Here I sit in my favorite dusk green swivel chair. The breeze is lapping through the window at my toes. Liv is napping. Camille is at a big girl birthday party with Daddy for her friend, Kendall. I would normally say this is quiet bliss.....
but it is not quite quiet. The sound and vibration of unidentifiable power tools is stinking up my silence....and worse yet, it is coming from my garage. And worse yet, it is $821.00 worth of noise. $821.00 from our tax refund that we had planned on using for things more exciting than a new garage door.
However, we had a mishap. No one person can be the scapegoat as it was a two-part flub-up. Two weeks ago, Camille and I went to Lowe's to buy some plants for the yard. Upon coming home, I left the end of the van hanging out so I could easily whisk the flowers out of the back. Well, I didn't pull it back in, and Bill didn't look before closing the garage door. The sensor kicked into high gear and didn't bash the van. Instead, the garage door started opening back up with fervor, the trouble being that the cheap garage door that come with Hearthstone homes don't do fervor. So, it totally buckled in on itself at the top.
Which brings us to our $821.00 worth of noise and the man-with-no-personality that is currently installing it. They say it is such a better door, fully inusulated. Double-sided. Smoother ride. But to tell you the truth, from the outside, it looks exactly the same, which is so unexciting. Paying money to replace an item with something that looks exactly same. Kinda like buying a truckload of toilet paper.
Oh, well. At least we had the tax refund. I would have really had to hate sacrificing scrapbooking.
but it is not quite quiet. The sound and vibration of unidentifiable power tools is stinking up my silence....and worse yet, it is coming from my garage. And worse yet, it is $821.00 worth of noise. $821.00 from our tax refund that we had planned on using for things more exciting than a new garage door.
However, we had a mishap. No one person can be the scapegoat as it was a two-part flub-up. Two weeks ago, Camille and I went to Lowe's to buy some plants for the yard. Upon coming home, I left the end of the van hanging out so I could easily whisk the flowers out of the back. Well, I didn't pull it back in, and Bill didn't look before closing the garage door. The sensor kicked into high gear and didn't bash the van. Instead, the garage door started opening back up with fervor, the trouble being that the cheap garage door that come with Hearthstone homes don't do fervor. So, it totally buckled in on itself at the top.
Which brings us to our $821.00 worth of noise and the man-with-no-personality that is currently installing it. They say it is such a better door, fully inusulated. Double-sided. Smoother ride. But to tell you the truth, from the outside, it looks exactly the same, which is so unexciting. Paying money to replace an item with something that looks exactly same. Kinda like buying a truckload of toilet paper.
Oh, well. At least we had the tax refund. I would have really had to hate sacrificing scrapbooking.
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