This past weekend poor Kyle got the stomach flu, so he was basically out of commission all day Saturday. The good news is that when Kyle gets sick, all he wants to do is sit on the couch with his blanket and cuddle with you. He doesn’t really fuss too much as long as you are willing to just sit and hang out with him. Luckily, Barbie was in one of those moods this weekend, so she took complete care of Kyle, while I got to the “honey do” list that has been hovering over me.

I started off with installing the final piece of the puzzle of our kitchen, the ceiling fan. To be fair to myself, the fan got delivered just the week before, so it really hadn’t been hanging around for too long. It took me a couple of hours to get it hung, adjusted, and ready to go, which also included a trip to OSH to get some screws, but in the end it actually looks very nice. It took forever to actually pick out the fan b/c we had to get one that had a low profile with no light on it so that it wouldn’t interfere with the possible TV screen on the far wall. It’s amazing how hard it is to find a fan without lights these days…thank goodness for the Internet.

After that got installed, and we all had some lunch, I decided to start in on the toilet. The current toilet for some reason started to not work mysteriously, so we had a plumber come out during the construction, and he said there was something stuck in it, but he could get a new toilet, installed, and have the old removed, and it’d only cost about $500-$600! OUCH! I told him to hold off, and I’d do it myself. This was over a month ago, so I finally got around to it. I removed the old one without much problem, mainly do to the fact the flooring guys had removed it and installed a new gasket and wax ring when they had to move it to install the floors. I was hoping they wouldn’t put it back, but apparently my Spanglish isn’t as good as I had hoped. Anyways, the new toilet went in without any problems, despite me expecting Murphy’s Law to jump out and get me at any time. Now we have a brand new, fully flushable, non-leaking, white commode, so feel free to stop by and give it a flush!