I just spent the last 2 1/2 hours cleaning the downstairs level of our house which was not all that much fun. Vacuuming, mopping the wood floors and starting to mop the kitchen…plus dusting a few areas that were really in dire need of help. And that’s about it. Upstairs will still need to be done but so it goes. I can only clean for so long in one setting.
Why the frenzy of cleaning? Well, I didn’t feel like doing something “more constructive” for one of my many jobs that I do from home…and somehow cleaning seemed like the best alternative since some of the cleaning is a bit overdue. The interest in doing it now probably had something to do with hubby telling me that the realtor who sold us this house will be coming by on Saturday to see what we’ve done with the place. Now don’t get me wrong. I really like the realtor. She helped us get this house for a steal and really did work for her commission…but people outside our close sphere of friends have not really seen much of the house yet so it will be really interesting for someone to see it now that’s mostly finished….because she spent some time in it before when it was still a bit of a mess and didn’t really see much of anything during the construction phase. Plus her husband buys up old properties, renovates them and converts them into apartments which he sells and rents. He actually mentioned to us that he would have loved to have done that with our place…so it’s very good that we found it first. Hopefully he won’t see the one down the street that is for sale because we’d like to give that one a go ourselves to rent it out…but that’s another very different story. Yes, we have the bug lol.
Anyway, hubby also talked to the guy who will be supplying the granite countertop for us and it turns out he doesn’t need to come out to our place after all. We are actually supposed to take boxes or large pieces of paper, cut them to the exact size of the cabinets and then we take those to him. He will remeasure & figure out overlapping spaces and then we’re good to go. And then it should probably take a month or so for the counter to get here. It will honestly be quite strange to have the counter in after all this time…and absolutely wonderful. I’m not even sure I’ll know how to behave myself when it gets here and we can use a real stove to cook dinner. I will be a bit sad that we won’t have the option of gas anymore but they told us that we should be getting gas in the city in the next 3-4 years so perhaps it will be time to upgrade then to a lovely gas-burning stove. I never really realized how fantastic they are until we started using out little camping cooker all the time. I know it’s not the same but I get the general idea and I think it would massively better so I think we’re both on board for getting that hooked up when it becomes available to us.
Ok, enough rambling for now…almost time to take doggo for her walk.
