Home improvement and weekend fun

This weekend was packed full of fun, hard work, and a little drama. On the fun side, Trent got to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa. They popped up from Houston for an overnight visit. Brian and Gramps went out to Pluckers to watch the second half of the game while Gramma stayed home and watched Trent. And I set about stripping wallpaper from our ugly master bathroom. It was covered in hunter green faux marble wallpaper. Seriously, who's bright idea is it to put walpaper in the most damp room in the house? Not only is this wallpaper ugly, but it's also starting to peel on the edges. I had started to peel off the paper the previous weekend and was able to finish it off. It's a labour-intensive task but I hope the results will be worth it.

That evening Trent hung out with his grandparents while Brian and I went to dinner with friends, followed by drinks and Karaoke at The Water Tank. It's funny how much you appreciate a few hours of freedom from being parents. Though we do miss the little guy when we're away from him.

On Sunday, Barbie and Scott came over for a visit and while they were here we discovered that our ceiling in the upstairs game room was leaking water! ACK! Not only was it leaking, but it was leaking right onto an expensive piece of equipment! Fortunately it had only just happened and we were able to move everything before it got damaged. Then Brian and I spent most of Sunday trying to get the home warranty people to send someone out urgently. We played the "I have a newborn in the house" card, which, incidentally, comes in really handy and you get upgraded from regular service to urgent :-). Sadly, though, even their "urgent" status left us waiting until today for someone to come out. The problem was with our A/C unit in the attic. We have 2 units, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, both located in our attic. It turns out the one for upstairs had a clogged drain and it was causing it to leak onto our ceiling. We weren't able to run the A/C last night so it got a bit toasty. We had to close off all the vents in the house, close all the blinds to keep the sun from heating up our rooms, and Trent had to sleep in our room last night because it was the coolest room in the house.

Today a nice repairman from Shelton's Pride came over and fixed our problem for very little money (and it wasn't covered under our warranty after all). So we no longer have water dripping out of our ceiling, but we do have a damaged ceiling that we now need to figure out how to fix. Meanwhile, due to the drama of having our A/C out of commission for a day, I wasn't able to make much progress on my bathroom project.