Anger Management

The first month of moving and restoring a house is awful, there is no other way to put it. I still don't have my car, now it will be Saturday due to dip shit having "truck issues" (ie doesn't know what he's doing). We are at the store every day, as soon as we get home that's when we remember what we forgot. It's not really forgetting, it's when your cooking burgers and there's no ketchup, there's a light switch but no lamp. The pets are doing fine - Bob is still under house arrest until we are sure it's safe, the dogs went out today for the first time with just their electric collars and no leashes which was a big relief for everyone. They are not used to being on a leash so it can get a bit annoying for everyone. 

And the house. This is the first time in a long time we've had to live in the house from the start of renovation. There is a certain type of anger to it, isn't there? This house. This house was built by someone who really took time, carefully thought out and the man hours that must've gone into it. The tile floor is inlaid with hand cut dividers, the cabinets handmade, built ins in the hall, dining room. The bathroom is a bit dated, but my - it is all tiled, varnished cedar - the shower is constructed entirely of tile with a big window overlooking the creek. There is a cantilevered balcony on the second floor, on and on. And the woman who lived here - with up to 22 cats as per the postal person, managed to destroy it. She let the cats piss, shit and live in the cabinets, she probably never cleaned in the 11 years she lived here. Cobwebs, dirt, filth, everything just reeking of cat pee.

David mopped the floor. Kim mopped the floor, I mopped the floor. This morning I got Mr. Clean and a bucket of the hottest water and proceeded to hand wash the floor. I emptied the bucket when it turned black - 5 times for one room. It still smells a bit like cat pee, but it's much less. David will be gutting the kitchen, tearing out all those carefully crafted cabinets due to some one's laziness and indifference. But it's already looking better - it will be one of the biggest undertakings we've ever done, but I think it will be worth it to see this place restored to it's former glory.