January 19th, 2010
Last week the kitchen was relatively spotless so I quickly snapped a few photos. It doesn’t stay that way for more than a few minutes, unfortunately.
This is the view from the back of the kitchen, near the back door. The fridge is to the left with the pantry cabinet to left of the fridge (not [...]
October 8th, 2009
Practically another week has gone by, and while we’re nearing one finish line, there are still more and more things to do before we can start to enjoy our new remodeled attic space. It’s really starting to wear thin.
With the October chill in the air, all I want to do is “nest” in my new [...]
January 3rd, 2008
Okay, now that I’m all organized, it’s time to get down to The List for 2008. But first, let’s take a look at what we accomplished in 2007:
GENERAL
Bought bungalow
Sold previous house (woo hoo!)
Helped PO move out (no easy feat!)
Had hardwood floors refinished
Moved in
Unpacked
Had windows and molding stripped, restored and refinished
BASEMENT
Removed mold/demo’d bathroom
Eliminated cat pee smell
Painted [...]
January 2nd, 2008
Now that I have a project to-do list system set-up, I guess I need to actually put my 2008 Resolutions/To-Dos in writing. But before I get to that, there are a bunch of reference files that I needed to organize (pdfs, text files, jpegs, etc.). Instead of searching for them in (Mac’s OS X) Spotlight [...]
January 1st, 2008
Continuing with yesterday’s post, there are a couple of web-based project/to-do list applications that I have been trying out to help with our 2008 New Year Goals (namely, to whip this house into shape).
The first one I tried is Remember the Milk (RTM). Cute name, cute cow. But more importantly, does it work?
I found [...]
July 10th, 2007
Lest you think we were goofing off all week with our houseguests (and BTW, temporarily owning 2 homes 90 feet apart comes in very handy when you have 4 adults and 2 teenage boys visiting!), here’s a list of what we accomplished last week (most of which was accomplished once they left last Thursday):
sold current [...]
June 26th, 2007
After two years of talking, waiting, wishing, giving up, renewing hope, looking elsewhere, reconsidering, contemplating, negotiating, and finally signing the papers, the bungalow became ours as of yesterday at around noon! Everything went smoothly, and
the PO (I get to call him the Previous Owner now and not The Neighbor — woo hoo!) seemed to [...]