To Do List

As of today, here is my list:
Today:- get hair cut and colored
- paint all trim in bathroom and bath closet
- email SIRE volunteer hours from last January
- clean living room (cat barf on and behind sofa ewww)
- figure out what to do with hole in bathroom wall where electrical stuff is, should I wallpaper over it? cover with small round cover? put a picture over it (hole too high up on wall)?
- ask gardeners to keep hedge on side of garage trimmed
- check on ma, and check to see the bed RX has been faxed over
- contact Jules to see about dr. appt for ma
- badger L to put up move vids of baby
- take dermatologist prescriptions in to drugstore

Other:- mail boxes to kids and Denise
- buy paint for bathroom walls and actually paint them
- decide on color of kitchen wall, buy paint, paint!
- call another place to get a quote for shower doors
- make a dentist appointment (long overdue)
- paint a couple of walls in the hallway
- unbolt bookcases from library wall
- clip cat toenails
- make appointment with laser dermatologist
- buy new drawer pulls for downstairs bath as the ones I bought at Anthropologie don't fit!
- call Pat B next week to have lunch (it's only been a whole year but am fairly committed to next week)
- CALL AND MAKE CARPET INSTALLATION APPOINTMENT!!!!!!!


Okay, enough for the lists.
We finally got fed up with our contractor and amicably agreed to withhold 10% of the project cost and have someone else come in to dismantle his lame attempt at putting in two drawers under the bathroom vanity. Our cabinet guy then could not do the job as he is in bed with a hurt back. I found another guy by looking online. He is close to us and I emailed him 2 pics and he came over, took apart whatever he could of the crap that was done, made a super box for the drawers to eventually go into and put in a beautiful new toeplate. It is all now primed and ready for the new drawers. So everything that absolutely has to be done before the carpet goes in is done (for that part anyway). YAY!!!

Ma is getting worse. I arranged with the nurse at SC to have a hospital bed ordered (called her Dr. to fax an RX over) and she will order it and have it delivered and set up. Arranged with Janet to meanwhile move the night table (which she fell and cut her head on and got stitches for 2 days ago) and put a pillow on the floor where her head would hit the floor if she fell out of bed. PT and speach therapy is arranged to start up again. DR. apt will be made with neurologist at the request of Alliance. She is not responding to instruction, can't walk to the table to eat even.


Cutely, he loves his clicker training! Did I post a vid of him learning to bow? About 3 weeks ago, we gave him about a 10 minute training session on it. Tap him under the chest and lure his head down between his from legs, move the treat back until he has to stretch back and move one front foot, and then treat. (gradually of course) Okay, so on Sunday, we were having a little first aid session with some of the students. RI put her hand under his chest to listed for his heartbeat (or for some reason, can't remember), and what does he do but BOW!!!!

Ordered moo cards hehe. Convinced OH to come to SF in July! Tickets bought! I will go a couple of days before the conference and he will come the day after the conference. We will have a lot of time to be with M. Must think of some fun activities.

Clicker training!

This is what I have been doing with my horsie! W caught on right away. I had bought him the ball and had gotten him to touch it with his nose but was stuck there. How to give him the idea of pushing it? I asked RI about clicker training and the book by A. Kurland and she said that she had the book and had done some ct!! She lent me the book, which I ate whole, and helped me with a couple of sessions.

Once the horse gets the targeting the ball part, withhold the click a bit. So that's what we did and W the proceeded to poke, prod and try to bite the ball. The ball moved - Click!!! Now we have progressed to not clicking until he walks up to it and pushes it twice. I wanted to go work with him and ride yesterday but that slimy contractor was supposed to come and never did.

Speaking of whom, he is supposed to finish the bathroom THIS WEEK. Only 8 weeks later than projected. Eleven weeks instead of three. There has been one fuck up after another and I can't even write about it because it is too long and aggrevating. Now at the end, they are being sloppy and only painting the new woodwork instead of the whole bathroom the way the other contractor was going to do as a matter of course. I'm so incredibly pissed off. OH is adamant that he will never have another remodel of ANYTHING!!!! I kind of agree but there goes my wood floor in the front hallway.

New carpeting for the whole house has been ordered yesterday!! All the books have been packed (almost) and I've been working steadily at packing the rest of the stuff. Now I have run out of newspaper - oh, why why why did I not save all the professional packing paper from cleaning out the attic last month????? And you would think we were a couple of boozers if you saw the amount of liquor boxes stacked up in the family room!!!!

Sunday was a dressage show at the Spring barn. I volunteered to scribe in the morning and it was very educational. Dressage people: enter on the C line, make your circles round and not square, have your horse show some energy and show a difference in the working and extended trot and the regular and free walk! OH volunteered to add up scores in the morning but was given a 15 minute tutorial and then left there ALL DAY!!! He actually enjoyed himself immensely, sitting in an air conditioned office with a calculator, doing what he does best. I think he has found his horsey niche. hehe

J says that my mother has been asking when I am coming back! She barely even looked at me when I was there as opposed to all the other times when she has seemed really glad to have me. Now I feel like I should go back but first I must get the bathroom finished, paint the bedroom and get the carpet installed. Then all the unpacking!!! J is going at the beginning of June so I guess I could go later in June. I was going to go the week of July 21st but now I am going to the BlogHer conference (hehe) and dont' want to take two back-to-back trips.

And oh, I wish wish wish I could go to RI this summer. Why can't I ever have a fucking Day At The Beach????