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Today was priming day. Tomorrow was to be painting day. Simple enough.

Walls? Meet your masters. (Sure, they may seem like complete goobers, but they're highly trained in the art of painting faux-wood burled tiles for set construction. They can handle a little white goop in straight lines.)

We labored. We toiled. There wasn't blood this time, but there were tears (from the fumes of the floor refinishing combined with 5 gallon buckets of liquid latex).

...

Allie: I don't think we're going to get this done today.
Ryan: Don't be silly. Of course we are.
Allie: Seems like we have a lot left to do. What time is it, anyway?
Ryan: Um, probably one.
Allie: Really?
Ryan: [checks clock] Oh. It's 2:45.

So, no. We didn't get it done. Not even close. Guess our two day plan just became a four day plan.

Whoops.

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We bought ourselves a little rental house. We like to say, "It has potential!" (It just hasn't realized it quite yet.)

True before pictures would include a hole where the bathroom was supposed to be, but we took care of that before we brought along the camera, so you'll just have to imagine how awesome that looked.

We still have a ton of work ahead of us, but Sunday's task was just this: get rid of the filth. You'd think that would be an easy one. It wasn't!

Example A: Filth. It was pretty epic. (This is the light switch for the kitchen.)

The walls, the ceiling, the floors... everything was coated in nastiness.

So we spent all day scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing (and scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing)...

And occasionally taking a break from the mop to look pretty do some manly things.

I'm sure there will be plenty more about our progress as we try to get this place inhabitable. But for now? I'm taking a nap.

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