Archive for the ‘The Great Laundry Room Race’ Category

5 the return of our rennovating

Remember her? Well, she’s back. [If you just panicked and thought to yourself "OMW is AllisonO wearing a GAS MASK while 7 months pregnant?! How did OBaby turn out OK?!", then you should probably take a deep breath, and then go here and here to read the Holy Pregnancy I'm Nesting and I Want Dark [...]

6 in the eighteenth hour

Because Nugget arriving before my laundry room walls were robin’s egg blue was entirely unthinkable. True to form, DanO’s family swept in and met our need this evening, inching DanO closer to the finish line in The Great Laundry Room Race of 2009. Around 7 o’clock this evening, three ready and able helpers arrived to [...]

3 we’ve got spirit, yes we do

Heads up, Nugget. DanO has upped the ante in the great laundry room race of 2009. I could be mistaken, but I do believe that is sheet rock. on.my.walls. Which makes them, you know, walls. Walls in the traditional sense, that is. We like traditional around here. We like our walls sheet rocked, our summers [...]

3 scope creep

A project management term I’ve learned since being in the corporate world, scope creep is that pesky tendency of projects and tasks to increase in size, budget, and/or duration before your very eyes. Sometimes it’s the result of slowing the pace and spreading the timeline, other times it’s because you totally didn’t like the cheaper [...]