This was a year of a LOT of home improvement. Expensive home improvement! I'm hoping that this next year holds no major plumbing repairs! This month, we installed the shades in the kitchen windows. Yes, we've been living here 10 years and never had shades in the kitchen windows. Finally done! The last improvement involved the work that the contractor never came back to finish up - despite my repeated calls to them. Thankfully hubby is handy, so he was able to finish things up. He installed the kick plates under the cabinets, and the laminate on the end of the cabinets. He then installed a hardwood back to the empty space under the cabinet that covers the yellow tile and matches the laminate. It looks very professional, if I do say so myself! Actually, I'm really glad that I kept track of this one - sometimes it feels like we do nothing around here - it's nice to have an actual list of what we really do accomplish.
The list:
1) Recover the kitchen chairs.
2) Add the knobs to the cabinet under the kitchen sink.
3) Fix the sewer line out of the house, through the basement wall.
4) Replace the baseboard heater in the hall bathroom.
5) Replace the lighting in the hall bathroom.
6) Re-enamel the hallway bathroom tile.
7) Replace the light at the bottom of the basement stairwell.
8) Paint the cinder block wall in the basement where we replaced the pipe.
9) Fix the running toilet in the Master Bathroom.
10) Fix the leaking pipes under the toilets down in the basement. (Copper Pipes)
11) Install shades in the kitchen
12) Finish out the portion under the cabinets in the bathroom that the contractor never finished.
Honestly, I wanted to lose 2-3 inches. How hard can that be?
Difficult. Very difficult.
It really does get harder as you get older.
I've lost 1 inch. ONE INCH. It's progress, and I'll take it. But I really wish I'd lost more.
Done!
The first trip was a long weekend to visit our oldest child at school. (OK, that's a maybe..)
Second was the long weekend we spent in Princeton - he was up there for business, and I went up there for a long weekend at our own expense at the end of his official business.
We did get in a third trip - out to Denver for a Memorial Service. We enjoyed ourselves, and had a great time catching up with family from all over the country.
Done! 40 bags in 40 days! I'm looking forward to doing this one again next year!
I've been reading a lot of YA fiction this month! Almost everything I've read has been a hit.
You can see my blog here:
https://librarynut-booksforteens.blogspot.com/
9 years after the long nightmare began, we now have 2 working bathrooms in our house! While the contractor wasn't everything I expected, we have working bathrooms!
The moratorium is over! We still don't wantonly spend money, but our savings account is back up where it should be, tuition has been paid, and we're plotting our big home improvement project for next year. Hopefully, that one doesn't cascade into a larger project like this year's project did.
Who am I kidding? It's a home improvement project on a 48 year old house. OF COURSE it's going to be more involved than we want it to be. We need to add an emergency cushion onto the funding for that project when we start planning it out.
8) Learn another language.
This one was a great thought, but it never has gone anywhere.
9) 100 Things Every Marylander Should Do
I've done a few! Maryland is a beautiful state! I might not have done as many as I wanted, but it's nice to have seen a few of the items on the list.
10) Daughter's Quilt
Progress! I am making big progress! It won't be finished before the end of 2017, but it will be finished before the end of the school year!
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| Luna REALLY likes the quilt. |
Done! And the stuff I no longer need has been sent to Goodwill.
12) Clean Out the Little Room in the Basement and Make it Usable
A little progress has been made. I moved the wooden shelves out and into another room. I put oldest child's stuff on those shelves. These are the boxes of stuff that he wants to keep long term but just doesn't have the space for in his current apartment.
13) Work on Landscaping the Front Yard
Well, since our next big project is going to be replacing the roof and adding a front porch to the house, I'm not going to do anything with the landscaping until after the porch is finished. This one will be a no go for this year.
I finished the class! ! Hooray! Now to get the other 2.8 CEU's I need to renew my certificate before June of 2019.
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