So you want to remodel?

I guess this is more of a renovation reality post than anything else. I probably have a few random pics of progress but honestly I've been too busy working on the house to take many and now I'm too tired to find them and post them here. It's a sad sad truth but there you have it. I feel like we're maybe in the home stretch but even that is questionable. I suppose that out of the things that are left, we could possibly do all of them ourselves or hire a few random people so all in all we feel a little more in control. Here is a list of things that still have to be done.

• Put approximately 12 shingles on part of the roof that got overlooked. The shingles are here and sitting in the driveway.
• Put vinyl siding on the side of the chimney that couldn't be done before because A: The chimney guy had to come and fix the flu, and B: They ran out of siding to finish it anyway. 
• Paint. OMGEEEEEE at the painting. Now we actually had someone give us an estimate on this but holy cow, I can paint to save three grand plus the cost of paint. It's a LOT of painting, let me just tell you that. #ICantPutMyArmsDown
• Add crown molding (where applicable) and baseboards to the remodeled areas. 
• Add interior doors to the new areas
• Add flooring (the cost of this made me wanna hurl and we didn't even pick really expensive stuff)
• Have the electrician install the plugs, switches, and lights (it's part of his original bid)
• Have the new front door installed (it's ordered and I so hope that it's as epic as we hope it is)
• Have the insulation guy do the blown in insulation in the attic (you know, since there's drywall now to hold it up)
• Have the HVAC guy hook up the new unit in the master
• Random other trim fixes, hardware installs, touch ups, etc.

There may be other things to add to the list but I can't think of them right now. At the current moment, we are only signed up to do the painting but we theoretically could do most of the things on that list. Eventually. If we had to. But we reeeeeally don't wanna.

So here comes the part of the post where I list things that you should really know if you're thinking of adding on or hiring people for a major renovation.

• You should go to your local codes department and ask them the basic standard procedures for getting permits, requesting inspections, scheduling inspections, inspection order (like which one comes first), and if they have any suggestions on contractors. You might even consider pulling your own permit and sub-contracting a contractor in case you have to fire him since all of the other permits are pulled/linked to the main one. 
• Consider putting something in the contract that says if they go over their allotted amount of time by more than X weeks, they have to start deducting $X off the final bill (which you pay in installments- very important fact there) for every week they go over.
• Accept that it's going to be way more expensive than you think. I know you get estimates and there's always something that comes up, blah blah blah. I watch HGTV so I knew about that and we had extra money on top of the contractor's extra money and it's a good thing because we're gonna be over budget at the end. You find that you make small changes along the way when your house is totally torn apart. You'll have the following conversation: Well, we've been wanting to do that and have plans to do it so why don't we just do it now since everything is wide open so that we don't have to tear it up again. 
• Accept that it's going to take way more time than you thought. There will be delays like weather, illness, another job ran over (that's a BIG one), something got back ordered, something arrived broken, something was broken after it arrived and now they have to order a new one, something is out of stock and you have to repeat the painstaking process of choosing another one, something is going to be waaaay more expensive than you thought and you have to repeat previous line, your inspection failed for some random reason and you have to fix it and have it reinspected, and the list goes on. 
• Accept that in order to afford those really cool upgrades that you wanted and stay anywhere in the general vicinity of your budget, you might have to buckle down and do some of the work yourself. you have to consider your strengths in this. For example, I'm not skilled at hanging doors and I'd rather paint than hang trim, so I'm paying the trim guy and doing the painting myself. I'm probably not that great of a painter either, but it's what I've got. 
• Tell your boss or your clients or your kids that you'll be semi unavailable for the next undetermined amount of time. 
• If you are going to put yourself in a position similar to ours, be prepared to eat a bunch of take-out or quick meals at the coffee table before scrounging through a laundry basket for a clean towel and some underwear so that you can take your tired paint covered ass to the bathroom and get a shower before you drag your exhausted self to your inflatable bed to pass out for the night. You should also add money to your HSA to cover all those chiropractic bills due to the strain that you're putting on your body from working and sleeping on said air mattress. You should also kiss your love life good-bye because by the time you actually go to bed, you're too tired to do anything else and let's face it, air mattresses aren't really made for that kind of action. No, that is NOT how or why our first one broke. If it were, I would fess up to that because it would have made a hilarious blog post. 

So there you have it kids, that's how my days are going. I have managed to regain use of my dining table which has made life infinitely more tolerable. We are scheduled to wrap all of this up within the next two weeks if there are no more delays. Remember that line in The Money Pit? Two weeks, two weeks? Yeah, it's like that. I'll post a follow up post later to let you know if I think it was all worth it. ~Kellie~

...and that's how you end up on the roof at 4 in the morning.

For those of you who read my post on facebook and wanted to know why I was on the roof  at four in the morning, it's story time! 
So I was sleeping not so awesomely when I woke up to this sound. It sounded like a computer when it's grinding away in deep thought, you know the sound. My first thought was just that, Henry's computer is basically in our room. I laid there a few minutes and realized that the noise was coming from the other side of the room. I determined that it was water hitting something in an awkward non consistent manner. It sort of sounded like the roof, but sort of not. My brain started calculating how far away the elbow in the gutter was, and then the fact that we'd added on so the edge of the house isn't at the corner of our room anymore and that there is no gutter there now and even if we were on the end of the house, the gutter goes all the way down before there's an elbow. This sound was clearly hitting the roof of the porch outside the window. Those of you who know me know that repetitive noises like that drive me nuts. Water dripping is definitely a mental insanity trigger for me. I tried to resist the urge to check it out, really I did. I pulled the blankets up, tried to put my arm over my ear, nothing worked. It was an Edgar Allen Poe moment for sure. By now Henry had heard it and was awake too. I got out of bed, opened the window, and stuck my head out to see what was up. It was too dark to see what it was. I asked him if he has a flashlight, he didn't. He suggests the flashlight on his phone, so I grabbed my phone instead because it was closer and tried to take a look. I still couldn't see, the light wasn't bright enough, I should have used his app I guess. By now I'm wide awake and mad and determined to see where the noise is coming from. I'm going to need a better look. I put on my pajama pants, sweater and boots, and head out the window with my dimly lit phone to investigate. That's when I see that there's a spot where the water is coming off the roof and running between the house and the gutter. Its dripping onto the metal flashing and roof. Drip, drip drip, driiiiiiip, driiiiiip. OMG!!!! I must make it stop. I mentally refuse to suggest that Henry go get the ladder and come out on the roof with me to really fix this. I just want to introduce a temporary solution so that I can sleep until it's daylight when I can get the ladder and ensure that this never happens again. Then it occurs to me that if I put something on the roof to soften the drips I could go back to sleep since I'm very cranky by now. I go back inside through the window, grab a washcloth from the bathroom, go back outside through the window, place the washcloth so that it dampens the sound. Mwahahahaha! I feel like a winner! I go back inside, take off all the extra stuff, crawl back into bed and listen to the much softer dripping that just sounds like rain. I doze off until the washcloth becomes so saturated with water that it's making a louder noise. By then the baby is awake for his early morning rave and he's talking loudly to himself in his crib. I almost doze back off and then Henry's alarm goes off. It's 5 a.m. now. I laid there for a moment contemplating how to handle this situation before determining that my restless night's sleep was over and that I should just get up and pray that Henry had started the coffee, which he had. So there you have it, that's why I was on the roof at four this morning. 

On a side note: Theoretically the HVAC guys and electrician will be here today to fix things so that we can move on. I hope that they are quick and thorough about it because after all that, I am in no mood to play. :-p ~Kellie~

Evolving ideas

So the electrician came yesterday and started wiring things up. He's not done and we found out that he's kinda working us in when he's not on this really huge job that he's also doing. That's ok with us, it gives us time to ponder things. Like not getting that tankless water heater that we were going to get. We just decided against it, it's not really worth the cost to us so we scrapped the idea. If we had gas piped to the house then it would be a different decision entirely, but we don't so that's that. So back to pondering things. We are somewhat masters of using almost every inch of available space. When you have a relatively small house and a bunch of people and lots of things, you get creative on how to organize and store things. Let's look back at out very first act of creating usable space from "dead" or hard to access space, the coffee bar.

