imbecile

Okay stucco guy came back today to fix his wrongs.
I couldn't decide if it was more annoying/frustrating or more amusing to listen to him try to defend himself. Mostly it just made me not like him very much at all.

Some highlights:
When Tim told him why he had to redo it, the guy said, "You didn't tell me you were going to get it inspected."
1) it is illegal not to get it inspected, 2) even if we didnt get it inspected, you did it in a way that would cause long-term damage to our house.

He also showed up and Tim told him what was wrong and then said okay he couldnt do it today he would be back another day. At which point tim said no, your boss said you would do it today. It has been almost two weeks since we notified you of the problem. Guy said: sorry, i have something i else i have to do. Tim: sorry, you'll have to call your boss and take it up with him.
He did not argue any more.

Later in the day he gave a card to Tim for somebody else who will actually finish the stucco tomorrow. He said "This guy taught me everything I know."
hahaha!
But the new guy was here today helping and Tim said he heard the guy say multiple times "No nono, you can't do it that way, you have to do it like this."
So we feel okay about that.

and the BEST
THE BEST
Tim told me about this part because i wasnt here. The guy ended up doing a bit more than he did the first time..there was an old section right next to what he did that was kinda bulging, so he tore that part out too to redo and there was something else he replaced or did better than the first time...
So he said to tim "So I am doing a bit extra here so it would be appreciated if you wanted to pay us a bit more."
HAHAHAHAH
Tim said he just ignored it and continued talking about other things.

Anyway, inspector is coming tomorrow afternoon (and hopefully will say A-OK!) and then the new guy will finish stuccoing tomorrow afternoon or Friday. Then drywall Saturday! Hooray for progress!

Please excuse the typos and run-on sentences. Most of this was pasted from an IM conversation. :)

quickie

There are some things I wanted to update on, but I don't feel like going into much detail. So here goes...

Stucco guy still hasn't fixed anything. He will hopefully show up tomorrow, though, and finish by Thursday evening. Drywall should start going in Saturday, which would mean painting maybe Wednesday next week and cabinets that following weekend.

Scantron tests should not take two weeks to grade.

Our wedding photographer is threatening to sue us because we posted a timeline for how long it took to actually get our pictures and all the screw ups he made. We are supposed to remove the website by Thursday. It is all factual, so we see no need to do this. Consumer reviews are not illegal.

My parents are actually going to fly here for my graduation. I didn't expect that.

39 days until graduation!

47 days til graduation

Life has gotten a little less crazy hectic, but I'm not sure if that's good or bad yet. School is slower now than before spring break and that is definitely a good thing. I do have a few papers due this week and a test on Thursday. I was stressing out at first until I realized that so far I have at least 100% in all of my classes. So, um, ya. I'm going to unstress and just take it slow. ;) I don't feel like doing homework tonight, so maybe I won't.

Our kitchen is also coming along slowly. Tim finished all the plumbing and electrical work last week. We had the inspector come look at things before we could put up the drywall. Everything Tim did passed. However, our stupid window guys suck. They had to re-stucco parts of the wall after their work. Well, they used ROOF paper and DRYWALL nails. If you think that those don't sound like the right tools for stucco, you'd be right. Plus the inspector was supposed to look at their work before they put up the stucco. We aren't pleased. These people do this for a living. Are they really this idiotic or were they trying to get away with something? In any case, they'll be coming back to do the work for free if we can ever get them to call us back and tell us when. At this point, their mistakes are seriously holding up the rest of the work that needs to be done. We were hoping to get the drywall up and start putting up the cabinets this past weekend. :/

Since Tim couldn't do any more kitchen work this weekend and I didn't have too much homework, we actually had some time together for fun. Yesterday we went to the winery that we are members of to pick up our quarterly selection. We also stayed for a bit of wining tasting and then had a picnic in our backyard. Very nice indeed. It will be really great when things calm down around the house again so that we can have more weekends like this one.

We also finished our taxes yesterday. Though it started out scary a few weeks ago and I was afraid we were going to owe a lot, we actually got it so that we get about a $5K refund! Hooray for itemized deductions!

I got a letter in the mail today from SFSU. It says they have approved my application for graduation, as long as I pass my current classes. HOORAY! This degree will finally be over in just a month and a half!

Yes, this has been a good day. Maybe I will go outside and enjoy the sunshine for awhile.