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You might be a redneck if…

January 4, 2007 By 11 Comments

…The exterior of your house looks like this:Yes, this would be the front of my house. I am really digging how white trash it looks right now. Note the attractive toilet tank on the ground. MMM…We have already made FOUR trips to the dump and look at what remains. There is still quite a bit to rip up. Yippee Skippee.I think that the hood of my ’83 wagon just adds to the ambiance of it all. All I need to do now is take the old toilet that is on the other side of the trash trailer and put some silk flowers in it and I will be SET, baby!

Heather mentioned her hatred and envy of my clean and organized laundry room. Let me show you the REST of my house and yard so you will have a better grasp of ‘House Suck’

This would be my porch. Spiffy, no?Enter into my front door into the living room where you are greeted by this tranquil scene to your right:
And this to your left:
Proceed forward into the kitchen, which yesterday was lovely, clean and empty. Now it is stored with the contents of my boy’s room and their playroom because the carpet guys are laying new flooring as I type.
This is my back door. Note the attractive carpet padding and fugly carpet laying in the mud (The trailer was blocked and my husband had to get to work)My newly completed office. I’m blogging over in the corner, but you can’t tell because there wasn’t enough space for me to take a picture of it. Luckily, I know that it will all get cleaned up, hauled away and my house will actually be adorable. It is getting from this hell to the end that just makes.me.tired.

I am going to take my niece out to Sushi for her 21st birthday. Before I do that I have to go shower at my sister’s house. Even though our tub is working, we still don’t have the shower enclosure up. We also have no bathroom door and I really don’t think that the carpet dudes would appreciate seeing me huddled naked in a tub trying not to touch the exposed walls or get the backerboard on the floor wet as I pour buckets of water over my head to rinse my hair.
Then again, maybe they would. Some people are weird.

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Ug. I know it has been a long time,I hope everyon…

January 3, 2007 By 11 Comments

Ug.

I know it has been a long time,I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful New Year’s. I know I did. We had my Great-Niece, Fiona (“Wee Fee”) blessed on Dec. 30th. They are only here for another week and I am trying to squeeze in as much baby time as possible. For our New Year’s Eve party we went over to Bridgy’s and had a mellow gathering with a bunch of friends. Jon really got into the spirit of things.

While I do have resolutions in mind, my ONLY focus is going on getting my house DONE DONE DONE! I have had so little time and even less energy that I have seriously neglected this little blog of mine. I doubt I will have any readers at all after I’m done renovation. It has been hell.on.earth.

We have painted the front room, painted the inside of my antique corner cupboard, packed and moved tons of boxes, reorganized my cabinents and have taken off every baseboard in the house to be replaced with new ones.

There is so much to do and the list keeps growing.

Good news:
I have a quasi-functional bathroom. Since we only have ONE and I am in the suck of the female burden of all time (i.e-The Period from HELL), this is a VERY happy development. The moldy subfloor and sheetrock are gone, the gross and tiny vanity is replaced and we also have a new toilet. The old one was only two years old, but Jonathan shattered it with the sledgehammer while he was breaking apart our cast iron tub, so we had to get a new one. We still have a LOT to do in there, but it is going much faster than I thought it would.

We also have all the linoleum laid down in our kitchen, washroom and pantry. The contractors were slated for three days of work, but it all got done yesterday. This gives me some time to move boxes and furniture into the kitchen before they come to start replacing all the carpeting on Friday.

I am really pleased with the way the flooring turned out. While I am not a huge fan of linoleum, I really like what we picked and it is cheaper and more practical than the material that would have been my first picks. I’ll see how I like it. ANYTHING is better than the grody white flooring we used to have.

Problem?
Now that my flooring is in, the cabinets (Which I have always hated) look even worse to me, so we’re going to paint those as well. I am so tired and it feels so good to have a new floor that I just want to lay here and chase cars.
Feel free to join me if you like.

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