The trick to remove Construction Adhesive

Okay the ugly wood paneling is down (no offense to anyone that loves the look of wood paneling, it's just not for us). Now the trick to taking off that frustrating glue left behind, I know you are all so excited to hear that the secret is...there isn't one!

I sat and scraped with a wide putty knife, at times using the corner to try and dig my way underneath where the glue left globs. I also tried some rough sand paper. I found the wide putty knife to work best. All I did though was scrap, and scrap, and scrap, and well you get the idea. It wasn't fun. I just can't wait for the room to be done. It will all be worth it then.

Drywalling a ceiling

Drywalling a ceiling requires a lot of people when doing it by yourself. I also recommend doing some weight lifting for about a month before hand so you can better hold up the drywall.

Needless to say, when we put up the drywall for the ceiling in our Family Room, even with my parents and sister and her boyfriend were helping us, we struggled to get the drywall up. Took us several hours. My parents, sister's boyfriend, and us held the drywall. My sister helped two others on the floor to lift the drywall to the others that were already on ladders. Once we had the drywall in position my sister handed three of us drills with screw driver bits equipped and some drywall screws so we could start attaching the drywall to the ceiling.

After doing this for several hours over two nights, the ceiling is finally drywalled. Now for the mudding....

Halloween Fun

So, yesterday was Halloween and it was crazy again in our new house. I almost ran out of dum dum suckers last year, so I bought a 3.75 pound bag of Jolly Ranchers. According to the nutrition facts on the bag a serving size was 3 Jolly Ranchers and about 95 servings in the bag. Should be enough candy when giving only 2 to each kid, right? If you agree, then like me, you would be wrong! After handing candy out 2 at a time for about an hour I was left with less than 10 pieces and the groups were getting larger and larger so I called it quits so that I wouldn't have to worry about handing out candy to half a group and then running out.

I also will try something other than a witch next year. For one, I was a witchsicle after a few mintues outside. And second, I scared one of the kids coming around. He was proabably 2 or 3 years old, but he wouldn't come anywhere near the witch with candy. One of the other kids in his group came up with his bag so he could at least get the candy.