Okay so I still need to take pictures of the little book, but I’ll do that soon. For now lets get back to the house. The house with one gigantic room in the basement. You heard that right, the walls came down!

I didn’t get too many action shots because I was upstairs working with my mom. But Bill was worth his weight in gold yesterday. I totally had a freak out crying moment in the morning, like what did I get myself into thing, and he totally came through. Took down the first wall by himself (the one separating the storage rooms that had termite damage) and then Bj showed up and they took out more walls, then Matt was sweet enough to drive down from Portland and help tear down the big wall in the middle. Matt said he’d always wanted to sledge hammer a wall – happy to oblige Matt! Then these wonderful guys pulled back a window and got all the wood up onto the drive way, it will be a ton easier to transfer into the dumpster that comes tomorrow this way. In the process Matt got a nail through his shoe, and into his foot. Ew. Matt go get your tetanus shot!!! Meanwhile mom painted the ceilings in the part of the house that is not coved (bedrooms, and hallway) and I took every piece of hard ware out of the walls, doors, cupboards, all of it. The floors start to get worked on Wednesday and they take 3-5 days, so I want to try and get a lot of things done before hand, like wall patching, so that we can paint right after they are done.

Last night we all went back tired and hungry and jumped straight in the pool
me to Matt: "come over for a swim after we’re done working"
Matt: "I brought my suit, I’m not an idiot."
hehehe. After swimming Susanne’s sister Maria and Maria’s boyfriend Soren (should be a slash through the O, but don’t know how to do that on here) got to our house. Susanne was my exchange student in high school. I’ll go more into it later, but anyway we had a blast hanging out, playing guitar hero ("We don’t have anything like this in Denmark!"), and chatting the night away. Tonight we’re off to a drive in, should be fun!

Dude, I pulled up the vent and found this, like what the hell?!?!?! Not even duct work, just like arachnophobia. EW, ew, ew. Cleaning day one, slow and scary. But I did get some better news, like the freaking rockin floors I apparently own. I had told the man on the phone whom I called about an estimate that I thought the floors were fir. He said that sounded right for a house built in the 40s. When he got there he looked at the floor and then said, "This is NOT fir. Do you know what kind of wood you have here?" I was like, "Um, Oak?" He said I had Pecan! How cool is that, it’s really rare I guess and it finishes up beautifully. I am so so excited about this. The two bedrooms are red oak, and I have one walk in closet that is fir. But I also learned that I can’t paint before the floors get refinished, so that will have to wait. I have plenty more to do anyway.

So after cleaning I ran home, showered and grabbed a bunch of stuff to take to the Scrapyard for the crop that Angela was in charge of tonight. I had invited Sarah there to meet her in person. It was so fun, just what I needed. Sarah was great, and I loved her stuff (2peas gallery here). I made the cutest little book for Violet, I’ll try to take pics before I leave again for the house early tomorrow morning.

I’m a home owner! I signed all the paper work this morning, and actually just got the keys. I wasn’t supposed to until tomorrow, but I met the seller at the house because one of the windows had fallen open and I didn’t want it left like that all night, we fixed it and he gave me the keys! I start cleaning tomorrow! And painting this weekend (should be all done by then I hope), then the floors at the end of next week. What do you think of my scheme? I’ll let you guess which goes where:

And in more exciting news, Michele had her little baby girl last night right at midnight! And she named her Violet. Ahhh! That was one of the names on my list, but I said she could have it, hehehe. I get to go meet her next week and I am so so so so so excited!