Probably not a good sign that I’m aching and dragging after just two days of manual labor in the salt mines. It’s like going back to the gym after a long hiatus, right, as far as working through the aches and pains? It gets better, right?
One good thing about the Austin house being completely empty is that when I’m there, I work. No distractions, no checking email, nothing but work. Which is obviously good, as far as getting stuff done, but kind of on the exhausting side.
I’m getting close to being finished with the painting, minus the kitchen, which is only a bit of accent painting and which I’m going to hold off on until the countertops and backsplash is in. Someone in the previous life of the house had added a weird wooden hanging decorative thing, over where the bar from the kitchen opens into the dining room. I always meant to tear it out when we lived there but never quite got around to it. So I finally got around to it, and it turned into one of those classis 15 minute jobs that instead warp and stretch the space time continuum, ending up taking a couple of hours.
Probably going to break down and try to find someone to do the crown moldings for me, as well as some other trim work here and there. I tend to be stubborn and try to do everything myself, but with two houses needing work, there’s definitely a tipping point where it’s dumb to struggle on myself. If I could actually get a contractor out to the 1002 S. Main St. house I might think about paying someone to do the ceramic tile flooring in the kitchen/bath, but everyone I call for an estimate promises to be out the next day, never to resurface again. Speaking of which, I need to try to wrangle some sort of install date out of the countertop people.
Realistically, I’ve probably got another 10 days of work at the Austin house, so I’m not going to get anywhere near the Main St. house for awhile. Which makes the impatient monkey in me antsy, but there’s not much I can do about it. We didn’t forsee selling the Austin house quite this quickly, so if I have to make an extra mortgage payment on the Main St. house, so be it. If everything goes well with the sale of the Austin house, we should make enough to more than offset a few extra mortgage payments on the Main St. house.
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