crud.

i feel bad.

i am a horrible people pleasing woosey and this whole "get three estimates" for every job while we build the house is sucking.

it's not just getting three estimates. it's setting up three meetings and getting to know three people and making three people jump through hoops and looking at three people's kids' photos on three different desks and THEN getting three estimates and then giving two people the ax.

and because i'm a people pleasing woosey, i always break up via email. a long, rambling email explaining that they were wonderful, we loved their work, it was a hard decision, we wish them well, yadda yadda yadda. the answer is always a terse "thanks." i have a hard time with the terse thanks, because i know it really means "thanks for nothing you big tease."

so far i've had to do it to the house builders, the flooring people and the cabinet people. i didn't have the guts to tell the guys who gave us an estimate for wiring the house for audio/video that we decided we're just not technology people, so it's getting wired.

mostly because they didn't have email.

doh.