The end of a very long day
As everyone knows, I’m getting new carpet installed in the back two bedrooms of the house. That’s no big deal. We’ve had those bedrooms cleaned out for several days now. Earlier today, I discovered that I was also getting new carpet in the master bedroom! That’s pretty awesome, but that also means that there’s a LOT more to do. I had to empty the bedroom of everything so we could rip up the old carpet, padding, quarter-round, and tack strips. That took several hours in and of itself. Amy and I also wanted to paint before putting the new carpet in, so we also got to start on that tonight as well.
What did work out pretty well for us, though, is that the carpet we picked out is sold out! That puts a delay on getting the new carpeting installed (obviously). So, my dad is going to try to match the carpet with picked as close as possible to some new samples he’s getting. In the meantime, that gives us time to paint the walls and trim. We got about half of the walls done and all of the edging along the trim. That way someone can work on painting the trim while the other person paints the rest of the walls. Then, on Thursday or Friday (whenever they install the carpet), everything will be ready to go!
Unfortunately, with all that going on, I’ve worked on the house from about 3:30 PM to about 1:30 AM. That’s 10 hours! I’m beat and tomorrow is more work, albeit easier since there’s less heavy lifting to do. I also need to call the city and schedule a pickup for the old carpet. Depending on when the carpet is installed, Thursday could potentially be a day of rest after work. I also have Friday off, but that will consist of lots of moving of things back into place in preparation for all of Amy’s stuff to move in on Saturday. Sunday will probably be getting things in order. Then Monday, blessed Monday. I have Monday off! That’s when I’ll really get to take a break and veg out. It just seems so far away at this point. 
Updates!
I snapped a couple more pictures last night and this morning. There’s a couple of the master bedroom, half-painted with beds put in place, and another one of the carpet roll in front of the garage. I had a fun time trying to get it rolled up on the hand truck. Some heave-ho’ing and with the assistance of some chains, I got it rolled on the hand truck and backed up against the garage. I called the city and they’ll be picking it up tomorrow. Woo hoo!
