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Friday was my half work day but I used some of my afternoon to work on my side job. Trying to get caught up so everything through October can go to their CPA for a review of where they are at, as the end of year is approaching. I also did about an hour on it yesterday, just so I wasn't so swamped trying to get it all done today. My goal was to have it done and the file uploaded to their CPA by the end of today, and I was able to get it finished up this morning, so that feels good. It won't be a stressful Monday, now.

The roofer didn't come this weekend, like he had said, but showed up at 7am this morning with his crew, so it is finally getting worked on again. We've only got two framers today. I'm not even sure what they are working on. I guess a week or so ago the head framer told DH he needs to be done with his part of our construction by Thanksgiving. Well, I see that is only a week and a half away. At the rate they work, I'd say he's still got 3-4 weeks worth of work! The back cover over patio needs to be built. The whole house needs to be sided and the tongue and groove soffits done. The staircase inside house needs to be built. Pretty sure you gotta work more than 30 hours a week to get a big job done in a timely fashion.

DD and fiance are coming over next weekend for a short visit. They were going to bring their new camper trailer, but last night she said she's just thinking about getting a motel room in town, since they will be in very late (like midnight) on Friday and then have to leave by late morning on Sunday to get back home by Sunday evening. Driving over 3 mountain passes, they can also probably get here quicker just driving their pickup, rather than also pulling the trailer. If they were staying longer, they'd bring the camper.  It's looking like ok weather for the end of the week, no snow expected and temps during the day in the mid to high 40's, which should make for an ok drive over the passes, I hope. They just put brand new tires on their pick up, too, so good to go there.

DD got a call that her wedding dress was ready to be picked up. They ordered the wrong one! Good thing she doesn't need it right away. She wasn't very impressed with the way they acted about it getting ordered wrong. Kind of poor customer service. And then she got $110 back, because the dress they ordered wasn't the same price as the dress she bought. We had kind of wondered on the total when we were at the store, but she had also added tailoring and washing/preserving after, and then thought we had the price on the dress wrong in our heads.


It pays to shop around. We need to get some blinds for the shop windows, but for now DH said he really just wants the bathroom one (we currently just have dark brown towels hung up over the windows). When I ordered a couple of blinds for our previous house I used Home Depot online for custom fit blinds. I priced out what I wanted for the shop bathroom window (all the shop windows are same size) and a 2" faux wood blind was $50 in the size I needed. on sale 20% off.  Then I decided to shop around and found Lowes for exact same thing was $39. $11 bucks is $11 bucks, plus with Lowe's I get 2% ebates cash back, whereas with Home Depot it's not offered. And I used my 2% cash back credit card (which I will pay off this week) for another 2%. It was a sale through Wednesday, but I'll just keep watching and when they go on sale again, at some point, I can order the rest of the blinds.

For something to do in my down time, I've been watching the Voice on demand, getting caught up with this season. I was reading so much, that I felt like I needed a break from reading for a bit. I'm getting caught up, 3 more episodes to go.