My daughters boyfriend isn't a carpenter, but he thinks he could do a better job. So he is coming over tomorrow while I'm at work. Called handyman and made up a story, because I didn't want to hurt his feelings.....said I'd leave a check for his hours today in an envelope taped to his sawhorses in my shed.....told him my daughters boyfriend just got laid off, lives right behind me, and has time to do this for me....(partially true, but a whole 'nother story in itself....)
I feel overwhelmed. The kitchen faucet the previous owner had replaced, and when she was done, there was no water coming out of the faucet, just water to the sprayer, so her "fix" was to put this big orange clip thing to clip the sprayer to the faucet......(she was divorced and not rich and had no one to help her either....) well, fixed that with a new faucet, no sprayer, don't want to see another sprayer now anyway.....and I have a coat rack at the end of my kitchen cabinet covering the place where the end of the lower cabinet came off.....and a can of peas, yes, a can of peas holding up the lower cabinet base on one end.....and it has red paint on it, so it has been there since she painted the kitchen, and this was not recently....and the kitchen is red and yellow and roosters EVERYWHERE......
and tonight my friend came over and we looked in the broiler part of the gas oven, and there is insulationy looking stuff and papery looking stuff and evidence of previous mice residence in there....gross, and for fire safety, thank goodness I haven't used the oven yet......
I'm good at sanding and filling and painting.....no skills at plumbing, and afraid to use a circular saw, or any saw. Will insert pictures of halfway done with my black, yes black bedroom.....aliens on the light, "no evil" or whatever it says on the wall....
Took two coats of primer and one of paint to cover that black ceiling...
Anyway. And also discovered, by the way, that my furnace was a recall and needs to be checked. And it was cool this morning. Gonna get a guy from the authorized service and repair place to look at that.....as soon as I have a hallway again, so he won't fall through the floor.
Anyone living a life like this, or am I crazy and should go back to renting? On the bright side, the roof doesn't leak and I have no neighbors above me walking around on creaky floors waking me up at night....
Sherry
