On the Move

By the time you read this, DH and I will have put in an offer on a house across town and begun the daunting task that is preparing a house for listing.  And that means more renos.  And we all know how the bathroom redo went in the spring (and if you don't recall, refresh your memory as it's all in black and white somewhere in this blog).  Everything just seems to get more complicated when DH and I put our hands to work.  For instance, who has ever spent over and hour and a half to get a toilet tank off?  I think it is our "never admit your idea won't work" philosophy.  Once committed, we will persist in our clearly-not-working endevour (for the record, i do know endevour is not spelled correctly but i am committed to it so you'll just have to deal) until a) we have exhausted our known repertoire of new and exciting phrases; b) we have succeeded in breaking something; or c) one of our children appears and offers the most simple, straightforward solution (which is always infuriatingly correct).  While the toilet tank is not broken (but I must admit being tempted to hold it in triumph over my head and then smash it to the ground), the dremel motor tool blade is.  And the hacksaw is also looking a little worse for wear. Next up...crown molding and trim in the basement.  Brace yourselves, this could get ugly.