andamu

Yesterday was a nightmare at work - busy busy busy and hardly anything done at the end. I hate those kind of days, and today promises to have similar results, but mostly because there are meetings on top of meetings - I even have three meetings scheduled at the exact same time! What a mess.
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At least this weekend saw good progress in the house. The master bedroom required only one coat of paint, and a few faint touch-ups. The family room needs a few minor touch-ups where some of the white color of the spray-on texture that I put over the third coat of paint is coming through.
The master bathroom and closet are done (and almost two-thirds of our clothes have already been transferred to the new house.) Still need to change the shower head (nice one with different spray settings and a separate handheld head) and the toilet seat; the current one is padded, covered in plastic with a country-style check with ducks and fish nets and shotguns on it, split at the seams and smelling horribly.
We sprayed the fireplace surround with "fleckstone" texture in a slate/charcoal grey mixture, and it looks quite amazing. Not like real granite obviously, but a lovely interesting texture.
We've hung some blinds and curtains (lost more to come) and moved all the dry foods and canisters, with the exception of all the spices.
There are times when I wonder what I was thinking when I committed to moving the kitchen and all the closets ourselves, because it is such a lot of work. But then I think of the money we would be saving because the packers and movers charge per hour, and I remember that once the closets and the kitchen stuff are set up, we've basically "moved in. After making the beds and hooking up the computers (and the television for Angel Face) there would be nothing pressing that absolutely had to be unpacked for us to function comfortably for a while.
And so we soldier on, with the occasional complaint and grumble, especially when we break yet another nail!