little of this, little of that
Jan. 18th, 2013 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boogieshoesso... upon talking to everybody and ghod down here, it turns out that cracks in a slab foundation is just something that happens in the area. we've got sandy clay soil and a water table 6' under grade, and rain out the wazoo, and most slabs wind up with cracks within about 2 months of being poured. as long as it isn't doing the broken off/ tilting at an angle thing - and mine isn't - it's usually ok.
the second part of that was getting the concrete guys in to do their thing. which they did this afternoon in about 30 minutes. so now it's joint compound on the crack of some sort, put a water sealer on the cement, and continue.
'continuing' is: re-glaze the ceiling, paint the last two pieces of trim, touch up the blue paint, yellow in the closet, trim paint, put down carpet padding, and carpet. should not actually take too long, though i'm not sure i'm going to get to it this weekend. my feet and ankles and a lot of my other major joints have been sore, probably because of the cold. this weekend might end in a lot of stitching and couch-surfing, which is a-ok with me.
i ended up taking the mag7 doggies with me to work last week, and i'm using it as my 'work project'. i love this pattern because it stitches up so quickly. i only just started on the Buck-dog, and i can already see the shapes of his legs and chest. i manage to do about 2 9" strands to floss a day, maybe a little more. this wednesday, i went to Micheal's and color matched the kit floss with the DMC selection there. i didn't get a perfect match on every color - not even most colors - probably because i don't think they had all 425 shades or whatever. but i got them close enough that when i run out of thread, i can replace with the new thread i brought and just keep going... 7 more times. (once for me, once for each of the members of the cast. i hope.)
i'm hoping i can finish this thing, and get it mounted in a shadowbox and the box all tricked out and finished too, before the Mag7 Con in August. it would be nice to present my first time through the pattern then. but i'm not even sure i'm going to be able to go to the con - it just depends on the money situation. *sigh*
all in all, though, doing well.
-boogie
the second part of that was getting the concrete guys in to do their thing. which they did this afternoon in about 30 minutes. so now it's joint compound on the crack of some sort, put a water sealer on the cement, and continue.
'continuing' is: re-glaze the ceiling, paint the last two pieces of trim, touch up the blue paint, yellow in the closet, trim paint, put down carpet padding, and carpet. should not actually take too long, though i'm not sure i'm going to get to it this weekend. my feet and ankles and a lot of my other major joints have been sore, probably because of the cold. this weekend might end in a lot of stitching and couch-surfing, which is a-ok with me.
i ended up taking the mag7 doggies with me to work last week, and i'm using it as my 'work project'. i love this pattern because it stitches up so quickly. i only just started on the Buck-dog, and i can already see the shapes of his legs and chest. i manage to do about 2 9" strands to floss a day, maybe a little more. this wednesday, i went to Micheal's and color matched the kit floss with the DMC selection there. i didn't get a perfect match on every color - not even most colors - probably because i don't think they had all 425 shades or whatever. but i got them close enough that when i run out of thread, i can replace with the new thread i brought and just keep going... 7 more times. (once for me, once for each of the members of the cast. i hope.)
i'm hoping i can finish this thing, and get it mounted in a shadowbox and the box all tricked out and finished too, before the Mag7 Con in August. it would be nice to present my first time through the pattern then. but i'm not even sure i'm going to be able to go to the con - it just depends on the money situation. *sigh*
all in all, though, doing well.
-boogie
