{"id":146,"date":"2007-01-10T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/checking-in-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:00","slug":"checking-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/checking-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the construction zone.  Wow, I had no idea how messy and loud a basement remodel would be!\u00a0 Now I know why people either move out during construction or find a whole new house instead of adding on.\u00a0 And this is just the basement!\u00a0 Whew.<\/p>\n<p>I know I said this was the year of the remodel but I am actually going to look at a couple houses tomorrow.\u00a0 A house came up for sale right downtown and next door to a friend of mine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" border=\"1\" id=\"propertyPhoto\" src=\"http:\/\/img.nrtwebservices.com\/CBKT\/Properties\/bc8\/7227f674-21c5-496e-97fc-52872ac46bc8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<table width=\"268\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#000066\" id=\"propPhotoNav\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"width: 88px\"><a id=\"linkBack\" href=\"javascript:prevphoto()\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"previous property photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kingthompson.com\/images\/property\/left_arrow.gif\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"center\" style=\"width: 92px\"><span class=\"white\" id=\"photoNumber\">picture 1 of 9<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\" style=\"width: 88px\"><a id=\"linkNext\" href=\"javascript:nextphoto()\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"next property photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kingthompson.com\/images\/property\/right_arrow.gif\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" border=\"1\" id=\"propertyPhoto\" src=\"http:\/\/img.nrtwebservices.com\/CBKT\/Properties\/bc8\/7227f674-21c5-496e-97fc-52872ac46bc8_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<table width=\"268\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#000066\" id=\"propPhotoNav\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"width: 88px\"><a id=\"linkBack\" href=\"javascript:prevphoto()\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"previous property photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kingthompson.com\/images\/property\/left_arrow.gif\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"center\" style=\"width: 92px\"><span class=\"white\" id=\"photoNumber\">picture 2 of 9<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\" style=\"width: 88px\"><a id=\"linkNext\" href=\"javascript:nextphoto()\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"next property photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kingthompson.com\/images\/property\/right_arrow.gif\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>A Historic home built in 1905 in the heart of downtown.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the same size as the house we are in, so no size gain there.\u00a0 I will update tomorrow.\u00a0 The pictures of the interior are very cluttered- they have stuff everywhere!\u00a0 But I did read in the discription that it has the original claw foot tub.\u00a0 I am a sucker for claw foot tubs.<\/p>\n<p>I guess now I should mention the game.\u00a0 Wow, that was hard to watch.\u00a0 In fact I didn&#8217;t watch.\u00a0 I turned it off half way through it.\u00a0 I have to say that Troy Smith is the perfect role model- did you see him after the game?\u00a0 Still upbeat he said, &#8220;hey if this is the worst thing that ever happens to us we are doing pretty good&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 So true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the construction zone. Wow, I had no idea how messy and loud a basement remodel would be!\u00a0 Now I know why people either move out during construction or find a whole new house instead of adding on.\u00a0 And this is just the basement!\u00a0 Whew. I know I said this was the year of the remodel but I am actually going to look at a couple houses tomorrow.\u00a0 A house came up for sale right downtown and next door to a friend of mine. picture 1 of 9 picture 2 of 9 A Historic home built in 1905 in the heart of downtown.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the same size as the house we are in, so no size gain there.\u00a0 I will update tomorrow.\u00a0 The pictures of the interior are very cluttered- they have stuff everywhere!\u00a0 But I did read in the discription that it has the original claw foot tub.\u00a0 I am a sucker for claw foot tubs. I guess now I should mention the game.\u00a0 Wow, that was hard to watch.\u00a0 In fact I didn&#8217;t watch.\u00a0 I turned it off half way through it.\u00a0 I have to say that Troy Smith is the perfect role model- did you see him after the game?\u00a0 Still upbeat he said, &#8220;hey if this is the worst thing that ever happens to us we are doing pretty good&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 So true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20875,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/20875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}