I haven't really done a lot in the past few days. I've taken a few boxes over. This morning Tony took a big load over. I tried cleaning up the vent covers, but they were really grimy. I managed to make them 'better'. Two of them got thrown out a long time ago because they were that bad. I tried my best to clean them, though we're going to replace them.


The mattress is still funky. We're going to get a cover for it until we can buy. I also worked up a floor plan for the living and dining room. Unfortunately, I won't have money for new furniture for a year, at least. It's nice to dream.

Still Stinky

Well, after half a bottle or peroxide and a full bottle of rubbing alcohol, the mattress is less stinky. We're just going to have to get a new mattress ASAP, well as soon as we can afford it (ASAWCAI?).

The boxes are still boxes, but organized now. I went through a few boxes of odd and ends last night and started the great 'moving purge'. Sadly, most of the big furniture is still at Tony's. And, even sadder, with the semester ending and finals around the corner, we probably won't get time to move it for another two weeks *grumps*. If we get a phone and the mattress de-funked, I'll be moving in without it. Who needs a TV if I have the internet?

I've been trying to figure out a decent floor plan this week for the living/dining room. We have a lot of stuff and little space. The huge ferret cage has been the biggest obstacle. I think I finally may have it, and I'm going to sketch it out using graph paper tonight (yeah, I'm anal and a nerd).

Thwarted

I don't know why I always think I can get a lot done over holiday weekends. With all the celebrating and festivities and what-not, you seem to have even less time than if you were working.

Anyway, we finally got the bed set up and the stove hooked up on Sunday. I also set up a bookcase and my dresser. A lot of the furniture seems to be at Tony's though: the coffee table, several book shelves, desk, dining room table and TV stand. We still don't have a couch :( Some of the furniture got mold on it from the leaking basement, but only a couple small things got ruined. Thankfully, the mold cleaned off easily.

Anyway, back to an earlier thought, the mattress for the bed had that basement mildew smell. Otherwise we may have stayed there last night. I have to find something that will get the smell out. We were looking at Febreeze in the grocery store and saw that it was mostly water and alcohol. So that's what we're trying first to get it out. The only other thing I know that will get the smell out is vinegar, and that would be yucky. I appreciate any suggestions on the matter.

Woot!

All the touch up painting is done. :D

Tony has a few minor things to do this week, like hook the stove back up and put in the other phone lines. We are going to use the holiday weekend to get everything unpacked.

We're moving in!

Pictures

Pictures of the living room floor!




I put a coat of touch up paint in the living room, but I'm going to have to do a second coat in some spots because the spots were dark and the paint is light. I'm exhausted, but I want to get everything done. I still have some of the green to touch up, plus doing a final clean on the floors and unpacking. So, I'm really going to push this weekend to get a lot done.

Floors are done. Pictures tomorrow, real ones too, not this 'cell phone picture' crap.

I have you now, floors!

I finally got to working on the floors. The first coat of polyurethane is done. One more coat to go. I have to get more polyurethane though. I doubt half a can is going be enough.

I didn't unpack any more stuff. The fumes were getting to me and I wasn't in a make-order-out-of-chaos mood. We did move the box spring upstairs, but were too lazy to get he mattress. Going the get the second coat done and more stuff moved in during the week. I'm very optimistic about actually being able to live there by next weekend.