I have been a little out of sorts for the past 6 weeks. Typical first trimester complaints, from what I hear. Pretty much it was like a nasty hangover. Is it terrible to compare something so beautiful and healthy and natural to something very ugly and most unnatural? The nausea started the moment I opened my eyes in the morning and kept me awake when I would lay down at night. I slept all day and woke up several times at night to pee and eat. I was dizzy when I was standing and all I wanted to eat was french fries and junky fast food burgers. I tried not to complain out of respect for all the strong women I know who have miscarried and who are struggling to conceive. Now that it's over I feel like it's OK to say... well that sucked. However! I feel so good and appreciative of these reborn healthy cravings that it's like a big bright rainbow after a storm! It makes it worth feeling like poo to feel so good now. It almost makes me believe all the crazy moms out there who say that the minute you see your baby it makes the pain of labor and delivery disappear. That is yet to be determined, but I have a little more faith now.
Well in the meantime I finally talked Brian into letting me buy a Netbook so I can blog more. We had one laptop for our entire relationship and have spent a lot of time arguing over who gets it. He usually wins because he's doing productive things on it like learning how to install his own in-dash navigation in his vehicle, which he is doing now.
We have big plans around the house coming up. The roofers will start our re roof on July 5th. It is crazy expensive but our house is really not marketable with the roof as is. When we bought this Money Pit 3 years ago the inspector told us he would pass us but 3 years in the future he would not. We bought with the understanding that we would need a new roof so c'est la vie. With the re roof we will get 2 new skylights in the bathrooms so that's super exciting!
We also want to have the floors in the house tiled. AND we have a problem in the guest bathroom. One of the completely unhandy previous owners (presumably the very same ones who messed up the roof) converted the tub into a shower for a handicapped person. But they never put a proper pan under it. So when you take a shower water runs under the wall into the next room. Guess what that means? Yep. Moldy Mold McMolderson. I can't make this stuff up, people. We had a contractor out for an estimate and it's looking expensive (naturally). So we are looking for other contractors with other quotes. I don't want to spend 10 grand on this little project. (Floors and bathroom shower redo combined, but stilll....)
I'm also thinking of waiting to do the tile until we do the cabinets. See, what we are dealing with is a tile/laminate/tile situation. The kitchen is tile, the living area is laminate, and the hallway is tile. The laminate is in the middle. I ideally want to make it all tile, but mostly because the laminate is a terrible color and stain. But my 5 year plan is to finally redo the cabinets and I would like the tile in the kitchen to go under the cabinets. If we do the tile now around our 1968 cabinets than we will likely have to redo it when we modernize. SO I'm thinking maybe we could just redo the laminate in the living room when we do it for the nursery. Then when we are ready to do the cabinets we can do the tile then., and ultimately leave the floor plan split. I don't think I've convinced the husband of this idea though. Here is a crappy phone pic to try and give you the idea of how the floor is broken up. It's taken from in the tiled kitchen, looking through the living area which is world ugliest laminate, and past it into the hallway where the same tile as is in the kitchen. Sigh. What to do??? Now I'm thinking I might just do the bathroom and the nursery now and deal with the floors when I'm ready to do the kitchen cabinets at the same time. Man, SOMEDAY this house is going to be awesome!
Well that is enough about our house for today. I will take some pics of the navigation when it is installed and working, but with the whole work situation getting in the way that might not be until Monday. And hopefully I will take pics of the bathroom shower demolition/install very soon. I would really like to have it functional for my family who will be visiting often once our munchkin is born. In the meantime I have two munchkins at my feet right now. Do you think they are going to be sad when there is a baby taking all their attention away from them? At least they have each other I suppose.
