Thursday, June 08, 2006

Of Singing and Updating...

Yesterday we ran to Home Depot really fast. A few things I wanted to pick up. Sy was happy sitting in the seat of the cart and W was content sitting in the basket of the cart while I quickly wandered around the store. We had gone to Wal-mart just before and they were happy eating their popcorn chicken I got at the deli.

While we were standing in line W started singing. Specifically he began singing Dvorak's New World Symphony #9, 2nd movement. He doesn't know it by that title though. He knows it as "Rocket has come home" or "The Butterfly song" from Little Einsteins. (Sariah I know Aiden loves that show too, if I don't have my episode references right let me know. :-P )

I hadn't even noticed that he was singing, shortly Sy had joined in (though it wasn't exactly what her big brother was singing). I was paying for my purchases and heard a *noise* coming from the basket but I must have been tuning it out at the moment. It wasn't until the cashier I was working with and the one next to her and one 3 aisles down were all giggling, and smiling that I really began to realize what was going on. One cashier said "That's the cutest thing I've ever seen. Thank you so much for singing." She then began clapping. Another cashier asked if she could sing with them and she tried singing along.

The funniest part to me was looking at the kids and noticing that they could care less that they were putting on a concert for a large audience or that they were receiving praise and admiration. They were singing at the top of their lungs for themselves and them along!



My journey to Home Depot was to get new faceplates for all the electrical outlets and light switches in the house. The majority of them were this awful oak. I had hated them since we bought the house and always wanted them replaced. My hubby always tried talking me out of it saying that they were expensive, that they looked okay. Here's the problem: Like I said it was a majority there were a lot of normal white faceplates in the house. And the oak one's weren't all the same style!

I just couldn't take it any more. I knew the white one's I wanted were only $.25 a piece. I couldn't allow the cost to stand in my way any longer. Along with the faceplates I also bought some miracle-gro. With my bag of goodies I came home. Put Sy down for a nap and set forth replacing the faceplates.

To my utter horror and astonishment I discovered that the bright white faceplates I bought didn't match the lightswitches or electrical outlets. They're either an almond color OR they WERE white 25 years ago and over the past 25 years of smokers in the house and time they are now an offwhite/almond. In the entire house a few are white, but they were either replaced later or we had replaced them. There are a few others they painted over the top of when they did a sloppy job of painting before they moved out. So those are white but the paint is scraping off and you can see that awful almond color underneath.

I'm just disgusted. Now I want to go back to home depot and buy all new outlets and switches. (All the light-switches are those big fat ones that are the same size as a dimmer switch.) But those cost a little more then the faceplates...I went ahead and replaced them all anyway. I don't care that much. I just hate that they aren't white like I thought! : Plus NOW I'll have to do some touch up painting around a few in the second bathroom (that I just painted a few weeks ago) and the kitchen (about 18 months ago) because the plates I got are smaller than the oak ones.

Even though these new faceplates don't match the switches and outlets, and I will have to do some quick touch-up painting I do think it looks tons better than those oak one's.

There are a few other things in the house I would like to change too. But those will have to wait till farther down the road. Like replace all the bedroom doors or at least paint them. And I want to make a few changes to the second bathroom as well. It seems like there's always something that goes along with the ownership of a house...

Posted by ABQ Mom :: 6/08/2006 07:43:00 AM :: 4 Comments:

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