Thursday, February 11, 2010

SNOW SNOW SNOW

Living in Northern VA I didn't expect to get over 24 inches of snow in 1 day.  Nor did I expect to get another 6 inches 2 days later...but yes it has happened.
I haven't been to work since Friday, my work follows the Federal Government schedule which has been pretty lax since I started working at my company, but in the past few days they've really been on the cautious side.
So with that in mind here are all the things I have done while being stuck in the house:
Organized kitchen drawers, organized kitchen cabinets, moved stuff into new hutch/server in dining room
Painted kitchen ceiling
Replaced 2 toilet seats
Bought a new toilet and bag of sand from Home Depot (the one day I left the house)
Got all my hair cut off, got my eyebrows waxed
Took the dogs for a walk, fell on my face
Reorganized built-in bookshelves and replaced wine glasses in kitchen
Vaccuummed house every single day
Made a carrot cake - from scratch
Spent over 1 hour and 30 mins on the phone with Verizon to save $20 a month on our cable bill but got my entire movie package back!
Shoveled an entire poo path for the dogs from the back door to the shed - and we have a big backyard
Hooked up computer to TV to watch Netflix instant movies
Called Netflix to complain about lack of instant movies
Called Safeway to complain about lack of resuable bag credit
Emailed Safeway to complain about lack of reusable bag credit
Bought a new shower curtain and hair straightener at Tuesday Morning - got home and realized curtain was kinda crappy, found an old one in the attic that looks great and found out that my sister has a straightener she doesn't use anymore so I will eventually have to make it back out to return both items
Went to grocery store to get wine, beer, dog food and garlic bread
Searched entire house for things to sell on Ebay, found car speakers and a Coach wallet
Worked for a few hours
Called 5 plumbing companies in the area since our washing machine has been backing up into the shower
Learned all about plumbing snakes, where to rent them, how long they are, etc.
Called Fairfax County and got them out here on the Friday the first snow began to check our sewers and they did!
Called Roto-Rooter and had the MOST ghetto plumber come and give us a $500 estimate to snake our plumbing
Called Fairfax County and got them while they were open and requested a copy of our original house diagram to see if we even have a sewer clean-out.  The fax is waiting for me at work
Found a rental place that we can clean the plumbing ourselves, with a camera and power washer for $110.  So screw you Roto-Rooter
Sold a wedding gift I didn't want and couldn't return on Ebay
Watched I don't even know how many movies

And that's just the general overview...more to come.
Today I am stuck home again, without a car because my husband took it to get to work.  So maybe I will paint the hallway where it is scratched from moving furniture around the house.