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Lulu Thursday

Another Lulu Thursday. I'm biased, what can I say? ;)

Lulu Thursday

Mornings with Lulu

Every day this week, around 8:30am or so, I hear a muffled 'reooowww' upstairs that goes on and on, with the eventual appearance of Lulu...and her toy. Every. Day. This. Week. This morning I managed to grab my camera in time and capture some evidence:

Do not WANT.

Sometimes sharing sucks.

Lulu hanging loose

Friday kitties

There are my girls...lounging on MY chair of course. I had another meeting in the office here yesterday with a paper rep and Lulu loves her paper. The sound of it makes her nose through it, lay across it and become one with the paper. Good thing my paper rep likes cats. Preparing for the meeting was a little more interesting. I didn't have time to put things away properly so I took a leaf out of Trevor's book and hid everything. The laundry room was my hiding area of choice (and needs to be unloaded, or de-hid this morning). I crammed so much stuff in there that the office was echoing while I was talking on the phone to Cynthia (which we laughed about!). It looks so much better in here that I would be tempted to keep it hidden if it wasn't for a load of dirty laundry needing the space! (Oh bad, shame on me I know!)

This weekend is going to be interesting. For once, it's a quiet weekend, which means that we can get our little hands on the bathroom tile and start in that room. Goodbye cement floors, hello tiles! It's going to be our first tiling experience, so fingers crossed that it's not going to be crazy difficult. (Worst nightmare scenario: Getting ticked off that we smash all the tiles and go 'mosaic' style on everything, LOL!!!)

Soon it will be a functioning bathroom...SOON!

Chloenator update

She made it through her vet visit, a little drunk and a little ticked off, but NO extractions! She's still a toothy kitty. :)

Friday, Friiiiday

I'm watching the clock and waiting to see when I should go and pop Chloe in her carrier to head to the vet. She's getting her teeth cleaned (an annual event), but I never like what they have to do to her. Especially the knocking her out part. She comes home and wobbles all over the place like a drunk and has a voice like a husky lady (from the tube down her throat). And she smells like the vet, so Lulu gets all hissy at her, and she gets all drunk and hissy back, and it's a big gong show. Plus we have to watch that she doesn't wobble and roll down the stairs, or tries to KO herself by jumping on something high. So there's lots of fun in store for this afternoon.

I also have to go become worldly at the liquor store and pick out some decent bottles of wine for a birthday present for Trevor's great uncle, who's party we're going to on Saturday evening (although it starts at 5pm -- so we'll probably be out of there by 6:30 or so *hoping*). I'm going to grab one white and one red and hope that they don't taste like dirt (LOL). Nothing a little wrapping and bow action can't help.

And the stools I ordered online came yesterday! Everything is perfect with them with the small exception of colour. In the photo they look white as snow, and in reality, they're BEIGE. (Well, what they specify as 'cream'.) They don't look bad at all in the office area, but it irks me slightly. But considering the crappy selection out there for bar stools (especially those in white), I think these will do just fine.

Work is getting busier as well. There have been a few new sniffs around here this week from a few people looking for design work, so that's nice. Whether or not they'll actually jump on board and work with me is another question. They might have sticker shock from the prices I charge, but I cost what I cost. Take it or leave it. Gone are they days of buying jobs just to have work. But it will be interesting to see what happens.

Well I must go get a carrier ready, and do a quick google on 'wine that doesn't taste like dirt'. ;)

My office assistants

Sometimes they don't work all that hard. I will have to write them up in their files for sleeping on the job.

The v-e-t is done, for now

I managed to get out of the house relatively on time yesterday for the 3pm vet appointment. I couldn't find Chloe at one point and was looking under the bed in the spare room for about 10 minutes, only to realize it was the WRONG bed I was looking under. Back into our room and there she is, and she knows the gig is up.

Everyone got their shots (Lulu with a blanket over her head and horrible shrieking...ugh) and Chloe got an extra blood test because she's 9 this year and has to get her teeth cleaned (*rolling eyes* she doesn't chew her food). She gets to go back on the 29th for her dental and gets to be drugged up for the day.

Slow week

It's a calm and slowwww week around here. There's still things to do, but work-wise it's quiet. I'm waiting for people to get back to me, and they all seem to be taking their time. Oh well, Trevor says that whenever I say that it's quiet it ramps up all of a sudden (which has been true on past few times), and to enjoy the quiet-ness. I'm a natural alarmist, so what can I do?

I'm taking the girls to the vet today for their yearly check-up (which is late, and usually done in January). It always stresses me out because Lulu is HORRIBLE at getting shots. She gets so scared that she makes these horrible screaming noises. Chloe just cowers and tenses up. Then when we get home they skulk around and get mad at each other because they each smell like the vet's office. So there's a fun afternoon coming up.

Good intentions

So the weekend didn't go exactly to plan. I think we kind of forgot that framing has a few stages...and one of them happens to be a little more, what's the word...exact? When the top and bottom plates are being put up you can't really rush it (unless you want wonky walls). So that took a little longer than expected. But, the front half of the basement is done and the hallway and bathroom are starting to come to life now. This is the view from the office-to-be. Why look, there's a storage room!

I've also started to map out how the office will function, and playing around with furniture placement and layouts. Not the easiest thing because I'm trying to take all of the existing furniture that was purchased for an entirely different space and try to modify it for the basement. I'm going to put that all into Illustrator today and play around with it a bit.

What else...we had a lovely dinner and play around at Cynthia and Mike's place on Saturday evening...BBQ chicken, fresh from the garden lettuce and carrots (mmmmm!), tasty! It was a nice break from the basement dungeon we're used to.

I spent a little bit of time in the garden watering and doing maintenance. I'd really like to get out there with the pruners sometime during the week. Some plants are just going a bit to crazy, time to tame! I even managed to put up some neat mini-lights with little lantern things around them under the patio umbrella. Too bad I didn't find an extension cord to light them up with (so they're just for show).

And I took a moment to bug Lulu with the camera. Cute, non? :)

Weekend Update

This weekend was a potpourri of tasks and goings-ons. Spring cleaning/purging met up with painting and renos. Trevor went to town on cleaning out the garage (aka: 'ManZone').(He told me not to put his picture on the blog, hence the 'Cops'-like blurring out of the suspect's head.)

Also, greenthumb-itis happened as well. This is usually diagnosed as the 'Hurrah! It's spring! Let's plant things!' attitude, which usually peters out to the 'Meh? Watering?' attitude by August. So here's to a good start!
Evidence of plants still being alive:
And I have a little friend who likes to visit/scare the crap out of me when I'm out in the yard: That's Riley, a big fluffy-bum cat that's really friendly. So friendly, in fact, that when I tried to take his picture he rubbed his face on the lens.

We also helped the Merriman clan move into their new house. Congrats to the new home owners!!! I'm still jealous of the peonies that they have in their yard. They are going to be HUGE!