Well, I took off at least this morning to handle some personal things that require attention. So far, my internet connection has died on us, I’ve taken girl 2 to school, and taken care of some of those “personal issues.” Please don’t speculate. I won’t divulge them here.
There seems to be a lot of change in the winds. The girls are getting older, weef and I are contemplating moving elsewhere (most likely in-state), and I … well, I have some ideas I’d like to see come to fruition. There are a lot of things we’d like to do with the house to fix it up–either to sell it or make it nicer for us. We had scoped out this “fixed for 14″ site or something like that. I thought it meant linear feet, until it dawned on me that they might mean per square foot. That was a total game-changer. For all the work we’d like to do downstairs, $14 seemed like an awesome deal until we learned that it is indeed per square f00t. that was disappointing. So we’ll probably do the work ourselves. It just would have been nice to have someone come in and magically whisk away all the trash and leave us with a beautiful new downstairs. Alas … it probably won’t happen. Oh well.
So maybe we’ll tackle the whole thing ourselves. Really, all we’re talking about for the most part is ripping down some paneling and re-mudding and sanding the existing drywall. Assuming that these people who lived here before us weren’t complete and utter butts (which is not at all a safe assumption to make), they might not have glued the paneling directly to the drywall, though in some instances, they actually did. That was dumb.
Anyway, changes are coming. We’ll see where they land us.