1) Painters. The money we were going to use for painters before the exchange student in March is going for medical expenses. We would like to get at least three rooms and a hallway painted before then, and I'm not going to be much help through January and February.
3) Gift Cards to any of the following places:
a) Whole Foods or HEB
b) Food services like Snap! or delivery services like Favor or Eat24
(The reason for these should be self-explanatory...)
c) Gift cards from Home Depot.
(This one's a little less obvious, but there's two reasons. One reason is if there's things that need done on the house in reference to my surgery: blackout curtains in the bedroom, that sort of thing. The other is for any small repairs we need to make before the exchange student comes, or for paint for 1) above.)
d) A carpet cleaning service.
e) A local maid service for a house deep cleaning. (I'm trying to research a reliable one.)
Thank you. It's difficult for us to ask for things; frankly, I prefer to be the giver rather than the giftee. But I also have to acknowledge that this is going to be a really difficult process -- not just emotionally, physically, and spiritually, but financially as well. It's going to strain our resources. We're going to need help. So I'll put my pride and stubbornness aside and put it out there, and trust the universe to provide.
Tell us shades of pale and we're there. It's a rental, so I'm assuming neutrals. Mike and I are DIY pros. Plastic, tape, roller pans, and ladders at the ready. The boys can start hauling out stuff in the garage until Elisabeth finds the critter and kills it. I told you, Duke, anything. I meant it. Curtains? No problem! I repaired 6 legs of my high-school's stage from dry-rot with a 1920's sewing machine in a balcony with no air conditioning in July. Blackouts? Pht! Give me dimensions on the windows wanted and I will do them.
ReplyDeleteCarpet cleaning - we have a cleaner, and it's fine for the light stuff. But I'm happy to spend a Saturday morning with a rental.
Maid service - I think you have forgotten how OCD I can be. Rubber gloves, bandanna, bleach bottle and scrub brush. I come armed for battle.
You DO have local friends and you DO have people that understand and you SHOULDN'T feel guilty about that. I told you already - I went through so much crap in my life so that I could help others go through all the crap in their lives.
And suck it up, Buttercup. Being sick sucks. But you have to take as well as give, my friend. Just accept it and it will come...
With a tape measure and rubber gloves and a bottle of Clorox...but it will come.