Here's the before and after on that. The cavity for the coffee bar existed before, but it was accessed from inside the pantry. As you can see, (refer to the finished picture or this description will get weird) it's not a terribly deep space, but it's wide. When you put that into perspective with the previous version, that makes it narrow and long so basically you could fit your arm in there but not the rest of your body so it made this really awkward space to say stash a broom, have it fall to the back, then you couldn't reach it without serious effort. We have neighbors who have put shelves in that area and that would have been a great solution except that the idea of a coffee bar was super appealing to us. Also, if you do shelves for that entire area, you still have the issue of not reaching what's in the back and if you didn't make them go all the way back you're wasting space so whatever, we made a coffee bar. This has been a fabulous feature for us as it frees up counter space in the kitchen and we think that it is visually appealing. We still have plans to trick it out a little more but for now this is what it's like. (See Henry there in the corner of that pic? His "desk/office" is right there for now so he's really digging the coffee bar ;) LOL)
So what other space saving/space using plans do we have now?? I have that answer along with a poorly photo shopped proposed "after" shot. When the framing was done upstairs to create the hallway, it created a dead space between two of the walls. We've been racking our brains trying to come up with ideas for that space so that it's not wasted. Henry to the rescue when he said that it would be great to put shelves in, and not only shelves for his office, but shelves for the bathroom. His office shares the wall with the back of the tub (complete with its own toilet! - just overlook that) So anyway, if he has shelves or custom drawers in there, he could put books or cds or photos or all of those random cables and usb sticks and such in there. His office is really small and that little bit of extra space for all of the little things that clutter up everything could make a huge difference. The area between the walls is only like 12" wide, but it's deep so that's when the idea for the bathroom shelves came in so that we could utilize all of the dead space. I didn't photoshop his side, but I did photoshop the bathroom side so in theory it could look something like this----------------------------------------------------------->
It could be a space for towels or wash cloths or makeup or extra toilet paper (in baskets) or something else pretty and decorative. It could also help alleviate that jumbled mess that's under the bathroom sink. By both rooms sharing the space, it ensures that the shelves won't bee too deep to reach things that go to the back of them. So there you have it, our latest brainstorm and plan to utilize all of the extra space that we can. ~Kellie~

No news isn't necessarily good news

Some of you have asked how things with the house are going, and the answer is that they really aren't. The only thing that has been done since my last blog post is that the contractor came out himself and put shingles on the house portion of the addition so that water would stop pouring in when it rained. Apparently there was some issue with the actual roofer and blah blah blah, he couldn't get him to come out and he (the contractor) didn't want to leave us hanging so he and one other guy came out and roofed it. The porch still isn't roofed but Henry and I did get up there and put tar paper on it so it's not raining under the porch anymore. As far as the construction, that's really all that there is to report other than the funny call we got from the permit office but that has all been straightened out. The city didn't want to give him one permit for $50k, but they'd gladly give him two permits for $24,999 for a small fee and he could go on his merry way and carry on with his plans. That's just stupid and another way for the city to make money. I feel bad for him, but welcome to Franklin I suppose.
Sort of related to the renovation, Henry and I finally ordered the new stove and dishwasher that we've been eying for like ten months. We were told that black Friday would be the lowest prices that there would be all year so we patiently waited for that day. The dishwasher was on sale, the stove was not (wth??), but we got $50 off for buying two appliances. That does not equate to a sale price on the stove but at least it's something. They did tell us that if it went on sale during the next thirty days that they'd refund the difference so there's that. To top it off we will get some cheap gas on our next fill up because of that whole rewards program thing so all in all I suppose it's not too bad. Our purchasing experience was overly complicated and drawn out as usual (Home Depot, when will we ever learn??) but we eventually got it paid for and left the store. They will not be installing it because the laminate does not go under the dishwasher and makes a small lip so they won't install. Again, wth?? It's like a quarter of an inch and doesn't interfere with removing the dishwasher. Ask me how I know, go ahead. It's not a big deal because we know how to install it, but it's still ridiculous. It's also ridiculous that they don't charge you sales tax on the dishwasher if you have it installed because it's considered a "service" and therefore not taxable but since we aren't having it installed we had to pay sales tax on it. I guess that makes that fifty dollars off for buying two appliances irrelevant. The install was $69 extra which is basically the same as the sales tax that we paid so whatever.

So, who wants pictures?!?!?!?

This is the dishwasher that we got. The controls are at the top so little fingers don't push all the buttons and melt all my tupperware. The picture on the right? See those little blue things? Those are special bottle/glass cleaner wands that fit up in the container and shoot water into the bottom thus removing the sludge of chocolate milk or whatever else might have been lurking in there.

