I’m slowly but steadily settling into my new life as homeowner. Fortunately it’s a brand new home so I don’t have to do that much maintenance work yet but there’s still a bit of work to do!
Biggest change so far is that I’m more aware of things I didn’t use to care about! Most importantly mortgage rates and electricity rates/use! I’ve never paid an electric bill in my life before ’cause it was a part of the monthly rent in the apartment I used to have and Helena used to pay it for her apartment, and I’ve never had a loan of 2.5 million before so all of a sudden I care about that too. And I’m more and more turning into my father – I’m just afraid of the day when I think having a tie is a good idea!
I just finished two weeks vacation. Or whatever you can call it!! Painting a new house from scratch really sucks! And so does having to roll out a lawn! But now it’s done and we can now lay back for a bit to enjoy it 🙂
Pictures are here as usual.
Now I’m just waiting to set up the mortgage and start living a grown up life owning a house… geez, this moved fast!!
Woke up this morning with one thing on my mind – doing another round of painting on the house.
Then I started reading the news to find out John Hughes is dead!! What tha hell!? This guy wrote some of my favorite movies ever!
I know I was too young to “get” Breakfast Club/16 Candles the first time I saw it but with the fucked up school years I had, belive you me, I totally got it and it absolutely helped me survive it.
Ferris Bueller I still consider to be one of the funnies movies ever! When I first saw it I just rolled on the floor laughing so hard when they crashed the Ferrari it was unbelievable! Then we have the “National Lampoons”-movies that are rerun forever (see Christmas Vacation every year) and more.
(EDIT: I’d earlier made a reference to the Jackson “Thriller” video, but ofcourse that was John Landis, another 80’s icon!)
Really sad he’s no longer with us. Although his spirit lives on in his movies.
You know when you see those home-makeover shows and they paint the place in a flash? … I’d like to meet those people. ‘Cause I have a house here that needs 3 coats of paint. And after two days, combined manhours approximately 30 hours, we are 3/12 part of the way! We have done the first coat on 3 walls. That’s it. It takes goddamn forever to do this work. I don’t know how anyone could do it faster though, if you’re not a pro, but we don’t wanna dish out another 20.000 crowns to have it done that way…
Other than that everyone is proceeding according to plan. Hope to take some photos of the house now, with updated interior and the paintjob almost done. Well the first coating anyway…