At it again!
Last Thursday, on a whim, Maddie and I flew out to San Diego to help my sister get her house on the market. She’s in the place I was about four months ago in terms of 1000 projects to finish and feeling the stress!
Every time I talked to her for the last few weeks, her stress level seemed to be escalating and I needed a break from house hunting so I got last minute tickets Wednesday night and we left at 4 the next morning!
So, I’m at it again! It’s daunting but we’ll finish. We are making good progress and I’m realizing how much faster everything goes with two people working and I’m feeling envious of all you who have hubbies that help you out. Not that I’m complaining … I’m just rethinking the looking for another fixer upper! Do I really want to keep doing this forever?
The Brand New House which only needs built-ins is looking more and more appealing compared to the houses that need to be completely gutted! But I’m on “Vacation”. I’m not thinking about houses or remodeling at all…just as soon as we finish the rest of this work here!
Julie has done a ton of work on her house and it’s really nice. As soon as we’re done with all this work, I”ll give you a tour. “Till then…
Glad to hear I’m not the only one sick of looking at houses! My husband tries to preface each search by saying, “look at all the amazing projects we could do on this house”. Translation look at all the crap we never got done on our first 100 year old house that you are stuck in Washington trying to finish all by yourself… I don’t think it helps either that I just absolutely hate Colorado! Good luck in San Diego! Feel free to take a pit stop in Washington and join in on my madness! 🙂
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Oh man, I don’t feel like I have enough energy and it made me tired to look at it too but we are almost done with the big jobs now. Just have to take all the boxes out and “stage”. That will be fun because there will undoubtedly be shopping involved!
Then when I get back home I’ll take a vacation! 🙂
That could be true unless I completely resolve not to let it be! 3 of my past houses were brand new and I tore them up and remodeled anyway. The last one in IL was the first truly ugly house we’ve purchased. We’ll see. I change my mind daily. Being here working isn’t doing much for the cause of buying ugly and improving. But, I dare say that a week after I go home I will have forgotten how much work remodeling is again and be ready for another ugly duckling. I’m driving Wes (and my Realtor) crazy with my indecision.
I know Handy Andy doesn’t need any help from me, but I do appreciate how fun it would be to work on some projects together. Maybe you should come work on vacation projects with me in TN! I LOVE that idea! (But I’m not completely rejecting the Idaho invitation either.)