Below is the stove that we got. It has a smooth top, five burners (do you still call them burners if there is no flame?), and double ovens. Just look at all the pizzas I can cook in there at a time! I have no idea what I will do with all of the pans that used to live in the bottom drawer but I smell another kitchen remodel to figure it out. *Note: We actually do know what to do with them but it really is another project for another day. I'm super glad that when I boil over stuff, it won't go all down in the eyes resulting in a tear down and scrubbing of parts of the stove that normal humans are not meant to see. I've had a smooth top before so I'm aware of the whole no cast iron on them, don't use scrubby pads, etc. so no harping on that in the comments. I'm also super stoked that the elements in the stove are covered so there's no crazy mess around them either. I think that a stove with two ovens is a good choice for us because we have a bunch of kids. We can do two pizzas and breadsticks at the same time, or dinner and dessert, or just use the small one on top when it's just Henry and I. In any case, I'm really excited to have a new stove and dishwasher since I have had the same ones for like thirteen years and they weren't that great to begin with. I know that that's probably not a long time to have (cheap) appliances, but it's two marriages, two houses, and four kids later and I'm thrilled for the change. I'm glad that I got to pick out what I wanted and didn't just choose the cheapest ones in the store because they were functional (and cheap). So there you have it, that's all that's new with us. ~Kellie~

Drying it in

When I last checked in on Day:1 (three days ago), they had ripped off the roof, framed in the new exterior walls, and added one truss. By the end of Day:2, they had turned their attention to how they were going to connect the new space with the old space. Some of these pics probably won't make a whole lot of sense but I'll try to explain the best that I can. Some I made notes on, some I didn't so just bear with me. I've included the "plans" so that you can orient yourself.
So this first photo is taken from the doorway of the original master (which will become a hallway opening and Jonas's room). You can see that they have removed the small closet that was there so that they can frame in the other end of the hall opening.

By the end of Day:2, the outside of the house looked something like this. The roof trusses were up and the sheathing was on it, and they had started adding the sheathing to the the walls. They were also beginning to frame in the new porch extension. I guess that seems like not a whole lot for an entire day's work, but there were many many things that had to be figured out and measured and planned for so that things could go on.

Day: 3 arrived and they started really framing the porch. Now I was out running errands so I missed this part. If I had been home I would have caught a little error that's showing here. I'll explain more about that later.
Some of you have asked how things are going living in the house while all of this is going on, and the answer to that is well, it's interesting. For example, they removed the ceiling and all of that jazz from the downstairs portion of the addition area which meant
that my dryer vent was removed. We have a lot of laundry here,
so after just a few days of construction things were getting pretty tight on the whole clothing thing so being as creative as we are, we engineered a solution to the problem of venting all that hot wet air into the construction area. With just a little well placed duct tape and a partially opened window, we vented the dryer. YAY, now we can have clean clothes again. The lack of laundry did leave me wearing a dress until all of my jeans were washed, but Joy said that I looked festive so I guess it wasn't all bad. :-p

Speaking of Joy, I was out running craft fair errands while they were framing the porch so when I came home and they were almost finished I noticed this glaring error. I guess you can't see it very well in this picture but I noticed it right away and immediately hated it. The porch did not go all the way to the corner of the house. They did it that way on purpose to allow for trim and gutters, but I wasn't having it and when the contractor saw it he was right there with me in the no, no, no, this can't happen, let's do this instead. I felt kinda bad but the guys were really good sports about it and quickly adjusted things
so that it did go all the way to the edge. 

Earlier that morning they had cut open the master and started framing. I had a little bit of a "Money Pit" moment when I was grabbing a few forgotten things from the master bath and I walked out of the door to see that the wall had been removed and I was staring at construction workers first thing in the morning. Hi guys! (Yes, I had clothes on.) So anyway this pic is obviously from later in the day and you can see the framing starting to take shape. The pic on the left is from the hallway in, and the pic on the right is from the new master out. I did think to label that one so that you can see what you're looking at. The door for the bathroom looks really small but it's only the angle, it's the same size as it was before. It's also going to be a pocket door so that changes things as well.

