Tiling and Mudding

So this week has been dedicated to mudding all the dry wall in house, giving it a quick sanding, planning for colors and where wall paper will go in the house, filling all the holes that need to be patched and generally working my ass off as much as I can handle.
The front porch will be painted white on two walls and the wall paper on the other two walls and a nice clean white tile on the floor out there. also thinking of putting a baseboard heater in there and also one in the bathroom if we decide it needed.
Also started tiling the bathroom walls around the tub yesterday and have come up with quite the interesting pattern up there. I am doing rows of black with white diamonds and white half tiles on the back wall and the opposite on the side walls. the back wall is going to be a tiling job that will probably take me at least 3 to 4 days. Today I cut more tiles to place tomorrow where needed.
Fun, Fun , Fun!
Today I am actually quite sick and am coming down with a really cold. last night I was up till after 4am and the awake just before 10am. this really sucks, the stupid specialist I was at last week has asked me to quit taking all my headache medications and this is now proofing to be a problem. I hate the pain and am not impressed with that doctor either.
I have another appointment with another specialist in December and I am hoping that everything will go okay with that . I am just tired of the pain and headaches in my life and slowing me down. I am sure if it weren't for health issues this house would be closer to completion and we could have done a lot more. Matt is still laid up in bed half the time with his back and we are still waiting to hear from the back surgeon as to when they are going to do this for him. Hurry up please.
Any how it is looking like fall here in Toronto and from what I hear we are going to have one hell of a winter as well, not looking forward to that at all, but it is what it is.
The cats are now getting used to being indoors and this is a good thing, as Matt and I are never going to go through what we went through last week. Never.
So that is about all I have to say for the moment, except, No One won the Lotto Max last night, so next week is 50 million again and 50 - 1 million dollar prizes. We will be buying our tickets. I hope everyone does, and if you do, Good Luck!

Our Sparky Boy

Well it was a rough couple days for our little family and especially Matt and I. Monday morning we let the cats out as per usual and at 7pm Nadia came in, but Sparky did not. We searched for him all night and I was up until 3am walking around in the rain with a flashlight and looking for any sign of him at all.
Yesterday(Tuesday) morning we got up as usual and had breakfast and both went in different directions to search for Sparky again. Nadia was upstairs on the bed all day and crying over her brother missing and not coming home. She was so depressed and upset she would not even get out of bed and we even had to force her to eat.
I looked all day yesterday for our little man and to no avail to find him. Finally last night I was out for a cigarette in the rain in my slippers and I heard some whining outside, which I am sure it was Sparky. I followed the sound and ran down the block looking for him.
I finally found him behind one of the neighbors garages hiding and soaked in some tall grass. He was so scared and tired. He came to me and I carried him home and he ate so much after being out for his 36 hours of whatever happened to him.
Nadia was so happy and started cleaning her brother right away and if you could have seen the look on Matts face when I brought him in the house, it was priceless and so amazing for all of us. Rogue and Storm ran to Sparky as well and started to clean him and look after him.
He is home now and we are making them both stay in the house and they are just going to have to suck it up and get used to it. There is now way in hell we are going through this again. Missing him, searching all night, phoning vets and spca and no sleep and making posters. Stress!
Wow, thank you to all of our neighbors for your help and concern with looking for our little boy. We are truly blessed to be in such a wonderful neighborhood with wonderful people.
Anyhow all is well that ends well and our little family is all back and safe and sound. I was beginning to think I was cursed and am just glad to know I am not and can rest again once in a while.

More Done

Well it has been an extremely busy week and things are coming together in our little house. It will be so amazing when it is all done and finished and both Matthew and I are quite excited to get to the finished product.
Last week I built a new kitchen cart and painted the kitchen a really cool green, never thought I would paint anything green but low and behold I have done it and now we have green in out house, looks really good, one more coat and it will be perfect.
Yesterday more electrical was ran and we are nearing the end of that as well, by next week all of our upstairs electrical will be amazing and working , wohoo!
I still have to cut a hole in the roof for the vent fan in the bathroom and also for the drain vent for up there, but all and all it is coming together, tiles are now all purchased and I think I should be started on this soon. Matt is still quite laid up with his back and we are still waiting to hear from the back surgeon as to when the hell they are going to do this procedure and get it done, with our luck it will probably happen right around Christmas and fuck that up completely.
I have been back and forth to Specialists over the last week myself and am so tired of Doctors that I just want to be done with all of them and live with my health issues as they are. I have one more Specialist appointment in December and that will be it and I have already told my doc that after this I am taking a break and will not be going to see anymore doctors for at least a year and I will learn to deal with shit on my own.
So things left to do on the house are finish the floors, a bit more electrical, patch drywall where needed and paint and lay flooring in front porch. I am sure we will get it all done and it will look great and the best part is that we did it all ourselves and we are proud of that no matter what.
Have a bit more work to do over at the neighbors as well and a little gardening and stuff to do , plus make my damn stewed tomatoes soon.
Have a great day and talk to you all soon.

