Weekend No. 3

It may or may not look like much has been accomplished since our last post. I've lost track of everything done and what needs to be done. It's a whirlwind. A hazy, hot, paint-scented whirlwind. Who would have thought such a small place would require so much labor? I've seen trucks bigger than our apartment! Anyway, I'll start with the most dramatic:


This is what our kitchen looked like Saturday morning. Notice the lack of pretty much everything not nailed down. Apparently our kitchen used to look like an old Pizza Hut. Luckily someone recently put down the nice wood floors seen in the middle. So some very nice fellows came by in the afternoon and made everything look like this:


Oooh, shiny! Believe me, it looks good with all the plastic crap taken off. Of course it will all stay on because otherwise, I'll get my grubby hands on it. Note the new lights up top. We took those from the living room and stuck them in the kitchen. Perfecto!


We tried to put a microwave over the oven to save space. There was not nearly enough room, so we now have to return a giant microwave to Lowes before tomorrow. Fortunately, this tragedy made it possible for the following picture to be snapped. I don't know how she got back there. Careful, those are live!


We are currently utilizing our lavaplatos box for trash. Apparently the city will not pick up even this small amount of trash from people living in apartment buildings which is, well, just about everybody. So we have to drive it to the dump in a car that is not ours.


Out with the old and in with the new. In the foreground the new (hopefully working) toilet versus the old on the background. Cheers to indoor plumbing...jeers to substandard and non-interchangable materials well over a century into the industrial revolution. Jeers indeed.


This is our closet. Who knew someone could so badly damage a closet. I mean, you hang clothes there and put boxes there. Why would you glue and nail 11 feet of wood to the wall rather than take a notch out of the bottom of the already-custom-made shelves? I don't know. I guess you just like screwing with the future owners, that's all.


Another bright spot and I'll shut up. We were able to successfully remove and reinstall the closet doors on the utility closet. It seems small, I know, but I had to actually widen the hole on the pivots because the door would not fit on the right side but had room to spare on the left. Who says houses are square?