The plan for the day

Yes, I suppose it is always nice to have a plan...And last night my plan was to get up early to start implementing my new schedule I made using the Managers of their Homes book. But, I didn't get up until 7:45. Can I blame my hubby? Why sure, right? Everything else is his fault!

He sometimes doesn't ruse himself out of bed until late-- freedoms of being a one-man business, I suppose. No one expects him to be at work, so he can pick his hours to get to the shop. Bad side, is sometimes he doesn't get home until way way too late.


So, today, he asked me to go to the shop and wire his dust collector. I am a self-taught electrician, plumber, floor re-finisher, HVAC girl, dry-waller...and I can even cut in a wall pretty well (painting-but some one else gave me some tips on that). I need to add a 240 volt circuit. A first for me and I must say, the book is sort of worrying me--not really, but I think it's supposed to. It has mentioned about 10 times that 240 can kill you! Duh, I know that! I think was makes it a tad more worrisome is seeing on the news last night that a woman and her child got electrocuted waiting for a bus. A wire came down and landed in the puddle they were standing in. Then a man leaped off the bus to save them and he perished as well. Electricity is NOT something to mess with.

I feel confident in my abilities and never do something I don't feel comfortable doing. Even when I changed the gas valve on my boiler, I paid the HVAC guy come over and make sure I did it correctly. He was amazed, I guess. And I was pleased to have saved myself about $400. It cost me all of $50 for his hour of time whereas, had he done it himself, it would've cost me hours in labor! Those HVAC guys aren't cheap!

So, that's the plan...

Dinner? I'll plan that later...