begin "official" 2nd trimester!
friday night nate came over to start the polaroid project and ended up making me feel much better about my body than i expected to after staring at a large belly for far too long. i was talking about how it's fat and not baby and he laughed as if that was the most ridiculous thing i ever said and told me i'm not even close to fat. it was suprisingly nice. anyway, i think the project will come out cool.
saturday we continued the remodeling projects going on around the house and recruited a friend to destory one of the walls, which he did amazingly efficiently (it took him 2 hours to do what took us about 5). then cleanup, and putting up more drywall and a new window...
sunday we finished the seaming the drywall, moved the piano, cleaned, i made a pie, made kendra a soup, made matt a soup, and that was it. long productive weekends, yay!
this morning traci and i were at maude's as per usual and we had some of their hash brown casserole, and holy crap--for once maude's has done something REALLY well! (other than my vegan desserts, of course.) it was sooo tasty. so if you go there in the morning and want yummy food, i highly recommend it. i'm totally going to steal the idea and make that for myself ASAP.
yes, i have been fantasizing about cheesy hashbrowns all morning. and will continue to do so for the rest of the day, i'm sure.
also(!!) i came into work this morning and the maintenance guys were here ready to fix some peeling paint we have in our 100+ year old building... so they put on their masks and start scraping away at the wall and what i am very sure is layers of old lead-based paint not 6 feet from my desk. paint chips hit me in the head more than once. my desk was covered in a thin layer of white dust after 5 minutes! so i said "uhh, guys, is this paint lead-based?" "no, they haven't used that stuff in like 20 years" (actually it's more like 30, but whatever) "well this building is more like 100, you know..." as they shrug and keep scraping, safe inside their face masks. so i said "well i'm pregnant and i'm not sure this is ok for me to be around" and i marched into the other room and called environmental health and safety, who promptly told me he would check if our building had lead on last year's survey (it did) and come right over to chew out the maintenance dudes for "not following procedure with lead-based paints." uhh... thanks. all i wanted to know was whether i should leave the room! apparently the answer was YES. they could have at least offered us masks too... i mean, if they need them, don't we? wtf?!
so i managed to 1) get some guys in trouble 2) freak myself out and STILL breathe in paint dust 3) halt all the work being done in our office for at least today. awesome. and then when they come in to paint over the work they will have eventually done, i'll have to complain about that too, or most likely just take the day off. if i can't paint my own nursery i'm certainly not exposing myself to cheap industrial paints like they use at UF. *grumble*
the good news is someone brought in holiday cookies for us :)
friday night nate came over to start the polaroid project and ended up making me feel much better about my body than i expected to after staring at a large belly for far too long. i was talking about how it's fat and not baby and he laughed as if that was the most ridiculous thing i ever said and told me i'm not even close to fat. it was suprisingly nice. anyway, i think the project will come out cool.
saturday we continued the remodeling projects going on around the house and recruited a friend to destory one of the walls, which he did amazingly efficiently (it took him 2 hours to do what took us about 5). then cleanup, and putting up more drywall and a new window...
sunday we finished the seaming the drywall, moved the piano, cleaned, i made a pie, made kendra a soup, made matt a soup, and that was it. long productive weekends, yay!
this morning traci and i were at maude's as per usual and we had some of their hash brown casserole, and holy crap--for once maude's has done something REALLY well! (other than my vegan desserts, of course.) it was sooo tasty. so if you go there in the morning and want yummy food, i highly recommend it. i'm totally going to steal the idea and make that for myself ASAP.
yes, i have been fantasizing about cheesy hashbrowns all morning. and will continue to do so for the rest of the day, i'm sure.
also(!!) i came into work this morning and the maintenance guys were here ready to fix some peeling paint we have in our 100+ year old building... so they put on their masks and start scraping away at the wall and what i am very sure is layers of old lead-based paint not 6 feet from my desk. paint chips hit me in the head more than once. my desk was covered in a thin layer of white dust after 5 minutes! so i said "uhh, guys, is this paint lead-based?" "no, they haven't used that stuff in like 20 years" (actually it's more like 30, but whatever) "well this building is more like 100, you know..." as they shrug and keep scraping, safe inside their face masks. so i said "well i'm pregnant and i'm not sure this is ok for me to be around" and i marched into the other room and called environmental health and safety, who promptly told me he would check if our building had lead on last year's survey (it did) and come right over to chew out the maintenance dudes for "not following procedure with lead-based paints." uhh... thanks. all i wanted to know was whether i should leave the room! apparently the answer was YES. they could have at least offered us masks too... i mean, if they need them, don't we? wtf?!
so i managed to 1) get some guys in trouble 2) freak myself out and STILL breathe in paint dust 3) halt all the work being done in our office for at least today. awesome. and then when they come in to paint over the work they will have eventually done, i'll have to complain about that too, or most likely just take the day off. if i can't paint my own nursery i'm certainly not exposing myself to cheap industrial paints like they use at UF. *grumble*
the good news is someone brought in holiday cookies for us :)
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