Vacation?

Well, this doesn't exactly feel like a vacation, but I know I'll be happy when it's done.  Pardon the blurry pictures, but I had a setting wrong on the camera, and am too tired to retake the pics.  I spent hours today, taping off the trim in the living room and dining area, and cleaning windows.  I HATE doing windows.  My fingers are beat up, I said some bad words, smashed my thumb, and said some more bad words, but they're clean, dammit.

I ran out of tape, before I was finished.  I was almost done, but not quite.  There is a ton of trim in there.  All of the outlet covers and light switch covers had been painted over more than once, so they were hard to get off.  Kevin bought new ones, sitting by the paint in a WalMart bag in the last pic.  The taping wasn't TOO bad, but then I washed windows.

Did I meantion that I HATE washing windows? LOL  Most of our storm windows need attention.  Some need a little repair, some need replaced, some are held together with tape from the previous owners.  It made it quite interesting to take them out, get the screens out, and clean, without doing more damage.  I'm just glad the girls weren't up here to hear my mouth each time I got hurt.  Grrrr.

Anyway, tomorrow, we paint.  I'm excited to get a new feel to the place.  I have two days to accomplish as much as possible.  Wednesday through Friday is Kevin's baby.  We'll see what projects he takes on then.  For now, paint is in my future.  I'll try to get some "after" pictures up tomorrow or the next day.