Painting and painting and painting..

Well we're making good progress on the house. Things are looking fresher and newer, especially on the 3rd floor. Though i don't enjoy the look of all white, i'm not going to worry about painting it a different color for the new owner. Everything is going to be white. Last night I finished up the hallway on the third floor, cutting anyway.. now I just have to roll a pretty small area and move onto the master bedroom ceiling. This should be interesting but not too hard. Main problem is the parts of the room where i don't have anything to stand on and can't reach the ceiling. This will be figure out though.

Alex will be working on cutting quarter rounds all day today and tomorrow. Hopefully it won't take that long but we need good measurements to start with (which i don't think he has yet?) regardless, it will look much nicer with quarter rounds in. Small dent in the wallet though, they cost over $1/ft and we have a lot of feet to put in. Guess we'll be moving some furniture around.. might as well move out the guest bedroom set (as much as possible) and the mattress on the 3rd floor. Lots of work this weekend to say the least! We really hope to get everything done though, do a master cleaning session, pack some more and maybe even get some prep done at Martin.

I grabbed paint swatches at Lowe's the other day and we decided on the final colors for the rooms. I'm not sure which job i'm going to give alex yet when it comes to painting.. i'm thinking about the cutting job because everything will be taped and errors won't be on the trim/ceiling, they'll be on the tape. Then I can focus on rolling a nice thick coat so that we don't have to do more than one. I think that's what's going to happen. With two people we should be able to knock it out of the park pretty quickly. The next two weeks on weeknights/weekends (minus easter sat/sun) we'll be prepping or painting and hope to have it all done by the 11th of April. Then we can have a free weekend before the sale weekend followed by another free weekend and then moving weekend. In the midst of all the free weekends, i'll have to start cleaning Martin as well so that it's spotless when we move in. Which we can't wait for!

In non-housework related news, I finished my first real estate class and the next one starts next tuesday. That will end the 20th of April. Not really sure if i'm going to go for the license, just kinda wanted to see what it was all about. I'm trying to find places to take Appraisal classes now and that's proving to be a more difficult feat. They sure don't make it easy! But it should work out. An online course would be best for my schedule but i'm up for taking in person courses too. Trying to figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life is pretty hard.. but hopefully I like appraising. Plus, I just got a small increase at work with another increase coming soon.. an actual promotion. So that's exciting. Just don't know how long i'm going to stick around. I think maybe that's why some appraisers also sell real estate.. during the 2+ year training period you can't really have a full time job (i'm assuming) so you have to have something to supplement the income. If that's the case, at least I have the real estate education and i'll just have to take the test.

Not much else happening.. we hope to have all of this done soon so we can do some more social stuff.. we miss our friends :)