mousme | So much to do, so little time...

The move went.

There's still a lot of stuff hanging out in various parts of the house, but the plan for today is to get most of it collated and put in one spot (inasmuch as possible), so that it's out of the way and easily removed this coming week.

I had hoped to get the house staged for sale this week, but after removing a bunch of shelves from the basement wall (since they're not mine), I realised that that had left holes in more places than I'd anticipated. It boils down to my having to spackle, sand, prime and paint all the basement walls instead of just two walls, the way I'd originally planned. This is a multi-day job, and I am a total amateur when it comes to painting, so it will likely take me for-freaking ever to get it done.

Therefore, in spite of the heroic efforts of

gats,

tcaptain, and

maya_banana, who all came to help me Saturday, everything didn't get done the way I'd hoped. On the plus side, we got a lot done, especially considering the unexpected extra work of having to remove shelves that weren't meant to still be there. We moved all my bookcases into the spare room, removed all the extra shelves, spackled pretty much all the holes, and primed one of the walls for painting. It's looking okay, even though there's still a lot of work to be done.

The upstairs is looking better than the basement, but I still have to mop all the floors, tidy the kitchen, bathroom and master bedroom, and try to stage it for sale. That's not going to happen today, alas, but I've already gotten started. I'm hoping that by the time I leave the kitchen and bathroom will be in good enough shape to show.

I also have to thank

kittyfinn, who helped me more than I can say by putting me in touch with her friend G., who came over on 24 hours' notice and installed 6 light fixtures and a ceiling fan for me, and helped with a couple other small tasks that I am not very skilled at involving screwdrivers (not the alcoholic kind, I am totes skilled at those). Without him I shudder to think what the house would look like.

In short, my optimistic plan to put the house on the market in a week has been cancelled, replaced with a longer timeline of about 2-3 weeks. That should give me the time to properly prep the basement and stage the house so that prospective buyers will be dazzled by how gorgeous it is. ;) I also need to give the garden a lot of TLC. The grass is massively overgrown, and the weeds are trying for a takeover of the entire neighbourhood, I'm sure of it.

Okay, time to get back to work. I have to leave in about three hours, and I need to buy groceries before I leave, because I'll have the dog with me after that and therefore won't be able to stop in Ottawa the way I usually do. No leaving the doggie in the car on a hot day, after all. Oh, wait, no, I don't. I can buy my lunch at work tomorrow and go shopping in the evening after work. Excellent. That's a much better plan than my current one.

Here we go. See you on the flip side, LJ!

So much to do, so little time...

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