Midweek Update

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Is it Sunday?   It feels like Sunday in that it feels like we've lived 7 days since I wrote last Sunday's weekend recap post.  

I got a note Sunday night from my aunt that grandma's headstone has been cracked in half and has sunk by the cemetery workers.  They had another service nearby and thought using ratty plywood that is 13 years old and splintering on the ends would protect a gravestone from a 5000 lb digger.  I have seen this happen there before and even said "how do those shitty pieces of old plywood do ANYTHING?"  Short answer:  They don't.  They also did not move her vase and the flag with her picture back to her headstone.  My cousin came across this and moved stuff back.  I can't even bring myself to go look at it yet.  I took the opportunity to put the bug in my aunt's ear that maybe we could make lemonade out of lemons and add "mother and grandmother" to the beloved wife that was on the stone.  Many of us were quite shocked and saddened at the omission and I'm hoping maybe the reason she's taking a little longer to get back to me is because she's checking around.  The reason I replace the flag twice a year is because it says mother and grandmother and everyone has said that makes them feel better.  So fingers crossed something good can potentially come out of this otherwise careless and heart wrenching situation.

In other news, we're under contract.  (Insert PTSD from previous drywallers)  The new, hopefully better drywallers come out this morning to get precise measurements and scope out the garage to have the drywall delivered to.  No clue yet when this actually starts but I'm assuming next week.  That means no rest for the wicked this weekend.  We have to remove everything off / out of the walls (molly screws, trim, baseboards etc) and I'll need to fill in the holes with sealant so no noise can escape those parts when they drywall over it.  When we get the go ahead, we'll need to move all of the furniture from that side of the room to the other side and pray they have enough room to work because we have nowhere else to put it all.  I know the dining chairs will have to go in the basement and likely the chest that serves as a side table because it takes up too much room.  We can put it on a drop cloth and slide it downstairs.

We'll basically be like this all weekend:

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We'll have to give it the 45 days to see how the green glue does for us to decide when to proceed with the other side.  Or if the noise dampening is so noticeable that we are instantly satisfied after they mud and tape then we'll have to see if we're willing to just continue the chaos sooner than later.  Given her dog has been a flaming a-hole all morning, I'm currently voting for sooner.  (But I also know we need a mental break soon or we're going to have one.)  

How is it that even when you're not doing the work yourself, it's still just as aggravating and time consuming as if you were?

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