DONE painting.. forever!

Well last night we finished painting the ceiling. Hooray! No more painting, forever!

It was definitely a feat.. i taped, then hung the static sheet thingy around all the walls, and cut while alex rolled. glad i wasn't rolling.. the roller cover was terrible, it held no paint and you had to re-dip all the time! ok, i'll stop complaining because it's completed.

though we won't have time to get back there until sunday.. i'm thinking that will allow me to do a lot of packing at home because we do have a lot of furniture to take but we still have some boxes that will need to be packed up. next week will be dedicated to moving as much furniture as possible. hopefully i'll get to do a real good vacuum job on martin as well before we move stuff in. including the garage and basement. i just want it to look brand new, basically. is that too much to ask?? :)

plus we want to move the pantry to another closet and hopefully build some shelves or attach shelving somehow in the garage so that we can store stuff a little easier. i won't have to carry our tennis rackets and basketballs in my trunk anymore! i'll also get to vacuum out my car in the garage! we have a garage!!!

this weekend, alex will be away. that's two nights i have to spend alone. not looking forward to it, but at least i have the kittens to keep me company and sleep in the bed with me. i don't know how i'm going to feel about sleeping at martin without a security system, since we have on at ross st.. but i guess i will probably get used to it? alex fixed the front door last night too so that helps and he also installed the light kits on the upstairs ceiling fans.. talk about convenient. now we just have to get the other two fans for the living room and our bedroom, install them and we should be good to go. other than moving of course. i should get my thoughts in order with that and make a list. i love lists. even though i usually forget them at work and they're pointless then.. i still love them.

i also want to make a wine shelf. with the criss-crosses. i realize i just changed the subject.. again but try to follow along. i think it would be nice to have criss-crosses.. not to mention a place to store wine, and maybe even some liquor since we probably won't dedicate a whole cupboard to it anymore. i made a sketch.. building it will probably prove to be harder but we'll see.

that's enough ranting for today.. although i'd like to make a request. dear warmer weather, please come soon. i know you're going to arrive on friday and stay on saturday as well but if you could just come today.. or at the latest, tomorrow. i'd appreciate it. the whole cold thing in spring is getting old.. it's almost may. so get here! love michelle.