A day of meetings

We started the day out really early by having breakfast at the diner before our first contractor appointment ...

The first contractor we met today was nice enough but didn't "wow" us at all ... he wasn't at the house very long and he didn't talk about any ideas while there ... he just asked what we were looking for in our bathrooms but didn't get into any detail about how it could be done ...

as soon as he left we headed to my parents house to pick up some funky IKEA chairs from our apartment in NY so we could set them up and have a place to sit while hanging out at the house ...

after hanging out for a while we went back to the house to wait for our 2nd contractor appointment for the day ... he too was nice enough ... and actually made one really great suggestion that I couldn't believe I hadn't already thought of ... when we told him we wanted to expand the bathroom into the walk-in closet and that we were just going to build a closet along one wall he said "I don't know how you feel about IKEA but they have great closet systems that would fit beautifully, cost less, not feel as intrusive and are like having a custom closet" ... I told him I thought it was a fabulous idea and that I had worked at IKEA and couldn't believe I hadn't thought of that ... so he surveyed the bathrooms and said the job would be easy and would put something together and email it to us ...

we are anxious to see what the three contractors we met with come up with but right now the first one we met on Thursday is still our favorite ... he was very personable ... would work to save us some money ... and we just felt comfortable talking to him ...

after the contractor left we had some time before our meeting with the alarm company so we went to work killing insects in the yard ... the crickets and mosquitoes are crazy in our yard ... well at first I wasn't helping ... I was hanging out watching David set everything up ... but when he turned the hose on and the bottle of insect poison flew off the hose cause of the pressure ... and I was laughing so hard I could barely breath I figured I could give David a hand getting set up ...

He was our spraying while I started the meeting with the alarm company ... I got everything worked out with Brink's and David finished the yard ... he said the mosquitoes were going crazy while he was spraying and were just attacking him ...

After all of our appointments we headed to Home Depot to get some of the paint we need ... we got "Ruby Ring" red for our front and mud room door and "Popped Corn" white for the inside of the doors and everywhere else we are painting white in the house ... meaning all the ceilings and I know the upstairs hall ... when we stopped back by the house to drop the paint off the yard was filled with birds and they were feasting ... there were dead bugs everywhere and fat birds in heaven ...

we didn't get home until almost 9 PM and knew we had to have a bunch of stuff packed up and moved out and the condo clean by 10:30 tomorrow morning because our agent is coming over to get the paperwork and take pictures of the place ... so I called Michael and told him we just couldn't do the pictures tomorrow ... to still come over but we were exhausted and just weren't going to be ready for pictures ... he was very cool about it and said it was no problem which left me a bit of time to relax and write this post ... tomorrow is another fun filled day of work ... ahhhhh I am already looking forward to years from now when we can relax during the weekend ...