Busy days.

Friday:

• close on the house 4:30pm, complete with more faxes and emails and phone calls and close calls
  
• 6:05pm meet with and receive keys from lawyer
  
• Walk to new house
  
• 8pm Alex and his friend, Mike, arrive with ceramic tile remover tool.
  
• remove as much broken tile from the kitchen as possible without the benefit of a receptacle
  
• lock up house around midnight after not being able to find a Home Depot that's open late
  
• in bed at 1am

Saturday:

• up at 6am
  
• get crap together to bring to the house
  
• 8am, arrive at the house to let the flooring guy, Ed, in
  
• 8:15am, get Ed to drive me and the tile removing tool back to the Home Depot
  
• 9:15am, back at the house, start stripping the banister
  
• 1pm, fall asleep for 20 minutes while Ed is nailing in the subfloor.
  
• 1:30pm help Ed remove a layer of plywood and peel-and-stick from the back room so that the hardwood will lie flat when installed.
  
• 2:30pm continue stripping banister
  
• More banister stripping
  
• 5pm, Alex arrives home from work, drives to Home Depot for more supplies
  
• 6pm, eat Dairy Queen Georgia Mud Fudge Blizzard
  
• 6:05pm, Cathy and Alex buy whipper snipper from neighbourhood garage sale for $20
  
• 6:15pm, Alex takes our first yard tool to the jungle around our fence
  
• 7:30pm, Alex goes to his band rehearsal space to load up the van for their show the next day. Cathy continues to strip the banister and sing to the radio.
  
• 10:30pm, getting worried, Alex is not back
  
• 11:30pm, Alex returns and removes the carpet from 2 of 4 spots in the house in prep for carpet installation the next day. He ran into Pride Weekend traffic.
  
• 1:30am, bed

Sunday

• Wake up at 7am - late!
  
• Rush around, trying to get all the necessary things together
  
• 9am arrive at the house
  
• 9:05am, resume banister stripping (the bane of my existence)
  
• 10am, carpet installers arrive and banister stripping ends
  
• 10:10am, yardwork begins
  
• Pick up garbage from the lawn
  
• Borrow the neighbour's mower, mow my lawn for the first time!
  
• Sweep the porch
  
• Alex's family arrives - suprise! - from Oshawa. Give them the tour.
  
• Walk with Alex's nieces to get pizza for the carpet and hardwood floor guys.
  
• Eat pizza and talk about what we want to do with the house with family.
  
• 4pm, thank the family for coming and apologize that Alex isn't home yet.
  
• Weed the garden - do I know what's a weed and what's not?
  
• 7pm, Alex arrives back from his show, Ed leaves without taking all of the reno trash with him in the van.
  
• Alex and Cathy clean up and walk over to say hello to neighbours. Get stuck at the neighbours, talking about their renovations and our plans.
  
• 9:30pm, finally leave.
  
• 10:00pm check out paint colours online and call in our paint order to my mom
  
• 11:15pm bed

Monday

• go to work
  
• mom and Alex paint
  
• 6pm, arrive at the house with dinner for all
  
• go to home depot for supplies
  
• tape the ceiling, kitchen cupboards, baseboards
  
• paint the upper reaches of the staircase, perched precariously on a ridiculous ladder
  
• 10pm return stair-ladder to Home Depot
  
• 10:30pm return to apartment, mom drives home - thanks Mom!
  
• Cathy packs
  
• 11:15pm bed

Tuesday

• 7am wake up
  
• meetings all day
  
• 5pm leave work with boxes; pick up more boxes on way home
  
• pack, pack, pack until I sleep

GUH.
I think we all know my thoughts on packing.