Just general updates

Couple of things going on:

1)      I will be having the first of what will (hopefully) be two “tena-guests” coming to stay in the downstairs apartment, starting this weekend. I say “tena-guest” because they are friends, but they will also be paying me rent. I think this will be good, because it is a specific and concrete timeframe for completion of the ridiculous kitchen project, and also, it will be nice to have a little money coming in from the “tena” part of the tena-guests. Plus it will be nice to have neighbors who are also friends.

2)      As a result of the new specific and concrete timeframe, I need to get the kitchen project finished. And last night, CNKelly and Izzo came over to help with just that. I have to give mad, MAD props to Kelly for the help she gave me, because it was the particularly hideous task of sanding the drywall seams. And the thing is, I wasn’t super careful when I put the drywall mud on, because at that time, I was fully expecting that I would be the one sanding. But then the broken foot thing happened, and I couldn’t  go up on the ladder (actually, shouldn’t, I can climb stairs just fine now but something about going up and down the steps of the ladder seems like a bad idea) to finish the job. So that is what Kelly did for me last night. And that is about as good a friend as you can get – someone who will come sand your drywall – but also, Kelly is great for a lot of other reasons, like being incredibly funny, pretty, witty, and bright…you get the idea. And also for the time she brought me crutches and Skyline. Somehow, she knows exactly the right thing at the right time, and that is cool. So, she did a wonderful job sanding and after she left, I swept the walls and ceiling with a broom to knock the rest of the dust off, and probably Wednesday I will start the priming. I have a paint stick so I will be able to do the priming by myself. And then I’m going to have to ask for someone to come help do the painting, because I want to paint the ceiling white and I’m thinking of red for the walls. Now that I’ve decided that I’ll probably be living in this house for the rest of my life because I will never be able to sell it, I think red is fine for the kitchen. And just to clarify, my long-term goal for keeping or selling the house is to make it a single-family, so eventually the downstairs kitchen will be mine again. I realized when I typed that just how ridiculous I actually am as a person. Oy.

3)      Did you cast your vote (on the left side of the page) for how much I should pay this kid on Saturday? I need to know because I need to get some cash for him.