Mynagirl’s Fashion Report Emmys 2010
How I went from loving to loathing TiVo…
Dear prissy couple from my flight (and a desperate plea to airlines for offset seating)
Un-American Opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque
Disposing of a Window Unit Air Conditioner in Texas – argh!
The Sad, Slow Decline of IMDb
Steve Miller’s “Jungle Love” and the TV show “Lost”
Iron Man 2 (***)
My dogs eat Scotts® Organic Choice® Lawn Food
Homemade breakfast muffins
The Crazies (***)
2001:A Space Odyssey and the iPad (or is it tamPod?)
Can We Stop Airline Terrorism?
Sherlock Holmes (***)
Paranormal Activity (***)Day Two: Learning What’s Under There
So Project Wall Remove proceeds. It’s funny that we moved out of the Houston Heights into Brenham, only to be embarking on a quintessentially Heights-ian project of remodeling our 2/1 tiny bungalow on an undersized lot.
The rerouted wiring behind the kitchen wall.
Today was spent with rerouting wiring (Engineerboy), cutting through wall (Engineerboy), and removing about 1 zillion nails (Mynagirl). Oh and shop-vac’ing the hell outta the inside of what-used-to-be-a-wall. (Including spider eggs, yuck!!)
We learned that the kitchen floor is higher than the dining room floor because the kitchen has 3-count-them-3 layers of linoleum layed down on top of one another. And there’s plywood underneath the 3 layers of linoleum on top of the subfloor in the kitchen. I don’t know why, because it’s the same subfloor as in the rest of the house I think. Maybe there was damage to the subfloor about 15 years ago before the first layer of linoleum went down? Maybe there used to be carpet in the rest of the house? Unknown, but I can tell you that Project #2 is going to be replacing that damned crappy floor. It’s all torn to hell.
Here's what underneath there...
Here's the wall that will be gone tomorrow
We had a heck of a decision on the part of the wall that’s still abutting the west outside wall — the side that goes beneath the cabinets is just plywood, which I think is sort of tacky, but there’s really nothing to be done to it since it goes behind the cabinets. And we’re not replacing the cabinets — they’re actually pretty solid. So we had to decide if we were going to mess with that wall. In the end we decided not to, and bought a RotoZip to cut into the plywod wall with a precise depth, pretty sweet.
Tomorrow is header board and sawing through the studs… sweet.
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