This was a weekend. Friday we dropped off my car since the dealer said the brake calipers were rusted. Since we don't trust them as far as we can throw them, we took it to our new angels in overalls mom and pop auto garage we found last year. They looked it over and said "um, no. Brakes are fine. Your tires however have dry rot and the tread wear does not match the miles on the car." Nope. We moved those over from the Mr's car to mine when he traded it in 18 months later. They were EXPENSIVE all weather tires and we switched my regular tires over so the dealer would be getting those. We didn't even think that those tires are now 6 years old. We gave the go ahead to change them for the lowest acceptable tires since we'll be selling it next year. (Only 20K original miles and 10 years old.) We know the dealer would ding us on the tires if we kept them. We only ended up spending about $150 more than we were planning on so I guess that's not bad. Plus I was really impressed they caught the tread difference too. They've sent us to the dealer before on things covered under extended warranties where they could've easily just taken our money. It's nice to have a place you trust. Afterward, we walked for our workout downtown.
Saturday we cleaned up a little here and there but the Mr was antsy and wanted to give me my Valentine's gifts of fuzzy socks since some of mine are biting the dust, some of our favorite Hawaiian candy and some maple cotton candy from Vermont that was really good. I gave him his Curly Wurlies that he loves from his youth, one gift is being delivered tomorrow and another is floating around our mail system. 😐 Then it was time for afternoon tea.
It was nice to take that time to just enjoy some bossa nova channel and chill for that hour or so. We were on IG with Marc Maron and decided to get HBOMax for a month to watch his new special since it was based on the early part of the pandemic when we would watch him almost daily. It was kind of crazy to know who he was talking about neighbor wise, go through reliving Lynne's death and knowing about his dad's dementia. I wouldn't say it was uplifting because a show called "From Bleak to Dark" doesn't promise sunshine and rainbows but still a good watch for us.
Then came Sunday. The Mr woke with a pretty bad headache so we got that taken care of and started getting to work on cleaning the house and attempting soundproofing of our electrical outlets with acoustical putty pads that came in Friday. Technically, they should be wrapped around the back of the junction box before your electric is installed but we did see a video on YouTube where some dude put it on the back of his wall outlet covers and had a significant reduction in noise from his neighbors. Well, I don't know about that but I do know there were a TON of gaps that we filled in with putty scraps. I spent hours pushing that crap on there and cutting out the holes in attempts to seal off the cretins on either side away. Of course they have decided to be extra quiet today so we haven't really gotten to put them to the true test. While I know they can't hurt, I'd swear the witch neighbor's microwave was less jarring but she could've decided to close it like a human for once over slamming like it won't close any other way. We'll be able to tell more this week. OH yeah. Where the old coaxial cable was run on our side, the SWAT neighbor's wall mounted TV now rumbles on the other side behind our TV. The wall box where the cables come out was completely void of insulation or a junction box. So the Mr ran to the big orange machine and got mineral sound dampening insulation to jam in there and then an uber puttied blank face plate with it oozing over the sides for a better seal because ain't nobody gonna see that. My fingernails were being pulled away from the beds doing that all day so strength was absolutely out. We've got the house mostly cleaned, though I do need to do the bedroom a bit before we can settle into Chateau and pass out. The only sleep I've gotten has been Benadryl induced and I'm praying the drywall dude today is going to tell us those days will be over soon because I hate the way I feel the next day.
So please say a few prayers for us. Between the electrician and the drywall guy, it's going to be a busy day and I'm praying a day of hope and potentially answered prayers. I need some friggin' peace, yo. I'll likely update Thursday because I'm taking tomorrow off to enjoy mah boo.
How was your weekend? Anything new, fun, exciting going on?
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That afternoon tea was awesome and you can do that any time! The weekend was as busy as we knew it would be and somehow we managed to throw in even more stuff to do but we got it done and that's what matters. Let's hope everything goes smoothly now!
ReplyDeleteToday is the day hopefully you'll get some answers on what can be done with the soundproofing -- yay!! The ball is officially rolling now.
ReplyDeleteWeekend was busy, but good. Took care of a lot of appts and errands, and then on a whim yesterday I did all the tax stuff and got it over to the tax lady, so our part is all done now. We've had a lot of sunny days in a row which has been nice after two straight weeks of gloom. It kind of boggles my mind that we are halfway through February already.
Hope you have a great appointment!