Shelley’s away in Saskatoon with Quinn, and while you’d think I enjoyed having the house to myself, it gets awful quiet. Dylan is hardly ever around … just me and my renovations — and of course my REGULAR JOB.
We’re getting there — slowly:
- The basement is almost complete. Just a little touching up of things that aren’t quite right (small jobs — touch up paint, fix a particular mess left by the contractor — I’ll detail that later — and install a closet door) and the baseboards. We need to buy a little more furniture too, to get the TV off the floor, but it’s within sight.
- The bathroom is ready for tile (except the tile we wanted to use has been discontinued, so I need to locate them some first — or pick a new one), the tub is in (but it has a leak, so I need to get the company to send a plumber — if it fails after THEY fix it,THEY’RE on the hook), so I’ve been drywalling and tiling flange’ing, and spackling. I forgot to mention that plumbing was HELL this time. I COULDN’T get things to not leak, so I ended up taking the whole thing apart starting fresh. I think the key was a pipe thread sealant supplied by a friend called — ZWAK. Wonderful stuff. No leaks!
- Shelley has been painting. She’s painted the garage door and the fireplace brick in the family room. Both jobs look great, but we’ve decided we need a different picture hung on the fireplace now since the brick is about the same colour as the picture. It disappears. We need CONTRAST!
I’m just tired of the renovations. I want them to be done. And I’m gonna WHINE until they ARE done! Weee! Weee! Weee! Weee!
Ah well. School’s coming soon, then there will be a whole NEW set of stresses and annoyances. Hope everyone has had a good summer!
Boy do you sound more than a little stressed lad.
How is the new TV and are you going to put a few pictures up on the wall??