Thursday, July 17, 2008

So much to do, so little time

I'm so tired and I badly need to go to bed, because I have to get myself up early tomorrow if Abby doesn't beat me to it. We spent the day at the house again, painting a few more rooms. I didn't do much for painting, but made 2 trips to Lowe's, which took over 2 hours of my day to do. Ughhh, why didn't I just over-buy paint to be safe? Of course, I didn't realize my mom would be picky about it, she insists on doing 2 full coats, no matter what I say. I feel so accomplished though, which has made me feel good. So far, the things we've gotten done at the house include:
Cleaning thoroughly (although it will need vacuumed and touched up a little when we are done painting)
Yardwork
A few misc. jobs, such as putting up a gate, putting up some fixtures, etc. There's still a lot of those left to do though
Painting the kitchen, bathrooms, living and dining room - we will finish our bedroom and we have painters coming tomorrow to do the stairs and enterway because the ceilings at 17 feet tall, yikes! They are also sanding down Abigail's room, because the former owners used texture in the paint, and we need it off to paint it. It will be a full day's job just to sand it down, ughh!
Appliances are being delivered tomorrow also, and at that point, the house will feel so much more complete just with those.

We still have a handful of things to do. There's tons of miscellaneous jobs to get done around the house. I need to get the hardware started on the kitchen and bathroom cabinets if I can. I want to install the toilet paper holders and towel bars/rings in the bathrooms (the former owners didn't have any of those in the 3 years they lived there, not even holes in the wall like they took them.) The new sink and kitchen faucet needs to be put in, but I can't do that. I need to install doorstops, vaccum the whole house again once the painting is done, and call carpet cleaners to get the carpets done. I also have to call to get the tv/internet/phone hooked up. Lots more little things to be done, but I take it one day at a time, and I feel so much better at the end of each day we are there. We are planning to move August 1-3, I'm just waiting to hear back from the moving company to be sure those dates are set. The next 2 weeks are SUPER busy, with appointments, (midwife appt, ultrasound, Abby's checkup) and then Abby's birthday is next Wednesday. We have an open house this Sunday, and my BIL's birthday party the weekend we move, and my inlaws are coming that weekend too, eeek! So much going on, I'm going to be going crazy!
Thanks for reading my craziness, I just needed to sort out my unorganized thoughts!

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