Speaking of the new master, here are some shots from within that area. The first one here is the front of the house which will be the bedroom part. It does look really narrow, but it's the same size as the one that we had before so we're used to it. We only go there to sleep and hide from the kids anyway so we don't need a ton of room. We do gain a little additional room due to the face that we now also get a hallway to the bathroom so I guess there's that. On the other end of this is the area that will be the closet and Henry's new office. If you look really closely you can see the stud that looks thicker than the others, that's where the wall will divide the two spaces. It also looks tiny but it is what it is. Our goal with the addition wasn't to have huge sprawling rooms, it was just to give everyone their own dedicated space. I know that some would say oh you have five bedrooms but they are all small, and that is correct. The master and Kinsley's room are the biggest (I'm sure we'll hear about that later) but even they aren't huge. The simple facts of the matter are that the footprint of the house is only so big and that expanding that footprint (which is an option that we previously considered) would have taken way more money than we wanted to

spend. Other facts about this are that we totally love our location and our neighborhood and even our crazy neighbors, so we didn't want to move. We actually did check into moving and let me tell you that a decent five bedroom house in any kind of decent location in Franklin is waaay more than we wanted to spend or than we will have invested in our house after all of this. Even a really crappy outdated house (like this one was when we bought it) was more to start than we have invested in ours so far so for all those who wondered, that's why we did what we did. Anyway, back to the addition.
By the end of Day: 3, here's where we are. The photo above shows that the hall closet (that little part jutting into the room) and all of the other interior walls up there have been framed. This closet will take the place of the one that we ripped down on the other side. No we couldn't leave it because it was in the way of where the bathroom door needed to be. (Refer back to the "plans" above if you're not sure.) They also added plywood over the hall opening to keep the cold air from rushing in.

There was a little additional framing done downstairs. It's kinda dark, but you can see that they have framed in a new closet for Colin's room as well as new walls on top of the lip left from the cement blocks that formed the garage. Previously there were walls on that lip, but they framed them in such an odd way that you couldn't hand shelves or anything on the wall so we ripped out the old ones and had them add these new ones. This will also allow us to have some hella thick insulation in there so no more temperature fluctuations when the sun goes down. We're also getting a tankless water heater so this closet area will make more sense.
So here we are on Day:4 and the outside of the house looks a little like this. They have boarded up the windows and wrapped the house in plastic to keep it dry. I've also posted a pic of the back of the house but it's not really very exciting. The roofers are due to be here this morning. The dumpster is full and I'm sure the contractor will make a call to have it swapped out because they still have to remove the siding and replace it with vinyl.  I'm not really sure when that's scheduled but I presume that it will not be until after the holidays. Aside from the roofers, I have no idea what's going to go on in the house today. We really liked our framers and were sad to see them go. They did great work, they were very polite, and they were fast. They didn't even mind our random questions and changes and gawking. Henry will be taking the kids to our parents's houses while he and I attend a craft fair this weekend. (That'll be another blog post all to itself I'm sure.) I'm a little nervous about it as I don't want to bring everything back home but I also don't want to sell out on the first day. Given those choices, I'd rather have the latter but in any case I hope that I do well enough to be invited back next year. So if you guys need something awesome to do this weekend, hit us up at the Centennial Craft Fair in Franklin. ~Kellie~

Raise Da Roof! (after you tear it off first)

 Well here it is, the last photo of our house looking structurally the way that it was built. I have to admit that I've been a little nervous about the construction but I've been preoccupied with other things so that's helped. Our construction crew showed up yesterday morning and got to work. I was sort of surprised at the number of work vans and people who filled my driveway, yard and street. The more the merrier I always say. I guess it takes a big crew to raise da roof!!

 Well, I mean first they had to tear it off but anyway. These guys were fast, and within two hours they had the roof off. They took a little lunch break to defrost and regroup from demolition mode to construction mode. We went out to have a look at things so that we didn't seem like we were micro managing things. It really is hard to just sit inside and try to work on what you need to be doing while they rip part of your house apart. Henry said that it was like when you're at the dentist and all numbed up and they are pulling your tooth. You can hear the commotion, but you can't see it or feel it (though it did get a little chilly in here with no roof on there). We both find construction fascinating and honestly I think that we could have just sat out there and watched them all day. We'd have seemed like creepers if we had so I was glad that it was too cold to do that and we both had work to do. Here are the old roof trusses next to the new ones. This struck me as interesting on a deep level. It's like seeing death and birth at the same time. Or maybe like a retiring worker standing next to his younger and newer replacement so that the job can go on. Either way, I got a picture.

