Life With Sulis

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Sorry I didn't post yesterday. My intention is to post at least once a day, so I may get back in the habit. Yesterday was a little hectic. I had an interview and a couple of dealings with various government (read IRS, state revenue system) agencies. Then when Digi got home after working 12 hours at work I had to motivate him to start his homework. His first day at college was yesterday, he is a little nervous but he managed with my help to write his first essay since high school. He actually writes pretty well I just had to correct some grammar/spelling things. Talk about the blind leading the blind. We had herb crusted pork chops with garlic mashed potatoes and gravy and hot from the oven fresh soft French bread. I know I know I forgot the vegetable but Digi is really picky about veggies and I didn’t have anything decent in the house (hominy, sweet potatoes where all I had) If y’all know of any good vegetable recipes that have good texture and flavor please send them to me.

We ended up getting to be about midnight. Yesterday was also the babies last day of school. So we spent a good portion of the day outside. I let him stay up pretty late. But we are going to have to come up with a good bedtime for the summer months. We have been discussing allowance and rules for summer. We are thinking 5 a week, which translates to 1 dollar for savings 1 dollar for church 1 dollar for charity and 2 to buy whatever he wants. Which will probably be 2 new cars a week if I know my son. We have been trying to teach him about cleaning up after himself and for the most part it is doing good. His room is fairly clean. I only have to make his bed (he makes it but it bugs me when its all messy but he’s getting better at it every day) and maybe pick up a few cars and stuff them in the toy box. Other then that it’s all in order. We start summer home school on Monday. We just need to make our calendar and weather chart, which we will probably work on today. My motto is a busy kid is a happy safe kid. The meds he takes for his bedwetting are working great he is really happy about that. I know it makes him feel much happier.

I am getting the new apartment wired and ready for us to move into. The new place is only about 4 apartment over and upstairs. But it’s a lot bigger and has more rooms. Hope to be painting it sometime next week. I will post before and after pictures. Speaking of pictures the other weekend we went on a nice ride out on river road. We took a bunch of pictures of various beautiful places out on the river. I am hoping we can all head out to Marion this weekend to take a couple of other pics. Then I can take the film in for processing. Lets cross our fingers they come out O.K. It was just a cheapie disposable camera.

I am almost done redoing this apartment so they can rent it out right away. I patched all the little wholes and corrected some problems with repairs made on the drywall. Ok so I am a perfectionist when it comes to drywall patches I hate when you can see the repair. People don't believe in sanding. So needless to say I have been covered in dust for the last couple of days as I have been sanding, sanding, sanding until my fingers almost fell off. But it looks nice and I will be painting soon. If you are wondering why I am doing this its because it makes me feel good to make something look nicer and the managers are close friends and I help them get the apartments ready for move in anyways so this way this one will be ready when we move out. Now I just need to get him to bring me the new flooring for the kitchen and bathroom.

The cabinets in this old place where built right. They are solid wood right down to the countertop. I accidentally caught a piece of the Formica with my shirt yesterday and ripped a piece off so I am going to pull it off and sand it down then paint it with high temp paint and paint a design over that with high temp paint. That way you can actually use the countertops to put your pots down on even when they are hot. We have settled on a lily design. I will send pics when its done. It’s a small kitchen so It wont take all that long to complete.

I have an interview today with a cardiologist office. They are really good friends of Digi, he keeps them up and running. They desperately need a front office person so if they can offer me the right pay and hours I will start next week. Wish me luck. The extra money will help us put some money into savings and our company.

Speaking of our company I have 2 new clients. A furniture company out in Berne and a Model designer here in New Braunfels. Word of mouth seems to be working pretty good for us. Its more then I can complete in a short period of time by myself so hopefully we wont get any more till I at least finish 2 of the current projects.

Well I need to get working. And all of you out there in SVTV land who haven't posted lately get it together I want to hear from you. I almost forgot, Flagg Happy Birthday how old does that make you now, old man? (sulis walks away singing Happy happy birthday baby)

posted by digitalsulis @ 4:53 PM