will the fat lady ever sing?

i was reading over some of my older posts.. i like to do that from time to time.

and i was taken back to when we were fixing up my dot's house to try and sell while still not really living in mine (my brother and family were living with us for the first two months we were married, and we had two households' worth of furniture to try and squeeze into one house).

and i wanted desperately for things to calm down, for life to get simpler, so we could actually feel like the newlyweds we didn't get the pleasure of feeling like.

several months later, our house is once again in disarray (my sofa is in my kitchen) as we attempt to lay wood flooring down and paint the walls (one of which is a beeyooteefull orange!!). but in the meantime we are having to walk around things, feel displaced, and we are not feeling like newlyweds.

sigh. will it ever end?

i was hoping we'd have gotten done today. my dot worked all afternoon on cutting and nailing up the baseboards while i mowed and clipped all the bushes.

and we didn't get done. there are still a few baseboards to install, then we've got to putty the nail holes and caulk the edges. then we have to stain the transition pieces and install them. then we can clean the rest of the floors and move our living room back into our living room.

maybe next weekend? (didn't i just hear that this weekend? and last?)

sigh.