So, a part of the reason we moved out of our last house, every weekend was a Home Depot weekend. There was CONSTANTLY something to fix, replace, etc, and with both of us working Mon-Fri, the weekends were our only option.

Now we’re in a new house, and I figured all that weekend warrior stuff was done. Think again. I guess you’re never actually done with your house. Last week was landscaping, this week, my oh so new favorite, DRYWALL. Man does drywalling suckkkkkkkkk. Wielding 90# sheets of gypsum, not exactly my idea of a fun weekend. But, it needed to get done. When our builder built our house, by code, they only have to drywall the walls that back to the interior of the house, and sure enough, that’s all they did. Hell, they didn’t even have an option to finish the garage at the time, otherwise I might have considered it. That left us w/ about 30 feet of undrywalled walls.  A few months ago we insulated the openings between the studs, and said later we’d come back w/ drywall.

That later happened to be yesterday. I woke up, and for some reason was feeling really ambitious, which as a sidenote, if you’re needing to do some drywall, do it on one of those days you do feel REALLY ambitious otherwise you’ll never make it. That’s some hard work. Anyway, we made our trek to pick up the drywall, brought it home and dropped it in the middle of the garage. From there we did any parts that would take full sheets, leaving the custom sections till the end. The part that really sucks is cutting. Hanging/securing the drywall to the wall isn’t all the difficult, but any cuts are a pain to say the least. Ok, so about 6 1/2 hours later, the drywall is cut/pieced/hung. It gives SUCH a different look to the garage from studs/insulation. Looks great.

Now wait, you mean I’m not done. We have to tape/mud/sand too? WTF

Well, knowing there is more work coming stinks, but there is NO WAY I would have been able to get this far w/o the help of Jen. Little did she know when I said I was gonna drywall today that it would involve her. Drywall is a two person operation, and she was soooooooooooo much help. Thanks baby. I know you’re sore too, but the rest I’ll finish and won’t bother you anymore, I promise!

I should have taken a picture of us last night. We were head to toe white from all the drywall dust. Once I get the taping/mudding underway, maybe I’ll take a few pictures.

It was definitely a learning experience for us. Luckily its a garage and I wasn’t too concerned about how it turned out. I think I’ll stick to computers though, drywalling isn’t for me!

So my daily commute consists of 80 miles of highway driving. During that time I obviously am near trucks a good portion of that time.

For the THIRD time in less than 6 months, I have had a semi blow out a tire next to me on the expressway.

Luckily today’s incident the trucks tire that blew was facing the other direction and didn’t destroy my car. But the other two times I’ve had to do evasive maneuvers to not either have the blown out tires bounce off my hood or have me drive over it.

The expressway can be a scary place, and luckily so far I’m still accident free!