Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Happy Marti Gras (shout out to the hand grenade crew of 2002)

ooh..i thought groundhog day had past. Well..can't say i've been living in a hole but definately very busy. So to recap on that previous list.

- Finished 5 people you meet in Heaven and also Batman HUSH. Now looking for any other cool graphic novel stories.
- Got the girl scout cookies.
- Car is working ok now
- Some touch up remodeling this weekend
- Successful PJ party for Garland and Karen this past weekend (pics in future post)

- As for this post, the major bathroom reconstruction that took over my life for about 6 days.

We start off with what was formerly known as the "pink bathroom"


The house, built in 1951, the bathroom was made with custom styled components and its galvanized steel piping made it very difficult to simply change the faucets and such. We delt with it enough the past year of ownership, but a leaky shower faucet finally took the cake. It had to get a makeover. So..thanks to my friend's referral, the rennovation began.
It was 7am mornings for a good 6 days (off on Sun) and in that time i learned i can do soooo much (if i actually wake up in the morning). One day i actually got woken out of bed, headed to Lowe's, Home Depot, bought a bathtub, cabinets, drywall, piping components, a bag of oranges and even Jack in the box before 10am.
By the end of the middle of the first day, the whole bathroom had already been torn out.



To summarize what was done, we moved the door over, installed a whirlpool tub, retiled the floor and tiled around the shower to the ceiling. New toliet that my contractor gave me and my special request of a vessel sink was installed.




The event was not complete until we saw the end of the pink toliet.


Some minor work still to do...like install a mirror, towel bars, etc, but for the most part its done.

Friday, February 10, 2006

Recap

I had started a long-winded post here..(as you know i can be long-winded), but decided to opt for a bullet point recap. Busy needless to say.

Good things
- Dinner and a movie nites (sometimes with guests, otherwise just 344)
- Karen's cooking (honey glaze salmon)
- Linda's cooking (Karen's cousin - steak round and chicken over string beans)
- Lucy's company (Karen's cousin)
- Happy bday Lucy (2/10)
- 344 Converse Chuck Taylor purchase (with Lucy)
- LMU Japanese Culture nite.
- My very own Random Ninjas t-shirt
- Samantha and Mila's visit during wed dinner
- New KVM for home workstation
- Superbowl and Rosemead going away party. Game was ok. Company better.
- 344 at Chinatown New Years dinner.
- Garland's family (niece and nephews)
- Interest in Apple Mac purchase (mini-mac?)
- Bought Batman HUSH trade paperbacks
- Almost done with "5 people you meet in Heaven"
- Opened online savings account with high interest rate
- Made a list on Tues nite, got most of it done by Wed afternoon
- Underworld evolution with Alfred
- Late nite phone calls with Rozelle
- Girl Scout cookies with Brenda and Vivian.
- 344 Pastrami chili cheese fries from the hat
- Seeing dogs that looks like cube, missing him but knowing he is very loved by my sister.
- PJ party. Theme party ideas in general

To work on (stress)
- House Refinance
(which requires to...)
- House renovations
(due to...)
- Crappy plumbing
(broken faucet in bathroom 2, leaking bathtub faucet in bathroom 1)
- Car wheezing (likely Timing belt)
- Landscaping the yard
- Furniture for room
- Changing to hardwood floors
- Pulling cable to rooms
- Making quality time with Karen in all this madness
- Money i don't have

Upcoming events
- Valentine's Day
- Garland Bday
- Karen Bday
- Dad's graduation
- Auntie Bing's bday
- Family from PI coming over.
- MPK latern festival (this weekend)
- Galkos visit about windows (this weekend)
- Jose visit about bathroom 1 faucet (this weekend)
- Karim visit about house renovation (this weekend)
- Contractor visit about home improvement (this weekend)
- Glendale Centenial (next weekend)
- PMX meeting (this weekend)

-whew-
yeah..this would have never made a post. I'm just glad i could dump it out here...and now i'll have to take care of what i can.