What a Difference A Day Makes

okay, I had to end this day on a positive note.....My husband rocks!!!! We all loaded up and went to the house today...I started taping the walls to prepare them for paint....Jim edged outside and the boys picked up many many piles of brush we are clearing out....Then Jim came in and took over where I stopped because I had to go outside to interfere with the boys fighting....Jim tapped the entire room (what was sheetrocked) now, we have to close up the middle of the ceiling and tape the rest and get ready to paint.....trim out windows, carpet, and rock and roll in that room.....then on to the kitchen....

Outside looks a lot better....we are getting NO rain, so I had to water a lot today.....Jonathan mowed the front and the back.....Didn't get to finish everything I had hoped because the boys ran out of things to do and getting tired and hungry...so, we locked up and came home.....to enjoy a wonderful meal.....

Monday, we are going to the lake to have a picnic lunch and just have fun.....I have not done anything with the boys like that all summer and we are going to do it....Tuesday, I will hit it hard...I have got to repaint the trim on the outside.....It looks really bad..... And stain the cabinets.....I think I might have Jim talked into to taking some days off to really hit it hard.....

We will see...I have got to stay focused and take it one day at a time.....It's when I look down the road I get scared.....

Warrior Fallen

If this sounds bitter today....it's just where I am.....I'll be better tomorrow....Here I am sitting on the end of June and I don't feel I'm any closer finishing this project than before....We had someone working all week long and still the "mudroom" is not finished with dry wall......I'm not real happy with my husband right now....we had agreed to not put in a drop ceiling with the flood lights...previous owner had that idea and with him living in this house, I could see it, however, it is now a flip house and in this neighborhood, it's not needed.....I don't want to sit here and say, I told you so, but today we are looking at a two week project STILL NOT DONE!!!!!! The guy working said, after finishing this drop down ceiling, "it did take too long.." DUH!!!! Is this my project or not!!!!!!

I'm going over there today, both boys are going to have to clear out brush so that my oldest can mow...then we must water, and I have got to stain the cabinets so when ready, they are not waiting on me..

I usually get charged up on Saturdays because I watch Property Ladder...today I'm just mad.....I' m watching all these people going through the same struggle I am, however, they make enough profit to go do this again......Difference is, they don't have two boys in private school, a HUGE warehouse sucking all our money away.......

So, when this house is on the market, we get to go over to the warehouse and get that monster ready......I have got to get recharged somehow.....I am so done with all of it.....I'm only defeating myself when I get this attitude.....

So, I'm going to go eat lunch, get my troops together, and go work.......I just feel so bad for them, they have YET to do anything this summer....

Time is Ticking!!

My new date of mid-June is here and the house is STILL NOT READY!!! I am past the point of frustration!!! We have hired a guy that actually knows what he's doing and LOVES to work...Imagine that!!!! He has busted it...the Mud room got the new lights, drywall coming up (would have been done, however, the idiots that did our house did that house and so most of the time is spent redoing the screwup from them)...
All the medal flashing is up around the house....I painted the trim in the front...Got too hot and needed to wait until it got cooler to finish....so, I decided to try something to the front brick..The house is painted yellow and just needed some color so I thought I would paint the window frame black and even went so far as to paint the window panes trim black...YUCK!!! It looked like a rebellious teenagers room...so I had to paint over that and thought I would paint it white...That didn't look good either, so now it's gonna have to go back to yellow.... Took the shutters off the middle part of the house to see what that would look like, and I don't like that either.....so, now I have to paint yet again....yellow trim, and put the shutters back on....
I painted the door black....That looks good....Now the next thing is landscape and that will really make the house look better from the outside....Curb appeal...that's what gets them in the door.

Tomorrow, I will go back over and stain the kitchen cabinets so that we can get those installed.....

I'm trying to stay positive, however, I am tired...tired of this consuming my summer....the boys summer... however, if we don't sell this house....we are in big trouble....