Fasten your seat belts!

I met the electrician at 8 am today to try to solve a lighting problem in the laundry area. We had an overhead in place, but the area will now be filled with cabinets so there can't be an overhead. He came up with putting in 4" cans in the ceiling that can be angled toward the washer/dryer and cabinets. I ran to Home Depot to pick up an additional can (he reused one I was going to return).

Next, I spent about an hour on paperwork with the general contractor. We've changed quite a few things since he started and we had to get the paperwork settled and come up with some timelines. C and I had discussed a move in date of May 20, but I had to move that back a few days so we could have some asbestos removed and termites taken care of. But we seem to be on track! Yahoo! Hold on tight though, it's going to be a wild ride for the next two and a half weeks!

After doing paperwork, we went to the door store to actually place an order for the interior doors and to decide on an exterior door for the new back door we are adding. We also looked at some molding, but I was having major "decision fatigue" and just couldn't make any more good decisions. I held off on the molding, but have enough information that I could call my order in. This is a case where "deadlines are our friends." If we want to move in by May 24, I just can dally on these decisions, nor can I go to 50 stores.

After a late, quick lunch I spent the rest of the day trying to work on setting up asbestos and termite treatments.

This section of drywall on the wall went up today (on top of and to the right of the door).


As I've mentioned before, our house is becoming the neighborhood dumping ground. Nice. People can be so rude! Here is the latest find: