I don’t know about you, but the news these days is freaking craaaaaaazy. From the sounds of it, I may lose my house at any moment and have to wash dishes at a sleazy strip joint where they serve steaks for $5.99. (Because, let’s face it, no matter how bad the economy gets, guys will still go to strip joints and who doesn’t like a cheap steak)
So, we’ve covered the fact that, based on the news, financial Armageddon is near. You know what? Nothing feels too scary at this point. My 30 year fixed loan is still the same each month, in fact, things are a little less scary because I’m not wondering how high my property taxes are going to go this year based on a new skyrocketing assessment. Sure, I’m not seeing the crazy increases in home prices that I once was, but that’s okay. I’m still in the same house, with the same neighbors, with the same bills I’ve had for years. I know, I know. Not everyone is in the same boat. I do feel bad for all those people that are faced with mounting bills, job losses, adjustable rate mortgages that are about to adjust so far that they’ll have trouble counting all the zeroes on their payment. I guess my point is that, the slow and steady, low risk life I’m leading isn’t being too impacted…….. so far.
All that being said, we are continuing to chip away at this humoungus monkey on our back (aka: lake house). We passed the insulation inspection last week so we are ready to sheet rock. Oh man, I can’t wait. Once the sheet rock is done, we are on the home stretch. We paid $2100 to have the insulation completed and it was worth every cent. We’ll also be paying for the sheet rock to be completed. Yes, well spent. I don’t know a thing about doing sheet rock correctly and am far too lazy to hang all that rock myself. Since I’ll be looking at the quality of the work every time I’m there, it’s worth it to me to “outsource” it. Now it’s just a matter of getting the guys scheduled to get that completed. Once that is done, we’ll have a reasonably comfortable heated place to work on over the winter. I am hopeful that we’ll be enjoying the place by next summer. Sure, I could have paid someone to finish the place out but it would have come with an extra $20K+ in costs. For that kind of money, I’ll suck it up and work on it all winter long.
Here’s a shot of the place insulated:
