Weekends

Okay okay! I won't look at anyone's doors. I'll just be and if anything catches my eye... well I'll look at that.

This weekend has consisted of lots of work on the bathroom. And lots of moving everything upstairs. Next weekend we're having a work party. A few people from the church are graciously sharing some of their time and skills with us and we'll hopefully get the basement framed and insulated. Which would be really exciting, because if that happened, as soon as our furnace gets put in (14 more days!) then we'll be ready for our energy audit and hopefully get some grant money to help pay for some of the new insulation and walls. 

For the first time ever, Saturday evening, I did more physical work then Josh. Look out world, my thighs are getting toned. I've been carrying all of our stuff from the basement, upstairs. And many a trip it has taken. I'm going to be honest. I did not pack well for this move. I slowly hauled stuff from our condo to the house for a month and then, as it was our last day in the condo, we just threw everything else (also poorly packed) into the two bedrooms in the basement. You can only imagine what this might have looked like. I mean, yes, there was a few boxes actually packed. Mostly you would walk into one of the rooms and just see... stuff, everywhere. Blankets, jackets, toys, games, food, kitchen appliances etc. I was not proud of this but the thought was "it doesn't really matter because we're going to finish the main level before the basement". If this came true I would have had time, room by room, to put stuff away nicely. This clearly did not happen. I don't even have a bathroom yet. BUT! it's getting close! So close.

So while I was running stairs, Josh was sitting in the bathroom, making it look pretty. See.

My wainscoting. I do really, really like.

Then I got tired of moving boxes and running stairs so I installed a new light fixture. It took longer then it should have and I dropped the screws and (Josh told me the technical term but I completely forget, something that starts with an 'm') the little, orange, plastic things you put on wires, so many times. It was actually more frustrating than installing the fixture in and of itself. But then I flipped the switch and there was light!

All three lights would actually work if I had more bulbs. All the light bulbs in the house have passed away in the last week. This is the last one I had.

Since we were really excited about how close we were getting we put the vanity in, just to see. Remember this - 

That was real. If you look close you can see the old light fixture too. No longer can you see that light fixture or the built in medicine cabinet or the floor boards. No, friend, it is now a little more like -

YAY! Try to ignore me in this picture. I wasn't trying to just sneak in, but I thought that the vanity should have it's beautiful tap on, and instead of actually installing it, because we wanted to get home and maybe to the playground, I held it. Also the wall is really dirty. If you dusted for finger prints I'm almost certain you would find that they all belong to one Joshua Reimer. But the wainscoting, and the vanity, and the fixture, it looks like a real room!

Well, the main level will not be complete by next weekend, but maybe, jjjust maybe one room will be.