I had a productive day of painting. The laundry room is complete. It now needs a good cleaning and it is done! One room down, six to go plus the back porch.
Got a call from the carpet people and they can come next Friday to lay the carpet. Yay! That means the next two rooms I need to get done are the two bedrooms. They need to be completely painted before the carpet is laid. One of them has the first coat on walls and woodwork and doors. The other room needs everything done to it yet.
I ran out of woodwork paint tonight so will have to run into Emporia in the morning to get another gallon. Dang! I was hoping to avoid going to town for a few days. I managed not to have to go to Emporia today.
I painted this morning, came home and had lunch and took a nap and then went back in after dinner to get more painting done. Tomorrow I will run into Emporia and get more paint and then paint all morning. Jim is coming home sometime tomorrow and once I know when that is I may get a second painting session in before he gets home.
I got on the hot line last night. I only took one call but it lasted for 1 1/2 hour. It was a tough call that I had to get the supervisor involved from the beginning. We were able to talk them down to a calmer state. I celebrated my one year anniversary yesterday on the hot line. I have taken 590 calls in my first year. I was glad I had that experience behind me when I got the call last night. It was a tough one.
Did some work on the budget today. I am so over budget at this point it is crazy. Sure hoping we don’t run into major issues when we get to the outside of the house. We may just have to paint and figure out the rest of it another day and time. It is looking like the house should be ready to rent June 1. Hoping I can find a renter sooner rather than later and start having the house pay me instead of me shelling out dollars right and left.
I haven’t gotten any house cleaning done on this house this week. It is starting to bug me but painting has taken priority. I may take Sunday off from painting and clean house here instead. We will see. I feel pressure to get those two bedrooms done and hate to lose a day painting. I only have three weeks left to get all the inside done plus all the outside. Cleaning this house may have to wait a bit. Somehow the dust seems to hang around for me.
I fixed a piece of salmon or dinner again tonight. It is easy and I don’t have leftovers to deal with. I managed to get the dishwasher loaded and run it after dinner tonight. I have been lazy and have been letting the dishes pile up and not get them done. I have two loads of laundry that has been in the laundry room for two days that need folded. I am picking up bad habits while Jim has been gone.
It will be good to see Jim drive up the driveway tomorrow evening. The house feels so quiet and big with him gone. I have stayed busy painting so the time went by quickly this time. I even remembered to take care of the chickens each afternoon while he was gone. That is usually his job.
Grateful one room is completely painted, grateful for one year on the hot line, and grateful Jim will be home tomorrow.