Busted my ass for hours yesterday and got all the old ones down. Installed everything useable I have and need to buy 11 tiles for the finish. My back hurts like I may die of it. I'm going to do it tomorrow. After everything I did yesterday and this morning, I can't take anymore right now ( Read more... )

This is my last night of being 49. I was born at 3:30 AM. I usually get up and down several times in the night, but I have never stayed up on purpose unless I was working ( Read more... )

Well, since somebody who once lived here put up a drywall ceiling in the basement, I removed some of it today. Meaning 1st, I had to move my laundry "room" and imitation Chuck Norris exerciser because I was about to make a huge mess, make the mess and then clean it up ( Read more... )

The new cupboard from Habitat is wonderful. Matt and I got the excess trim that once mated it to somebody else's kitchen removed, got the protective layer of dust off, re-glued that drawer and were flatly amazed at how much it holds ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was out driving around with absolutely no plans when I decided to go to Habitat for Humanity's store because I had been having dreams about cabinetry. Ravenous covetous dreams about cabinetry, a thing this house lacks in every way ( Read more... )

Matt's car was in the garage for a tune up today and I had a sick headache. I didn't actually feel like driving, so he asked D from next door to take him to go get his car. On the way back, they got about a block from the garage and she ran out of gas. Crazy, right? So getting a gas can, buying gas, following her to a gas station and so on took ( Read more... )

When a house is as old as mine, 1917, you figure about 15 people have owned it and worked on it. Some of them were complete idiots ( Read more... )