My Single Mom Life

Mindy and her husband Chris came back over today to finish the wall where the AC goes.
Chris tore down all of the old rotted drywall, and installed new drywall, and then next week they'll come back, do the sanding, and then it will be all ready to paint.
My sister has tons of paint leftover from panting her house, the colors are really nice, and so we'll paint my living room an all new color, probably the warm golden beige she has.

I can hardly wait, it's going to look so nice in here and the new AC unit is sill keeping the house really cool, it's not leaking inside the house at all like the old unit did, and it's just really super nice.
Maybe once everything is all done, I'll get another set of wood blinds like I have on the front window, or maybe some bamboo blinds in the same dark cherry color as the wood blinds, (I like to mix up patterns and textures) and put them on the other living room window on the side of the house.
They need to be dark colored and easy to close up tightly, because that side of the house gets blasted with the afternoon sunshine.
I actually have cardboard in that window as a way of keeping the sun out, and it acts sort of like an insulator.
It keeps the cold AC in, and the hot Florida sun out.

I took some pics of the work Chris did today.
This is the wall right after they took down all of the old rotted drywall, you can see the cinder block of the house.

This is the wall with the new drywall up and spackled.
Next week, Chris said he's going to come back and sand it all down, and then we can paint, which my sister said she'd come do because I can't do it yet.

While Chris and Jeff (their son) did the wall work, Mindy was cleaning my kitchen and bathroom.
She did my dishes even after I told her twice not to do them, but she did it anyway.
I really can't thank Mindy and Chris enough for all of this work and help they have been doing for me.
I really needed the AC fixed, I get so hot from some of the meds I take, and it's been really difficult trying to keep up with the general house cleaning.
I simply can't do all of it like I want to, heck, I can't even clean off the table of death.

That's right, I didn't even touch it the whole time they were here.
Instead of cleaning off the table, I took that time to enter in all of the codes for the Pepsi points.
I have 84 points leftover after getting 1 DVD, and I just need 6 more points to get another DVD.
But with Pepsi points ending on December 31st, I may not be able to find 6 more codes unless I buy 6 individual 20oz bottles, because Pepsi stopped making 12 packs which had codes worth 2 points each.
Yup, Pepsi stopped making 12 packs, and now make 8 packs which cost the same as a 12 pack, and new 18 packs which cost the same as two 12 packs used to cost.
If they keep shrinking the sizes of their packages and upping the prices, I'll just switch to Diet Coke permanently.
I LOVE Diet Pepsi, I prefer it over Coke any day of the week, but I hate being ripped off.
Charging the same price of a 12 pack for the new 8 packs, 4 cans short, is not cool at all.
Ya hear me Pepsico?
It is not nice to rip off your customers this way.
We don't like the new 8 packs at all, they suck.