Today was a rough day for me. I spent it trying to clean the smokiest downstairs bedroom walls. It's got a long way to go and still smells as bad as before. It's going to need several washes and then some Kilz primer. Hopefully that will do it. After that I tackled the oven drawer and the floor under the stove. It was bad. It took a fair amount of effort to keep from throwing up and I was nauseous for quite a while after. The cleaning is just overwhelming and it feels like we're never going to get around to the renos. I feel grungy all the time because of all the filth we live in.
I found another cracked window to add to the list too, and that one has to be fixed before we get renters.

So, we decided to work on getting the upstairs more livable this weekend instead of starting on the downstairs. We need a clean, livable place to come to and get away from the filth downstairs when we start cleaning that up. The floors and most of the walls are done upstairs, but there is a lot more work to do to get this place really cleaned. The kitchen floor needs to be dealt with and we'll most likely rip out the tile floor this weekend.

R has pulled out the doors and framing around the big upper cabinet in the bathroom and cut out the lower cabinet under the sink (and also put in some reinforcement so the sink won't fall!). We're hoping we can bleach out what remains so we can finally unpack some of our things in the bathroom. The main area is clean enough to use, but the storage has been useless to us because it's so filthy and moldy. Pulling out the frame exposed the drywall, which appears to be original to the house. We were surprised to see there were only three coats of paint on the wall.

R decided to see what was going on with the sink drain and it turns out it was in really bad shape. Once the pipes were apart there was no way they would go back on. So, no sink for the night.

We're also both suffering from some sinus problems today because of the weeds and grass we've been handling in the yard for the past couple of days.