My wife seems pleased with the progress, but I am not. I had planned to get our master bedroom put back together last weekend but I ran out of time. I planned to get our bedroom back together yesterday but I ran out of time. Our bedroom is still not back together. The curtains and blinds are up. At least now we have privacy. And the clutter is gone, sort of. Well, “gone” isn’t the right word. “Moved to the hallway” is probably more accurate. I did manage to get the audio tower together, but not the bookshelf. And there is still the matter of wiring up the QuickPorts so we can have our phone and television in the bedroom. Oh, yeah, and there is all that clutter in the hallway to take care of now.
It’s all a matter of perspective, I suppose. My wife can see what I have managed to get done, but all I see is the stuff I didn’t finish.
The biggest accomplishment this week, if you can call it an accomplishment, was vacating one of our storage units. I had planned on renting it for only two months, while the contractors were working on our house, but two months dragged into five. And the stuff that was stored there was probably not worth the more than $300 we paid for storage. All water under the bridge now, so to speak. Instead of looking at how much we paid, I can now look at how much we are saving by eliminating that storage charge.
By contrast, our other storage unit is still jammed full. I moved the bed and mattress that my mother-in-law was using during the visit, and I retrieved a couple of pieces of furniture, but it will be a long time before we are able to empty out that unit.
The return of the contractors
The contractors will be returning on Monday to install the picture window, but it is unlikely that they will finish the kitchen grout until a later date. That will give us a bit more time to build up some savings,. Maybe by then, I’ll have the bookshelf put together.
