It's Here.

Tonight when Mr. Squatter gets off of work, he is driving home in the company's giant box truck. You know what that means: WE ARE MOVING INTO THE SQUAT. For the next couple (rainy) days we will be loading/unloading, fighting, and crying. I'm not even being negative here, just realistic. Moving SUCKS.

Anyway, here's what's happened in the last few days. Excuse the crappy phone pictures. I misplaced my camera, then forgot to put a memory card in it when I finally found it and took it over to the GS.

This is the previously mentioned doorway shelf in the kitchen, shown with a sample of my faux exposed brick. Obviously when it's done the entire wall will be covered, and the tones will be on the orange-y side, not the pinkish of the test panel. I just used what we had laying around.

While Josh was working the other day, I decided to remove the trim from around the window in the wall between the foyer and sink room.

sink room

entry

 

As I was up on the step ladder prying the trim off in the entryway, The entire weighted window fell out on me. A rusty dirt and mouse feces covered nail jammed into my finger, and now I probably have tetanus (though my mother just assured me that rodent poo germs disappear after a few days, and these droppings were obviously very old... POO!). I was stuck for about 10 minutes before I managed to maneuver myself free, and got the window to the ground without shattering glass all over the place.

On the upside, we weren't too thrilled about having the window inside our house anyway, so Josh put in some studs and built a new wall there. It's really starting to look like a real place! The keyword is "starting," here.

In other news, yesterday Gus came over and installed carpet in the record room!

It's kinda hard to tell, but it's a lovely almost black charcoal grey.

So now it's all about moving. I'll take my real camera tonight and hopefully get some decent shots to share.