A Cold Little Busy Bee Am I

CD5

I think that today's rain makes 24 days that it's rained this month. This has got to break records. My feet and hands are so cold in this house that it's actually preferable to hop in the rover and go for a drive about town with the heater set to melt. At least I'm not served up with a whopper of a PG&E bill when I do this.

In the morning, AA, mom, and I are heading to LA for 5 days to work on the house. I'm a bit worried that I don't seem to have all of my contractors lined up just yet. Today the drywall folks are finishing up a wall and on Saturday it seems I have a plumber lined up but not totally confirmed. I just confirmed the painter for Thursday and Friday, so that leaves J to do the baseboards unless I can find someone to do that as well. In between everything I have to run to Home Depot and Lowes, buying baseboards, sinks, toilet, lights, closet doors, etcetera...pick up J from John Wayne on Thursday night, but not before stopping at Ikea in Tustin for curtain rods and panels.

Amazingly I've hired everyone off of Craigslist for this work week save for J, of course (but did meet him online, too, but that's another story for another day) and I'm hoping that they are all able to do their jobs without fucking up the house, or the newly finished wood floors. If the latter happens I will lose it. Completely.

I had a budget of $5000 for fixing up my mom's house but it's edged up to about $5800 so far (including costs for flying J down there twice, and me once) so if you think about it, we're doing an entire house clean up rather cheaply.

Hopefully we'll have the house on the market by end of the month, right about the time I'm starting my stims. Oh my god. What WAS I thinking? I think I'll have to add "find an agent to co-list property with me" to this week's list. I don't know how I could sell the house on my own without enlisting another professional to assist me.

There goes another $5000.

Ouch.