Come here and cry on my shoulder.

My parents and I went over to my house to work on it. Got a lot done. I tore down the wall in the bedroom. My dad took out the remaining studs in the kitchen that I couldn't do because I'm not a guy. They were nailed into the floor major. My mom pulled up carpet staples. They stapled the crap out of those nasty carpets. At least the padding, that is.
The laundry room scares me. I don't know what it is, maybe it's just the water heater and the hole in the wall. I'm just saying. And then when we pulled the paneling away from the wall to see what was underneath there was red as blood paint. ::chills::
Oh yeah! Since the crack whore busted the laundry room window my dad screwed a piece of wood over it just in case. Then he made the (for once) brilliant suggestion of putting in glass blocks instead. Perfect. And they come in sweet colors, even pink! That's awesome.
(The neighbor next door is Creole from Louisiana and is called Q because he has a very strange name that starts with a Q. So strange I can't remember it! He came out when we showed up and my dad was like "How you doing?" and his reply was, "Oh, blessed!" and my dad's was, "Amen, brother!" ... oh dear. He had a fence put up which means that there are now only two sections for me to buy fencing for. Yeesss. And he was so funny, "We put benches back they-uh, and we'll put in a bah for a bah-bee-cue" with that strange drawl of his that I knew was not from around here and I wasn't at all surprised to find out minutes later he's Creole. AWESOME!)
The floors are going to be a challenge. The house is old. I won't fault it for having really uneven floors in the front part of the house. But !?!? it's going to be fun figuring out wtf to do about it.
I have to have wood-look flooring in the kitchen, which is thankfully level, because my heart is set on it.
The rest of the house is up for grabs.
I punched a hole in the stupid effing homosexual soffit over the shower and bathroom sink. It is the dumbest accessory ever. If I stand in the shower I can't lift my arms over my head. I would bang my hands in the ceiling washing my hair. By the way, I'm going no 'poo. [ananas] mentioned it and I was like "wtf is 'no 'poo'??" and it seemed interesting and now I'm shampoo free for over a week. Neat, right?

Carpeting, padding, paneling. I need to rent a dumpster or something.


This is the kitchen  "before".


The kitchen "after".  No stupid wall!

Here you can actually see the lot next to the house. And the snazzy sewer pipes that serve as very sturdy planters in the front walk. ::rolls eyes:: Those are getting taken out, fo' sho'. I don't know if cypress trees would be overkill, but indulge me....picture a cypress lined walkway leading to a slate colored house with bright white trim and pale colored rose bushes on either side of the porch...oh hell yeah.