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Feelin' hot hot hot!
Dec. 3rd, 2006 12:31 pmJen is in the bedroom starting to paint our new HOTT red boudoir! (Gosh I hope the color isn't too obnoxious.) Her friend was supposed to come and help at 10am and it is 12:21 and there is no friend in sight, no call, no e-mail, nothing. I know that free help beggars can't be choosers but it's weird to not get any contact from her. Jen called her cell and it went straight to voicemail. I wonder what's up with that. Our friend who was going to come help unpack yesterday didn't call or e-mail either, and when we called him, he said he was sick so we gave him a pass. But it's like, geeze, people, just call!
We're going to have to go to the store and buy more pellets soon if we keep running the stove like this. We're using the stove as primary heat for the time being because we put all of the tarps down on the floor in the bedroom and the forced air vents would have pooched out the tarps. So I am toasty in the living room and Jen is probably freezing in the bedroom with the windows open. Poor Jen.
I have now unpacked the rest of our dishes and will wash them as soon as my last load of dishes finishes drying in the rack. After that I will unpack the rest of the glasses (mostly wine glasses) and vases and then the entire kitchen will be D-O-N-E. Once we put the china cabinet together we will likely have to repeat this whole washing process with the china. Did I mention my grandmother/great-grandmother had service for SIXTEEN??!!? I don't know if we should wait for the dishwasher because I don't know how dishwasher safe the old china is. It has that metal stuff around the edges. Eh, we have plenty of time to worry about the china. We still need to paint the dining room and the living room accent wall.
We put curtains up in the living room because Jen didn't like the big window wide open. We bought some of those thick curtains that are supposed to help insulate (what the heck, can't hurt right?) and some sheer panels underneath. We put them up last night around 9pm... and by 8:00 this morning a cat had already clawed a large chunk of the sheer panel up. Way to go, cats.
Of course, the cats totally know what's good for them and are all hanging out doing the dozing/bathing thing in the living room. We don't see much of them all day but at night when the fire's on, it's like Cat Central in here.
I hope this pellet stove thing ends up being super efficient because ideally I'd like to use it as our primary heat source. I like it cold in my bedroom when I'm sleeping but warm when I'm chilling on the couch, so heating the house from the living room on down (it's a rectangle ranch, so a straight shot) seems ideal to me. Toasty, yet chilly. And as little natural gas as possible. We'll see when we start getting bills.
We're going to have to go to the store and buy more pellets soon if we keep running the stove like this. We're using the stove as primary heat for the time being because we put all of the tarps down on the floor in the bedroom and the forced air vents would have pooched out the tarps. So I am toasty in the living room and Jen is probably freezing in the bedroom with the windows open. Poor Jen.
I have now unpacked the rest of our dishes and will wash them as soon as my last load of dishes finishes drying in the rack. After that I will unpack the rest of the glasses (mostly wine glasses) and vases and then the entire kitchen will be D-O-N-E. Once we put the china cabinet together we will likely have to repeat this whole washing process with the china. Did I mention my grandmother/great-grandmother had service for SIXTEEN??!!? I don't know if we should wait for the dishwasher because I don't know how dishwasher safe the old china is. It has that metal stuff around the edges. Eh, we have plenty of time to worry about the china. We still need to paint the dining room and the living room accent wall.
We put curtains up in the living room because Jen didn't like the big window wide open. We bought some of those thick curtains that are supposed to help insulate (what the heck, can't hurt right?) and some sheer panels underneath. We put them up last night around 9pm... and by 8:00 this morning a cat had already clawed a large chunk of the sheer panel up. Way to go, cats.
Of course, the cats totally know what's good for them and are all hanging out doing the dozing/bathing thing in the living room. We don't see much of them all day but at night when the fire's on, it's like Cat Central in here.
I hope this pellet stove thing ends up being super efficient because ideally I'd like to use it as our primary heat source. I like it cold in my bedroom when I'm sleeping but warm when I'm chilling on the couch, so heating the house from the living room on down (it's a rectangle ranch, so a straight shot) seems ideal to me. Toasty, yet chilly. And as little natural gas as possible. We'll see when we start getting bills.
