Tonight as Troy and I were working away, trying to finish up a task on The Room, he said a brilliant thing:
"New stages. So fun to begin and so crappy to finish."
Have there ever been truer words? I don't think so. I can not express our delight at moving on to the drywalling stage of The Bedroom Project. So exciting to cover up all of the ugly Franken-insulation. It is always quite invigorating to get started on that next phase. But it didn't take us long to get totally bogged down by it, just like every other stage!
Part of the challenge is just getting the dang drywall sheets to our house. It is so awkward getting them in the minivan. And if poor Troy had a wife with any upper-body strength at all then we could move more than one sheet around at a time. However, weakling that I am, we just can't do it like that. On top of that, this room being the tiny thing that it is, there's not a single place where an entire sheet of drywall fits. Anywhere. It all had to be cut into the correct (and often not entirely square) pieces. Am I complaining too much? Well guess what, I'm just getting started. Because we also had to diagram out all of these crazy little cuts to make slots for the shelf brackets and outlets and junction boxes and light switches. It was a total pain, ok?
Getting the drywall installed was SUCH a relief! Then....came the mudding and sanding. The absolute worst. I am just going to leave it at that. I HATE SANDING DRYWALL. Troy did way more than I did, so he deserves to complain much more.
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| One of our beautiful diagrams that we had to eventually paint over |
I'm trying to think of concluding remarks here. I dunno. Maybe my expression on the right there says it all?
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