Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Kleinlife builds a house: stage of paint

We're finally painting... Which means we are neck deep in the stages paint color acceptance:

1. I have chosen the perfect color swatch!
2. I have calculated how many square feet I need!
3. Paint purchased!
4. Gather supplies
5. Look for supplies I'm missing
6. Eat a cookie
7. Find missing supplies
8. Yay! Time to start painting
9. Remember I forgot something
10. Find supply I forgot.
11. Start cutting in
12. Freak out about how the color looks
13. Keep working on cutting in 
14. Get paint on ceiling
15. Swear
16. Repeat 14-15
17. Really freak out about color
18. Decide to start rolling
19. Continue freak out
20. Realize you have 5 gallons of potentially ugly paint
21. Keep going
22. Think maybe color is okay
23. Nope it's awful... You wasted an entire day on this stupid color
24. Keep going
25. Start thinking it looks okay
26. Almost done
27. Wow. This is the best color ever. I am such a good color picker!
28. Repeat for every room in the house






Thursday, November 12, 2015

Hello? Pick up please.

Ah. Parents.  People that have cell phones but apparently find it unnecessary to use them.


ANSWER YOUR TEXT MESSAGES.  NOW.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Kleinlife builds a house: update!

So...I guess it's been a while since we did a house update....

In the past few weeks we have the lot graded, all the concrete work done, the drywall installed, and with a few minor touch ups ready for paint, the sub floor sanded (remember the 12 inches of rain we got without a roof last summer), and the septic system installed.

I dumped all the photos off my phone last week so all I have to show you are these pics of the driveway and front steps I took last night.



So we are practically done.  Only 1,300 things left to do....

sigh. still waiting for the magical house building fairies to show up and finish while we sleep....

Sunday, November 1, 2015

kleinlife: camp bode

We celebrated Bode's big day a few days early.








Halloween: the cat's meow

Cora insisted on being a kitty again for Halloween this year...which of course made Bode a mouse...




sorry, too late to mess with rotating images. :)