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Originally Posted by Joekerr
Checked email and replied.
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An American kid, the best friend of the occupant of the red and white bedroom (a tribute to our very confusing heritage also) is an American who will be living in our home for a month next summer. I think we can make her measure shit to a form we can agree on then.
Without the basement which is also living space quality room, the house is only abt 250. That's still abt a 100 more than houses here built usually.
Oh, in my email I skipped the important part of the budget! I'm currently 4k less spent than expected but I haven't totalled today in and I haven't counted in the two shovels I burned during the site we are not talking about (that's like 30 bucks) and I've gotten off easy with my weekly spreadsheets since I haven't tackled bathrooms at all. Hubby has spent abt a k at this point while redoing the sewer line and all in all I'm guestimating that at this point I'm winning my four beers!
The bad news is that the electrician is coming in tomorrow and he always is mean to my budget. Also, next week is bathroom week and it means that since I haven't bought shit, I'm either buying stock or I'll be raped in transportation.
I'll just say this...
I fucking hate digging. Doing trenches or what ever those are called by hand is a bad, bad idea. I can demolish and I can rebuild and I'll be good at it but fuck! This will be my last home. I'm kinda glad to have failures in the history too. I don't want my kids to think of me as a perfect human. I want them to remember that it's worth to want something and to work for it.
The ditch project is still off limits! We ain't talking about it.