Retail Therapy & Home Improvement

Today Temperance and I finally went to Home Depot to see if the gift card I had found still had any money on it -- and much to our enjoyment it had never been used. It was probably funny to watch -- two chicks in home depot on a shopping spree. I bought two new doorknobs, one for the kids bedroom (with no lock) and one for the bathroom (with lock). I also bought a patch repair kit thing to fix the holes in my bedroom door, the little thingies that you stick in bookshelves to hold the actual shelves in, a ton of cleaning products and laundry soap, and another lock for my front door (so that I can lock in from the inside when I am home). I wanted to get a chain lock since I don't have a peep hole and it would serve the same purpose but my front door is metal and I don't exactly have the means at the moment to drill holes in the door.

So, I installed the new doorknob on the kids room and fixed my front door, too. I got tired before I got around to installing the lock but now that I've eaten (finally...I hadn't eaten all day) I am feeling a little more energized to do it. But my front door has always stuck in some wierd way and I thought maybe that the door was actually hung crooked in the frame. Temperance pointed out that the bracket that holds the door in the frame was basically falling off and all I had to do was tighten all the screws and now it works wonderfully!

Also, a side note -- my car doors are fixed! My next door neighbor, Rudy, came by and banged the hell out of it and it looks 10,000% better. The passenger door actually opens normally and the back door is flush with the car (though still bumpy). I also got all the tires filled with air, something that I had been begging someone to help me with but apparently my safety was not important enough and I had to just ask someone else. The bad news is though, there is a nail in one of my tires (the one I ironically just had fixed because it had a nail in it...). Wednesday I will have to schedule getting that fixed in with my super-humoungous laundry day. I'm taking every single thing: blankets, towels, jackets, ALL BEDDING, my couch cover, and getting it all washed. (Did you know Home Depot sells laundry detergent?!)

I still have to replaced the bathroom doorknob, but I can't find a flathead screwdriver. I guess since I still have about 15.00 left on the card that I can go tomorrow and pick one up. I was going to look and see if I could find a little tool kit but I got sidetracked.

It kinda sucked watching all the happy couples buying stuff to fix up their new homes or to remodel their existing homes and just doing 'domestic' things together. I think that is one of the things I miss most about being in a serious relationship. When you just date indefinitely you never really share your whole life. And while its fun and all, eventually you want more.

I went over to Fremont park today so that Aislin could play while I waited for her dad to call me and say that I could bring her over. Temperance and I hung out while Aislin made friends and I got to remember all the time my family has spent in that park. Lhiannan had her 4th birthday party there. Josh and I used to walk down there at least once a week alone just to play cards or dominos on the tables until it was too dark to see what we were doing. I really miss those slower times where you could just -do- stuff. It didn't require a shit load of planning, I never had to worry about anyone else's schedule because it was our schedule. The kids and I have talked alot about it and we have made a lot of upcoming plans for things to do to enjoy life and at the same time just slow down.