I have a new door!  And you know what?

Like hell it was only supposed to take two hours.

According to the notice we got, the team needed two hours to take out the old door and put in the new door and at no time during that process would our apartment be left unattended. You know, in case we were both out of the house like normal adults are on a Thursday morning and afternoon.

Can I just say?  It is a damn good thing that I was home while they installed the door.  Because? Those jerks got the new door up and took off for lunch–leaving it with no door frame, no deadbolt and–wait for it–no doorknob.  That’s right.  Apparently not leaving the apartment unattended meant leaving the apartment unattended and wiiiiide open for whoever passed by.  For an hour.

And then it took them three hours after they got back from lunch to install the door frame, the door knob, the lock and to drill a new peephole which I have absolutely no hope of ever being able to see out of unless I drag a step stool over to the door first.

Honestly, I shouldnt’ complain too much.  I have a new door.  It has weatherstripping on the bottom to keep the heat in.  It’s made out of stronger stuff (I think) than our old door.  And? the lock? Now actually turns.  Even in cold weather.  Without my having to push or pull my entire body weight against the door to get the thing into just the right position so that the lock will turn.  The lock now? Like butter. Love.

But still.  Thank god I was home otherwise any old person could have waltzed right in and taken whatever they wanted and nobody would have been the wiser until Will or I had gotten home.

In other news, I don’t really have a lot of other news.  It’s the best television night of the week.  The cat just walked across my keyboard and accidentally wrote “i 8 u” which is kind of funny because Will and I often debate on just how badly Poppy wishes she could, in fact, eat us.  I’ve spent most of the day in stinky pjs because I wasn’t sure when the door guys would show up and then, well, there were door guys here (or I had no door).  Will brought my chicken fingers from Fred Meyer for lunch and I’m trying to decide if I want to make Chicken Alfredo for dinner or if that would be too much chicken in one day.