Today is day the 5th day I’ve gone without a cigarette and it’s been rough. I’ve been blogging about it here, sorry I hadn’t started one on the sheley.org blog, but it was just quicker to post it on the forums because I had that messed up style on the blog.
It’s been rough, during our art show I really wanted a cig, and today I had a friend over helping on the house and he would go outside and smoke and I wanted one SO BAD!
The pills make my stomach upset too, I’m thinking about giving up on the pill and not start up.. I’m not really sure what’s in the pill, I guess I should check it out. I know you need to eat food with the pill, and I try but it’s not always convenient when eating dinner or lunch.
The house in 90% finished! it looks so good.. I’ll get some new pictures up asap, we had a realtor over today and we should be ready to place a sign in the yard on the 14th. I have a good feeling about the house, I think it will sell quickly.. With that said, my teacher has had his house on the market for a few months now, and they are living in their new house.

It’s been a long day, and I think the next week is going to be non stop balls to the wall!! We have more the work done, but now it’s clearing the house out and staging all the rooms to look the best

off to bed
-Brandon

Hey guys,
I know I haven’t been on here in ages, we’ve been working on the house and finishing up school and work.

I’ll get you all updated soon

Here is a blog on the forums that has been updated since the last time I stopped by here.

later
-Brandon

I mentioned in the news post that we have been working on the house. We are fixing up the house in order to list it for sale. We were planning on showing it the end of this month, but the amount of work that needs done and the amount of time we have don’t match up. We’ve hired a friend of ours who is a contractor, he is doing most the major stuff then lis and I have been doing the painting and smaller stuff that I know how to do.
So far we have put a new fluorescent lamp in the extra bedroom and put a new ceiling in. The old light only had 2 tubes, the new one has 4 fluorescent tubs in ti and let me tell ya.. It’s bright in that room now! Like I said, it’s the extra bedroom, it’s where my closet is and mostly just a storage room for all our stuff..lol
The other room we’ve worked on is the bathroom, We ripped down the wall paper, only to put up new paneling.. go figure.. We added some trim and have spent the last few days painting the walls and the cabinet and doors. We got new nickel knobs, towel holders and new faucet.. Everything is up but the new faucet, I need to wait for the snow to melt so I can go shut of the water.
Let’s see, what else have we done.. Oh, bought new carpet for the front and back rooms, it’s in the shop but we still have more painting to do before it will go done. All in all, the house should look pretty top notch, we have some landscaping work to clean up as well before we can sell.

I’ll update as time goes.

cheers
-Brandon

Hey guys,
Last weekend Alissa and I were at the store and started looking at one of those 12′ x 3′ ready made pools. I picked one up monday, set it up, tore it down, set it back up, tore it back down, and set it back up again. The first 2 times, I didn’t like to spot, the last time we just went ahead and set it up on the grass. I know it’ll kill off a big circle, but we can plant more grass when we go to sell the house.

You can see the side trim for the shed that I still need to finish painting here

We helped a friend move the other day and she had 2 air rafts, 4 chairs and an outdoor table and she gave it all to us

Well, I need to go work on the back yard some more, I’ll post some pics if I ever get it all finished up.

Oh, one more thing, we tore up the back room a few weeks ago and added a ping pong table.
Here are some pics of that.

and here is a picture of the floor for those that seen the old carpet that we had before.. For those who didn’t see it, it was old 60’s style blue shag..

and here is a picture of the puppy to go out on

Well, I need to get back to work. I still need to update my work blogs too..
cheers
-Brandon

Here are some pics of our latest project