Moving along

Welp, the fish are still alive. We got a few more since last post. Some feeders, a black moore, and an orange fantail. Half the feeders didn't make it, but they're only 29 cents so we're not too heart broken. We haven't moved the gorami's yet. There's still a bit to do with the guest room first.

Speaking of which. The door is now gone and the wall has new drywall and texture. Its just waiting to be painted. Once that and the closet is painted, the fish can move into their new home.

We were out of town last weekend so we haven't done anything major lately. The tall chest of drawers arrived safely and we put it in the closet it. Since it takes up half the space, and our closet is pretty deep, I suggested we put two poles on either side going front to back in the closet and the long pole from side to side positioned higher up so its like 2 layers of closet rods. We've got the short rods in and its fitting in nicely.

Chris has also been working on the baseboards. 90% are installed, puttied, and painted. He just put caulking along the top edge of most of the boards to hide the gap between the wall and board due to inconsistent flatness. It looks pretty good.

For added security, he put in a latch lock on the sliding patio door. He had fun using his new drill bits. =) I guess we should install the dead bolts on the outer doors soon too.

Our cable and internet works great, except on Chris' laptop. And we had the phone guy come out yesterday. Since we're cheap and didn't want to pay SBC any more than we have to, we're going to wire the house ourselves. Shouldn't be too bad. Chris says he knows how. I said, 'okay, good'. So we've got dial tone but no phone jacks in the walls yet. Then we can get our TiVo up and running.

Holidays take up so much time. Dinners with friends, parties, gatherings. That's just less time for us to work on the house. And all these little projects take up a lot of time, surprisingly. Time management and discipline are key. I hope we can swing it so we can finish up soon.