what a weekend

seemed so long and yet so short.

we started painting thursday evening, we painted friday evening, we painted saturday and we painted sunday.

friday we finished the 2nd upstairs bedroom and it turned out awesome. we're in love with the upstairs colors.

saturday i had class until 11ish and then had to head early to martin drive because our kitten kali decided to be scared and climb into an open vent (stupid us for not making sure the house was kitten ready) and she wouldn't come out. so we kind of just ignored it because we knew she was scared and she'd come out eventually. so we moved stuff, prepped and painted the living room (or as alex calls it, the study) with a fresh creamy yellow. to my dismay this ended up needing two coats. in the midst of this domino seemed to have disappeared, so we assumed he went into the vent as well. i had the bright idea (hehe) of sticking a flashlight down there and my blackberry so that i could take a picture of the vent to see where kali was. well.. she wasn't far back and eventually we coaxed/scared her out. she spent the rest of the day under a dresser. but we couldn't find domino and he wasn't in either of the vents. we did a massive search and still turned up with nothing. until we found him.. we had mattresses and boxsprings in the foyer and he was in one of the boxsprings. i'm surprised we didn't look there at some point, or that he didn't respond to my meows or food or snicketies (treats). So regardless, they were then locked in the bathroom so that charmayne could run the shopvac and we could move some furniture. seriously long day. after all of that, i finished the yellow room. We started taping the family room so that we could paint that next. we chose a light green.. little did we know it was actually just white with a slight green tint. not ideal but we've accepted it. we got one whole wall done and then called it a night. ended with some wonton soup for me and pho for alex.

Sunday we woke up around 9.. got our house ready for the open house that was happening that day and then headed over to martin again. eventually we started working.. it always takes a little while to get moving, especially because the heat isn't on there and it was 55 inside and outside! so i finished the other small section of the family room, taped the kitchen and waited for alex to come in from mowing the lawn. we decided to paint the kitchen the same green that we used for upstairs (mostly so we'd have some sort of color and not just white with a green tint).. and i figured this would pull some green into the living room. Well i like the green in the kitchen, no doubt.. however the spots where we removed the wallpaper (the terrible, gluey wallpaper) were discolored. A second coat over just those sections made a difference but you could see the texture (even though we sanded ahead of time). So now alex has decided to patch it with spackle and we'll paint it again. While I was working on the kitchen, Alex and Charmayne were moving furniture out of the master bedroom into the living room. Since the living room is complete now it can now be used for storage before the sale. When those two projects were complete, i took a small break, i was tired and hungry and just blah. i began removing the wallpaper in the master and Alex started taping. After removing the wallpaper.. i was just done for the day.. exhausted. And since it's all taped and ready to go, it shouldn't take long to paint it tonight.

So after painting tonight, both the master and the 3rd coat on the kitchen after alex spackles and sands.. we'll be done. well not completely but until we move in.

This week Charmayne's brother and sister come to start packing up the house and getting things ready for the sale. the sale is on saturday and then the house will be empty. i can't imagine how sad this must be for them but it's nice that they're doing it together.

This week i have my last real estate class and a test on thursday. finally! also, last week we came to agreement on our house, so if all goes according to plan we'll close near the end of may!

Next chapter of our life.. here we come!