Guess what I haven’t done in a while? Post something!

How is everyone doing? Me, I’m doing great. You see, Leah spent her first night in her crib in her own room almost 3 months to the day after she was born. Why 3 months? It took us that long to

• Clear out the spare bedroom and prep it for a nursery (ongoing task prior to birth);
• Find black mold in the corner of the room (week or two before Leah was born);
• File a homeowners claim to get it fixed (week before Leah was born);
• Have State Farm deny the claim because they are a bunch of shitheads (a full month later);
• Get SERVPRO on site to do the mold remdiation (a week after the claim was denied);
• Have SERVPRO reschedule on you at the last minute because they are run by a bunch of impotent scheduling defective midgets (add another 4 days);
• Watch as SERVPRO ignores my requests to actually fix anything and charge me $3000 to destroy the room (but hey, they got the mold and took 4 lazy ass days to do it);
• Bitch loudly to SERVPRO, get them to reimburse me for the carpet and drywall replacement (2 days later);
• Find out the carpet in the bedroom that SERVPRO destroyed is no longer made, struggle to find a suitable alternative (another 2 days);
• Bitch about the hackjob SERVPRO did to the exterior of the house, arrange for a separate contractor to fix that after the fact (2 days after that);
• Replace drywall and paint (2 days after SERVPRO left);
• Get shittier alternative carpet installed (4 days after SERVPRO left);
• And finally, reassemble the room (did it the day of the carpet install).

All in all, after State Farm dragged their ass for 3 weeks (assholes), the entire remediation and reassembly took a little over a week. During that time Valerie took David and Leah to stay with her parents while I was working from home most of the time as SERVPRO destroyed the room and left me with a mess to clean up. Four days for SERVPRO to destroy an entire bedroom, and another 4 days for me to drywall, paint, find/purchase/install replacement carpet and reassemble the bedroom.

AKA, it was a giant freaking nightmare.

You might think it’s cool to be a bachelor for a week in your own home, but there is only so much macaroni and cheese and ramen you can down before you get freaking bored and miss your family fiercely. That plus the work to be done around the house, yeah it was pretty dismal.

So after allowing the new carpet smell to fade a little bit, it’s finally time to put her in her own crib. She has been sleeping in a little bassinet/sleeper thingy in our bedroom since she’s been born, and thankfully sleeps pretty well, and last night she slept like a baby in her crib! Sweet!

Lest you think this was the extent of our trials and tribulations, while all of this was going on, our A/C unit shit the bed and had to be replaced (the compressor bit the dust and our unit used R22 refrigerant which is banned), so that was another hefty $3000 tag. In addition, during a routine doctor checkup during this time frame the doc recommended that David visit a speech pathologist to get his speech and hearing checked (as he’s a bit difficult to understand when he talks). Yeah, those visits aren’t covered by health insurance (thanks insurance companies, you all fucking suck). Thankfully the followup visits can be done at a local elementary school for free, but the initial assessments will still have to be paid at full price, usually over a grand total.

But hey, on the bright side, in 8 more days I’ll be sitting on a beach for the first time this year! OHMYGODICANTWAIT……

I’ll be sure to post pictures when we are there. Either to Google+, Facebook, Twitter or Myspace. (LOL MYSPACE JUST KIDDING)