Casa De Chaos

So, just when I thought I was gonna be able to keep up with this blog for a little while- everything gets nuts. I spent the last 30 minutes reading all the other blogs I keep up with, but my computer is not letting me make comments on some of them, so I'll try to get back to them later.... This has been a yucky week. Lets just say that B and I learned some lessons. #1 - Do not get your patients to estimate work for the house you're building because some of them are going to get really ticked if you don't choose to go with them. Now- we are using one of his patients to do the stonework for our house. Not only because he is great and has always given us advice while stressing that we would never have to use him for anything, but he also came in about $10,000 less than the other stone guys we got to quote the job. BUT- when we got an estimate from a patient that makes cabinets for our house and didn't end up using him- he got angry and accused us of using him to get printings of the cabinets to take to other cabinet guys, and is now trying to charge us for what he says took him 25-30 hours to do, which was to put the cabinet design that we drew out for him into CAD. Other cabinet makers told us that takes about 3-4 hours tops. Y'all know I do not like being lied to. Not to mention that his cost was $30,000 more than the other 2 quotes we got- for the same stuff. All of the houses we have ever built- all of the subs have always given us printouts as part of their estimates and have never charged us. So, B has been upset all weekend because he does not do well with conflict, and therefore has been following me around the house like a lost puppy and been clingy and moody. He has called and e-mailed the cabinet guy and he won't call us or e-mail us back. Real mature. The worst part is that his wife gave this speech the last time we met with him about how he has gotten where he has in business because he is such a Godly man and he is always fair. Hmmm. Anyway- I am over it, I just wish the guy would tell us how much he expects us to pay and we could get this over with. Then last Friday we went to the school that A and E will be going to next year to meet with the principal and talk about some concerns- and she had forgotten and went out of town and wasn't there. I was furious. It left a very bad taste in my mouth not to mention it did not ease the nervousness I have about taking them out of private school. Then Emmaline turned up with a double ear infection this weekend- which would explain the demonic behavior she has been displaying for the past 4-5 days. Annelise is jealous that Emmaline has ear infections and so she has been playing the pitiful card for the past few days and complains of a different ailment every couple of hours. I feel like I have 3 leeches on me. On a good note- I have finished tagging all of the 200 or so pieces of clothing for the consignment sale I do twice a year. Plus-I get to do Disciple Now with some middle school girls this weekend and am excited about that. And our windows should be going into our house this week. AND- I sent in my application for the grief counseling certification courses last night and am really excited about that. I am going to be posting some light fixtures this week along with some wallpapers for our half-bath for people to vote on. I am so tired of picking stuff out that I need some extra opinions. So- that has been my world for the past week. Seems like every time there's a rough time a good time follows it. So- here's hoping for that!