What a Day Yesterday

Yesterday was a horrible day and I suffered a great deal. My headaches were really painful and the left side of my body was numb and swollen again. I spent most of my day in bed and was just in pain. Even today my left eye is almost closed and still very swollen and sore.
Today I have an extremely bad headache and am just going to do what I can here. I think I will start to tile the shower and maybe move in a couple things from the garage today to help us organize stuff and get things done in the house here and build my closet in the basement and get some of my clothes unpacked, I think I will be needing my winter jacket soon.
The good news is my family has left me alone for a while now and is letting me live my life and not saying anything, My god I block them all from facebook, my phone and emails and they still manage to find me some how. I am not sure how this works or why they bother. I miss my mother but as far as I am concerned the rest are all just dna relatives and that is about it.
I honestly do not care anymore about most of my family and am just glad to have nothing to do with them, some days I miss talking to my sister Cheryl but realize that she obviously doesn't feel the same way. Any how enough of that.
Matt is till really sick and we are waiting to hear from his back surgeon on when they are going to do his surgery and stuff. For now he is out of bed and able to do a few things and walk the dogs and stuff. I am so glad that he has been a bit better and feels up to cooking and stuff, and the other day he did some work to get ready for the tiling in the shower which is a great help.
This weekend is going to be kind of a take it easy and do what I can, as for the week coming up, I have 2 different doctors appointments and hopefully we will find out what the hell is going on with my head.
Thats all for today, talk to you later and thanks for checking it out.

Doing Our bathroom and other things

Well it was a late night for me last night. I could not sleep and was up till 4am, I water proofed the tub walls and now it is ready for tiling and then I can paint up there, yay, a room that will be completed and then we can move on to more.
Thank you to Louisa who gave me a ride to Home Depot yesterday to pick up tiles and the waterproofing stuff so that we can tile and get it done. The I want to tile the kitchen back splash and start painting in there. The house will be gorgeous once I get my drive back and get things going.
Matt is feeling better today and walking around a bit, I am so happy for him and glad that he had a great sleep and is getting around and not in pain. It is tough to watch him some days when he is in so much pain, I hate to see him suffer and hate to see him like this.
Have appointments this afternoon downtown and go figure I have an appointment and it happens to be raining just for me, sucks!
After my appointment today I am going to get stuff done in the house and then hopefully get some rest. If I had been thinking last night I would have called Jeff to have a drink  when he got home from work. Some nights we sit outside after his work and just chat and smoke, kind of nice and a great relief to have someone to sit with and just relax with and just sit. I do this every night and go over and say hi to Mara as well, I love our neighbors, they have become like a new family for me especially.
Speaking of which we went to Flora on Sunday night for a lovely thanksgiving dinner, amazing! So nice of her to invite Matt and I over there and have us for dinner because there is no way that the two of us are cooking a turkey anytime soon.
So thank you to all our neighbors and other friends who are there for Matt and I and give us rides when we need them, sit and visit when they are free and are just all around friendly in every damn way possible.
Monday I cleaned the eaves of three of our neighbors houses, I love doing little things like that and plus it gave me a chance to play on the ladder and be up high, love that as well.
Pulled all our tomatoes as well the other day and I am will to be that we have at least 70 pounds , so i guess I will be making some stewed tomatoes and doing more canning very soon, right now there all over the house so they ripen completely.
So some of the garden is still growing and green and I have no intentions of removing anything until I hear that it is going to freeze and then I will pull everything and take out some of the compost bin and mix it with dirt and get the garden ready before the winter comes. I think this year we will have a harsh winter ahead.
Well that is all I have for today, have a great day and talk to you all soon. Thanks for reading again and hope you have a great day.

