Under Construction

I wish it was this blog. I wanted to change the look for my one year anniversary. Oh well, I will get to it eventually.

My home is under construction. After 6 months of research, planning, interviewing multiple contractors the work has finally begun. It was supposed to involve 4 different crews from 2 different contractors only on the exterior of the house and take 7 days. In the first 2 days significant structural damage was discovered. In repairing this damage, there was damage done to the interior of the house. It was no ones fault. When it was discovered we were immediately told what was happening and what it was going to cause. So now the job involves 5 crews from 3 contractors with interior and exterior work and it is hoped to be finished in 3 weeks.

Rooster and I deal with stress in the same ways for the most part with very different results. We can't eat and when we do it is not the best choices and we can't sleep. I fall into bed exhausted around 10pm and wake up completely alert at 2am and my mind starts making lists. It takes two hours for me to fall to sleep again and then 2 hours later I am up for the day. Rooster wakes up every hour or so and it takes him 10-15 minutes to fall asleep.

However, at the end of the first week he had lost 9 pounds and I had gained 4 pounds. Thank goodness I didn't gain 9.

We are at the end of the second week and have one more week to go. We are very conscious now of how this is affecting us and are trying to keep focused on our health. I have lost the 4 pounds. There has been no gym but I am not worried about it because I know we will be back in another week.

Sorry I have not responded to comments on my last post. I promise I will. I finally visited blogland for a brief moment and feel so far behind.

On the TTWD front....I was going to report that there hasn't been much of that, but that isn't really true. There has been no swinging of anything, but Rooster has issued a few orders making it very clear where it would go if they weren't done.

This is a new Rooster. Usually he asks me to do something with a "Pleeeese" at the end that makes me feel like I have failed in some way or that he is demanding and not extending any understanding. When he issues it as an order as in "do this by this date" I just hop to it with no emotional context involved. It has been great. I love it. So we are still growing in that area through all of this chaos.



I miss you all.