gah! you and your family…so…friggin…ADORABLE! in every way. seriously.

Ok – sooooo creepy about the lube, btw. But let’s not talk about it.

Holy cow crap on a cracker, no kidding about the cost of faucets. I would hate to tell anyone what we spent on the faucet for our new kitchen. It’s was ‘spensive. I feel for you one the remodeling. I only had to have strangers in my house for my kitchen. The Strange Man I married is doing the rest.

OH, and something just came to mind: you can my cocoa nut shells (or something like that) to vanquish the feces smelling dirt. It works and smells like chocolate No kidding.

as always, adorable pics!

Nice feathering on the sheetrock.

Cat is soooooooooo cute! And you can just tell Riley is going to be talllllllll.

Poor cat. Riley looks like he’s having an easier time sitting up!

The picture of Cat with a bib… you should submit that pic to http://www.stuffonmycat.com Cat looks totally disgusted with the whole bib thing, even though it’s a little hard to tell because he’s all black. He’s beautiful, btw.

So I’me guessing you’ve decided not to dub your contractors “Brokeback Builders”? That new addition isn’t in the, um, rear of the house, is it?

Oh, I crack me the hell up. Pay no mind.

What is it with men and their inability to replenish the toilet paper? GAH!

Cat looks so pissed at you. Not only the bib thing, but then you took the picture. Cat is totally going to shit in your shoe.

re Teri M. on cocoa shell mulch: the major Hershey related places in the town of Hershey, PA all use cocoa shells for mulch and its maahvelous.

This weekend my boyfriend and I went to his sister’s graduation, and we rented a car. We asked for a cheapo compact car, and we were given a Volvo station wagon. We were all, “look at us in our expensive soccer mom mobile!” until on Sunday I went to get the camera out of the back seat and found a condom on the floor.

It was NOT our condom. But I still grabbed it and threw it away before his 12-yr-old (with the maturity of an 8 yr old) brother found it and said “Very Conservative Mommy, Mommy who disapproves of eldest son’s cohabitation with girlfriend, what is this that I have found in the backseat of their car?”

We thought it was hysterical… although we were a little skeeved out at why there might be a condom in our rental car. But strange lubricant in the bathroom? SO MUCH WORSE. That’s what cleaners with lot and lots of bleach were designed for.

Hey, I think that’s the exact same paint sample strip we were looking at a few months ago for our new downstairs room! Sherwin-Williams? The one with “Humble Gold”?

Giving the workforce a huge benefit of the doubt, isn’t it possible the lubricant was used to facilitate the waterproofing and easing together of two pipes, like soft soap used to be?( I used to date a plumber.) Ah, that came out sounding wrong, and horribly kinky.
Anyhoo, I’d brazenly ask what part of the job it was used for, because 1) you might learn something, 2) if it was used for something dodgy, the look on their faces would be worth the embarrassment of asking, and 3) might get your bill reduced if you feign total outrage.
I love how Dog is faithfully attempting to cuddle JB while Riley casts out his demons.

Cat in a bib, cat in a bib!

Beautiful.

Oh my gosh, no kidding on the whole inflation-of-price thing. And no kidding on the faucets-must-be-made-from-a-rare-element-or-why-else-would-they-be-so-expensive? thing. We are in the middle of remodeling our one (1) bathroom and the whole thing has been an education. The lesson I learned? I should have skipped college and gone into contracting. Apparently, it’s lucrative!

That is one unamused Cat.By the way… Do you think Riley would perform a “laying on of hands” for my husband, that he might FINALLY prime and paint the Things’ ghetto fabulous be-spackled bedroom, since he won’t permit me to hire professional painters like a normal person?? That would be stellar, besides downright miraculous.

we just went the the sticker shock of faucets too. the answer?: ikea. they don’t have many, but the ones they have are great and actually semi-reasonable.

i was just going to say- check ikea. i remember their sinks and faucets being pretty cheap. of course.

So, if we never hear from you again after this post, we’ll know it’s because Cat has taken vengeance for the bib and photo.

Yep, I think multiplying by eleventy billion and five about does it. I’m on the third big project with my house, and I’m still not able to keep a straight face when a contractor quotes a “not-to-exceed” price. Gah.

And I agree with whoever said that you guys are an adorable family.

Wait! I can tell you why there was lube! My husband is a electrician and they use lube to prep wires for placement. (Shoving them into pipes and such). Hope that eases you mind.

Was it possible that they were working with something sticky, like tar or grout or adhesive? Maybe they were coating their hands so they wouldn’t get anything stuck to it?

And while Riley is healing JB, have him remove the dog shaped growth on his neck too willya?
And Pete is right, nice feathering.
I like my moen faucets, they have a lifetime warranty, and actually will honor it, I’ve had to deal with them, very easy to get along with, and eager to please.

Judging by the expression on your cat – a cat that Stephen King could build a novel around – I now believe, without any doubt, that Cat went out and bought the lube and put it in your bathroom just to fuck with your mind.

Both the mud and lube are water based so I don’t think they were coating their hands. That and the mud knifes would slip out of their hands. Since not much was missing from the tube maybe they were styling their hair (Something about Mary)? I still think it was the cat.

Personal lube is named personal for a reason – nobody needs to know what its being used for. What I would like to know is how electricians and plumbers etc came to realise the benefits of lube. One day were they having trouble getting a wire through a hole and one of them siad ” Wait I have some lube in my car maybe that will work ” Eewwwww

Holy crap, you’re funny! I’m hooked. Even your comments are funny.

Yeah, we skipped the renovation and bought a new house. It was cheaper than paying half a mil to add a second floor.

Cheers!

It looks like you use my personal rule of thumb: one diaper blowout gets a pass, but two diaper blowouts = move up a size. My daughter was in size 4 diapers at 6 months for that reason. Riley looks like he’s wearing a size 8.

It’s a size 3! Although I decided I hated that brand and recently switched to “Cruisers” in size 3, they’re much more stretchy and, well, FORM FITTING.

I am loving the laying on the hands pic! HEH! :)

We like to call it Home Despot.

Does anyone else think that JB looks smokin’ hot in that picture?

Darn, I was hoping to find out the story behind the lube. Love that last picture of Riley sitting up. He’s becoming such a little kid!

So…the lube story…I tell it to my husband who is a air conditioning tradesman and his friend who is a plumber and they both stare at me blankly and say “So?”. According to them, there are lots of things that they would use lube for in an installation, none of which would be considered freaky, like use it on rubber seals etc. So they say…maybe they just want an explanation for when their lube gets found accidentally! Its a much funnier story (for me) to consider other possibilities but since JB is having such a problem with it, I thought knowing this might make things a little easier. Good luck with the renos.

Linda–

Just have to speak up on this one: Cocoa mulch would be a bad idea if Cat or Dog frequent your backyard.

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Kim

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