Day...uhh...Aahh Who's Counting?

Wow, what a great weekend!! Let me start with Friday and Saturday! Next post, I'll put in Sunday and Monday..

Ok, so Friday Cass and I had dinner at the apartment with the intention of heading right over to the house after getting dinner because we were dog sitting her parent's Jack Russell "Callie" and we were going to finish painting the bedroom. We met up at the apartment and decided we'd shorten our lives by getting some McDonald's for dinner and THEN go to the house. Instead, we ended up going to Lowes because we saw in an ad that they had this Whirlpool High Efficiency Front-loading washer and dryer combo on sale for less than a grand. We were like, Whoa! We need a washer and dryer and you can't beat that price for the combo! So we went on a small shopping spree, getting all the little things we needed for the new appliances, some light fixtures, and a ceiling fan for the bedroom. We finally got back to the house at 8 that night...aaaaannnd we still had a bedroom to paint.

We got right to painting the bedroom. We were up until 2am getting those two coats up on the walls. Poor Callie was walking around looking at us most of the night like "Why aren't you people sleeping?" We thought that was kinda funny, but I went down and got her crate/bed and brought it upstairs so she could have somewhere comfortable to lay down. The finished product looks great. We're really happy with the color choices we went with. The green is just tiny bit darker than our apartment bedroom's green wall and the tan color is considerably lighter than at the apartment, but it looks way better in our opinion.

So...Saturday, understandably, we slept in a bit. Luckily, that didn't turn out to be such a bad thing, but the night before we figured it'd be a good idea to get right back to the house to let Callie out, so we were all rushed, disoriented, and tired. On top of that, we had promised to lend ourselves and truck to some friends (Aaron and Megan) from our bible-study group who were moving and we were supposed to be there around 10ish. PLUS, the Lowe's delivery people called us right after we woke up to inform us that they'd be at the house with our washer and dryer between 10am and 2 pm. We asked the cashier who was checking us out when we bought the appliances to schedule the delivery for the afternoon. What a huge help that 4 hour window was for our schedule that day! NOT! We woke up at like 9:30, so all that just made for a chaotic morning.

We decided that I'd just go help Aaron and Megan move and Cass would go to the house to let out Callie and wait for the Lowe's delivery people to show up. I got back to the house around 2:30ish and Cass and I started putting the Kitchen back together. The only thing left to do in the kitchen was put the chair moulding back up, move the appliances back in place, and put light-switch and outlet covers back on. So we did all that. We also finished installing the light fixtures in the kitchen.

After that, I decided to tackle the ceiling fan in the bedroom. The old one was...well...lets just say totally not our style. I installed it without any real problems during the installation....or so I thought. Once it was up on the ceiling, I got down and flipped the breaker switch back on and came back upstairs to test it out. I flipped the switch for the light, and it worked. Then, with the light off, I flipped the switch to the fan, and it worked! The only peculiar thing we noticed was when you turned on the fan, the light had an ever-so-slight glow to it. That glow got dimmer as you turned down the fan speed, too. Initially we thought nothing of it, but later we realized that if the fan was on when you turned the light on, the fan would turn off. If you turned the light off, the fan would turn back on. That's when we knew something was up. Fortunately, with this particular type of fan, you can just take off the collar that goes around the mount to access the wiring instead of having to take the entire fan back down to work on the wiring. I swapped the two white "common" wires and actually attached the ground wires to the junction box and put it all back together. I fixed it! When we were initially putting the fan up, the instructions said if the house's wire colors don't match the colors on the unit, don't continue with that installation and get a professional to install the fan. I was like "Screw that! What could go wrong?" HA HA! Good one. The other thing we did in the bedroom was replace the light fixture over the bathroom vanity. Looks nice don't it?

The other thing we tackled was I started building the new charcoal grill we bought. The directions had a typo in them so Cass and I ended up using the wrong bolts to put the thing together and since they have your use a certain type of lock nuts, the bolt gets stripped out when you try to remove them. So We had to go to Lowes on Sunday to get some new hardware. So that project wasn't finished until Sunday.

That night we ended up taking Callie home with us because she destroyed one of the blankets in her bed when Cass and I left her alone for all of 30 minutes. There were feathers EVERYWHERE from the down feathers in the blanket. We think she did it from the anxiety of being somewhere she wasn't familiar with and no one she knew was with her.

I promise more of the weekend is on it's way, but I'm going to get this up because I'm getting grief from my colleagues about there not being any new pictures up! Next post I'll have some "before 'n after" photos so stay tuned!