Blog Number 5

So this blog is going to be a bitch blog. All my blogs (save the first one) have been about the basement and our renos, and now I'm moving on.

We don't have a landline, just our cell phones. We don't get enough calls nor do we have the need to have a landline, even though I do want one because now that we're in the basement we don't get the best service (well Todd gets next to no service) and we all know how much I hate my phone because of the fact that I dropped it in the toilet.

So in saying that, since it IS a cell phone, not many people have my number, friends and family, work (unfortunately), my insurnace company and maybe a couple other bill people (maybe). I'm not an idiot and think that I'll never get a wrong number. It happens to people all the time, me included. BUT I have voicemail, my name is in my voicemail and I still have people (one person inparticular right now) calling me and leaving messages that make NO sense.

Now, if this had happened once, then ok fine I just chalk it up as a mistake and move on with my life, I erase the message and move on, it's completely forgotten and all is right in the world again. UNTIL this moring, on the one day we get to sleep my cell rings at 8:45 am (which I know isn't early for a lot of people) and its the same OLD MAN who is calling again. Of course again he leaves a message and now he sounds angry and crotchety and again I can't understand what he is saying except 'call me.' Yea right. I have NO idea who this crazy fool is and there is no way I'm going to waste my minutes and be charged long distance charges so that I can tell you that you have the wrong number and to stop calling me.

Like I said earlier, it had been one call before and I just erased the message and forgot about it, but this is the second one, which I will more than likely forget about as well, but if he calls again I guess I'm going to have to do something about it. Everyone who knows me knows that I don't answer my phone if I don't know the number (and if you didn't know that, then you do now), so me not answering the phone when this crazy old man calls is not uncommon.

The thing that bothers me the most is that I'm fairly certain (like 99% sure) that he has the wrong number and the thing that kills me is that MY NAME is in my voicemail, so if he had an ounce of common sense he would know that he has the wrong number. Do people not listen to voicemail messages anymore? Do they just dial a number and once it stops ringing and the voicemail message kicks in they hold the phone away from their ear and wait for the beep?

And if people do this now, then what's the point of even having a voicemail message? Why not just have it ring and then after a certain amount of rings, just have a been sound and the crazy fool can leave a message. Then you, as the phone's owner can decide if it's a message you should reply to it or not.

Now, I've spent entirely too much time thinking about this stupidity and in saying that, I am done.

Till next time.

Blog Number 4 - The Finished Product.

So, the living room is finally done. I still have to make some slip covers for the couches, and I think I might get some pictures for the walls, but otherwise, everything is moved in and all set up. Todd did a good job at thinking about where everything should go. It's kind of funny, but the set up is similar to what it was in the living room, with more room obviously. But I guess if it works then why not continue to use the layout?

The best part about having the living room done? No more being stuck in the bedroom all the time. Not that I don't like being in the bedroom, but I like having separate living and sleeping areas. And I'm glad that we have the TV and Wii set up again. I know it's lame (because let's face it, I'm pretty lame) but I miss playing Wii and I have Wii Sims that I bought three weeks ago and I still haven't been able to play it.

Our next task is to clean all the junk out of the middle room and get that painted and set up to be our 'kitchen' area, and then to paint the bedroom.

Oh and I should add, that the black carpet that we got from Todd's parents looks really good in the room. I was a little worried that the black wouldn't look very good with the grey and green walls, but it actually does. I think that the slip covers that I plan on making are going to be black AND green instead of just green, especially if I can't find a green to match the wall.

Now when I get up before Todd, I don't have to worry about waking him up by turning the TV on. He deserves to be able to sleep in two out of the seven days of the week, and who am I to take that away? So right now, as I am in the (new!!) living room catching up on my PVR stuff (and there is a lot), Todd is still sleeping. If this were last Saturday, he would have been up by now because I woould have turned the TV on.

There is so much wall space (as you can see in the picture) that I think I need to add some pictures, but I don't want to cover my awesome stripe that took entirely too long to to tape and paint.

Anyway, the decisions to put pictures up will be made soon enough and I'm sure I'll post about it.