Rehabber’s Rehab

We’d been pretty unhappy with the electrician, from his constant complaining, scratching up our newly refinished floors, and leaving messes around, he has been one of our least favorite contractors (although I am sure he has not liked this project either as he is deathly allergic to cats, and has been miserable the whole time).  But when I mentioned my biggest pet peeve to him, that the two plugs in the bathroom above the sink were not level with one another, I was told that it would be “no problem” to fix it.

So when I came home from work tonight, and went in the bathroom and saw the GIANT hole in the wall indicating he had fixed it, I figured it was no problem, no big deal.  I said “so…I guess the electrician was here.”  Thor had been home for a couple of hours at the time and replied “yup, he was just finishing up a couple of things.”  Thor seemed happy with having our electrical work done. I asked Thor if the electrician was done, and he repplied in the affirmative, everthing looked good.  I asked Thor if the two electrical boxes were level now, and he said “huh?  The electrical boxes?”

He then went into the bathroom.

“*Fudge! Gosh Darn it!  Gosh darn child of an un kind woman! What the fudge!  What the fudge was he thinking.  That fudging incompetent unmentionable…” and so on.  And on.

Meanwhile I am in the kitchen wondering what just happened.  I ask him if he’s hurt.  Because if this was about the hole in the wall, how had he managed to miss it the previous two hours while he was home.  To which Thor replied “*Fracking butt eater.  He put a giant hole in the wall.  In my newly dry-walled forking wall!”

I guess he hadn’t noticed.

We’ve been gone a while, in between trouble with hackers on the blog, vacation, and a project or two, things have fallen on the way side.  But now we’re taking a trip back in time, trying to remember what we’ve been up to the past two months.  Enjoy the catch-up!

It has been a cold winter here in Chi-town, but things have been warming up quite a bit the past few days.  The snow that has been on the ground since the end of December is finally starting to melt.  The giant, and quite impressive snow fort down the block has melted to a foot high ring.  As a child who grew up in Texas, where on the few occasions it snowed you were happy to be able to gather all of the snow up in the yard into one basketball sized half grass half snow-ball, I was particularly amazed by this 5 foot high fort with foot inch thick walls all the way around.  I am sad to see it go, although the relief I feel at finally having a break from the bitter cold, is tempered by the fact that the snow that is remaining is over a month old, and thus disgustingly dirty.  It has also revealed a ton of trash that has been hidden behind snow banks for the past month, and is now littering the streets.  Our back yard in particular is no exception.

For the past month we had been able to delude ourselves into thinking that it was not that bad.  We had forgotten about all of the construction debri that was hidden underneath.  The yard is now slowly being revealed as things slowly warm up, and all of the garbage is starting to come to light again.  What a mess.