Kitchen Makeover

Photo by polandeze

Another day in Green Smoothie Land. I hope you all are having a wonderful day. My world seems to be all about radical change and movement and upheaval. That’s good right? You know, there’s a new psychic in Long Beach and I’m thinking about going to see her. I’ve never had a reading and I thought it might be interesting. We’ll see.

In our quest to lighten up, Mary sold a day bed and my exercise bike yesterday and she was even trying to sell the house to one of my neighbors who owns several houses on the block that he rents out. I doubt he’ll be able to raise the money but I would love to sell it without even putting it on the market.

We bought $120. worth of laminate wood flooring from Costco for our small 6’x7’ kitchen floor. We had hoped to get a local handyman to put it down but he’s so busy he can’t even get over here to give us an estimate until mid August so we’re going to attempt to put it down ourselves. It’s one of those snap together jobs. I can’t get down onto the floor but I can provide all kinds of support for Mary. We figure if we completely mess it up we’re only out $120. bucks. But then we got to thinking that the kitchen walls and ceiling need to be painted and we don’t want to take a chance of dripping paint on the new floor so we’re going to try to paint today and tomorrow and then do the floor after that. I can help a lot more with painting. With an extended handle roller brush I can paint about 80% of the walls and ceiling sitting in an office chair and Mary can paint/cut in the stuff near the floor and ceiling corners. After the day bed is picked up we’re going to switch our bedroom furniture to the guest room which was painted last year and then we can paint the second bedroom. We still want to try to hire someone to spray paint the popcorn ceilings in the living rooms and bedrooms but it is so hard to find professional trades people in our little resort beach community we may have to either do it ourselves or leave it for the new owners to cope with.

We’re sliding the fridge into the living room to paint the wall behind the fridge and it will probably stay there for a few days. I’m going to make up six quarts of greens smoothies for me and 4 pints for Mary today so I won’t need to make smoothies in the kitchen tomorrow with all the painting and floor stuff going on.

I have learned more about septic systems this week then I ever cared to know. Far more like outhouses then I ever cared to imagine. We’ve had to put in for a county permit to repair our drain field and it looks like we’ll be at the mercy of the county regarding the cost of repairs. Gravity or forced pump, old tank or new, variance on the 10 foot building rule or taking out trees, will they require an engineered design, will it cost $4k or $8K? I’ve already got open holes in the back yard from the plumber/septic service guys taking a look at things and while the plumbing is currently working it looks like we’ll be taking the laundry to the laundry mat until this gets resolved.

So that’s what I’m thinking about today as I continue to live on green smoothies. I’ve taken to drinking my green smoothies out of quart jars rather then the plastic mugs that I wrote about early on in my blog. The cups were getting pretty scratched & beaten up and I had considered replacing them but I don’t love the idea of buying plastic so I thought I’d try the quart jar thing and I’m liking it so that’s what I’ll be using for a while. To follow up on a prior post, in recent days we tried watching the pilot for both “Entourage” and “Deadwood” via Netflix. Didn’t care for either one. So next we’re going to try “Curb your Enthusiasm” and “Arrested Development”. Until tomorrow, I’ll leave you with the usual.

Yesterday’s 3 quart Green Smoothie Recipe:

245 grams Earthbound Farms Mixed Baby Greens [Organic baby lettuces (red & green romaine, red & green oak leaf, lollo rosa, tango), organic red & green chard, organic mizuna, organic arugula, organic frisée, organic radicchio.]
90 grams Raw Onion
22 grams Raw Garlic
23 grams Fresh Lemon Juice
940 grams Frozen Mango
15 grams Organic Whole Flax Seeds
48 ounces filtered tap water

I had an additional 48+ ounces of water. No other food, beverages, supplements, or medications.

Nutritional Breakdown utilizing Nutridiary:
Calories: 804
Fiber: 29 grams
Fat: 8 grams, 8% of total calories
Carbohydrates: 195 grams, 85% of total calories
Protein: 16 grams, 7% of total calories

Elimination: 1BM, normal
Menses: Most recent: 7/4/07, Prior 6/3/07, Prior: 5/3/07, Prior: 4/5/07, Prior: 03/10/07, Prior: 2/11/07

Exercise for yesterday:
10 minutes neck stretches

Statistics:
Height: 5 foot, 11 inches. (180 centimeters)
Weight loss since March 1 2007: 101 pounds (45.81 kilograms)
Weight today: 427.2 pounds (193.77 kilograms)
Weight yesterday: 427.4 pounds (193.87 kilograms)
Weight March 5th 2007: 515.6 pounds (233.87 kilograms)
Weight March 1st 2007: 528.2 pounds. (239.59 kilograms)