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Post by moni on Aug 31, 2021 7:17:19 GMT
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I missed ya'll.
My husband has decided to visit his father, who was recovering from a nearly deadly covid case, but before he set on the road he left me with a "To Do List". This you-to-do list had (has) items like, install a double drive-way, rip up carpet around the house and install tile flooring, scrape off ceiling pop-corn... etc. So I was in a heavy duty renovating process - well, I still am...
In the mean time Sir Grumpalot got stuck in New Orleans in the hurricane and started to tele-instruct me how to hold the sander, which corner I should start with the first tile, and that don't forget to feed the fish... I'm unemployed, but I do not believe I felt this busy, overwhelmed and exhausted in my life.
We live in South Florida, so hurricanes are not all that mythical to us, but he said, Ida was really bad. Anyways, he sent a few short videos he made for me to make me feel closer to him (and to worry me to death...  ) I wonder, if I can upload a couple of them here...hmm Nope, it didn't work... anyways. I hope, anybody here who lives in the area of south LA, MS, or Alabama stayed safe in this ugly storm. 
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Post by pennmom on Aug 31, 2021 11:04:18 GMT
moni, you should be able to upload the clips on your computer from the Nickpic uploader, let me know if you need help...with the uploads, although I'd totally help with remodeling, I love major renovation projects! Tell hubby we are glad he's okay (and tell him to hire someone else to do the projects, we need you more! Ripping Hair Out )
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Post by kimtwilight69 on Aug 31, 2021 12:05:12 GMT
moni , I hope your father-in-law fully recovers from Covid and isn’t afflicted by long-term symptoms. Wow! I’m impressed with your talent, and strength. It’s usually the other way around that the wife has the husband well trained. 😁
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Post by SynthpopAddict on Aug 31, 2021 14:50:20 GMT
moni, sending you and your family some good thoughts. Was wondering why you hadn't posted in a while.
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Post by moni on Aug 31, 2021 22:10:08 GMT
moni , you should be able to upload the clips on your computer from the Nickpic uploader, let me know if you need help...with the uploads, although I'd totally help with remodeling, I love major renovation projects! Tell hubby we are glad he's okay (and tell him to hire someone else to do the projects, we need you more!  ) Aye, I'll try that... I think, the problem starts, that I don't really have a media player installed on my computer, I'm having a hard time to save the clips to my computer from the email... but I will mingle with that later.
We don't really have an awful lot of money for this renovation, and now, that we help out my father-in-law financially, we have even less. So I have to do whatever I'm able to do on my own. For certain things I have to get professionals, like the double driveway installation - it is still a large project, because it got clear, that we have to get the tree removed from the front of the house first... for that I have to call an arborist, first, then get a permit from the city, then get a company to grind down the retched thing, then we need to immediately replant a tree fits for specs, then I can go and hire a company to cement down the driveway. I'm stuck at getting permit for tree-removal
As for my hub's wellbeing, just 20 min. ago he reported, that the whole house is wet - the insulation in the walls are wet, the carpet is slotchy wet, his bed sheet is wet, and it started to mold everywhere - in the mean time they are locked in by fallen trees and electricity poles (or polls...lol), they cannot even set on the road to find a dry hotel or whatnot.
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Post by moni on Aug 31, 2021 22:26:17 GMT
moni , I hope your father-in-law fully recovers from Covid and isn’t afflicted by long-term symptoms. Wow! I’m impressed with your talent, and strength. It’s usually the other way around that the wife has the husband well trained. 😁 My father-in-law became slightly off because of the prolonged oxygen deprivation in his brain. They say, it will slowly normalize, but I think, in his case it is either very slow, or non-existent.... He does weird things, like setting fire in the living room, dumping the now precious gas on the grass... and so on (I don't want to complain about him so much, he is my father-in-law afterall). 
And I'm not talented at all, lol, I'm frequently going to Youtube University to learn the ropes, lol... Surprisingly, I'm doing pretty well.
I know, I should've trained my husband more, but the truth is that he does let me to wear the pants otherwise, too (I'm in control of his paycheck  ) Also I'm secretly getting muscled, and I lost 11 lbs...  There is a trade-in-value in everything.
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Post by moni on Aug 31, 2021 22:40:50 GMT
moni , sending you and your  some good thoughts. Was wondering why you hadn't posted in a while. Thanks a bunch, we do need some good thoughts, their situation is pretty dire. I cannot even imagine how would've they survived this storm without my hub. I'm actually not on a very good accord with my father-in-law - I'm too strong willed and free spirited for him (not to mention too foreigner...lol), but with my mother-in-law we are peas in a pod; she is frequently calls me "angel" for putting up with her son  Yup, that's me...lol... With joke aside, I told them to leave the water damaged house in the hands of a contractor, and come to stay at our house in FL, at least until their house gets dried up. My famously stubborn father-in-law doesn't even want to hear about it... I want to help so much to them, but I don't really know how, on this point. The only thing I can do to budget out extra money for their repairs, and send emotional support. I always feel that I'm not doing enough, though. |
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girls, guys,
) I wonder, if I can upload a couple of them here...hmm Nope, it didn't work... anyways. I hope, anybody here who lives in the area of south LA, MS, or Alabama stayed safe in this ugly storm.
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some good thoughts. Was wondering why you hadn't posted in a while.