Retirement, Paint and Bathroom Finishing.

       Retirement is good. I'm sorta getting used to the idea that my phone just aint gonna ring. I really like that feeling, but at times, I do miss the paid for scenic tours I used to go on too. I definately do not miss going to work at 8 pm and hauling stuff around the bushes all night though. 
      I was actually planning on doing this retirement thing when my boss retired, but I decided that I can't wait that long. I was getting to the point to where I had instant anxiety every time the phone rang, and alot of anxiety wondering when it was going to ring. A weekend off just don't do it for me. Even ten days off don't do it,  the days go by so quickly. So I think I need the rest of my life off. lol. I don't know if life is going to be that simple or not, but I hope so. Some day I might want to go back trucking. Maybe some highway hauling into the states or something, just to see some different scenery and all that, but maybe not too. Who knows, but if ever I need or want to go back driving, I'm thinking I probably always can.
          I am in the process of educating myself to become a fairly decent stock trader/investor. I have been obsessed with the markets since the big crash in 2008. I have been pretty active in the stock market for the last couple of years now, but I do have alot to learn about it yet . It's not the easiest thing I've ever done, that's for sure. I do plan on spending quite alot of time educating myself even more on the subject once I am in the house. I just can't get enough of it.

Anyway, about the house building project. The interior is all drywalled, mudded, sanded and primed/sealed, and 2 coats of paint. I'm not sure if I'm real happy with the color or not. lol. Sometimes it looks good and other times of the day it looks not as good. I'm not a real color coordination kind of guy I guess.

      Mom was a pretty big help when it came to painting the house.  She would probably kill me if she knew she was on the interenet in her painters attire and hairdo not all purtied up and all that also. lol. Probably not, she actually picked up some paint in town two mornings in a row for me. I guess she did change into her painting duds once she got out here.  (That reminds me, I did'nt pay her for the second batch of paint yet). The first day I was going around and double checking all the sanding and prepping and cleaning up as she was rolling the primer/sealant on. We just about got done the priming on that day but not quite. The next day I finished the priming as she started painting and by the end of the day we had the whole house painted. Then the third day, both of us starting the second coat, we had the whole house painted by around 4 pm maybe. It went pretty fast anyway. I even had time to assemble the bathroom vanity that I have been tripping over for alot of months. Maybe even more than a year, I can't remember.

And there that vanity is. I need to get a top and a sink for it now. The flooring is a tile that sticks to together, but you don't stick it down to the sub floor, it is a floating floor. Each piece is 1 x 3 feet. It was nice to install. Can't even remeber what this stuff is called. Resillient tile flooring or something like that.

 This is just a picture of the heat duct construction for the register to be mounted on the base of the vanity, as shown in the previous photo. This way I'm not stepping on the register all day, and also, IF the toilet should run over, it should'nt run down the register hopefully. lol.
  I have been trying to get the bathroom done and out of the way, then life may become a little more conveniennt in alot of different ways at the hermits house. I still have some plumbing in the basement to do before it is all completely operational. Soon it will be time to pull out the wallet and spend some hard earned cash on power. Batteries and solar panels.

Disclaimer--IMPORTANT


This is a personal blog, mainly for my own use. I am building a house with my own two hands, but I am learning alot of things as I go. I do not claim to know what I am doing, or if anything I do is even close to being done correctly or safely. So please, if you are planning on using any of my ideas or methods for your own use, please get professional advice before actually following through with your actions. I will not be held responsible for any injuries or damages of any kind caused by information or comments from this blog.

I Am Free

This is just a quick post just as an update. I am unemployed as of Aug 1 2012. I quit my job. I think I'll call it retirement, for now anyway.  I just  like the way that sounds. I really needed to get out of there. I have never worked for a better company, but the nature of the job and the schedule was getting kinda old. I've been there for about 9.5 years. For 9.5 years I went to work everytime they phoned me except maybe 3 or 4 times. I can get called at 7:00 pm or 1:30 am any time for that matter. I don't think Traction missed a day the whole time either, but as you can see in the above photo, she is already trying here paw with a new career choice. Mechanic.

I got most all the drywall mudding done and I am just finishing up on the sanding. There could be some more touch up mudding to do before I'm totally done though. The whole house went actually quite well until I got into the finicky areas like the closets and stairwell. The corners were a bit of a pain , but I just about got it. How can anyone do this for a living? lol. I know it aint for me. Anyway, gotta go for now. I'll be back soon.


Disclaimer--IMPORTANT


This is a personal blog, mainly for my own use. I am building a house with my own two hands, but I am learning alot of things as I go. I do not claim to know what I am doing, or if anything I do is even close to being done correctly or safely. So please, if you are planning on using any of my ideas or methods for your own use, please get professional advice before actually following through with your actions. I will not be held responsible for any injuries or damages of any kind caused by information or comments from this blog.