Monday, November 11, 2013

A Half Day Weekend

Well, let me start this off by saying for a Monday, I am already exhausted.  The normal two day weekend was shortened into a half day yesterday for me.  It wasn't that I was working on jobs for money, I was working on our son's new room that needs to somehow get done by Thanksgiving or soon after.  But, I must say, a lot got done this weekend.  It all started Friday afternoon after work when I had a friend come over to help move 22 sheets of sheet rock up to the room.  Normally when I come on a Friday I crash, but there wasn't time for that.  The sheet rock luckily didn't take long to move with 2 of us maneuvering it around the tricky corner to get it up the stairs.  After that, nothing was done till Saturday morning.  Come Saturday morning, I got my wife and son packed up to spend the ensuing day and night at my parents house so I could work non-stop on getting the room sheet rocked, something I can't do continuously if they are home due to our son's nap and early bedtime.  By 8 o'clock in the morning, I was ready to get to work.  The sheet rock started going up, along with the last bit of insulation, and work continued non-stop till dinner time.  At that point, I took a brief break to head to my parents house for dinner, see our son, and put him to bed there.  I was back home by 7:30 in the evening and proceeded to work till almost midnight.  A long day, yes, but I almost finished hanging all the sheet rock on Saturday alone.  So after getting to bed by 12:30 in the morning on Sunday, I woke up 5 hours later and was back to work by 6:30.  It was crunch time, so there weren't any big breaks after breakfast.  I needed everything done and cleaned up by 11 when my wife and son were due back home.  I managed to meet at least that deadline and for now, all the noisy work is done.  All the sheet rock is up and ready to be taped.  Yesterday afternoon was a tired one for me.  All I wanted to do was nap, and yet, I had running around to do while our son napped and then soon after I got home, he woke up and we were off to our afternoon of playing in the house.  And now for encore, I have two long days ahead of me as I need to meet a deadline of installing a hardwood floor by Wednesday morning.  It won't be easy, but I will somehow get it done.  The floor isn't in my house (that will be next weekend in our son's room), but rather at a customer's house.  They are on vacation till Wednesday morning and need their master bedroom back by that time.  Lets keep our fingers crossed that I don't fall asleep while working and make it through this long week.  Now, I must run and get my family going for the day.  Insanity I tell you, insanity!

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