The unveiling!

Today, Kerry and I put the battle plan we had for my tattoo into action, and by using a combination of a tape measure, ruler, and tongue depressor, she got it all laid out on my arm perfectly. The actual tattooing of the outline took about an hour, and I think it looks AWESOME. It’ll take a few weeks to heal, at which point I’ll make my way back down to Yonge Street Tattoos to have the necessary triangles filled in. If you can’t tell that I’m excited about this, then let me make this very clear: I can’t frikkin’ wait to have this all done!!!

Update (2010-04-02): Here’s the link to the gallery of images I took detailing the progress of my tattoo:

http://www.evanroberts.com/gallery?album=1&gallery=17

Last year during Earth Hour, Molly and I were in Niagara Falls, having dinner at The Keg. The lights around the falls were turned off, and the lights in The Keg were dimmed. It didn’t really affect me as I could see my steak, my wine, and my Molly. However, this year, I’m sitting in the dark, and not able to play video games. It’s only an hour… but dammit, my Xbox360 is feeling neglected!

It’s been a long time coming, with a lot of planning involved, but I am happy to report that as of yesterday, work has finally started on the house!

It’s amazing that even though through two separate crowbar parties, there is still a LOT of destruction that has to take place. Some non-load-bearing walls need to be removed, the both the upstairs and basement bathrooms need to be destroyed, and let’s not forget the kitchen.

Through all the renovations that took place during my youth at this house, the one constant has been the kitchen. The rest of the house was (poorly) modified, but the kitchen counter and cabinets were never touched. They were the original ones that were installed when the house was built in the 1950s, and for some reason we never got around to removing them and upgrading them. I’m actually glad this didn’t happen as the previous contractors we had renovating the place over 10 years ago did a poor job with the rest of the house, so I can only imagine what monstrosity they would have left us for a kitchen.

Now, we can finally get it all done perfectly. We have a great crew of guys working on the place, and if the work they’ve done in the past 24 hours is any indication, my house is going to look INCREDIBLE once it’s done.

Through out the process I’ll take some pictures to show the progress. Truly, this is an exciting time!

Molly scored some free tickets from work, so we came here to the ACC to watch the Raptors play against the Kings… or as I referred to them, the “purple dudes”. Shortly after this video, people went bananas for free t-shirts. Crazy.

This was the basement of a house near our new house that had a layout we really liked. The closets at the end of the recreation area aren’t needed, but the closet next to the window is desired. They had a little walkway underneath the stairs that we won’t have, and the space between the stairs and the bathroom will be used for the bathroom so the shower doesn’t have to be too far left of the sink.