Today…

Today is the day I get the keys to MY house! YAHOO…that sounds so awesome…."My house"! LOL giddy as a school girl.

Anyhow, I'm going to the lawyer's at 3pm to get the keys then I'm going into the house, confirming the plans that I've come up with thus far and then I'm heading to Rona, grabbing one (if not two) shopping carts and I'm loading up on supplies to get me through the next week as I'm off work after today to work on the inside of the house. I have a dumpster coming first thing tomorrow morning so I want to have stuff to throw in it as soon as it hits my driveway (haha "my driveway"). It should be a fun few months as I completely renovate that place from top to bottom with the help of my Dad, Vern, Rebecca, Monique, Craig, Scott and anyone else wanting to take out some frustration on a cement sidewalk or one of the two bathrooms I'm gutting…me…I'm looking forward to throwing the sledge hammer through the shower downstairs! HAHA, that will feel GOOOOD! LOL! Hmm, I've never run through a wall before, maybe I'll give that a try sometime this week!? After all, it is MY house!

Anyhow, I have "visions" for this place (delusions of grander) so when I finally get hit with the reality that I'll be watching a 13 inch black and white TV while sitting on milk crates in a half finished home, try to be there for me as I sob in misery and sorrow…until then, who wants to break stuff!?

Cheers!
Andrew

The House

Ok, I've been slacking on the blog but now I have some exciting news to blog about. Well it's probably not news to anyone anymore, but I thought I'd blog about it nonetheless since I'm UBER excited about the whole thing.

The news (for those of you who might not know)!? I'm buying a house!!!

It's 95% of the way there (the purchase process). Just waiting on the window company to get back to me with an estimate for new windows and doors so I can get that rolled into the mortgage then I'm off to secure financing. Then…then…then IT'S TIME! Time to gut that pig's basement and time to refinish all the hardwood upstairs and lay some tile in the kitchen and washroom upstairs and new sinks, and new shower downstairs, and then, and then and then….HAHA, WOOT!

I know it's going to cost me a bunch, but screw it! Yah, that's right SCREW IT! I want to make this project brand new so I don't have to worry about any renovating for years to come. It's got tons of potential and I'm going to bring it to it's prime again!

As I said, the upstairs is all hardwood and the interior doors are all two-toned pine that are in mint condition! The baseboards are 5 – 6 inches wide and it's all old oak! Oh, and for those of you who don't know…a cement truck ripped down the telephone line going to the house last week and in doing so tore off half the siding on one half of the house…OH NO RIGHT?! WRONG, apparently they don't make that shitty aluminum siding anymore, so the current home owners' insurance has to pay to repair it, meaning that they most likely have to reside the ENTIRE house with new siding! HAHA, so new windows, doors, the roof is new and now FREE new siding! How sweet is that?

Oh, and a bunch of other nice features too, like a fire place upstairs (wood) and newer cupboards, etc…!

WAWAWEEWA! I can't wait to get started. Hmmm, I get three weeks vacation at the beginning of July, perhaps I'll use a week of that to bust my ass at the house…we'll see.

Anyhow, assuming everything goes as planned I'll be having a house warming party in the late summer / early fall!

Cheers!
Andrew