Feeling like today has been a long day.

Woke up early despite staying up later than normal. Stayed in bed for a good 30 minutes before heading over to Mom and Dad's to wait for the refrigerator repair person. Unfortunately they were scheduled in the afternoon rather than the morning (like I thought I had been told) so I turned around and came home. Tiptoed around for a couple hours while everyone else slept. Eventually I started working on the walls in the den.

I'm now feeling like this is the never-ending project. Sure it was just last weekend that I took the paneling down but today productivity came to a screeching halt. I thought I would be able to finish texturing the walls so I could paint tomorrow. Think again. First, I had to pull all the stray staples out of the wall. Of course all the staples that didn't come out with the paneling were the ones stuck in the studs. So pulling them out by hand took a lot of strength and time. Second, I had to repair the gaping hole in the drywall that was revealed once the paneling came down. Regan walked by and asked me if I punched it. Hell no, I know what a pain drywall is to repair! But it was my lucky day because I found a piece of drywall in the garage (I previously thought a trip to Home Depot was in order). Eventually the hole was patched and I started to texture. It was only then that I realized how uneven and poorly taped the drywall was. The texture wasn't going on thick enough to cover up these imperfections. So I began the long and painfully boring task of patching the walls. After what felt like an eternity, I completed the job and called it a day.

The texture isn't finished like I had planned but maybe by tomorrow. So after a shower, I hopped in bed and watched The Usual Suspects. In watching the dvd extras, I was shocked to learn it was filmed in 5 weeks. Now THAT's the way movies should be made. Now I'm off to the Ridglea Theater to see Spoonfed Tribe.

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