As some of you know, my apartment complex is replacing the old casement windows with new energy-saving windows this winter. They have about half the complex done and I have been moving (too slowly) toward getting ready for them. I've lulled myself into a false sense of security based on my ASSUMPTION that they would continue replacing windows in a certain order.
WELL! On Tuesday afternoon, after I got home from the doctor, feeling crappy and sick of being sick for a week, I get a note in my mailbox that the contractors are starting on my building THE NEXT DAY. And, of course, they are starting on the bedroom windows, where I am nowhere close to being ready, instead of in the livingroom where I have been ready for over a month. Figures, doesn't it?
Luckily for me, it poured rain yesterday so they didn't get started yet. Plus, I called the landlord and begged to be put last on the list in my building. She says that will give me a "stay" only until the first of next week.
I was out 2 days sick from work last week plus this Monday was a holiday and Tuesday was my usual off day. So I really can't afford to take off any more time from work to get this work done. Therefore, whatever is going to get done needs to get done this weekend.
If anyone is available to join me for a flychat on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning or afternoon, please let me know. I'm going to need/want to do some longer flys though...like 40-45 mins. vs. our usual 20 mins.
What needs to get done will get done whether or not there is a flychat--because it has to--but a flychat would just make it a more pleasurable experience and force me to take some rests (after being sick for a week, I'll need them).
Thanks much! Sheri
Posts: 7319 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Sheri et al, I'll be FLYing all morning. My plan is to be here online for 15 min at the top of each hour until I have to leave for a birthday party at noon. I'm headed off now (about 7:25 mountain time) and will be back at 8am. IM me at p7eggyc if you'd like to join me and I'll get us going.
Denise and I did about a 2 1/2-hour Flychat this afternoon starting at 1:45 p.m. I got the whole floor behind, around and under my bed cleaned up/dusted/mopped, the sheet over the window taken down, the windowsill cleaned, the drapes shaken out and put back up, the trash taken out and various other smaller tasks. It was a tiring but good day! Thanks again, Denise!
I will be doing laundry in the morning and will log on and see if anyone is up to another (probably shorter) flychat. I'll probably be online in the vicinity of 8:30-9 a.m. Eastern while I have my breakfast. If I don't find anyone then, I'll go ahead and start the laundry and check back later, around 11 a.m.-noon.
Posts: 7319 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Thanks Sheri, I was out walking this afternoon and then had to go to work at 4, sorry I missed you, I definitely want to join you all for a Flychat one of these days! Jill
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Originally posted by jillybean: My AIM name is JillDentalPower. I could definitely use some "flying", especially in my office!
I added you to my AIM buddy list, Jill. If I see you, I'll invite you in to our flychat! Thanks! My AIM name is SheriaVa1952.
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Posts: 7319 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I am running behind (did grocery shopping and hit the drug store but just now about to start my exercise and then I'll need to have lunch). It's going to be closer to 1:30 or 2 p.m. before I'm ready to start if I do an hour of cardio. We'll see!
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Originally posted by GoingSkiing: I hope the new windows are nicer and warmer, though and that you enjoy them.
Well they ARE pretty spiffy looking, I must admit. It was dark when I got home last night so, when I left this morning for work in the bright sunshine, I was amazed at the difference having these blinding white new windows made. Not to mention these are normal pane-type home windows vs. those nasty metal casement windows we've had for decades.
The noise (from the nearby DC beltway) really bothered me when I went to bed. I must have awakened a dozen times last night. I think I just was discomforted by the whole affair. I don't think that the noise difference was so much about the windows themselves (the landlady says tenants have reported the new windows much quieter, in fact) but more about the fact that I usually have drapes up but I just put up a sheet to cover the window for the time being.
The only way the new windows won't be warmer is if they installed them completely incompetently, cuz the old casement windows were as drafty as a piece of swiss cheese.
Posts: 7319 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
UPDATE: I drive up to my apartment after work last night and I notice new windows have been installed...ncluding in MY BEDROOM WINDOW! When they told me I had until Monday!
I walked into my apartment and my bedroom looked like thieves had ransacked it. My dusty drapes had been taken down and thrown on my clean white bedsheets, the upper half of my bed and pillows were covered by a layer of grit and dust, my CD player was on the floor, as were several other items. I was not a happy girl.
GRANTED...it's my fault I wasn't ready. However, I was told I had extra time and then they came and did it anyway with no notification. I knew I could not sleep in there without curtains but I didn't think I could get the curtains back up easily by myself, so I pinned up a bedsheet to cover the window for now. Vacuumed off my bed the best I could and tried to put things back.
I called and left a message on the landlady's machine and said that she had given me extra time so what happened? I reported on the state of my apartment and that I had to go to a lot of extra work after the fact because I was not given the time to prepare that I was promised.
She called me at work this morning and basically acted like we had never had the conversation on Tuesday afternoon about giving me extra time...plus, she said, the contractors just moved so much faster on my building than she ever expected so, even leaving me for last, it would have still been done before the weekend (yet I note there was one unit in my building whose windows did not get replaced).
Anyhow...sorry to be so long-winded, but this changes the focus of my flying this weekend. I no longer have to rush to get ready, I just need to clean up from the aftermath. So I probably won't need to clean BOTH Sat. and Sun. Hopefully, I can get it done Sat.
Posts: 7319 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Originally posted by johnbol: Our internet was out this past Monday so I wasn't able to get on for Monday night's chat - if there was one.
There was one but my internet was out also so I missed it. I called dd and had her offer my regrets from her computer
Actually, there wasn't really a Flychat Monday night. Steph and I were online but no one else arrived, so we just IM'd for the time we'd usually be flying. It was just as well for me because I had been feeling REALLY bad that day so I wasn't really up for cleaning anyhow.
Posts: 7319 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Originally posted by jillybean: I have never done the FlyChat thing before but would like to. Sheri-what time on Saturday/Sunday are you thinking?
I usually go to a 9 a.m. aerobics class on Saturday mornings plus weight training plus grocery shopping, so the earliest I'm usually back home is around noon, then I need to eat lunch. So I would say 1 p.m. Eastern is probably the start-time I'm looking at for Saturday. That is assuming that I'm feeling up to going back to class this week. If not, I'll do some exercise at home first thing in the a.m. and will be able to start flying earlier.
On Sunday, I could probably fly starting as early as 8:30 a.m. Eastern or starting as late as noon Eastern. I always do laundry on Sunday morning and, being that I don't have in-home laundry facilities, the laundry cycle never seems to synch up with the fly cycle...of course, if we do longer fly cycles, that would help.
Posts: 7319 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I have never done the FlyChat thing before but would like to. Sheri-what time on Saturday/Sunday are you thinking? My AIM name is JillDentalPower. I could definitely use some "flying", especially in my office! Jill
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