I'm back!

Finally!

A moment to sit and breathe and blog.  It's been a long time!  Last you heard I was getting ready for my work trip to Cincinnati.  I went, it was fun, and I got stuck in Atlanta.  Got home 3 days late - a long story for another time - and here I am now!

Update time...

Mark didn't have a lot of time to work on the house while I was away because he was really busy with work.  He did manage to texture before I got home.  On Tuesday and Wednesday, we primed the walls and ceiling, and yesterday we bought paint and painted the bedroom. Yesterday, we also found the place we will be buying our cabinets (more on that later), picked out our interior doors, and picked out the carpet we're going to buy for part of our bedroom.  Today, Mark put most of the outlet and switch covers on.  So we've been busy!!

Here's a couple priming pictures:

Here's a "tease" of our bedroom wall paint:

You want to know someone else who has been busy lately?  The builders next door.  Check this out:

Our house actually has more square feet than this house, but it's so tall!!  A nice thing is that the new house's driveway is between our house and the new house, so it's about 25 feet away from our house, instead of 10. They put up a retaining wall on our property line and will probably put a 6' fence on top of that.  That will give us - and them - some privacy.  I haven't taken a picture from the front, but it will look like an early century Portland foursquare house.  Very cool.

This week, we hope to:

- finish painting the bedroom (touch ups and cutting in)

- order our interior doors

- order our kitchen cabinets (maybe)

- order carpet

- clean our wood floors in bedroom/bathroom REALLY well

- install floor molding in our bedroom

- clean our chimney (Mark finally bought a chimney sweeper! we can have cozy fires in our upstairs fireplace now!)

- start to clean up/cut up wood in basement

I think that's probably enough for now.  :o)