That pretty much sums up the weekend for me — while pretty much everything in my Friday-Saturday-Sunday was concentrated goodness, I was left wanting more.
Kate got in on the red-eye at midnight on Thursday. Not much else to say there, except that conversations that late at night (on the drive home) are surreal and not always totally productive. :)
Friday, I did some work stuff in Golden, then took the second half of the day to start on our Project o’ the Week: painting and the replacing the flooring in kaylee’s bathroom. Friday was putting on the primer (holy cow that stuff smells like burning) then a run out to pick up the lovely vinyl tile and cheery yellow paint for the walls, then back home for the initial coating of the paint, tearing out the old carpet (which had been doubling up til that point as a dropcloth) and cleaning up the subflooring. Then we went to pick up Kaylee and spent the rest of the afternoon with her. After she went to sleep, we went back to work and got the second coat of paint on, then put the new flooring down. While I had experience with this type of flooring, Kate had some cool ideas for laying it out and I was quite happy to let her do all the fancy tile staggering and precision cutting (not to self: scissors work SO MUCH BETTER for that kind of thing than the carpet cutter I’ve used in the past!) while I stayed busy with paint-related cleanup and getting the new carpet boarder down at the door jam. We got the whole thing done within five feet of Kaylee’s bedroom and she slept right through it.
Saturday, we spent the morning with Kaylee, then dropped her off at Jackie’s and headed out for some shopping and supplies at… wow: a ton of places. Notably, I picked up a nice leather ottoman for downstairs and Kate found probably the PERFECT dining room table (which we’d be silly to buy right now, with all the wedding downpayment type things that need to be handled first). Then there was another stop at Home Depot (those became quite common this weekend), the grocery store, and Michaels for some frames and crafty things. We rounded out the evening by catching Spiderman 3, which is an overcrowded movie that unfortunately sort of needed to be. Fantastic Four looks decent. So does Pirates 3. At home, we lazed about but couldn’t quite get the up the gumption to either watch another movie or do more work on the bathroom, so we called it a relatively early night.
Sunday, I got up early and ran out to Home Depot for more supplies, then back to the house for breakfast and bathroom work. This time, it was paint touch up, more taping, and painting the baseboards for Kate, while I replaced the 20 year old seats on a couple toilets. We also mapped out the next couple projects, including (in order of likely occurance):
- Painting the door inside the bathroom so that it matches the “brilliant white, high gloss” frame.
- Tearing out the remaining carpet in my bathroom and retiling both it and the already-tiled sections.
- Painting the deck flooring and trim in the backyard (pretty much a must-do-soon.)
- Painting the family room and kitchen upstairs, including a white paintjob on all the cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms.
- Getting all the windows replaced (another must-do before next winter).
- Painting the big living room.
And after that, there’s flooring to do all through the upstairs and yet more painting. Whoosh.
We had lunch with Jackie and Kaylee at Gunther Toody’s, which was fun, then it was off to the Consortium for a stab at a new Primetime Adventures Series, which took a bit longer to get rolling than expected, but looiks quite promising, nonetheless.
Then it was home, packing, driving to the airport, and Kate on a red-eye back to NYC at about midnight.
Busy weekend. Exhausting. yet disappointing to see it end so quickly.
