A long-desired dream of Wife’s is finally coming true.
We’re getting the house renovated.
Flooring, paint, all sorts of things. It’s a big undertaking. Some things were completed before we went to Omaha, and right now we’re in process of getting the big work done: floors and paint.
Wife and Kids are all gone, which is good. They’re staying at casa de Wife’s parents. The house is a wreck, barely inhabitable, loads of stuff in the air which would be ugly for the kids to breathe. Heck, I had to change the air filters on the furnaces today because they were caked with dust from all the tile demolition; I need to go to Lowes to pick up more filters because I know I’ll need to change them again very soon. I have to eat out for most every meal, which has its pros and cons. Tonight I’m going to go get some Thai food. Mmmmm.
So it sucks right now, especially being home alone and with much of “habit and routine” out of whack due to the state of the house. But I know I’m blessed and fortunate to be able to have this work done, and I know when we emerge on the other side the house will be beautiful and Wife will be happy.
And in the end, Wife being happy is all I really care about. 🙂
I wanted to go visit a local Aikido dojo tonight, but the painters are still here and I can’t leave. So the visit will have to wait. I’m itching to try Aikido. I don’t know how the experience will be, and I really don’t care at this point how it will evaluate. It’s just the next path on my journey that I wish to explore. It will be what it will be.
And to bring guns into the discussion… it’s cool to talk with the guys doing the work. They’re all hunters to some degree or other. I’m sharing some of the water buffalo meat with them because, why not? 🙂
Stuff From Hsoi 
I am sorry.
And joking. Mostly. About the best advice I have to offer is that all contracts should have a “due by” date, with appropriate termination clauses, in addition to the standard “if we are not happy by this date, you can pack sand” clauses.
And, yeah, we learned that the hard way…
You are very right.
Thankfully, we’ve got a good crew. We used these same guys before on another small project and they did a fantastic job. So we brought ’em back for this bigger job. And so far, so good. I consider us very fortunate. We’ve had our share of problems in the past, but so far these guys have been great.
We’re going to need photos. Hell, I’ll stack your renovation photos against my kids basement playroom any day.
I post the occasional progress photo to Facebook. You’ll just have to join. 😉
At least you’re contracting it out. TXGunGeek and I started renovating 3 years ago… we still don’t have the new floor in the kitchen.
Also, good luck getting tile dust out of the carpeting… it’s easier to just replace the carpet.
That’s one reason I’m having someone else do it. If I tried to do it it’d never get done… got too many other higher priority things for me to tend to.
The dust? Well, thankfully much of the carpeting is going away. As for the rest… well… maybe we can cull enough to make our own pottery later. 🙂