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House updates: weekend and Tuesday
Mar. 28th, 2006 04:44 pmOn Saturday I was in a foul mood -- house taking forever, running out of money, not spending enough time on it, difficult to complain properly because I truly am grateful to all the friends and family but it's taking SO LONG. (Mantra, or something, for the day: "I could have bought a condo, dammit!") So I stewed to myself all day and snapped when people spoke to me. I'm not sure how many people noticed. Jen and I got McDonald's around 11 before starting, which caused me to be not yet ready for all-day breakfast at 12:30 in addition to being cranky, so I carried on and sanded and primed my kitchen until about 6 p.m. when I was starting to worry about falling off the stepladder from lack of food. Then I bought a book and went to Gabby's and ate chicken souvlaki and drank Guinness ALL BY MYSELF. Bliss. Occasionally a girl just needs to get away from it all, y'know?
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raithen's sister's CD caused a dramatic improvement in my mood after everyone else had gone home. Must phone and thank her.
The house report for Saturday:
On Sunday I toddled back to the house by way of Home Despot, where I bought an ergonomic paint roller handle (you laugh, but it's awesome AND threaded to fit on an extension pole) and some spare rollers and a flexible metal thingy for protecting edges while painting. Finished priming the kitchen, continued sanding the third floor. Have learned that it's important to have both hand-held and pole-mounted versions of your sanding and painting tools, because otherwise it's up the ladder, down the ladder, up the ladder, down the ladder... Also, borrowed Dan's kneepads. Don't tell. They were awesome.
Then went to my parents' book exchange and got free books I don't need and sympathy on the house project that I kind of did. There are still books on every conceivable surface in the dining room. Many of them I think will not find homes, but them's the breaks. (Anybody need a set of Tom Clancy novels? Actually, we're donating the lot to... I forget which charity, but doubtless they are deserving.)
Today, my aunt reports:
*Possibly this should read "now"?
Am very much looking forward to:
- Painting my kitchen. I reckon it won't actually take very long. Then we can sand and urethane the floor and build the cabinets and install the appliances and oh, it will be WONDERFUL! Will have to hang plastic sheeting to keep it relatively dust-free while we're finishing everything else, but that's OK.
- Er. I'm sure there was something else I was looking forward to. Moving in, perhaps? I'm currently in the "All I want is a functioning kitchen and bathroom and I'll move in. I don't CARE about anything else" mood swing. I can live without trim. And a living room.
Also I have to say,
raithen's sister's CD caused a dramatic improvement in my mood after everyone else had gone home. Must phone and thank her.The house report for Saturday:
Today for lunch Jen, John, Dan, David and I had lumberjack breakfast.
Jen cleaned. Robin sanded. Dan and David loaded the truck with garbage, and put vapour strip and firring in the third floor bathroom.
Cheers, Helen.
On Sunday I toddled back to the house by way of Home Despot, where I bought an ergonomic paint roller handle (you laugh, but it's awesome AND threaded to fit on an extension pole) and some spare rollers and a flexible metal thingy for protecting edges while painting. Finished priming the kitchen, continued sanding the third floor. Have learned that it's important to have both hand-held and pole-mounted versions of your sanding and painting tools, because otherwise it's up the ladder, down the ladder, up the ladder, down the ladder... Also, borrowed Dan's kneepads. Don't tell. They were awesome.
Then went to my parents' book exchange and got free books I don't need and sympathy on the house project that I kind of did. There are still books on every conceivable surface in the dining room. Many of them I think will not find homes, but them's the breaks. (Anybody need a set of Tom Clancy novels? Actually, we're donating the lot to... I forget which charity, but doubtless they are deserving.)
Today, my aunt reports:
Today for lunch, Dan, John and I had hot dogs.
Dan drywalled the south side of Jen's kitchen. William mudded and taped on the second floor. John prepared a class for his kiddies, not* back at Centennial.
...
Cheers, Helen
*Possibly this should read "now"?
Am very much looking forward to:
- Painting my kitchen. I reckon it won't actually take very long. Then we can sand and urethane the floor and build the cabinets and install the appliances and oh, it will be WONDERFUL! Will have to hang plastic sheeting to keep it relatively dust-free while we're finishing everything else, but that's OK.
- Er. I'm sure there was something else I was looking forward to. Moving in, perhaps? I'm currently in the "All I want is a functioning kitchen and bathroom and I'll move in. I don't CARE about anything else" mood swing. I can live without trim. And a living room.
