At The Point

Details, details, details! I’m ready to be finished with the details!

The new room seems soooooo cloooose to being finished.

I didn’t work on it yesterday. I needed a break.

Today when I woke up I just KNEW that with a little elbow grease and some bribery for my 18 year old son I could get it finished.

But NOOOOO. There are so many teeny-tiny, miniscule, seems-like-they-don’t-matter-but-they-do type of things that I didn’t make it. I am STILL not finished.

Before you start to throw tomatoes at me and boo and hiss and declare me a failure, never to read my blog again….let me remind you:

I didn’t make my own personal deadline of finishing the new room in a week. It was just too much. Today I felt like I was possibly losing my mind and nothing was going right. I was the only person that could measure with reasonable accuracy and the only person that could use a saw….

Whew! I spent the day working on the new room.

I textured the walls, painted trim, cut, painted the ceiling and door (Painting doors is my LEAST favorite painting job).

I didn’t want to deal with renting a texture gun, so I decided to design my own texture pattern. This can be dangerous. Sometimes these ideas work great and sometimes (most times) they don’t. I say this because I want to stress that I mess this stuff up all of the time. But it’s no big deal. Just scrape it off and do something else. Don’t be afraid to try!

But I think my texture job is turning out great. I’ll post more on that later.

So far so good….. I got math done, piano practice started, co-op class preparation underway and I was off to work on the new room. We had to remove the window between the boys’ room and the new room. This is the view from inside of the boys’ room…. You can see the new room…

Last night I couldn’t move my arms. Tonight I can’t move anything…my arms,my legs, my hair… I’m not sure what happened, but the size of my crew diminished significantly. Yesterday there were six of us working plus the occasional floater. Today this was the insulation team: When we started putting up sheetrock another daughter took…

The first day of the new room project is over. I’m having trouble typing… I can barely move my arms. Hammering nails into concrete is really difficult. And I hammered at least four of them before I passed the job on to someone else. My parents came to help. It was so sweet. They drove…