Home improvements.

So, after seeing Zeebah on Friday and attending Carrie's really nice shower on Saturday (I love showers now; wish I could have another... ha ha!) and mother's day dinners yesterday AND today, I have sworn myself OFF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS from now until the wedding. Social engagements in which I have to leave the house, that is. People can come on over if they like; and if they do not mind a disaster area kitchen. BUT NOT A DISASTER FOR MUCH LONGER, I SAY!

No, progress has been made. And while the current state (picture to follow) may not look much different to the untrained eye from the last picture I posted (see Figure A), I've actually spent the past couple days filling in the joints and corners and it should be ready for texturing by Wednesday; priming on Thursday; painting on Friday! And voila. Like that we will finally have a decent kitchen. Still plenty to be done, but the important part will be done by the wedding.

We've also been busting our asses outside - the patio will not be finished but it will be very close; close enough I think if we have some time on the wedding weekend we could even sit out there with a few beers! UNBELIEVABLE BUT IT IS TRUE, I TELL YOU. And even better than having it done for the wedding is just that the main part of the kitchen and the patio were our really big projects to do before the house would be finished, and there they will be; finished. I'd say the house (minus the finishing touches), will be complete by August or so. And I guess in the grand scheme of things redoing an entire house in a little less than a year and a half is pretty good (if not a smooth ride).

Now if we can just get it straightened up.

In fact, we've been so busy with the house that we have done very little wedding-wise the past couple days. I have this feeling that this week is my last window to get all the house bits done, because after this week the wedding is TWO WEEKENDS AWAY and all my spare time will go to the final bits and bobs for it. Nothing too stressful but I'm sure more will come up than I can think of right now.

Oh I also painted our front doorway and we finally got the porch light in and it looks so good! Also we got rid of all the beer cans and bottles that had accumulated on the front porch. While it lent our home a certain neighborhood street cred, in the end we felt that since we are the white people it was a little more frat house than Cinco de Mayo party and added them to the recycling.

The recycling is not part of foreplay, but it is very important nevertheless.

Comments

[brandon]

it's business time!

[kat]

The recycling is not part of foreplay

speak for yourself, missy.