snow be damned

My red turk's cap lily didn't care that it was snowing this morning and sprung it's first bloom anyway.

Take that cold weather! kiiiiyah! kerpow! kaaacha! *that was me karate chopping the air*

The question

Yesterday a lady knocked on my door and asked if she could paint my address on my curb as a comunity project, I told her yes and let her get to work.
Her daughter came and got me after she was done and as I was walking down to the curb the lady asked, "When are you due?"
With a hiccup in my step I looked down at my stomach, my face dropped and I could feel the color rising to my cheeks. I loudly wispered, "I'm...um....not pregnant..."
"Oh!" The women exclaimed, "I am so so sorry!" She then hurried through the steps of showing me the curb, mumbled more apologies and skirted off towards my nieghbor's house.

No I'm not making this up, this really happened. Talk about a confidence buster! I dont think this is something you can come back from...

On a more positive note, Makoa didn't chase the cat once last night! Maybe that means the shock collar is working, but I'm not holding my breath. He gets to wear it for a few more days to see if he's actually learning that chasing the cat is a bad thing.

zappity zap

Makoa has a new accessory, it's blue, has a nice shiny buckle and zaps him when he does something bad. It's a shock collar. Before you start scolding me for such a purchase let me explain.
Makoa has chased poor Sophi since the day he came to live with us. At first it wasn't too bad because he'd just chase her but now he likes to trap her in a corner, jump on her repeatedly and bite her head. I was getting really annoyed and starting to worry that he might hurt my cat. I was at my last resort so this collar was purchased.

We've had it for a while now but it wasn't working when we put it on him. So I thought maybe it was just a crappy buy, gave up and just didn't put it on him.
Well Monday night I wanted to strangle him. All I kept hearing was hissing, growling and scratching on the floor since they had no traction. I was so tired of yelling "MAKOA LEAVE IT!" because it just wasn't working.
So I tried the collar again last night, I just put it on tighter since I thought maybe it was all his fur that was getting in the way of the shock prongs.

After a few minutes he went after Sophi and I pushed the highest shock button thinking it wouldn't be that bad since I never got a reaction out of him before. I was wrong, he yelped so loud! John looked at me and asked, "What button did you push?!" I answered sheepishly, "The highest..." But it worked, he stopped right in his tracks when he was chasing Sophi.
As the night wore on he went after Sophi 3 more times and I pushed one of the lower shock buttons and he stopped bugging the cat (plus no more yelps). He seemed to learn fast, after he got shocked he run to John, sit down next to him and not move even though Sophi was still in the room. I'm hoping with just a few more days and a few more shocks we wont have to use the collar for Sophi chasing anymore.
We might use it for door barking though since he's the one that started that fun trend.

granite

Today we bought the granite counter for the wet bar and we pretty much stole it!

We got 61 square feet for $307 dollars (they didn't charge us tax!). The granite we picked out was originally about $30 a square foot so we saved $1523! It was a remnant sale so we didn't have a huge selection but we found what we needed and a color we liked so it worked out great for us. If we wanted the shop to fabricate it and install it for us it would have been a lot more but John has a friend that will do all that for us for dirt cheap (we're talking like a case of beer cheap!).



There is also another piece on the other side of the A frame.

It'll be awhile before it's put into place, but you cant pass up a good deal!

decided

I guess it's decided. If John doesn't have to work Friday he'll start digging the ditch. Looks like we'll be living in dust again for a while.
The poor floor in the hallway better go back down nicely or I think I'll throw a temper tantrum.

opinions please!

Friday night while we were lying in bed, I was reading a book and John said, "Son of a b$#&h!" With John that could mean a bomb just went off or he forgot to turn off the light so I calmly asked, "what?" not straying from my book and he said, "We cant have a sink downstairs."
"Why not?" I asked, he suddenly had my undivided attention.
"I was so busy worrying about getting water to the sink that I totally forgot that we need a drain!" He was livid with himself.
All I could muster up was an "Oh..."
We then discussed our options.

* We can still put in a sink but that means digging a ditch in the cement floor and tearing up the new floors in the hallway to connect to the drain in the bathroom.
John assures me that the flooring wont be harmed and can be put back down easy as pie, but it worries me.
* Dont put a sink in and leave the set up the way it is. With this I know that because we didn't put a sink in we'd need a sink all the time and I worry that it'll look ridiculous.
* Dont put a sink in and change the set up to just go across the wall and not in a L shape. This would be all fine and dandy but John cut out the carpet around the cabinets so we'd have a huge hole in the carpet until we got the money to install new carpet.
* I told him we'll put a sink in and just put a bucket under it to catch the water. I was joking...kind of.

We're at a loss, what should we do? If it was your house what would you do? John wont give his opinion, whenever I ask him what he thinks all he says is, "How bad do you want a sink?" yeah, big help there!
Work has been put on hold until we make a decision but we have to decide by next Saturday because we might be getting a counter top that day.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!

*We do have a bathroom downstairs to connect to the sewer line. John has done it(meaning dug the ditch, laid the pipe and connected to the sewer) once before in his parents home so I'm pretty sure he can do it in ours.

quilt

I finished my friend's baby quilt on Friday and took it to her baby shower today. I think it turned out nicely.


Now I need to finish all the other craft projects I've bought.