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When you walk in the front door, this is what it looks like right now: RedGuard rolled over all the cracks; the floor gridded in construction pencil. That's the west side of the living room, just inside the door.
Turn to left, around end of the stairs toward the kitchen, and you see this:
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Yes! We have tile!
Well, a little of it, anyway. That's how far they got on actually laying it today. Tomorrow should go faster. If I were a little more functional, that would be a better photo, but that would have required going back this evening and climbing the stairs to take a shot from above in order to avoid the glare. Yesterday wiped me out so badly that I literally did not have the energy to do it. Maybe tomorrow.
We're waiting on the finishing of the vanity (hopefully over the weekend), a couple more deliveries, and then the sink hook-up, and then we should be able to move into the bedroom, at least. Probably enough two weeks. We won't have furniture, and certainly no access to live in the downstairs rooms yet, but at least we might get some sleep.
As I've been saying, we're so close, but for now, we still have a long way to go, a lot to get done, and unfortunately, a lot to pay out. And as I've also said, honestly? We're still going to need to raise cash down the road to cover labor and local materials costs. But sales can cover that, too. And for the moment, what helps the most, without question: Home Depot, Lowe's, Wayfair, or Amazon gift cards. Any denomination whatsoever. Thanks to the mold problem, we're having to replace all linens, the futon mattress, potentially even the couch and love seat (which will no doubt be reduced to couch and chair, because we don't need or really have room for a love seat anymore anyway). For a child of Depression-era parents, this is incredibly difficult for me; my first instinct is to try to save and salvage everything, because when you grow up as poor as I did, you never know what you might need down the road. But my posse is working on me rather insistently, and strictly on the health level, I know they're right, so here we are, an RV full of stuff that has to be replaced. So please send the links out far and wide:
As I've been saying, we're so close, but for now, we still have a long way to go, a lot to get done, and unfortunately, a lot to pay out. And as I've also said, honestly? We're still going to need to raise cash down the road to cover labor and local materials costs. But sales can cover that, too. And for the moment, what helps the most, without question: Home Depot, Lowe's, Wayfair, or Amazon gift cards. Any denomination whatsoever. Thanks to the mold problem, we're having to replace all linens, the futon mattress, potentially even the couch and love seat (which will no doubt be reduced to couch and chair, because we don't need or really have room for a love seat anymore anyway). For a child of Depression-era parents, this is incredibly difficult for me; my first instinct is to try to save and salvage everything, because when you grow up as poor as I did, you never know what you might need down the road. But my posse is working on me rather insistently, and strictly on the health level, I know they're right, so here we are, an RV full of stuff that has to be replaced. So please send the links out far and wide:
- Wings's direct PayPal link;
- Wings's site, for sales;
- Lowe's cards (the physical version) via our Amazon wishlist;
- Lowe's e-cards (delivered via e-mail) here; and
- Home Depot cards via the company site. The e-version using my e-mail address is great; I take the tablet to the store with me, and they scan it off the screen.
- Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
P.S. And yes, this is still ongoing, natch: IKT has "upgraded" our service (for another $10 a month, natch, and without telling us in advance) to the point that half the time, I can't load anything. When that happens, my e-mail is always the first to go, and I have messages trickling through in fits and starts, some from days ago. If you've e-mailed me and don't hear from me immediately, this is why; if you can reach me on FB or Twitter, DM me there, or try shooting another message through. I'll be sorting through them as steadily as I can, I promise.
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