Inspection update

After some confusion and me staying home to wait on him so that he could no-show - the Inspector finally showed up! Breakdown goes like this:

Electrical Final = PASSED!
Plumbing Final = Failed.
Mechanical Final = Failed.
Can't call for the Final Building Inspection until those three finals are passed.

All we need to pass the plumbing is a silly (and ugly) overflow switch off valve on my otherwise beautiful faucet on the clawfoot tub. Mr. Price already trippity-tropped on down to Lowe's and picked up this $30 part and installed it. Ready to
call for inspection again!

Mechanical - need a bit more:
-extra decking in the attic (isn't that building/framing?),
-the vent flew to be moved to a different angle (there's a whole calculation and it's a massive pain to deal with... cutting new holes in the roof, patching the shingles, etc)
-find a 3rd party inspector to test all vents and such (this is going to take some time...)

Did I mention that we can't 'move in' until we pass final?

When our king sized new bed arrived a couple weeks ago, I dare any inspector or other city representative to tell me I can't sleep in it. but nonetheless - we can't move other furniture up there or look like we're living in up there. which is driving me nuts. I AM READY FOR THE MASSIVE FURNITURE MOVE AROUND in this house. let's GO already!

To help the cause - Mr. Price did make a plea to the last inspector that he has 'a pregnant wife who is chomping at the bit to move up there' so we got unofficial approval to live up there (i.e. we don't have to take our toothbrushes and towels, etc back downstairs each time an inspector shows up) but we can't "move" up there yet.

Tyler's very bad, horrible, terrible, no good day

he REFUSED to come out of the carrier. they finally had to take it apart to get him out...

it then took three people to hold him still. bless his heart.

Fun at the vet!

Poor Tyler.  Poor Joe.  They had a less than optimal day.

I think you can *pretty much* figure out the story based on this picture, but I'll post more soon

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: J Price
Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Subject: Fun at the vet!
To: E Price

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment

So, we can't move furniture upstairs until we pass inspection- nor clothing. These two bars in my currently unfinished closet represent more hanging space than is available im the rest of my closets in the house-- yet I can't go spreading my hangers out just yet. Nope- I have to wait. Excruciating days between now and whenever that may be because lord only knows when the inspector will finally show up, if we will have any advance notice to show up and meet him and what creative things he may find to fail us on (and what magic number of times we will fail) before we finally get the green light to move in.

So until then...... I wait. In agony.

Poolside in Montauk

Arrival in the city

I took the trade off f landing at JFK over having a layover and
arriving in my favorite airport: la guardia.

Heading to west village now to hang out with Amy. Jess is super busy
wrapping things up for fashion week, so we won't meet up until tonight.

Blogging from the back of my cab on the Van Wyck Expy. Kinda fun and
feeling productive but not terribly exciting. Signing off.

Sweet Surprise

That clever Mr Price tricked me into fetching something for him from the fridge when I got home today. Much to my surprise, instead, there were some "hey-thanks-for-growing-our-kid" flowers in there!

Awwww

Wedged right in there between the mini Sprites, the organic milk, the calcium-enriched OJ, some ginger ale and chocolate icing. Now if that fridge doesn't scream "pregnant lady lives here!" ... i don't know what does.

Good times, good times...

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Shower Story

It's been awhile since my last 'gross' post - but what can I say, this one just fell in my lap.

So as previously mentioned, my car got smashed by a massive falling tree limb. With the rain we've gotten over the past few days (yay for rain!) we realized that the damage also included pulling the door away from the frame just enough to no longer be water-tight. Therefore: raining outside = raining in the car. Awesome. --but this is just background building up to the funny part-- So sweet Mr. Price scurried to get the car into the shop only to get a "CUBE" of a car. Strange little thing that it is-- i've actually never seen a real-live car that so closely resembles a cartoon-mobile.

While the cartoon-mobile is entertaining, it doesn't exactly feel like a fortress of security. Therefore: (per Mr. Price) I am in the truck until further notice. =)

Meanwhile: Manager Man (who is more like a brother than a boss) was giving me a hard time yesterday for my nails. Well, really just my thumb nail. Admittedly, it was way too long, but i kept forgetting to cut it and thinking that it would break off like all the others did last week. So I was already self-conscious of it. this morning he teases me again. rat farts!

--okay, set-up is done. starting to feel like this has been a long haul for a short slide. oh well, too late now--

So i go to the truck to leave to get lunch today and... lo and behold! there is a nail clipper! way to go Mr. Price! how handy. so I pick it up to go to town on my thumb nail - bring it over my lap and... a confetti-like shower of nail clippings! so gross, but i suddenly can't stop laughing. looked at the clippers and they were some fancy kind that has a 'clip catcher' (think along the lines of a hole punch).

anyway- there's the short slide. i'm quite sure this story didn't convey nearly as funny as it was to me at the time. surely just as gross. but man, i AM still laughing on the inside.

And in the mornin' we'll make WAFFLES!!

Mmmmm is for morning....

To Do Today

We will labor today to check off our rapidly shrinking upstairs list:

1) New bed & matress
2) Closet organizers/shelves etc

We call for inspections tomorrow :)

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