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Hey, man!
Well, let me tell you what's' going on. Every evening and every weekend fo= r the last month and a half, I have been painting and working on the house.= The previous owners of the house had the worst color scheme going (pink i= n one room and a portion of the entry way, lime sherbet green in the other = portion of the entry way). There is a lot of trim, 4 doors, and a 20 ft ce= iling in the living room and entry way. So it is taking quite a while to c= omplete. One reason it is taking so long is other things keep breaking (di= sposal, toilet flanges, alarm system). In the middle of trying to finish p= ainting, we ripped out the floors in the bathrooms and entry and laid tile = (I got the floors ready, we paid to have the tile laid.). Tonya wants ever= ything done now. It doesn't bother her that I haven't finished a single pr= oject since we started the whole renovation thing. But, IT'S KILLING ME! = I would like just one finished product. One small room would be fine. The= house is looking a lot better, though. I'm trying to not let the work take time away from the kids, so I usually s= tart after 8pm each night. Plus, when I do work while the kids are running= around I pay a high price. Last week I was painting the baseboards in the= dining room, with the gallon of white semi-gloss next to me on the floor. = I had earlier used Windex to clean the window seal and had left the bottle= in the middle of the floor. Jake was coming into the room, watching and c= limbing up and down the step ladder (6 ft; he climbs to the very top like = it's nothing. Other people come in and see him up there and freak out. We= just let him go.). He is big into cleaning (guts it from his mom), so whe= n he saw the Windex he ran and picked it up. I told him to "take it to Mam= a". He started out the doorway, but came back in and walked behind me. I = just kept working, thinking that he was watching me. Then I noticed out of= the corner of my eye that he had moved closer to me. When I turned to loo= k, I just lost my breath. Jake had dipped the Windex bottle down into the = paint can, pulled it out and was holding the bottle over our brown carpet. = White paint was just pouring off the bottle. It looked like someone had p= oured paint straight out of the can onto the floor. Thank goodness it was = latex, after about 45 minutes we got it cleaned up. Cole has helped me wit= h some of the work, such as sanding the walls. But, he carried his work a = little farther than I wanted. Yesterday, he had a friend over. They got h= is tools (play sander/grinder, circular saw, screw drivers), climbed up on = his bunk bed, and decided they needed to take the texture off the ceiling. = You should have seen the mess. I am taking a break this weekend though. Cole and I are going camping at L= ake Livingston. I am really looking forward to it. I'm trying to start so= mething with him (and will include Jake when he gets a little bigger) wher= e we do a guy thing each month. Last month I took Cole to his first Rocket= s game. He loved it. They are getting too big, too fast. At work, I guess I'm becoming a full fledge trader. I will be getting my o= wn book in a couple of days. I'm pretty nervous about that. There's not a= lot of activity in the training/coaching area around here (hard to believe= , huh?). But, we'll see how it goes. The last of the HPL/AEP people are m= oving out of the building tonight. Everything is on course to close the sa= le on June 1st. Anyway, I hope you and Linda are doing well. We'd like to have you over if= we ever get the house in presentable shape. D -----Original Message----- From: =09"buylow" <buylow@houston.rr.com<@ENRON [mailto:IMCEANOTES-+22buylo= w+22+20+3Cbuylow+40houston+2Err+2Ecom+3E+40ENRON@ENRON.com]=20 Sent:=09Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:34 AM To:=09Farmer, Daren J. Subject:=09HEY Hi, What the heck is going on with you these days? Let's see, job, family, hou= se all settled ---- I just can't understand why you don't have time to dro= p social e-mails to friends. (chuckle) =20 Ken
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