I just got the results back from IAAP on the test I took in May. I passed! Passing score was 450 and I scored 709.
You may now address me as Kristine Leibrand, CPS/CAP.
Pretty soon I'm going to have as many letters after my name as Sophie.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Relay for Life 2010
I will be participating in the Relay for Life again this year on July 10th. I've joined the Cascade Heights Falcon's team with some dear friends and I think it will be a blast. If you are interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society I would love it if you did it through me. Here's the link to my page...
http://main.acsevents.org/goto/Kris.Leibrand
I hope you'll donate. Every little bit helps!
http://main.acsevents.org/goto/Kris.Leibrand
I hope you'll donate. Every little bit helps!
Painting the House
Hey! The painters finally came out today and started painting the outside of the house. Progress at last!
So what do you think?
The light was pretty crappy, but the house is a dark green, the front door and the garage door are black. The trim will be a creamy white. I think it will look great!
Here's a sneak peak of the flooring we picked out. We're using the lighter color swatches that are sitting on the big piece.
So what do you think?
The light was pretty crappy, but the house is a dark green, the front door and the garage door are black. The trim will be a creamy white. I think it will look great!
Here's a sneak peak of the flooring we picked out. We're using the lighter color swatches that are sitting on the big piece.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Middle of June?!
Somehow it got to be the middle of June without me realizing it. My apologies to my faithful *cough* readers for not doing a better job of keeping up on my blog. I can't say I've been doing anything exciting lately and I didn't think you wanted to read things like...
"Moved stuff out of the blue room today and wrapped all the furniture in plastic."
or
"Went to look at flooring again for the 999th time. Still haven't picked one."
or even
"Had 756th panic attack today. There is just too much going on!"
which is pretty much all I've done for the last month.
About a month ago our hot water heater had a hiccup and leaked hot water everywhere. Well, to be fair it wasn't all the hot water heater's fault. See, hot water heaters are supposed to have two seperate drains, one that is connected to the relief valve and drains outside the house and a second one for the drip pan that drains SEPERATELY to the outside. Some nimrod set ours up so that when the relief valve popped the water drained into the drip pan - NOT to a seperate outside drain. That same nimrod (or one similar) also buried the drain pipe to the outside under about 6 inches of dirt. Can you see where this is going? So the relief valve did what it is supposed to do and blew when the water got too hot in the tank. The drain from the relief valve worked, except it looped into the drip pan which is not designed for a lot of water under pressure at once. The drip pan couldn't drain quickly because the open end was buried under dirt, so it couldn't keep up with the flow of water. So the water took the normal path of least resistance and leaked out. Out into the hall, down into the ceiling of the laundry room below it, down inside the walls below it and scurried under the laminate flooring on the main floor.
It was a mess.
We called our insurance agency right off and they sent out a restoration company to evaluate the situation and start drying it out. We ended up with all the flooring and part of the subfloor torn out in the laundry room and bathroom; about 1/3 of the laminate flooring in the blue room as well as all the trim on the door frames and along the floor; about 1/3 of the flooring in the family room (also laminate) and about half the flooring in the hall upstairs.
We had heaters and dehumidifiers and fans blowing in the house for 3 days straight trying to dry everything out. At one point it was 96 degrees downstairs and 85 upstairs. I don't even want to see my electric bill. We did get it all dried out eventually and the workers came in and stripped out all the damaged/wet flooring.
The insurance company came out and looked at everything and wrote us a check and said "see ya!" Leaving us to figure out how to get it all fixed. We ended up calling another restoration company that coordinates everything to have something like this fixed (they do flood, fire and crime scene restorations). We are waiting to get the estimate on that still.
As per usual things have not gone smoothly for us. It's been a month since the flood and we are still running around on bare floor and haven't made any progress towards getting it fixed. Well, that isn't entirely true. We did finally choose a flooring we like.
That was another long story, but my meeting is about to start so I'll have to catch you up later. I'll try to add some pictures next time.
"Moved stuff out of the blue room today and wrapped all the furniture in plastic."
or
"Went to look at flooring again for the 999th time. Still haven't picked one."
or even
"Had 756th panic attack today. There is just too much going on!"
which is pretty much all I've done for the last month.
About a month ago our hot water heater had a hiccup and leaked hot water everywhere. Well, to be fair it wasn't all the hot water heater's fault. See, hot water heaters are supposed to have two seperate drains, one that is connected to the relief valve and drains outside the house and a second one for the drip pan that drains SEPERATELY to the outside. Some nimrod set ours up so that when the relief valve popped the water drained into the drip pan - NOT to a seperate outside drain. That same nimrod (or one similar) also buried the drain pipe to the outside under about 6 inches of dirt. Can you see where this is going? So the relief valve did what it is supposed to do and blew when the water got too hot in the tank. The drain from the relief valve worked, except it looped into the drip pan which is not designed for a lot of water under pressure at once. The drip pan couldn't drain quickly because the open end was buried under dirt, so it couldn't keep up with the flow of water. So the water took the normal path of least resistance and leaked out. Out into the hall, down into the ceiling of the laundry room below it, down inside the walls below it and scurried under the laminate flooring on the main floor.
It was a mess.
We called our insurance agency right off and they sent out a restoration company to evaluate the situation and start drying it out. We ended up with all the flooring and part of the subfloor torn out in the laundry room and bathroom; about 1/3 of the laminate flooring in the blue room as well as all the trim on the door frames and along the floor; about 1/3 of the flooring in the family room (also laminate) and about half the flooring in the hall upstairs.
We had heaters and dehumidifiers and fans blowing in the house for 3 days straight trying to dry everything out. At one point it was 96 degrees downstairs and 85 upstairs. I don't even want to see my electric bill. We did get it all dried out eventually and the workers came in and stripped out all the damaged/wet flooring.
The insurance company came out and looked at everything and wrote us a check and said "see ya!" Leaving us to figure out how to get it all fixed. We ended up calling another restoration company that coordinates everything to have something like this fixed (they do flood, fire and crime scene restorations). We are waiting to get the estimate on that still.
As per usual things have not gone smoothly for us. It's been a month since the flood and we are still running around on bare floor and haven't made any progress towards getting it fixed. Well, that isn't entirely true. We did finally choose a flooring we like.
That was another long story, but my meeting is about to start so I'll have to catch you up later. I'll try to add some pictures next time.
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