While I Was Sleeping...er, Away

I went away Easter weekend. Home. To see a large portion of my most favorite people. It was lovely. We cleaned out the farm house, and visited lots and celebrated anniversaries, and Jesus being alive and Caed didn't nap.

And while I was doing all this. My husband worked on the house. Lots. Like lots and lots. 

So the mudding is ridiculously close to being done. Josh is my hero. I love him. Even more since he did most of the mudding that was left. Like almost all. Amazing. We now have doors. One is even installed. So if my toilet is ever hooked up there will be privacy when using it. My island is drywalled. It looks clean and pretty. I'm sure I'm forgetting things. Oh the cold air exchange is hooked up. But that's boring. I'm just so happy to see very little mudding in my future. Yay.

So we went last night and I actually starting painting. Caed's room is very white right now. White ceiling paint and white primer. It's pretty bright. Hopefully we'll get his room put together in the next 7 days. It would be sooner, but 2 coats of paint drying and flooring acclimatizing takes time.

And Josh did some more mudding... and sanding... I thanked him for doing all the horrible jobs.

Insulation in attic! Dusty yucky work. Josh sat in the attic for a few hours being showered in this. It's cellulose.

 Cold air return.

 Pantry door. It looks installed but it's just sitting there. I found out when I tried to open it last night.

 Bathroom door. So nice. It still needs to be painted.

 Side door! I installed those knobs... Josh did everything else.

 It looks like a house!

Notice anything?? No awnings!!

"And wwee'rre back in the game!"

After lots of working hard and away from home (Josh, not me), a little holidaying (pick me, pick me!) and some more working away (Josh again...) the house has finally received some much needed company. We went for a few hours today. Josh got a bunch of dry walling done and I... wait for it... painted!! The bathroom walls are complete. The ceiling it awaiting its second coat (a job for tomorrow) but the dark blue is done. Fini! And I know you're curious. So here is a picture.

Now you're all thinking, "Ashley, it's not that dark..." Don't be fooled my friends, camera's can do tricky things.

Advice: If you have a plan that is awesome, impressive, "diabolical" even, don't post it on your blog. Even if the subject never, ever reads your blog, if you post your most wonderful, maybe a little bit evil, and absolutely brilliant plan on your blog, the the subject you were planning to outwit will decide that tonight is the night they will read your blog. Thus, your spectacular, well thought out, and dazzling plan will be discovered. You will no longer be able to use it and you will end up having, in my case, to do what you set out not to do. If we recall, this is task was to mud...  or not to mud.

Also I have a guilty conscience and a compassionate personality*. So when Josh is at the house always and I am, ah hem, not, I feel like anything I AM capable of doing I should probably help do. 

Further more, my hideous living room ceiling was dry walled over, and in appreciation of the effort, as it isn't an easy task to dry wall a ceiling, particularly alone, my resolve was weakened.

Long story short, my plan was found out, I am compassionate*, and my husband works exceptionally hard (I am extremely thankful and proud of him), so I did some mudding.

And took a picture so you could all be proud of me*.

 And maybe a little but in awe*.

Because I'm a good person*.

Not for my skills, do not be confused.

Sha bam drywall, consider the first coat of mud done. What what.

Pretty ceiling!!!

Tomorrow I'm going to try to be helpful again (I know, right, what's wrong with me? Twice in two days? Explanation: we are on a time limit, this has nothing to do with my good person. All the insulating needs to be done by the end of March, and because we need to finish the main floor before we do the basement (since the basement is storing all of our stuff which would be in the way of any work that needs to be done) I thought I should start being a little more helpful. Also, we have a bunch of money waiting for us, which we are paying interest on, but we don't actually get until the work is done and the house is reappraised). I'm going to try to do the bathroom floor. We're doing in-floor heating and tile. I'm sure it will be interesting. I have done neither in floor heating, nor tile before. Neither has Josh. Or my dad. Stay tuned.

*I really can be humble...