Scooby News: ( things ya oughta know...)

Two important pieces of news hot off the press for you Scooby fans.

 

Doc is home! He called me yesterday while driving back from the airport. He's safely back in the USA for a week or two, then he has to return to Iraq for another gruelling nine months.  As much as I'd love to see him (and I know the rest of you want to as well) take my advice and let him contact us when he's ready. He's been gone for almost a year and I know from his prior trips that sometimes the rushed welcomes from friends and family can be as traumatic as where he's been. I'm sure he'll get up with us to go out and spend some time, but I'd imagine he's pretty intent on some family time and some personal time too. I just wanted you all to know he's home and he's safe. More updates to come on this one...

 

Second news: Dez is officially married. We went to the wedding on Saturday in Rocky Mount. Yes, I have pictures but I'm waiting on the majority of them to get here in email from Jimbo. God it was fun to have myself, Dez, Jimbo, and Harry all in the same room for the first time in probably five years. He's leaving for his Honeymoon on Thursday, to antiguas... nice!

I'll post pics when I get them in email.

See you all again soon.

 

Technorati tags: Scooby Central , Personal , Desmond , Wedding , Married , Iraq , Doc Holliday

This old house (part 5)

Well, it's almost done! It's 2:09 in the afternoon right now and I'm sitting here at the computer working on some stuff for clients, but I thought I'd take a break and make a post on here.

   One one hand, I'm really tired. I've been working 4-5 hours a night and on weekends for almost a month trying to get these two rooms in to shape. It's not that it's so very time consuming, but more that I'm a really bad perfectionist. When one corner doesn't look quite right, or a board seems to be out of whack just so... I tear it out and do it again.

The latest problem in our saga has been paint. We got the second gallon of Blue this week and gues what... after painting two walls and touching up the rest of the house I discovered it doesn't match! At all! This means that either A) the paint store will remix it to make it match and I can simply repaint the one wall, or B) I have to repaint all the blue in the entire house with a new shade because they can't make a match..... ugh.

 

Here's where we are now:

Another night of wendy's fast food because we're too tired to cook.. lol.. my remodeling is surely playing hell with April's diet. We've only had one home-cooked meal in a month because it's too much of a pain to get all the paint supplies out of the kitchen. As long as I can get to my coffee pot, things are fine!

I finally got that wall repaired and trimmed out. Now all I have left is that giant white wall in the back, which is currently holding my coat of incorrect blue paint... grr.

I wanted to get a few better pictures, but the camera ran out of juice before I could snap any more. The pictures really don't do it justice.

Well, I think it's time to get to the shower and swing by the office for a bit. I need to do some invoicing today to get some money back in the accounts.

I feel better

Apparently I just needed to vent that one more time. Currently, I feel MUCH better... it's like all the anger just went poof.... had a great day today. Ok.. back to working on the house. See y'all again soon.