Only 4 More Days 'Til Vaykayshun!!
Jul. 16th, 2007 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evaine_ljAnd BOY am I gonna need it. *LOL*
Not that it's going to be all rest and relaxation - far from it! I have to put my sweat equity into the house. But at least I won't have to be doing it after a full, full, FULL day at the office! And I'll have my best bud up visiting and giving me a hand and just generally keeping my spirits from plummeting.
Yup, not only is it 4 days until vacation, but it's only 4 days 'til Julie arrives! YAY!!!
Here's my living room, taken from the entranceway to the kitchen.
My bedroom. We decided it would be easier to leave the bed and work around it, rather than break it down and store it. It's a waterbed, you see.
The bathroom...
The hallway, taken from the base of the stairs.
And a couple of the kitchen...
As Julie said when she saw the pictures, the house is just about down to its bare bones!
Demolition started today in earnest. After work, I was able to take out a whole bunch of nails and even a couple of small panels of gyproc. Go me! *LOL* I couldn't stand the dust for long, with this asthma shit I've developed. Ben's going to pick up a mask for me, and one for Michael and one for Julie. He thought he had some, but he couldn't find them.
So, work is proceeding apace - we've already filled one half-dumpster and have begun today on a second one. Garbage day was today, and last night, someone climbed into the first one and took out the old built-in oven and countertop stove. *RME* More fuckin' power to them! I hated them both and for chrissakes, that oven was closing in on 50 years old as it was original to the house! I assume, or at least I hope, they were taking them for the scrap metal, 'cause God knows they aren't worth much else! *LOL*
So that'd be the news from Mental-Reno. I can't actually believe we've actually begun after all this time!
Not that it's going to be all rest and relaxation - far from it! I have to put my sweat equity into the house. But at least I won't have to be doing it after a full, full, FULL day at the office! And I'll have my best bud up visiting and giving me a hand and just generally keeping my spirits from plummeting.
Yup, not only is it 4 days until vacation, but it's only 4 days 'til Julie arrives! YAY!!!
Here's my living room, taken from the entranceway to the kitchen.
My bedroom. We decided it would be easier to leave the bed and work around it, rather than break it down and store it. It's a waterbed, you see.
The bathroom...
The hallway, taken from the base of the stairs.
And a couple of the kitchen...
As Julie said when she saw the pictures, the house is just about down to its bare bones!
Demolition started today in earnest. After work, I was able to take out a whole bunch of nails and even a couple of small panels of gyproc. Go me! *LOL* I couldn't stand the dust for long, with this asthma shit I've developed. Ben's going to pick up a mask for me, and one for Michael and one for Julie. He thought he had some, but he couldn't find them.
So, work is proceeding apace - we've already filled one half-dumpster and have begun today on a second one. Garbage day was today, and last night, someone climbed into the first one and took out the old built-in oven and countertop stove. *RME* More fuckin' power to them! I hated them both and for chrissakes, that oven was closing in on 50 years old as it was original to the house! I assume, or at least I hope, they were taking them for the scrap metal, 'cause God knows they aren't worth much else! *LOL*
So that'd be the news from Mental-Reno. I can't actually believe we've actually begun after all this time!
