Progress and TGIF

Gosh, I am sure glad it's Friday, not to mention I only have to work a half day.  I placed an order yesterday afternoon for all the light fixtures I forgot. Geez! I don't know if I was thinking they were can/recessed lights or what, but I needed 17 more fixtures. There's another $400. BUT, on a good note......I've been expecting a ridiculously high electricity bill for the past month, as we have had to keep this temporary furnace going non-stop, plus another smaller heater in the garage. The HVAC guy had warned us to expect at least $1000 bill during this time. So, I was planning for $1200-$1500. The billing came today - *only (LOL) $800. So, the $400 less pays for the lights I forgot!

I really am liking the lights I picked out. The hanging lights in the great room and sitting loft are awesome. They really add something to the room. The flooring is getting started. I really like it, too. One of the electricians (I think he's an apprentice to the other guy) - a very young kid really (the owners son) said he really liked the flooring and asked if I picked out all the colors.

From my recent Kohl's purchases I had enough and earned a $5 Kohl's Yes2You reward. Now that I know there are free shipping codes, I found something else on holiday clearance to use it up for. I got this bath rug. Cost me a whopping .69 cents and was regularly $30.

The electricians are back today.  The flooring guy is not. Apparently he wanted to know if the painter was coming today, because if she was, he wasn't. I guess working in the same area as all the lacquering and stain she is using would give him a headache. Just as well, because right next to that flooring picture above is still the big scaffolding in the room (that we don't want rolling over the new flooring) and the electricians still need to use it today to install the ceiling fan that is supposed to be delivered today.

DH was trying to get a hold of the painter yesterday to find out if she was coming today (since flooring guy wanted to know) and couldn't get a hold of her, so he called our contractor. When he called DH back he sounded stressed. Then as they are talking DH hears dogs barking and the contractor saying "f'ing dogs, they freak out every time someone walks by!". Well, we know he was talking about the painter lady and her 2 dogs she leaves in her car while she's working! She does the same thing here. Of course she has to park right by the door as close as she can get and when us or anyone else working here walks by (which is often) the dogs freak out. It's super annoying. DH had said yesterday, next time she comes he's going to ask her to park off towards other side of driveway, away from all the activity.  There's no reason her dogs need to get stressed out like that and no reason we all need to be annoyed like that. With both the electricians and flooring guy here yesterday it was good that she wasn't here. We needed a break from her, LOL.