Good morning! I have a few “progress photos” to share today. I didn’t take pics of all of my band-aids, and I’ll just leave it at that. 😉 This view above here is for all of you who have never visited the Mississippi River before, yep, it’s the Mighty Mississippi. You know how folks say “it’s only a hop-skip & a jump away”? Well the MM is literally just a hop from here! Skipping and jumping is optional upon arrival. They have a beautiful parkway (when it isn’t submerged) with a bike path, I took the girls down there this week when I had a bug fogger going off in the house. (iew, bugs. bitey bugs.) It was a gorgeous day, obviously a few other folks were enjoying it as well. 🙂
I finished drywalling the family room, taped most of it, need to mud it and get the cabinets in there. I also put a floor down in that space, and will cut the carpet back further for a few more tiles in a fun half-circle design. Here are a few shots of what it looked like the other day…
this is what’s going on that wall…except for one piece I found space for after I drew this out!
The old living room carpet is gone, bye-bye old yicky carpet! Guess what was underneath?! Yes, tile, but really old tile, and the kind that needs to be treated before you go walking on it barefoot or anything. So I treated that on Thursday night and yesterday morning. Blechy fooey on uncovering more problems with every project! Dagnabbit!! (I can whine just a little bit can’t I? I mean it’s just me doing all of this, and I’ve been really good about not cussing like a regular construction guy would be..lol)
Now I do need to get the baseboards painted in the living room but I HAVE to take a day (or two) off from this. It is making my mind warp in ways that just plain hurt. I took it easy yesterday, believe it or not, and only painted the part of the baseboard around the entry way so I could get the new floor down in that area, well then I thought heck, I may as well paint the door too, so I did that. (Someone smack me!) Here’s a teenie little preview of what I did yesterday and what it’s going to look like with the new carpet:
I do believe I’ve caught you all up with the past few days at my house, sans the really pitiful me that sat and moped and got weepy over missing my hubby so much…not to do the work, but just for me to rest my head on after I finished. He knows how much I dig these projects and what a tomboy kinda gal I am, the only thing I ever say “I can’t do that” about is getting up on a ladder – and now I’m doing that too. I miss my man. 9 months to go.
BTW, I haven’t updated my weight loss progress in a while. I’ve lost 42 pounds now. I have 21 pounds to go to meet my goal, and 9 months to do it. Hm…that’s about 2.5 pounds a month, and I’ve been averaging 8.4. Not too shabby, I’m actually quite pleased with myself since I’m down 3 sizes (6 if you count by 1’s, lol), fitting into things I haven’t worn since 1997-98. Even found my favorite jeans, Levi Silver Tabs that I loved so much and have been looking for for years – in a bag of my “don’t fit into these anymore” clothes – pulled them out and they fit really nice, and they’re a Junior’s size! I love it when that happens.
Ok better get moving for the day. I hope you all have a beautiful, calm, sunny weekend!!
xoxoxoxoxo
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