Living Room Campout

Day 13

Let there be walls. If you ever have trouble getting started in the morning here's one plan: Give a bunch of veritable strangers keys to your house and have them show up with power tools at 8am every day. I don't know about others, but I am up and about by 7:00 every day now.

Today was no exception. DeeDee's sister is coming so we needed to do some last minute touch-ups and move out of the living room so that they could take over our living room master suite. This included buying a bed frame, as I indavertently threw the old one out, not knowing how easily it could be repaired or how much it costs to replace. I am a one-man stimulus package these days.

Jovan wanted to put a coat of varnish on the new closet floor so we did not move before Michelle and the kids came. We went to brunch, toured Wrigley Field and even visited a cabinet store with the kids (boys love granite!). Later in the afternoon we wnt to see 'Alice in Wonderland' and did not do much kitchen-y stuff at all.

In the evening we went our for Ethiopian food. The boys are like 9 and 12 and I don't think Ethiopian food is in there 'comfort zone' but everyone survived.

At home, the guys had hung drywall in the kitchen and turned it into a real room. However, that room has slightly different dimensions than the were expecting, so there might be slight revisions to the cabinet plan. Maybe stalling wasn't such a bad idea after all.

The bedroom is done and varnished but stinks like industrial solvent. So The kids and Michelle are stasying at a friends, and we spend another night in the living room. Tomorrow should be a day of rest for the crew and a museum scramble for Deedles, me and the family. And probaly some more 'normal' food.