Friday, October 14, 2005

a propensity for panic...

So, it's now going into the seventh month of dual home-ownership for my wife and I. As I previously mentioned we have had several projects that have taken considerable time to accomplish. I think we are getting close finally to wrapping those most headache inducing of them up. The FLOOR. The GARAGE (aka: kitty hotel). When I married the wife I also inherited a zoo. Albeit a small one, a zoo none-the-less. We couldn't just move from one house into the other due to this little predicament. The new(52 years old new) house had wall-to-wall allergen exacerbator installed and oh hell did that have to go. We also did not want the lovely little boogers' essential toiletries inside the house as it currently is, along with their foodstuff and leisure activities. That just makes for a fucking mess. Ick. So we set out to convert the original one car garage that won't fit a car anymore into kitty heaven! That is almost accomplished now. Thank you God! Just one thing to do on the construction side of it- cut a hole in the wall for to push their fat asses thru :) Pandoura, Mr. B, Harvey (he who is the fattest of them all), you, guys, this is all going to be for you. Because we love you. And we hate to smell you.

That will complete our GARAGE portion of today's programming. Next up- The FLOOR.

Holy Crap in a hand-basket! Old houses are great because they will usually have a history as well. It gives them character and life in a totally inanimate way. Cuz, you know, dead wood and glass are just dead wood and glass. It's not like it breathes or farts in it's sleep. It might eat socks. I don't know.. anyway. Old houses are great like I said, but they do one thing pretty much the same way a person does, THEY SAG! They sag so that when I want to put down laminate flooring, which is kinda straight it won't stay down because the saggy old floor is well saggy and kinda not all the way straight. You get the idea. Another project and another trip to the hardware store to buy floor straightening stuff. Home remodeling seems to never end. TLC and before it AETN and Bob Vila heralded this era of DYI. They can all so kiss my ass. I have yet to complete anything in the span of 30 minutes. Where the hell is my time-lapse video?

2 comments:

Nihilistic said...

And Haunted! Don't forget old houses can be haunted! ;)

cha said...

oh yeah!! i forgot to mention haunted :) thankfully this one isn't. i think. and if it is, why isn't the jerk helping me paint! lol