Zel-kun’s Words

So I spent Saturday working on the place where I’ll be living.  It’ll be a lot of work, but it has potential.  And having a project that’s hard work, but means something to me is a good thing.

Saturday began with picking up some stuff from Home Depot: spackle, putty knife, paint stripper, sandpaper, and small brush for the stripper.

The two goals for the day were preparing the walls for painting, and getting the paint removed from the built-in china cabinet.

So while Zai worked on the cabinet, I tackled the walls.  I scraped several coats of paint off the screws holding the outlet and light switch covers in place.  I then pried them off and gave them to Zai who wanted to clean them off and re-use them (they’re old scroll-worked metal) once the walls were painted properly.

The last person to paint the place did it quick and cheap.  He also did it pretty half-assed.  Streaks of paint got onto window sills, doorframes, etc.  Anything that happened to be on the wall was simply painted over.  Outlets, light switches, hooks, curtain and blind fixtures, and even screws and nails.

I intended to remove all these things so when its painted, it will look considerably less crappy.

My father came out to give the place a look.  He had a far more positive attitude than my mother, stating, “Your mother and I’s first place was very much like this, I think your mother forgets that sometimes.”

He also said, “I like to see you working.”  Which is a reference to how much I hate any sort of manual labor, and with my dad always having some sort of project around the house, it was a common occurance for us to be on each other’s nerves.

The day ended at around 7:00, where we quit and went back to her house to watch Spiderman 2.  So now I’m officially up to date for when we see Spiderman 3.

Zel-kun out.