The Kitchen

The kitchen floor was started yesterday and the workers are coming back today to finish the job. Should be pretty exciting to have new flooring in nearly all of the house!

Work on Randall's opener continues. Good stuff. Challenging, too!

iPhone fixed, new carpet installed, a little more writing

After three hours on the phone with Apple technical support, we finally got the problem solved. The support guy wasn't completely sure why I was having the problem I was having, but just had me completely uninstall iTunes, then re-install it. For some reason this worked. That was a huge waste of time to have to go through all of the previous steps for something as simple as, wipe the program off, restart your computer and reload, but at the end of all of that I was just glad that it was working again. 

We had new carpet installed yesterday. Because the only carpeted areas in the house are the three bedrooms and the hallway connecting them, we had to put the house in complete turmoil to get everything moved out of those rooms. At one point, it looked like our house was a dollhouse that had been picked up in such a way that all of the stuff from those bedrooms just "fell" into the living room and the kitchen. At another point, every shoe we own and both large beds were littered throughout the kitchen! 

So, what do you do when you are prepping the house the night before, then realize you have just shut down your entire house from normal living? Well, you go to a hotel, that's what! After everything was moved out of those rooms, we loaded up the family and went to the Holiday Inn for the night. Highlight: swimming. Lowlight: the kids didn't want to go to sleep; Grant was up every two hours like clockwork.

But it all worked out and we have new carpet in our house. Now that she's seen it in place and has had a chance to walk around on it barefoot (some sort of carpet litmus test for her), Kayla doesn't really like the new carpet all that much. The main thing is that this carpet sits lower to the ground. So where we weren't able to paint the baseboards because the old carpet was in the way, is now exposed. A pain in the you-know-where, but totally fixable.

We also switched the kid's rooms around and rearranged our master bedroom. In a way, it feels like a new house. Then I walked into the office this morning...

I have one piece for band that I am trying desperately to finish but it seems like each idea that I come up with is really good. Only, really good for another piece; not the one I'm working on. I'm trying to look on the bright side, at least I'll have some ideas for another piece somewhere down the line. As it stands though, I've added two new files to my documents: Failed Band Piece 1 and Failed Band Piece 2. 

One thing that can be said about becoming a composer: you handle dissappointment and rejection better than you ever have because you are getting a lot more of it these days! So, when an idea totally doesn't work and you have to scrap it, you just look for the silver lining. And when a piece is rejected by a publisher (as one was this week), you just shop it to the next publisher. 

And life goes on... Cue "Obladi, Oblada."