Butt This Bitch

we had to go to the hardware store today for, of all things, a piece of glass. the wind was blowing up to 60 mph here today & blew the damn glass right out of our window. it shattered into a zillion pieces. between the rain & the ice balls that fell we had to do something with the window. we put a piece of plastic up to keep things dry while we were gone to get the glass. while i was shopping around waiting for the glass to be cut i found exactly what i needed for the front door. hubby didn't like the idea that i wanted to spend more of his money but he caved, in the end.
did i ever tell you the story of us replacing the front door?
aaahhh, you have to hear it to appreciate my front door. i super appreciate it cos i had to endure the fight that it took to get the damn thing hung right. the door had originally been hung by my step dad & sonny years ago. they did it with very little money & made do with materials we had around the house. i don't even remember how long we had the falling apart front door that hung so precariously. jimdad had removed the threshold of the door when he hung it & had put it in to fit as tightly as he could. even filling in the top with 2 x 4's so that there was no space for air to leak through. he didn't take into consideration little things like the threshold needed to be put back in or the fact that the door needed to swing to open. he just put the damn thing in. closed, it looked great but trying to open it was a nightmare. it scraped across the floor & you had to lift up on it to even move it. over the years the lifting up on it part caused it to come apart, pull out of the jam & not catch right to lock. the only reason we finally got a new door was cause the door frame started to rot. after all, it was built with pressed board. we decided if we had to replace the door frame we might as well go for a new door. hubby & i proceeded to hang it over a weekend. yes, it took the whole weekend to get the job done cos we spent so much time arguing over the correct way to hang it to allow it to fit & swing, with a threshold, like a normal door. hubby wanted to just hang it exactly like the old door & didn't care that the same thing was gonna happen in a few years. he argued that we didn't have this & we didn't have that & everytime i came out with exactly what we needed he acted so surprised. i wanted to hang it right which meant the whole frame needed to be rebuilt. we did it his way first. then when it pulled out the very first day, we hung it my way. but the hell...oh, the hell of getting him to accept that the door needed to be hung right. i had to beg him to tear out the 2 x 4's so we could turn them to fill in only the 2 inches instead of 4, add the threshold & it took my being right there holding every little nail, marking every little screw hole to get him to do it right. i wound up holding the door in place, in the end, exactly where i thought it needed to be. holding it in place & supporting it with my foot while he put the screws in from the bottom up just cos he was mad at me for insisting that it swung. it allowed a space at the top & bottom that was open but a strategically placed smaller board at the top took care of most of that. today, 6 months later i finally got the door sweep & weather stripping to finish my beautiful front door. the door that swings freely when opened & the threshold that stops the rain from running inside my door. i am a happy woman today. tomorrow i will fit the sweep & put up the stripping that will keep the cold out. with my husbands help. enduring another fight as to how it should be done. cos nothing in this house is done right without a fight.
and thats my door hanging story.
now, i have to get some rest so i will be up for the head butting that tomorrow will bring.
later.