Hookay, so I didn't post anything in October.... It's now November! Here's a shotgun blast of an update.
House Renovation
Slooooooww going. The shower in the master is completely finished. The flooring is done. Painting is all done, the new toilet is installed, and the medicine cabinet is in. I've got the vanity but unfortunately the water faucets that come out of the wall hit squarely on the vanity interior shelf.
So two choices, cut two big holes in the brand new vanity or open up the just finished and painted wall to move the faucets up about 3 inches. Anyone want to guess which one I'm going to do? Hint, I saved all the leftover pieces of drywall when I did the ceiling. This little 'hiccup' is but one of many reasons the renovation is going so slow.
I'm really trying to have the master bath completely finished in the next week or two. I'm very behind and need to get back on schedule. Yes, there really is a schedule and it doesn't have much slack in it. The schedule says that I should be moved back into the master by the beginning of December and that's not looking very good. I want to use the Christmas break to work on the other two bedrooms and the hall bath.
"Operation Un-stuff"
The first garage sale went VERY well. I unloaded a ton of stuff, but still have a ton more to go. One of my goals has been to take the big garbage can to the curb once a week totally full. Up until lately it was pretty easy, but now it's getting more difficult finding 'stuff' that I just plain don't want anymore. I'm planning on at least a couple more garage sales and I'll start putting some of the bigger items on Craig's List. I'm still holding the ultimate goal of no storage unit when it's all done.
Work....
Yeah, well, it is what it is. I had an explanation for that comment all typed out but decided to delete it just in case.
RV Search
Been hitting as many RV shows as I can. I take my little notebook and tape measure and terrorize the sales people unmercifully. I can now estimate within a few seconds how long it is before they don't want to talk to me anymore. I went to one in Tampa a month or so ago and the sales-guy actually started avoiding me completely after I pointed out a long list of major flaws in their 'flagship' fifth wheel. I'd bet that if he had seen me walking away, he would have thanked me for leaving.
I have narrowed the selection down to a fifth wheel in the 30-35 foot range, with at least two slideouts. I actually developed an Excel spreadsheet that categorizes every possible aspect of full time RV'ing I could think of versus different rig types, and the smaller 5'er (RV jargon, cool right?) seemed to score the best.
Misc. Stuff
The dollhouse has basically stalled out. I just don't have time to work on it and do renovation work at the same time. I'm going to have to figure out some sort of schedule to multitask and get it done. I still really enjoy working on it, I just haven't had the time lately.
Cooking. Now here's where I have been having the most fun. It feels like the more I learn, the more I want to learn. My knife skills are getting better (yes, I still have all my fingers!) and I'm using more and more base/raw ingredients rather than processed/prepared stuff. I've also found that some of the cooking websites have self-paced online classes for free and have been working through a couple of these. I'm no Julia Child (partially because I'm a guy) but I feel like I'm getting better.
Enough for now. I'll get some progress pictures of the renovations once I stop tearing it back a part again.
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