I’m like a Squatter with a Mortgage

It’s 2 months now, July 25, that I’ve been living like this.

You know how much I like order and clean, remember my minimalist, pure-white condo?

My office looks like that, it’s the only room that’s finished. Figured I should focus on the part that pays the mortgage.

But like, Friday I worked from it… while a guy worked with a sawzal in my den.

Living like this is reeking havoc on my mind.

Squatter with Mortgage

The “To-Do” List never shrinks, and there’s a new urgency to it, the “Before the Snow Comes” List…

… I travel a lot and used up my newspaper vacation time for Targa… to go from 1 bill a month to 20 woah… next up is learning everything about hot water tanks and softeners…. if I don’t soon gravel my driveway it’s going to become “press car mud pit of despair”, and wow this home-owning thing is a steep learning curve. 

Look at the deplorable condition of my floors * But here comes another trade through, what is even the point anymore.

Finally this weekend I escaped the air mattress though, into a real bed.

And I have a ceiling again.

Had to cut the kitchen apart to insulate the attic, that was Phase 1 of winterizing-the-cottage-I-bought. Drywall dust gets into eeeeeverywhere eh.

The purple stuff: that’s the insulation! It’s spray-foam, so cool, weighs nothing, is highly effective, and helps increase the structural rigidity of a house, even.

Blog tag = house

 

 

I’m in an Ikea-Building-Party Nightmare

Remember when I bought a house-worth of furniture yesterday? Took delivery of 17 pieces at 1pm.

Was most looking forward to the bed.

2 guys kindly came to help, thought we’d have everything built by tonight.

Was that ever delusional.

It’s going to take 4 times as long as I estimated.

And was delivered the wrong slats for the bed bottom.

I took my shopping list to the store too, to order everything with a human and avoid this. And they’re not just the wrong slats wait, this type isn’t even for sale on the website.

The slats that came out of the ether.

I was so close to getting off an air mattress guys. It’s been 2 months now.

(if we’re just meeting: I bought a house, picked up the keys on July 25 and never went back to my condo downtown, been living out of a suitcase since, blog tag = house)

Ikea couldn’t have been nicer about it, almost over-compensated, so tomorrow I’ll swap the slats, plus… omg plus:

Tomorrow: 2 newspaper deadlines Friday morning, conducting an interview about auto security at 11am, then a Porsche 911 event at the Manga Golf Course tomorrow night, and it’s the last day EVER to drive my beloved Jetta because it failed the smog test so hard, and I have surgery Tuesday morning and haven’t been able to figure out how to hide that from you…

… so I’m going to sleep on the idea of putting my blog on pause for a week …. need to get this house stuff in order because the snow comes soon, which’ll be perfect blogging weather…

TTYT XO

 

 

Here’s the Plan till Wednesday (updated)

My mind is still melted, and been sleeping a lot, but it’s still not enough.

Had to be up early, because today starts Phase 2 of turning this cottage I bought, into a house.  Right now they’re using some sort of mega saw and it’s shaking my desk.

I’m going to backdate 15 posts, to complete my Targa 2014 series.

Made it to Monday, then the big blog posts stopped and think you’ll agree the following ones were rather light. So I’ll fill you in over the next 2 days, then I’ll make one main post that contains links to everything, and by Wednesday I should be done and normal blogging will resume.

And this, I need to do more of this.

Not used to being around humans constantly, have some balancing out to do. Plus there’s world and auto news to catch up on, and celebrity gossip of course.

Have a good start to your week, TTY Wednesday.

UPDATE

So it’s Tuesday night, and note the lack of Targa posts?  Yup.

I was too ambitious in estimating my recovery time guys, I’m still a disaster.  Better than yesterday, in which I barely recognized myself, could hardly form a sentence and kept bumping into things.  My mind is still mush.

Phase 2 of winterizing my cottage is complete, but even that.  And all those work boots on my clean floors… ugh, round 100 with the bucket and brush.

I used up my vacation time at the newspaper last week, so it was back to work today and wrote the news, and then this afternoon there was a window, and instead of blogging I took it …. wait for it…. went and bought furniture.

It’s been exactly 2 months I’ve lived without anything except an air mattress.  It was fine and fun, now over it, the delivery truck is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

Not going to give you a timeline this time, sorry for my melted brain!, but leave it with me I am ON IT xo

 

 

 

Targa Rally Day 4 – This is the Rally Racing Line

Right down the middle, on the yellow.

It’s different from a track, where you try get a couple wheels over the apex (which I recently discovered a knack for, when Pfaff invited me to track their Porsches [video])

And no wheels off the road, EVER.
Or in rally speak, “Do not cut”.  Big points off.

Not just because it drags gravel onto the road, making it slippery for the following competitor, but because a pothole can make things go west real fast.

 

Even a small pothole like this.