Looking back on my sporadic blog entries, I feel compelled to explain myself. And at the same time, we really have no excuse as to why we’re not done our kitchen yet. The question ‘are you done yet?’ got old long ago, but the pesky irritation of it is clearly not motivation enough for us to eagerly hack away at the finishing details that remain.

I won’t say we haven’t done anything in the past two months. Chris sealed our chute box with spray foam to prevent major air leaks, and I finished the painting. Yup. That’s about it. I haven’t told Chris yet, but my fastidious taping of the cabinet edges apparently wasn’t good enough. Paint seeped through in a few spots, so I have to figure out how to remove it without damaging the cabinet finish.

Now, Chris and I aren’t lazy people. We’re actually quite motivated most of the time, but you know what else we are, almost all the time? Tired, and busy. To fully appreciate our situation, I broke down how we/I spend our time.

Now, being accurate here is really tricky, but with all the activities we do in a week, we actually end up with about 21 hours of spare time in the week. Granted, it’s not 21 hours in a row. Obviously there’s something I’m missing here because with this ‘abundance’ of spare time, we can’t seem to find the time to do many of the things we’d like to do.

For example an hour or so extra with the dogs, five or so hours to keep the house clean, seven hours to spend together (1 /day is not too much to ask), and eight or so alone hours in the week.

Am I making excuses? Maybe so. Instead of doing this big time analysis I could’ve been removing paint from the cabinets. The bottom line is, it’s tough to set aside enough time to complete renos when you’re working full time and trying to enjoy life. I think the best way to finish this job off is by taking a week or two off and doing nothing but. Anyone want to help?