What I’m Loving Wednesday

I’m LOVING that we finally got the pool up last Tuesday and I have been getting to enjoy it as much as possible!! Last Wednesday, a day after we put it up, we got a storm and lots of rain! I was so mad at the weather that day!! I worked 9-5 and was planning on going swimming the second I got home from work. I got in for about half an hour on Thursday and then on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday it was too cold to go swimming. But Monday, yesterday, and today, you can bet I was in it! Probably for about an hour or more each day.

    

I’m LOVING that me and my fiancé are going to the beach soon!!! We didn’t think we would make it to the beach this year cause we gotta save our money for the wedding, but since his mom lives near the beach, we are going to spend a few days with her. We don’t take that many pictures of the 2 of us anymore, but that is going to change this weekend!!!

I’m LOVING that I get to see my future sister in law on Friday!!! We are going to spend the day together and then she is spending the night and we’ll have most of Saturday to hangout, too!! It’s been a while since I’ve seen her so I’m excited!!!

And as always, I’m loving my wonderful fiancé and our 2 babies!!!

The pool is finally up…again!

So, on Tuesday we got the pool liner delivered and that night we also got the sand delivered! We didn’t get quite enough though, so we had to go to Lowes to get more. Then we leveled the box out and it was ready for the pool! We got the pool up and started filling it around 8:30 pm. We let it run all night to save some time. I got up at 7:30 am yesterday (Wednesday) and it was almost filled!! Then, while I was at work, it started to storm and rain. Wait, let me rephrase that, it started to storm and pour!! It was pouring so hard at one point that you couldn’t see out the front windows. It was so windy!!! So that really bummed me out. I was looking forward to jumping in the pool when I got home. It really stank that we just got the pool up and now the weather was preventing us from enjoying it. And it is still preventing me from enjoying it cause it’s kinda cloudy outside right now. I just checked the temperature of the pool and it’s about 72 degrees. That is too cold!!! Oh, but last night, I did get in it for a minute or 2 and it was probably about the same temperature. It was just sprinkling a little bit and there was no lightning or thunder so I decided to get in for a little bit. I didn’t go under or anything, just walked around a little bit. I’m hoping that sometime soon I can actually go swim in it!

So anyway, here is the pool!!

  You can definitely tell that it is a lot more level than it was before. My fiancé said that the one side is off by about 4 inches in one spot and other are off by an inch, but that is a lot better than being off by 7 inches!!

This picture was taken was taken when the pool was up the first time. It was taken from the opposite side than the picture posted above. But you can see how the pool is leaning to the one side

      

Here’s to hoping that I get to swim soon!!! Have a great Thursday everyone!!

Pool update!

So, we should finally be getting the new pool liner today, yes…I said TODAY!!!! But, we won’t be able to get it up until tomorrow because we still have to get sand for under the pool. Last night my fiancé finished making the box that we are putting the pool in. Now we need to fill it with sand and level it out before we can set up the pool. I am really hoping that I will be swimming in the pool on Friday!!!!

This is the box that the pool will be in. The far end of it is the lower part so that will be filled with more sand than the other side.

Well, that’s all for now. The next pictures you will be seeing of the pool will be of it up and ready to be swam in!!! It stinks that it is the middle of July and it isn’t up, but I’m going to make the most of it and enjoy the rest of my summer with it!!! Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

Hmm…

…what to write, what to write. I’m just at a loss of words and I don’t know why. I haven’t been blogging that much recently and again, I don’t know why. In my last post I think I wrote about how our pool got a hole in it. Or maybe I didn’t write about that, I don’t know. So we submitted a claim and will be getting another pool liner at no charge. Now we are just waiting for them to ship it out! The only good thing to come out of this is that we will be able to level out the ground more. My fiancé plotted a box with some string and we are going to get wood to put around the box. Then we are going to get that to be level and fill it with fill dirt. I’m hoping that by the end of next week, we will have the pool up and filled again!! It stinks that it is almost halfway through July already!! By the time we get it up, there won’t be that much of summer left!! I am definitely going to be in the pool every single day!!! Before work, after work, whenever I get the chance!!!

I was writing a post about last week’s episode of The Bachelorette, but my laptop died and when I turned it on, instead of resuming my session, it rebooted completely. So I lost that post and didn’t feel like rewriting it. I just got finished watching last night’s episode, and I can’t believe that it is almost over!!! And the final 2 guys are guys that I knew would be there in the end, Arie and Jef!!! I cannot imagine being in Emily’s shoes at the moment when she was faced with 3 guys and had to send one home. All 3 of them have told her that they love her and she probably felt the same way towards each one of them. I think the final episode where she has to send the last guy home will be one of the hardest days of her life!! But at the same time, it may be one of the best days of her life!

Right now I’m catching up on some of my other shows on my DVR including So You Think You Can Dance. I’m watching the episode where they revealed the top 20. I thought it was cool how they revealed them this year by showing us who made it on the live stage instead of how they did it on seasons past.

So that’s about it that’s going on with me. Since I can’t be out in the pool right now, I’m just taking this time to clean up the house a bit and relax. Oh and working, but this week I’m only working 3 days, one of them being a 12 hour shift! Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

The pool is up!!!

