashley because she came down from Calgary. I can say nothing odd or weird happened except Ashley thinks monsters live in her basement and Taylor helped her hunt them with the laser guns. Anyways until next time...I need to go to bed!