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Long sunday.

I woke up yesterday morning after less than 6 hours of sleep. That’s when I wrote that last journal entry and got the pictures off the camera. I’m quite sure I still had a bit of alcohol in me as well because I wasn’t thinking so fast, and I know that wasn’t simply because of the lack of sleep.

So I took a shower and around noon Michael got me off the couch (where I was finishing Ender’s Shadow) and we started work on the house. It was a long day.

We got a bunch of work done spackling and sanding the bedroom that we’re going to paint. I know I keep saying we’re doing this, but it’s a lot of work, these walls are a bit of a mess because the previous owners put so many holes in them. Then we both got sleepy and took a nap. I woke up when I heard the fishtank filter being especially loud. I walked out of the bedroom and it had sprung a leak! So Michael and I spent quite a bit of time cleaning up the water that had already spilled, and dealing with the water still coming out. It was a serious pain in the ass.

Then there was this smell in the kitchen. It’s been around for a few days, and I keep thinking it’s different things. The tuna fish dishes that are in the dishwasher? The broccoli in the refrigerator has gone bad? Well after our fishtank troubles Michael found the cause. The bag of potatoes that I bought less than a week ago for potato salad had begun to mold! A nasty wet mold that had actually leaked down the back of the refrigerator (the bag of potatoes was on top of it). So Michael had to pull out the refrigerator so we could clean up the mess. Ugh.

THEN while looking in the bedroom to prepare to paint, I realized that we’d need to move the radiator. Woo more learning about house stuff! So Michael figured out how to drain the water from them so we could move that one (which is still proving to be a pain). While he was doing that he decided to move the one that had been drenched earlier in the day by the fishtank. It’s in a rather useless spot, and we wanted to put the fishtank there (this picture shows where the radiator is). He got that one out with little trouble which was good because then we could pull up the carpet and do a complete drying of the floor so it wouldn’t begin to mold.

Around 7:30 we went out for dinner at a local pizzeria. Came home and did a bit more sanding in the bedroom. I need to do a bit more sanding today, but I think this afternoon will be good for finally painting, for real! I should take a picture of how it looks before the painting starts.

Oh, Happy Memorial Day!

*wanders off to begin day*

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