I should really be sleeping right now, but oh well.
I just got back from the new crib in TX after working on some remodeling shit with my brother Mike. We took a trailer load of my crap down, but had some pretty serious issues with handling the trailer. I wanted to blame it on the state of Iowa but I guess the weight inside the trailer just wasn't distributed properly. I drove straight down because Mike had never driven with a trailer on before, and we were both nervous as shit after it started swinging around wildly behind the truck on a six-lane "road" in Iowa. (Iowa apparently has different interpretations of what qualifies as a road. Fucking idiots.) Anyhow, we ended up moving over 1,000 lbs of my stuff out of the trailer and into the back of the truck at a "rest stop" (actually just a wide patch of gravel next to the highway with a rusty 55 gallon drum for a garbage can) and that made the truck & trailer manageable.
Here's what stayed in the trailer AFTER moving over a half ton out of it.
Oh, and Kelli, THIS is how tiny my garage is. There's no way I could fit a fridge out there.
Anyway, our first priority was to get the new "gecko rooms" ready. We painted them on our last trip down, and this time we needed to rip out the shitty stank-ass carpet so that I could put down wood laminate floors.
Here's the before picture of the "hatchling room" (I can't find the before pic of the breeder room)
And here it is after painting (don't ask me what I was on when picking that color) and installing the Pergo and new trim which we didn't quite finish.
This is the after pic of the breeder room:
We also painted my bedroom.
Before:
After:
Painting was a huge pain in the ass because the people that used to live here had a huge boner for drywall anchors, and they all had to be ripped out and patched. Seriously, there were fucking drywall anchors EVERYWHERE. I swear these idiots used drywall anchors to hang a 3x5 photograph when a tack would have sufficed. One bathroom alone had 22 drywall anchors!!! TWENTY TWO!!!
While I'm ripping on the previous owners, I just have to share this:
Who the fuck needs a phone next to the damn toilet? WTF... (Jeremy, this is the phone that wouldn't let me talk to you. Mike later killed it with a hammer.)
Also, they installed the fugliest sinks I have ever seen along with the least practical faucets ever made. My hands aren't that big, but there's no way that I can fit even half of one of them under the running water.
Oh yeah, since we were ripping out carpet and laying down wood laminate in three rooms, we opted to replace the base and door casing since the old shit was... well... shitty. I painted over 300 feet of trim by hand. Fun.
Mike was ripping out most of the carpet as I was starting to lay down the new flooring, and he called me down to show me the floor in the office (aka Marcia's room). The fucking carpet runs UNDER the wall into the dining room. I'm not kidding.
The carpet was in place before they even put up the wall between the office and dining room. Who the fuck does that? Do you have any idea how hard it is to rip that shit out from under there? Christ...
This did not make Mike happy, so he started assembling my new electric nail gun.
It took us two hours just to get enough of that damn carpet out of there so that I could start laying down the new floor. The main problem was that it was directly on the concrete, and if we used blades to cut it, they'd just break if they hit the concrete. The new floor in there is a little different than in the gecko rooms, and none of the pictures I took of it look decent, but here it is anyway.
Oh yeah, here's a "before" picture of that room: (note the fugly curtains)
Sorry, but we were using the "Fugly" word a lot over the past week--ESPECIALLY when near the kitchen/dining room. The previous owners got the bright idea to paint the kitchen peach and bright orange and add some of the most vile wallpaper even seen by the human eye.
We didn't have the time nor the energy to tackle ripping down wallpaper and repainting the kitchen, so that's on the agenda for my next trip down, but I don't know when that will be yet.
Fortunately, before we left we cleaned up the huge mess we made so that we can make a whole new one next time.
Alright, I've been awake for 20-some hours so I'm gonna go to bed now. I just wanted to show you all that I've been busy and wasn't abandoning anyone. lol
I just got back from the new crib in TX after working on some remodeling shit with my brother Mike. We took a trailer load of my crap down, but had some pretty serious issues with handling the trailer. I wanted to blame it on the state of Iowa but I guess the weight inside the trailer just wasn't distributed properly. I drove straight down because Mike had never driven with a trailer on before, and we were both nervous as shit after it started swinging around wildly behind the truck on a six-lane "road" in Iowa. (Iowa apparently has different interpretations of what qualifies as a road. Fucking idiots.) Anyhow, we ended up moving over 1,000 lbs of my stuff out of the trailer and into the back of the truck at a "rest stop" (actually just a wide patch of gravel next to the highway with a rusty 55 gallon drum for a garbage can) and that made the truck & trailer manageable.
Here's what stayed in the trailer AFTER moving over a half ton out of it.
Oh, and Kelli, THIS is how tiny my garage is. There's no way I could fit a fridge out there.
Anyway, our first priority was to get the new "gecko rooms" ready. We painted them on our last trip down, and this time we needed to rip out the shitty stank-ass carpet so that I could put down wood laminate floors.
Here's the before picture of the "hatchling room" (I can't find the before pic of the breeder room)
And here it is after painting (don't ask me what I was on when picking that color) and installing the Pergo and new trim which we didn't quite finish.
This is the after pic of the breeder room:
We also painted my bedroom.
Before:
After:
Painting was a huge pain in the ass because the people that used to live here had a huge boner for drywall anchors, and they all had to be ripped out and patched. Seriously, there were fucking drywall anchors EVERYWHERE. I swear these idiots used drywall anchors to hang a 3x5 photograph when a tack would have sufficed. One bathroom alone had 22 drywall anchors!!! TWENTY TWO!!!
While I'm ripping on the previous owners, I just have to share this:
Who the fuck needs a phone next to the damn toilet? WTF... (Jeremy, this is the phone that wouldn't let me talk to you. Mike later killed it with a hammer.)
Also, they installed the fugliest sinks I have ever seen along with the least practical faucets ever made. My hands aren't that big, but there's no way that I can fit even half of one of them under the running water.
Oh yeah, since we were ripping out carpet and laying down wood laminate in three rooms, we opted to replace the base and door casing since the old shit was... well... shitty. I painted over 300 feet of trim by hand. Fun.
Mike was ripping out most of the carpet as I was starting to lay down the new flooring, and he called me down to show me the floor in the office (aka Marcia's room). The fucking carpet runs UNDER the wall into the dining room. I'm not kidding.
The carpet was in place before they even put up the wall between the office and dining room. Who the fuck does that? Do you have any idea how hard it is to rip that shit out from under there? Christ...
This did not make Mike happy, so he started assembling my new electric nail gun.
It took us two hours just to get enough of that damn carpet out of there so that I could start laying down the new floor. The main problem was that it was directly on the concrete, and if we used blades to cut it, they'd just break if they hit the concrete. The new floor in there is a little different than in the gecko rooms, and none of the pictures I took of it look decent, but here it is anyway.
Oh yeah, here's a "before" picture of that room: (note the fugly curtains)
Sorry, but we were using the "Fugly" word a lot over the past week--ESPECIALLY when near the kitchen/dining room. The previous owners got the bright idea to paint the kitchen peach and bright orange and add some of the most vile wallpaper even seen by the human eye.
We didn't have the time nor the energy to tackle ripping down wallpaper and repainting the kitchen, so that's on the agenda for my next trip down, but I don't know when that will be yet.
Fortunately, before we left we cleaned up the huge mess we made so that we can make a whole new one next time.
Alright, I've been awake for 20-some hours so I'm gonna go to bed now. I just wanted to show you all that I've been busy and wasn't abandoning anyone. lol