Well, the pool is finally up and is in the process of being filled! It is taking a lot longer than I thought it would though! I’m probably going to have to turn off the hose when I leave for work in about an hour. And then I won’t be able to continue to fill it until tomorrow night! Oh well, it will be filled and ready to go by Sunday when my aunt, uncle, and 2 cousins come over for some swimming and a cookout! Although now that I think about it, I think I may want to continue filling it tonight if I can because then that way the filter can run all day so that I can test it, add the right chemicals, and shock it tomorrow night. Then that way it will be completely ready to go for Sunday!

Here are 2 pictures that I took of it earlier this morning shortly after I started filling it.

 

I had to get in it for a little bit because I wanted to make sure that it was level around the edges. That water is cold!!! I got used to it after a while though, so it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t that high yet when I got it, not even up to my knees. And I was only in for about 10 minutes, so it wasn’t that bad. I was worried about the side the closest to the house because the poles didn’t want to stand up straight. I texted my fiancé and told him that and he said it just needed more water in it. Well, he was right!!

Now that the pool is finally up and almost ready for swimming, I am super excited!!!! I’m going to be in it every single day that I can!!! The next 2 months are going to be the best 2 months of the summer!!!

Update…

I just got back from getting the building permit!!!! So tonight, after we take Tigger to the vet, we are going to set up the pool!! I already called to schedule the inspection and that will be getting done at 8:30 tomorrow morning!!! I’m so excited!!!!! I’m going to start filling it as soon as the inspector leaves tomorrow and maybe, just maybe, I’ll get to swim in it a little bit before going to work!!! Ahhh….you have no idea how happy I am right now!! I just wanted to share that with you all, so that’s all for now!!!

What’s on my mind…

Well, yet another day went by and I still haven’t heard anything from the borough about the building permit for the pool. I am really hoping to get a call from them today or tomorrow because I am getting angrier about it by the minute!!! I just have to keep reminding myself that when we finally get the permit and get the pool up, it will be totally worth it!!! And now, more than ever, I am definitely swimming in the pool every single day I can!! I’ve had to wait longer than I thought to get it put up, so you can bet I’m going to use it every single minute I can!!! I know I keep saying this, but just don’t understand why you need a freakin’ building permit to put up an above ground pool!! I could see if it was an in ground pool, but it isn’t!! And why does it take so long to get approved? When my fiancé called them on Monday to make sure that the building permit was what we needed (they told him on Friday that it was a pool permit) they said that the application went over to zoning and was being processed. That was Monday and today is Thursday…why does it take that long to get it approved???

Ugh…anyway, I’m done venting now. I just needed to get all of that off my chest. I just gotta stop thinking about it and when they call, they call. I should be focused on cleaning the house because on Sunday, two of my cousins (ages 12 and 8) are going to be coming over and then are spending the night Sunday night and Monday night. When they came over to our house for the New Year’s Eve party we had, they had asked us when they could spend the night. Well, I noticed with my schedule that I’ve been working towards the end of the week and I always work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so I knew they wouldn’t be able to come over on a weekend. So I checked with my aunt to see if during the week would work and it does! So they’re gonna come over around dinner time and we’ll have a little cookout and hopefully the pool will be up so we can swim! That’s about all I’ve got for now. Have a great Thursday everyone!!!

Weekend Recap

Hey everyone, I hope you had a great weekend!!! We finally got some information on the regulations for having an above ground pool and they are that if you have a 4 foot or higher pool, you don’t need a fence. So I went to the borough office this morning right when they opened to fill out a building permit application. Well, it turns out, it may take up to a week before we hear anything from them. That really stinks because we were planning on getting the pool set up tonight and having it filled by the end of the week. My fingers are crossed that I’ll hear something today or at least by tomorrow, but I’m not really holding my breath. All I wanna do is swim!!! Is that too much to ask for??? I still don’t understand why we even need a building permit for a freakin’ pool!!! Ugh!!!! It’s my property, so why can’t I do what I want? I could see if I was building onto my house, but that’s not what I wanna do. All I want to do is set up a pool!

Alright, I’m done venting now. My weekend just consisted of working, as always. I’m off today so I’m just catching up on some shows on my DVR and since it is nice outside, I think I’ll go sit on my deck and read! Leave me your comments! Have a great Monday!!

We might be getting a…

So, after doing some thinking, my fiancé and I decided that we might be buying an above ground pool!!!! I decided that I have enough money in my savings account to take some out for a pool. My fiancé buys a lot of the things we have, so since this is something that I mostly want, we decided that I would pay for it. The only thing holding us up from actually going out and buying a pool would be the borough. I called them this morning right when they opened and left a message. I didn’t hear back from them all day so I had my fiancé call them and again, he had to leave a message!! I just don’t understand why there is only one person in the building that knows what the regulations are. In a town close to us, their regulation is that you don’t need a fence if the pool is 4 ft or higher. That is what we are hoping it is where we live because we don’t want to have to build a fence.

Even though we aren’t 100% sure that we are getting a pool, I’ve been doing some research about how to maintain a pool. It doesn’t seem as bad as I thought it would be. Basically there is a 4 step pool care program that HTH has for you to follow: balance, stabilize, shock, and prevent algae. You test the water everyday and add either pH Plus or pH Minus, depending on which one you need. Then you sanitize by adding the chlorine tablets. The next step is to shock the pool once a week. And lastly, use a preventative algaecide once a week. I know that it is going to be a lot of work to keep the pool clean, but it will definitely be worth it!! I will definitely be in it every single day (unless the weather isn’t nice enough for it). Do you have your own pool? What tips do you have for a first time pool owner? Leave me your comments and have a great rest of your Thursday!!