AnonymousCoworker

This chick and some other broad planned some thing at some place tonight. If you’re in the area, you should go. All the cool people are doing it.

Ever prescient, Sweetney gave me the lowdown on spackling way back when I asked for hints and tips on having a new home.

I had done teeny-tiny amounts of patch spackling when she mentioned it in her advice, so I felt like I knew what the story was. I was so very, very wrong.

Our house is kinda small since it’s a duplex, so we have no idea why the previous owner would have blocked off the door between the living room and the kitchen. You can see in the following links to pictures of the house before we bought it that the doorway was replaced by a pantry in the back of the kitchen (link to big-ass kitchen image) and a wall in the living room (link to big-ass living room image) where the door would have been between the horrendous white tiger picture and the tv.

We have since fixed that error with (in this order) a screwdriver, a hammer, 2 razor blades, a jigsaw, a drywall saw, a prybar, drywall, drywall tape, cornerbead, about a million drywall screws, and 35 pounds of all purpose joint compound AKA spackle.

I’d show you pictures of our new door, but ACWF has temporarily misplaced the digital camera. But we still have a few rooms left to organize, so it’ll probably turn up there.

In the meantime, when your buying all purpose joint compound and you wonder whether to get the 1 gallon bucket for 5 bucks, or the 5 gallon bucket for 10 bucks, go with the 5 gallon bucket.