One Business Note: Thanks for everyone who tested my “private” function on my last entry. The plugin is here and it allows you to assign a number to your users and then set that number on an entry when you want to restrict access. There are actually 10 levels, so if I wanted to get really into it I could write entries just for MrZ, or just for LilZ, or just for my family or just for my friends. But, I’m lazy, and I really just wanted a filter for the boring or personal. It’s not that I want to keep people from reading the entries, I merely want to keep some of the gory or boring stuff from being so public. If you registered as a new user last night (bottom of my sidebar) they you still may not have seen the entries because it’s a manual process I have to do once someone signs up. So, if you signed up last night, hopefully you are now set to see any of the “private” entries.
MrZ is working from home today to monitor the roofing process as our house becomes swarmed with strange men, ladders, and obnoxious amounts of noise. I understand why MrZ wants to be there, maybe things will get rowdy and he’ll need to step in or something. But I would NOT want to be there because our dogs are going to be going batshit insane all day. Cisco and LilGirl will spend the whole day barking at the men outside the window while Sweetie runs around the house looking for stuff to chew up, which is what she does when she gets scared. No socks, pieces of paper, or containers of wood putty (don’t ask) are safe when Sweetie gets scared. Her coping mechanism is to chew, and if she can’t find anything portable to run around with, she’ll opt for furniture. Which is totally awesome.
So, by the end of the day? We can actually listen to a weather forecast and not tremble in fear when they predict “flash flooding” because if it’s raining that hard and that fast? Our roof is going to start leaking. One of the leaks sprung up in the most awesome location: Above our bed. That is a really fun place to have a roof leak, in case you were wondering. Now, we can sit under that spot and just dare the rain to come through. We’re also getting ridge vents put in so the attic isn’t 9000 degrees during the summer. Seriously, you wouldn’t believe the crap that has melted in storage up there. We can now feel safe putting plastic items (read: All Christmas Decorations) in the attic and not worry that the next time we get them down that they’ll simply be globs of red and green glitter at the bottom of a container.
The rumor is that this will be over and done with by the end of the day. But I’m skeptical. Of course, the trauma this inflicts on Sweetie will take much longer to recover from. It took a good 48 hours for her to calm down after the vet trip on Monday. It’s possible she’ll still be trembling over the roofing project sometime in 2010.
Poor Sweetie. At least she hasn’t learned to start chewing on herself when nervous — my cat does that (he’s stopped now only with the help of kitty Paxil) and at one point we thought he was going to amputate his own tail.
Dude. YOU should be home with the roofers.
There was NOTHING better than roofing season (before we moved here to the land of geriatric contractors).
well built, TANNED, SHIRTLESS men parading all over the roof!
Mind you it’s less conspicuous if it’s say…your neighbours room getting done and you can see them from your deck…but you are perfectly within your rights as a chick to plunk down a lawn chair with a diet coke and have a peek.
So you realize that you will now be solely responsible when north Alabama is cast into the drought of the century right? It will all be the fault of your shiny new watertight roof!
UGH! I dread how my dog’s will react when the addition is put on my home. I know exactly what you are talking about…Congrats on the new roof. I remember the sweet relief when mine was put on. People never think about their roofs until the dripping starts. Let’s have a moment of silent thanks for our roofs, shall we?
If it isn’t too late you should ask if they can put a roof ventilation fan in for you. When it hits a certain temperature the humdinger kicks in and sucks cool air in through your sofit vents and pushes hot air out the top. In the summer it’ll even help keep your house cooler…. I would’ve thought they’d be standard issue in the south….
You know what’s even more awesome than having a roof leak right over your bed? Having it leak (for the first time ever) when you have overnight guests and you insisted they sleep in your bed while you (nice and dry) rough it on the pullout couch.
I have that plug in as well and for whatever reason I could never figure out how to make it still not publish to RSS so I gave up!