Down The Hole

Stupid, stupid, stupid.... that's me.

The contractor is done till after Christmas and while the sun room is not totally finished it is much more livable than it was.

Problem: I should be on my way to church... my plan was to go to church this morning and all the Sundays of Advent (that's the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas for the non-believers). I fell in a hole and I am prevented from enjoying the Advent season of light.... my leg looks like this.....

I expect that it will look very black and blue in a few hours. Yup, the contractor is gone but living in a construction zone still sucks. I fell through a hole in the floor where a furnace vent used to be. It is in a high traffic area and it had been patched so that we could put our flooring right over it and it would not be an issue. It is an issue. Mostly because after a year and a half we are still no closer to having the flooring down than we were when we first started. But if I get out of this with nothing more than a bruised leg then I will be a very lucky lady indeed.... (I could end up in a straight jacket yet!) This is the hole down through which I fell.....

Nasty bleepin' #@%#^%^&*&*)&!!!
That was yesterday...

This is now Monday morning....

 The sun room/dining room/office is looking awesome. I can't show you any pictures though because the battery just died in Teapot's camera and now that we are down to one camera I don't have a back up
to take the pictures. The ceiling has strapping and is ready for the tiles as I get them done. The floor has an extra layer of sub-flooring  and the walls are done. The contractor even managed to get some of the trim boards up. Yeah! As a result of all this... I am now able to start thinking about Christmas decorating.  I brought down the pinecone wreath this morning and though the living room still looks like a tornado blew through,.... (there's still piles of stuff around everywhere)....  give me a few days and I'll have the place spit spot for Christmas.

Well we have finally bitten down on the bullet and decided on the purchase of an artificial tree for Christmas. I just hate the thought that because of us there is another Pine tree going to be killed because we want pretty lights in our home. (I am a tree hugger you know!) I just couldn't bare the thought of it any longer. I am embracing the fakeness of Christmas and going totally plastic. PVC all the way!!  But every day I look out my window and see the planet struggling to breath with dead Pine trees from the infestation of Pine beetles and dryness all summer long to the point that it is really hard to get hay to feed our animals and I think about another Christmas tree being cut and standing in my living room and I think... I just can't do it.... I feel too guilty sitting on Christmas morning opening gifts with a dead tree at my side. Horrible thought indeed! Instead of red, white, green, silver and gold I feel like the house should be draped in black and grey.... maybe that's why Christmas has made me not to happy in the last few years.... maybe I'm just anguishing over trees dieing left, right, and centre. Anyway, it will definitely be red, white, green, silver and gold around here this year.

Ah, I see that it has turned 7:30 a.m. and I had better go call the house for it is a school day and they need to be arrising.... Teapot was up till 3:00 a.m. trying to finish online report cards and having great difficulty with the stupid online report cards system that makes life miserable for the 13,000 + teachers in B.C. as they all try to access the same website at one time.... we have the stupidest educations system in the world.... really. Ass a result he is getting a few extra minutes of sleep this morning... well earned I believe.

Today is Daughter 31's birthday... but more about that tomorrow.

I'm off to cook eggs and toast....