Apartment happenins...

The apartment is still going well.  My preacher and I think his brother came this evening and did some mudding on the sheet rock.  The shower was put in and the plumbing was done.  I think they got most of the lighting for the bathroom finished today.

I'm going to town tomorrow to try and pick out what colors I want.  Mike has a 5 gallon bucket of a white/gray that he said I could just buy a color and mix with that.  So I've got to somehow figure out what color I want.  Get something WAY darker than that and mix it when I get home.  :)  should turn out great!  Here's hoping anyways.  If the color isn't that great than I'll have a good laugh every time I walk in.  

They have to go pick up the front door at some point too.  Mike says 2 weeks and it'll be done.  I'm not so sure but it won't be much long after that!  

I'm so excited!  A place where bugs don't invade.  Rain can't come in.  The structure is solid and I'll have a kitchen!!  Woo-Hoo!!  

Texas visit

For all those interested, I'll be flying into Texas on Friday, Feb 22 and departing Wednesday Feb. 27.  Yay!

Food for thought

Water.

Without enough of it your life cannot go on because your body has to have it.

With too much of it your life cannot go on because it only needs a certain amount.  

Sheet Rock is UP!

The sheet rocking started this morning about 8:45 am and my boss was the last one to leave at 6pm tonight!  He's the best!  My boss and a group of men from a local church were able to begin and complete the sheet rocking in one day!  YAY!!  Rumor has it that my pastor and his wife are coming to help with mudding at paint.  They have done a lot of rental properties and things of that nature and have developed a system of mudding that they never even have to sand.  

The bathroom door and kitchen area.  They put up walls so no more room w/ a view for the potty room.  (You should check out my story below for a good bathroom story)

The living room area (that's the cool tool they use to put it on the ceiling.)

Spare bedroom/ sitting area

My bedroom area

Water is Dangerous!

I'm not sure why they don't make more things in this world waterproof!  Here's what happened. 

As I'm trying to sit down to use the restroom I feel my cellphone begin to slip out of my pocket.  It all happened so fast I had no chance to rescue or stop anything.  Then all I can remember was standing over the toilet seeing my CELLPHONE at the bottom!  I reach in to grab it and it starts flashing colors at me saying low battery then it vibrates for a moment and well, it seems it's gone on to greener pastures now.  

I rush in to explain to my friends what had just occurred and after laughing they suggested I take the battery off and open the phone so it'll dry out and hopefully by tomorrow I can at least get my #'s out of it.  I think my mom's number is about the only one I know from memory.  So if you don't hear from me for a few days now you'll know why.  

I'd like to say this is the first phone I've lost to the water killer.  A couple of years ago when I had just gotten my dog Gracie.  I was going to put water in her bowl.  As I was placing it back down on the ground the phone jumped out of my hand and into her bowl!  

Here's the great part!  Two days ago I ordered my new every two year phone from Verizon.  By Tuesday I should have my new phone in my hands.  Wait it gets better.  I debated between a couple of different phones, all that I could get for free.  Finally I decided against what was cute and fashionable for one that hopefully I can't break.  They call this a ruggedized phone.  It can be submerged in water for up to 30 minutes and still be totally fine!  SWEET!  

After Tuesday bring on the toilets and dog bowls.  You can also drop kick it or throw it and do all sorts of stuff and it won't break.  It's apparently been military tested.  Which is great because the phone after the water bowl phone was broken because something about repeatedly dropping the phone simply is not good for it.  Even if it is an accident every time.  

Cool Picture

Bionicle Battle created by Christopher and Gideon

work in progress

Obviously you're going to have to use your imagination a bit.  Such as when i say bedroom, it's not going to be the typical bedroom w/ 4 walls and a door.  i just mean area where i will have my bed and store my clothes somehow.  :)  

The bathroom. It's going to be a room with a view. Capitalizing on that open air design. :)

The Kitchen

My bedroom area opposite corner from the kitchen.

Spare bedroom/seating area next to my bedroom.

Living room area. Kitchen is back to the left. that door leads outside. 

kitchen cabinets

kitchen cabinets

yes, dad i use this. aren't you proud! :)

as you can tell it's a work in progress but they're coming to do sheet rock tomorrow 

so it'll look totally different.