House Stuff

I haven't mentioned the current round of house improvement stuff much. Rob's doing most of the coordinating and I'm all busy with other schtuff. (Quote of the week: you know you're busy when you just plain don't have the time to have someone else paint your house.)

ROOF fragment was fixed a week or two ago (when the roof was replaced they missed a piece! Weeds were growing on the old shake)
ROOF VENTS went in last week-ish
GUTTERS are removed and will not be replaced until after PAINTING
SIDING is repaired (we left PAINTING almost too long; there was damage to the siding but not to the framing)
PAINTING prep is done, colors have finally been chosen and paint will go on soon
PLUMBING begins today - no water and no gas all day today & all day tomorrow
WINDOWS also go in today - cats are confined

Did I miss anything, Rob? :-)

This is going to be WAY cool when we're done. It's going to be even better when the inside is fixed up as well, but we wisely decided to do the outside now while the weather's good and the inside later on while it's raining. I'm not sure when the landscaping will get done; that costs real money, so it may have to wait. But soon this place will look like a house somebody cares about. Woohoo!

Slightly Less Overwhelmed

There's still way too much to do, but I'm sufficiently less stressed that I can now do (some) things (slowly). That knowledge in turn makes a big difference to my mood.

Good Stuff Today:
- Shower and laundry completed before water and gas shut off. Cats confined, too.
- No car-related tasks needed to be done today. That saga is nearly over.
- Learned a LOT about stuff related to New Feature. Much reading. Some day I will be able to do this.
- One bug fixed (and related major source tree cleanup).
- All contact info moved over to new cellphone. (Same number, for those who have it.)
- House stuff in progress (not thanks to me, but I'm glad of it anyway).
- No new tasks arrived and stayed. Anything new I was able to do immediately.

Soon I get to go home and see what happened to the house today.