friends indeed
you guys are such good friends. thanks for still checking in to see if i'm alive and posting. sorry i haven't been keeping up lately. i've been feeling a bit down in the dumps and figured you all should be tired of my whining by now. but i guess you're not!i wish that i had photos of the work that we've been doing over the last week or so. we have successfully ripped up floor, sistered floor joists, and installed the plywood subfloor - in one room...downstairs.
now, to be perfectly honest, this only took two full days of work, but we had to spread it out over a week because my ever graceful husband fell during the first days' work and sprained his ankle quite badly. he is improving steadily, but hasn't been able to do much. as a result we had open crawlspace in our dining room for a week.
the crawlspace, for those of you not intimately familiar with guts of houses, is the dirt cavity lurking under your floor. i know e&c's brownstone doesn't have one, nor is there one in e&t's loft. david's house may have one - or it may have a basement. in any case, our house has a crawlspace and it was completely exposed to the whole house for one week. that is - there was no floor. only joists and dirt. i was very unsure that i would come through the week a sane person, but i did. thank you to my parents for coming up to help me finish the room. now there is no more exposed dirt and joists - until we commence work on the living room. holy shit, what have i gotten us into? (i will try to post photos this evening.)
in other news, dj husband has had another gig at the atomic burrito. i hear it was better attended than the first night. he is still trying to come up with a clever dj name (i guess he doesn't like dj husband!). have any suggestions?
career developments are progressing slowly, which is better than not at all, i suppose. i know for sure that i want to work at the center, and i am, at least, a contributing volunteer, having sequenced a few manuscripts, reviewed one and copy edited another. now, if they would just hire me...
thanks for being loyal readers, guys. it's nice to know you're out there.
posted by bls @ 9:13 AM
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I have often wondered what a crawlspace is. On an old Simpsons I watched yesterday Bart is exhibiting neurotic tendencies and goes into the crawlspace. In the Simpsons home this appears to be inside a wall.
My house has a large space underneath it, because it is built on the side of a hill. From the front it almost looks like a two-story house except there are no windows at the bottom. I should put some fake ones in, like at Glamis.
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