November 23, 2011

• Stuffed Full..........Of Thanks

  Recently we have been remodeling part of my house, mainly my front room, hallway and bedroom. I say we because none of this could have been done without a ton of essential people. My goal all along has been to be done by Thanksgiving. Right now, we are literally about 97% complete, we just have a little bit of trim left to put up and then move the furniture in. Tomorrow I'm off work (in fact, I don't work again until December 5! Fuckin Yaaaaaay for vacations!!!!) and will probably spend most of the day cleaning in order to get the house ready for Thursday. It is unlikely that we will have all the trim up, but there is a chance we can have the furniture moved back in. This project has been going on since October 15th and while it seems like the project that never ends, it wouldn't even be a quarter of the way done without the help we have received. And even though none of them read this blog and none of you know them, I'm still going to take the time to mention them in no particular order:

  1. My brother's best friend, Rusty. A few years ago he put the bug in my ear about doing this. When it came time to actually do it, he came through big time by not only using his truck but also his tools and knowledge even though he is not part of Project Days.
  2. Our friend Todd. He had the idea of Project Days in which each month we pick a different house to work on. Not only was he here the two Project Days, he also has been here countless times and countless hours working his fucking ass off even after he has gotten off work or before he has gone in. Also, he is very knowledgeable about these sort of things; he is kinda like the Yoda of home improvement.
  3. My twin brother, Mark. Now he used to live here so he has a special connection to the house. But, over the course of the past month and a half he has treated it like he still lived here. In fact, last night when I got home from work he was already here working on the trim. He also got us access to Batman. Allow me to explain.
  4. Mark's father in law, Ron. If Todd is Yoda than Ron is Batman. He was kind enough to spend two Saturdays in a row helping to hang drywall. He also seems to have every tool imaginable. Shit, even now we have his nail gun here to help us nail the trim.
  5. My best friend and the best friend anybody has ever had, J.T. He has consistently done everything he can to help me with any problem I have ever had over the course of the past 18 years or so and this is no different. Fuck, just a short while ago he told me he was willing to come over Thanksgiving morning to finish up.
  6. The Moe to mine and J.T.'s Larry and Curly, our friend Dave. He is not part of Project Days, but when I sent him a text at the first Project Days flipping out because of how horrible things were he dropped everything and came right over. And proceeded to come over several nights a week to do whatever was needed.

  Honestly, the list can go on and on as there is no shortage of thank yous to the people who have helped, so just a quick shout out to Corli, Kristine, Heather, Scooty, Brian, Rene, Keith, Heather, Kris, Pam, Connie, and Kelli. All of you totally fucking rule and make life worth living. I've never been one to do a whole big Thanksgiving post giving thanks to people in particular, but if ever there was a time, now is it.

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