Updates from the Weekend

David's parents didn't work on Saturday because they were at a wedding so we decided to make a list of things to do that we haven't gotten to yet because of trying to get the house farther. Boy oh boy was this a long list! It was hot and humid on Saturday, which partially prevented us from not finishing it but really, we spent at least 8 hours working on it and we got a lot done. Here's the finished tasks.

• trim out the tree that was pointlessly growing right next to our porch. I have no idea how got the bright idea to plant it here (this was before we decided to buy the house) but it was just a menace. It would blow in the wind and slap me if I was reading on the porch, it obstructed the view of our neighbor's house, and we just didn't want it there. Since we were trimming this out, we also trimmed two of the other trees in our front yard so they wouldn't droop over the sidewalk (nothing is more annoying to pedestrians than trees in the way, although ours wasn't that bad). Then we hauled all this to the city compost pile place. 
• clean the car. We needed to clean out the car even before we put a bunch of trees in it but now we definitely did. I don't know how it happens but we always seem to get a big trash build up. In order to fit the trees in the car, we had to take out a bunch of the stuff that had accumulated in there. Then after the trees, we vacuumed it all out and threw away more garbage. We even went to a car wash! David claims this changed the color of a car from a "is that tan or silver?" to a "this is definitely silver". I'm not so sure but our car was muddy so I'm glad it's clean now (at least until the next time it rains. We don't have concrete at the bottom of our driveway yet, which can give us some pretty big mud puddles.)
• put our living room back together. I'd have to look back when exactly we bought the couch but I believe it was March. Since then, we've barely been able to use it because of the construction dust and everything (so we cover it up with plastic). Then our living room floors needed to be restained so our couch got taken apart (it's an L) and moved and covered in the dining room. It's been there, I want to say, several weeks at least. Definitely unusable. So we were finally able to move that back, set up our rug again, etc. We still need to bring the TV down from the loft and do some wall decorating (including curtains) but our living room is the only room in the entire house that is 100% finished from a construction standpoint.
• repainted the dining room ceiling. Okay I didn't help in this one due to pregnancy so I took a nap while David did it. We had originally used this really bad cheapo paint that needed like 4 coats to cover right but then David's mom edged (she does all our edging) with a different paint, unknowingly and they weren't even the same white! So we had to repaint with the right white (try saying that ten times fast!) and we've been meaning to get to it for months. In our defense, it makes it a whole lot harder to paint the ceiling in there when our living room couch is taking up most of the room.
• sprayed our DIY curtain rods and hang curtains for the dining room. This was probably the most exciting. We have venetian blinds some other places to help with light and privacy but we don't have curtains anywhere. It really brought the room together. We also set up our make-shift dining room table but I doubt we'll ever eat at it.

I don't have the list in front of me to consult but I feel like we did more than this. I suppose these are just the big things and that maybe we did some more little things. The dining room is ALMOST done too, it just needs a little piece of trim that nobody has found yet. So basically we have two rooms completely done! We even hung up a picture in the bathroom! I finally feel like we are started to LIVE in our house!