ATF: Puppies, Floors, Rumble Girls, Nails

Right, y'all got not much to say about the emo. That's cool. What is there to say, really, once we get past offers of bags of flaming elephant turds?

So, PUPPIES!

We all visited Krypto today at the kennel. He is doing great, and again lit up Boy's face. Krypto could not stop teasing a collie mix in the next run. We fed him some bits of french fry we openly sneaked in. We also saw a doggy crash cart. That was new.
Krypto is getting some benefit from being in boarding, aside from mackin' on assistant Abby: Abby's taught him to "kennel up": to jump back into his kennel on command. How schweet is that?

King, Mr. Sneaky, visited Murphy Pup and took a picture. I was completely melted. Murphy is just the prettiest damn beagle pup ever. Big head, big feet, big ears. I can hardly wait to be back in the house with dogs and cats sharing it with us.

King is confident I will be earning money soon at something. I totally agree I am good enough at a number of things to get paid, I am hoping, too, that he is right.

We get a break from futzing with house stuff until Friday, because the floor guy has to level so much (another $250. cha-ching later...). It'll be nice to have floors again, but I don't expect to see them until Monday. Today's labor consisted of disappearing just before I got there, saying he'd be back after lunch, and still not appearing by 2:30. If I was gonna guess, I'm guessing the crew dropped the bags of leveller in the house, went, "yep, that's gud" and took off again, satisfied.

I moved the cabinets from the kitchen to the den, so they'd be out of the way. They're damn heavy. I also squirtched expanding foam sealer into a big-ass (as opposed to a big ass) crack/gap at the base of the back room wall and its floor. Supposedly, the gap would be covered by baseboard.
1) Why would I want baseboard hanging over a gap like that?
2) My ass.

Two days for leveling, at least, and we might see floor start to go down by Friday. When that's done, cabinets go in. When those go in, counters can be put in and plumbing connected.

In theory, electricity will be on this week, which will make working at the hosue much nicer. Maybe I can get the blinds guy out and get windowcoverings on so we're not in a fishbowl.

The new RG will either be awesome or a beautiful mess.
I know from re-reading RG: SWT my panel count per page has got to go DOWN. All the missed opportunities to let the story unspool instead of hurrying it along make me cringe.

Lastly, I have not bitten my nails for four weeks, not even a little. I put this all down to the stress relief of having the right meds, and not having to maow down on my fingers. This is an all-time record. Having them (I've been a nail-biter since I can remember) is weird. I can scratch my scalp, peel stickers, pick up coins. They don't hurt all the time.
It's really quite nice to not do something that has plagued me for so long!

ATF: Floored

The flooring guy calls me this morning. He has already negotiated himself another $250. for materials and labor to get our floors shipshape for the vinyl planks. He tells me, in the course of this call, that another ten bags (on top of the three already included in the price) might not be enough.

"Don't be calling me to tell me you need more." (Yes, I said "don't be.")
"Well, I'm not, it's just that--"
"Don't call me tomorrow and tell me you need more."
"But--"
"We are not rich. We can't keep paying every time you think you don't have enough."
"Yes, ma'am."

Then I ring King.

"Call the floor guy. I'm so tired."

I went by at 2:30. They have laid leveler in all the rooms, left prints in some of it, and weren't there. I sure hope that small mountain they left in the den is going to be knocked down today. I sure hope I don't see footprints telescoping through my vinyl.

Rarr! I wear my stompy shoes at thems!

How much trouble could I have saved myself if I'd fired the charmers, theives and slowpokes at the beginning?
Let this be a lesson to you all: don't wait until someone takes a punishing shit* and leaves it in a bucket in your backyard. If you find them on the first day of demolition going through your stuff, fire their asses right then.

*Thank you missmonstermel for adding to my lexicon of poo-poo descriptives.

Murphy!

Murphy, originally uploaded by DivaLea.

God, I did not want a puppy to housetrain. No, no, NO!

But then I look at that face, and think, "Well, maaaaaybe." We have wanted a beagle forever. They are so damn smart, and love to be inside/outside dogs.

Okay, I have to quit looking at him, or I will get nothing done. He's like the damn puppypocalypse.

More RG! RG, I say!

Shucks!

I'm so glad for the response to the puppy pics. Sure, it's easy to say I LUV DAT PUPPAY, but the comments were super nice, and I'm glad to give everyone something to cheer about.

I fully expect Murphy and Krypto to become frequent photo subjects. The late, great Yuki was camera-shy after she was eighteen months or so, so there are not many pictures of her looking happy!

Lots of work on RG these past few days. I was trying to describe the feeling of being on a roll, of being really in love with the work and the rush to arcana_j, and she quoted (as she often does) J.K. Rowling. Rowling said (writing) was like having a good affair.

Yes. That's it.