So, Neal and I worked a little this weekend on the drywall. His parents have helped us on the majority of it when they come on the weekends, so the weekends they aren’t here, we try to do what we can with just the two of us. Which translates into mostly what Neal can do himself, haha.

Here’s the deal. I’m not strong (wish I was, but I’m not). I try, but I’m not so good at screwing in the drywall screws. Our drill doesn’t have a whole lot of torque, so it takes some strength. I have managed to be able to cut the sheets of drywall with the knife, but I’m not as good as Neal is.

I’m debilitatingly short. I really am not tall enough to hold up sheets of drywall. I can’t reach high enough to use the drill because then I have no leverage. Basically, I’m useless. When Neal parents are here, the three of them are doing all the hard work and I’m scrambling around, fetching screws, drills, pencils and knives. I suck.

But anyway, Neal and I got a good amount accomplished on Sunday and Monday. Here are some updated pics. I’m warning ahead of time that it isn’t perfect, but I’m damn proud of what we’ve done so far.

This is a shot from the landing upstairs into the room. Basically, to access this attic room, you have to go to the end of the hallway on our second floor and go through a door. Then there’s a landing and short flight of stairs into the attic. We had to drywall the landing, stairs and the room.

And here’s a ceiling shot of the room. Two closets are framed out on either side of the window. We still need to finish the drywall in the closets.

Here’s a shot down the stairs. Neal and I did down the stairs and the landing ourselves this weekend.

Yay! Neal and I were able to use up some scrap pieces around this window.

For a little while, we had six sheets of drywall stacked in the office downstairs (now, there’s only two) and for some reason, Simone couldn’t get enough of the drywall! She started chewing on the paper, so we had to put towels over the ends, and she loved sitting on top of the sheets and walking from end to end. It was funny, because she had to grip the ends with her toes. We called her “grapple toes.”

Haha! She’s got some weird obsession with the drywall.

So anyway, that’s our update. Neal and I are going to do more work this weekend, and then his parents are coming up again next weekend. Hopefully we can start taping and mudding at that point! Whoo hoo!

Thanks for looking!