A lot of what we have been doing is decluttering. Trash can is full (again), recycle bin is full (have to push down the paper side, hard, to get any more in).

Paneling is starting to come off in the dining room. Yay!! A nice shade of red has been chosen for painting kitchen/dining room. And work continues in family room.

I'm exhausted.

Got my grant proposal turned in on time. Last Tuesday's deadline was for bringing in an electronic copy on a USB drive; Dr. Fezzik skimmed through it and told me it looked fine except for the fact that I forgot the justification paragraph at the end. I had until Friday to turn in the print copy but I was so sick of having the thing hanging over ( Read more... )

Good grief. I haven't updated in forever ( Read more... )

Today ( Read more... )

That's the sound my back is making when I lean forward. I ache everywhere ( Read more... )

You know I'm busy when I don't even READ my friends page for a couple of days ( Read more... )

All of the dark paneling has been removed from the family room except for 2/3 of the north wall. This is the wall behind the computer desk, so accessing it will take some work ( Read more... )

I ripped the paneling off the south wall of the family room to find...MORE MOLD!!! Urgh. More drywall to replace. Even though most of the drywall is going to end up in the trash eventually, I scrubbed well with bleach. It may be a few days until I get around to drywalling, and I don't want to put up with the mold until then ( Read more... )

I've patched a fair bit of drywall in my time; I thought I was getting pretty good at it.

Yeah. And then I started patching the ceiling in the family room. Yikes.

The job didn't end up looking too bad, but there are globs of joint compound all over the floor. And me.

I started redoing the family room today. To make things easier on us, we're going to do it in thirds. The first third is cleared, and soon I'll start scraping off all the old popcorn ceiling stuff. When this is done, I get to patch any holes caused by drips, prime, and then paint with a texture paint. The paint I'm putting on has a suede (very ( Read more... )