the real estate agent finally got someone over yesterday to look at the termites. he said he could take care of it, gave her a quote, and said he could get to it in a week or two. the quote was apparently in the range of money that bryan's mom considered "outrageous", and she vowed to find someone who could do it for less, and sooner.

meanwhile we can't really do any "construction" type work until that's all taken care of, so i've decided to do prep work instead. tonight i'll be washing floors, and hopefully sterilizing them, now that we've got the hot water turned on. if all goes well, this weekend i'd like to get over to the store with bryan's mom to pick up the new a/c unit, so i can do work in the house without dying of heat exhaustion.

dying of heat exhaustion = teh suck

then if all of that goes as planned, i'm hoping to get the first 5 gallon bucket of Kilz and finding some way to get a ladder over to the house, so i can start prepping the walls.

yay for latex interior paint and smokers. :P