At 2:00, I was hosting an Online Seminar for about 40 clients when my coworker bursts in the room to make the announcement. Needless to say, the question and answer session of this webinar was particularly short.
We have a neat calendar for the next two weeks, complete with an aggressive agenda to get the house painted, moved in, and all set up. Last night we were supposed to have washed down the walls, prepped, and painted the ceilings of the Master Bedroom, Second Bedroom, Living Room, and Hallway. Even after leaving work early and skipping my Tuesday night class, almost none of this got done! I found myself elbows deep in scraping cracked/peeling paint from the window sills instead.
Scott set to work removing the copious amounts of nails/screws/broken curtain rods from the walls. We realized very quickly that even if we both took work off competely for the rest of the week, we still wouldn't get the whole house painted before we move in.
So, we resigned ourselves instead to dine on costco pizza and tepid tap water on the kitchen floor with his dad.
What we Accomplished:
- Scott will have 7 years bad luck times 1000. He broke the bathroom mirror into dozens of tiny pieces while taking it out. The moral of this story: don't GLUE your mirrors to the wall!
- Scott's dad should have auditioned for the Matrix. While knocking out the garage wall, he dodged a falling two-by-four garnishing 3" nails with death-defying speed.
- Scott is an engineering genius. He was able to snap the studs in the wall they knocked out using only a tow strap and a two-by-four (and NO truck). He attributes his success to a scene in the early Planet of the Apes when Coronel Taylor breaks out of his holding cell.