Electric and Plumbing

Been working hard on the house again this week. I have ran a lot of the electrical including all the kitchen stuff except the wall oven thus far and living room and dining room plugs. I am actually getting quite good at this sort of thing. i sat up one night that I could not sleep and read the book from Home Depot about Electric for houses and away I went.
Matt has totally done all the plumbing for the new bathroom and worked really hard on tiling the bathroom floor as well.
This is old news but a draft I found and figured I had better publish and add to it. On Friday I built a new railing in the back porch so that Matthew can get around a bit easier. I have also made this into a plant wall. In the mean time I have been giving all the walls in the house a second and third coat of dry wall compound and sanding in between so I can get ready to paint soon. It has been an up hill battle to get a lot of this done, because as most of you know Matt is laid up in bed most days and I am having to do a lot or all by myself, which is fine but you loose desire to do anything somedays and I feel so bad for him and know he is in excruciating pain with his back and leg.
I will struggle on and get things done, as really there is not a hole lot left to do, I have to get the electrical ran on the second floor, tile the bathroom walls and finish and few odds and ends and then I can start painting in here and make it look as beautiful as we both planned, after the painting is done i will finish the floors and set up house the way it was meant to be for us, yes we are behind schedule but this shit happens and it is just a part of life.
I got really depressed about it a couple weeks ago and just lost it, with all the family shit and everything else that was happening and poor Matt being sick and him feeling guilt because he can't help well, It just made me feel worse. It is such a horrible feeling when you love someone so much and they are in constant pain and there is not a fucking thing you can do to help them at all, that is how I feel day to day and it just makes me feel like shit and I know I am doing all that I can , but I wish I could do more to make him feel better.
So anyhow, yesterday I canned and made homemade Tomato Sauce and also beet pickles. It turned out really well but took a seriously long time to get done, like six damn hours.
Today is thanks giving and I have to say I am thankful for having Matt, a great husband, and my best friend in the world. Also i am very thankful for old friends and new friends a like who have made these past few months a lot more bareable in every way.
|Happy thanksgiving to all my friends here in Canada and if you live in the States and are reading this , then a Happy Columbus Day to you.
Thanks for reading and thanks for just being you, have a lovely day and see you soon.

The Gaybors

So in our new neighborhood we have become known as the gaybors and actually appreciate our little nickname which was given to us by Jeff. Matthew and I have and do really enjoy our new neighborhood and our neighbors, we love our house and are getting it done and in time it will be completed.
I have been doing all of the renovations myself for the last month as Matthew is not doing so well and is laid up with back pain and problems, and we are just waiting to hear from a surgeon on when he will have to have back surgery. It turns out what they thought was a ciatic nerve is actually a herniated disc in his back which is putting pressure on his ciatic nerve. I feel so bad for him and it do what I can to help and make him feel better. He is in bed most days and gets up to eat and watch tv with me most days. Once surgery is done, it will be really hard as he will basically be trapped upstairs in the house while recovering.
I have been mudding and taping the drywall in our house and building little thing and working as much as I can. I have also been doing a few things for our one neighbor like refinishing his front stairs and front of his house, fixing his shed door and building skirting for around the bottom of the shed, also patching a few hole in his drywall and plaster.
I have been trying to get it all done and still dealing with my damn headaches everyday. I go to one specialist in mid October and then another one in early December. Now it is just a matter of waiting and dealing with it as best I can. A lot of sleepless nights and extra time to do nothing but deal with the pain and headaches and live with it for now. I hate it , but I do what I have to do and get on with it. Somedays I get extremely bitchy and unfortunately take it out on Matthew, but he does the same, I guess that is part of marriage and it just happens.
Today I am going over to the neighbors for a few minutes and give the drywall mudding a third coat and then back here to build a new railing in the back porch, build my closet downstairs under the staircase and bring in some furniture tomorrow and get things done and set up. I want to hopefully have the house completed by the end of October, I know this is ambitious but I really want to see it done and I know this will make both Matthew and I feel better in some ways. I had been lacking a lot of ambition but am getting my desire back as of late after working next door and seeing what a finished house looks like and what a difference it makes for day to day living.
So time to get to work and get her done. You all have a great day. Thanks for reading and I will be back soon.