AtomicMrX

Will my house ever get finished being painted? I don’t have the energy to paint it after work so I have been trying to do it on the weekends and that’s when it rains the most.

The back of the house is all primed up and ready for the real paint but the other sides haven’t even got primer on them yet.

I am a little worried about the front of the house because it needs the most repair work done to it and I don’t know how to approach the repairs. I am also completely broke and can’t afford the repairs (and probably won’t be able to afford them for quite a few months). So that is the big stall in priming the front of the house. Fear.

Once I do get done (hopefully this year) I’ll post before and after pictures.

I took off early today and hosed off the outside of the house in preparation for Primer Paint tomorrow morning! I am kind of excited that the house will finally get painted! I really thought it was never going to happen.

Before I hosed off the front of the house I took off the ugly shutters that were there. Under the “plastic” one next to the bathroom window there were about five old (very old) wasp nests. I’m glad they were old ones and not current homes! That could have been a very bad situation! I had to bust up the plastic shutter to get it off - someone used screws and stripped the heads putting it up.

All the other shutters were wood and quite rotted and only up by two nails each. My little mini crowbar did the job just fine.

I picked up the sticks in the yard and tidied up the area in preparation for Saturday’s painting festivities. I also cleaned the outside and inside of the garage fridge. It was looking kind of nasty. Someone with dirty hands had been opening and shutting the doors and there was mud all over it.

I think this was a good use of a half day of vacation. I’ve even done my check book and paid the bills for next week. Since that stuff is what I usually do on Saturday morning and I will be painting instead. I’ve taken some pictures today and will take more Saturday during the process and post here on the blog.

It also made up for the crappy day Thursday. I feel much better.

Yesterday was a bad day. I got jipped out of 15 minutes of my lunch (30 minute lunches at work) because of a meeting I was in ran into my lunch period and I’m on the clock, I got beat (yet again) at Mario VS Luigi by Karen (I think I’ve one once or maybe twice in the week we’ve been playing), when I got home - our microwave was dead (bought about 20 years ago - so it was a matter of time), and I had to sell back one week of vacation because there are too many bills that I can’t pay this month (Jaki’s $200 vet bill - anuall shots, and my Auto insurance).

I just don’t have the money to cover it all. So I sold a week of vacation to pay bills, yea that’s a relaxing vacation! I haven’t had a vacation in over 10 years. I was hopping this year would be different, I guess not. I always end up selling two of the three weeks of vacation I earn. Now I’m left with one week and half a day of vacation to last me till May 26 2008, plus one attendance day - which is like a vacation day. May 26 is my start date and so that is when my vacation time starts too. It’s stupid. It should start January 1st and end December 31st - but no, that would make too much sence.

I’m bitter, tired, frustrated, and just sick of it all.