Now the fun began. They came back from lunch and slammed through putting the floor trusses on. Those are the part that look like a pallet under the walls. They were pre-built to speed things along as well as because that's how the rest of the house is framed. All of the operating guts of the house like plumbing, electrical, and HVAC live there between the floors. It keeps things tidy but it does mean that if you ever have to work on those systems you have to either remove part of the ceiling or part of the floor to access them. Not my problem, I'll pay someone else to do that. So anyway, I had no idea that they were this far when I hustled out to put a package in the mail so man was I surprised when I turned around to come back and there were walls! By the end of the day, they had all of the walls up and the end roof truss! It makes me laugh to see the house look like shipping containers stacked together with this weird extra piece filling in the gap. It's almost like when people have a trailer and they build on a room. I suppose I think that because the rest of the house is finished and this part isn't I dunno, but it still makes me laugh. Here's another thing that I found amusing while we're on the subject of me being easily entertained. Here are some pics of what the inside of that room looks like.  I didn't realize that they had all of this bracing in there to help support the existing walls and keep them square while they did all of the other work until later after they had all gone. I kept wondering why there were guys down in that room working since they were only supposed to be framing the outside that day. Remember what I said about not wanting to be nosy though, so I just sat at my little desk and ran my little machine and tried to stay out of it. Today they will get the rest of the roof trusses up, get the interior walls up for the

closet and Henry's office, get everything covered in sheathing and maybe even get the shingles on. They have to tear off part of the existing roof in order to tie it all together so that there aren't any big bumps in it that would point out where the new roof started. Meanwhile, we have Thanksgiving meals to eat with the boys at school and another fireplace guy is coming to talk to us about replacing this beast. I'm afraid to see what that's going to cost as it's not in the amount with the contractor but more of an item that we are taking the opportunity to address since everything is torn apart anyway.
So there you have it, that's where we are as of nearly 7 a.m. on day two. We are just waiting on the crews to roll in and get started for the day. Stay tuned tomorrow for another exciting run down of construction at our house. :-p ~Kellie~

Delays and Decisions

So today was supposed to be the day that they started work on the house but the aren't because the trusses, which were supposed to be delivered yesterday, weren't. They did however arrive this morning a little before 8 a.m. Cue the choir of angels! Our contractor has informed us that work will start on Monday morning (11-17). The crew is finishing up some little projects and want to have as many consecutive days as possible to tear down and rebuild ours so that it can be weather ready.

The only other news that I really have to report is that we have chosen the siding and its colors (siding and trim). Here's a little look at that.

The top color is the siding called "coastal sage" and the bottom one is the trim called "linen". The chunk of siding that you see there is the actual width that the siding will be. It's really close to the width of the current siding which is about the only thing about the current siding that we like. We like that this is nice and chunky and had a slight wood grain to it. I know some of you are wondering why we didn't get hardyboard and they answer to that is that we have two different neighbors that got that and their installs did not go well and they had to have second crews come out and fix it. We also don't want to have to maintenance the siding by repainting and re-caulking the joints and all that so we opted for vinyl.
I suppose that I could throw in a little additional information about some other details which aren't very exciting yet but just the same. I know my avid readers (all 2 or 3 of you) are just clammering for all the information you can get. We have decided to get a tankless water heater which should free up some space in the storage area and save us from constantly heating water that we aren't using. We also had a fireplace cleaning company come out (Ash Busters) and give us a quote on cleaning and repairing our fireplace. We have since called another company to come out and give us an estimate to replace it but we are still waiting on their arrival (11-19) to see what they have to say before we choose an option. I personally don't feel that a fireplace is a fabulous feature that I looooove and desire in a house. In fact, my thoughts about it when we looked at the house were something like dang, look at all that space we can't use. I'm slowly (in my older age and increased stress level) coming around to the idea of a nice little fire in the evenings with a glass of wine. I think that this is more spurred by the insane amount of chaos that goes on in this house on a daily basis. Both of the little kids have been squealing and screaming (not in nice cute little ways but more like shrieking out of frustration) the entire time I've been writing this post. I'm thinking that a little shot of tequila or vodka might be in order so that I can make it through the rest of my morning until nap time.
So anyway, that's about all that I have to report. A few decisions, and the fact that I can sleep in my own room in my own bed for a few more nights. ~Kellie~