The Start of a Remodel

    Well another week and it seems like I can't catch my breath with life happening and it doesn't stop for a second 2 weeks gone in February if I blink I might miss the rest. Do you think I will let that happen? Nope don't think so.  So lets get this thing going, here at Casa Vannello we are adding a 1/2 bathroom in the downstairs and that means lots of work and money and call to my Uncle Roy for help because lets face it I hang drapes and it has been quite awhile since doing some real construction work and I am not an electrician or a plumber or a framer or a drywall guy or a tile guy or a finish carpenter, but Roy is all of those things and he did teach me a thing or two about each and everyone of those trades. So he is here to help with the two things and matter the most and can be a real pain in the arse if you know what I mean? If not then let say that it is the plumbing and the electrical, because if it isn't plumbed right it leaks or backs up and that is unacceptable, I don't want to flood the guest room with poop!!!! And if it isn't wired right......well I don't want to burn this bad boy down or die or kill my family in a house fire that was caused by me!  That would be bad JuJu bro.  So I made the call and over the weekend I started to demo everything and get it ready for some good shit to happen.  Monday Roy shows up and we start to get a plan about how everything will work and what can and can't be done, we make some compromises and bam we are cooking with fire.  Within the first couple days we get walls up and some wire run and immediately we run into an electrical issue that takes pretty much the rest of the week to figure out, although as I write this there still isn't any power downstairs and I am not going to be able to do it without help, I am sure I could figure it out but after how long? A week a month? I have faith thou so I am not stressed about it yet, I think.  I don't think I knew how much actually where going to need to see this threw to the end with all the little things and even some of the big things, I am glad to have Secchi here because she is always level headed and she knows more than I think she does about what is needed, it has surprised me and made the whole thing easier she even chipped up all the tile in the entry way like a champ she made me proud. With working at work I have been coming home and working with my uncle until 6ish and I miss working with him, what a great guy to have around me, makes me happy to know that he is willing to help me out, I don't miss the inconsistency of the work but working with lumber and the saws and nail guns makes me miss the remodel biz, don't get me wrong I enjoy what I do now because it is easier on my body, but having to deal with the people I work with is making me fucking crazy one is a selfish know it all and other one is like a rabid dog on cocaine so it seems like all my energy is wasted on keeping myself together and not become someone who can't see all good that has come my way because of these two guys they have really been good to me.  Can't complain to much since I really only work about 3/4 of the time most people do and make more than most and I am not killing my self at work either.

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   With the weekend over and not much changed with the wiring I hope we have the wiring wrapped up on Monday, since I have the day off.  By the end of the day I will have the closets framed up and ready for drywall, not sure if I should tile first but I feel that it would just get mega dirty with all the drywall work that needs to be done, not to mention texture and paintings.
  The weekend came and went and I didn't get much reading done or really anything else.  Although I did get out for a ride on Sunday and it was cool to get to ride with the boys, I know I don't ride with other people very often and I think I am left feeling unsatisfied with how I feel during and after such rides where I can't find a good rhythm.   I am really loving my new frame bags, one of the best investments I have ever made being able to take off the backpack has been really important in regulating my temperature during my rides, its nice to know that the money spent on my jerseys and nice base layers was worth it now that they can work.  I got to spend the day with Claudio just me and him and what a fun time we had at the indoor play area, for 2 hours all he did was run and jump in the bouncy castle except for the 5 minutes that he stopped to eat some tortilla chips.  Pretty cool to see him run and slide and really hold his own even with bigger kids trying to push the younger ones around he stood his ground and I was proud of him.  It seems like the day he turned 3 he became even more whinny and hard to deal with, potty training has been one big pain in the ass with some days he wants to wear underwear and some days the diaper and the fact that I can't even be in the room while he pees is hard to deal with because when Serena leaves he holds it until she gets back.  So much teaching him to pee outside? Oh well maybe when he is older.