I think we’ve spent our last dollar on the twins’ room and our son’s new room (which he has done nothing but play in so far). A combination of family & friends giving us their no-longer-needed furniture, receiving as gifts, buying new and rearranging over the course of six months was all it took.

The largest purchases/decisions were actually the easiest, with the minivan only taking six hours of my life and the crib just being a duplicate that Julie spent 77 hours deciding on while I walked angrily around Rabies R Us. The smaller items and the labor involved in the rearrangements took the most time and energy by far. If I had to break it down by what I loathed the most, I would probably gripe in this order:

5. Dismantling my home studio and scattering its instruments and equipment all over my basement.

4. Rearranging our spare bedroom for my guitar lessons by re-scattering alot of the equipment I wanted out of the basement into the basement.

3. Reconfiguring the garage to fit the mini-van and my truck, which did not work any way I managed to organize it. So my truck is now out in the cold, permanently.

2. Painting my son’s new room.

1. Painting my son’s new room.

Yeah, if there’s one thing I hate, it’s fucking painting. I tape the trim and the ceiling and put down tarps and every fucking time I get paint on the ceiling, paint on the trim and fucking paint on the carpet.

I have no problem with hanging blinds or assembling cribs, those always seem to find a way towards a successful completion, but you give me a completely empty room and a wife griping over my shoulder and I will – every fucking time – screw up a paint job royally.

The only thing we have left to do is pack the bags for the hospital stay and the overnight bag for wherever my little guy is staying, since our hospital will not allow anyone under 18 into Labor & Delivery because people over 18 do not carry ze Schvine Flu.

Oh, and install the bases for the two carseats.

Bet you 5 bucks the minute I hit “publish” my wife will come up with 94 other things for me to do. *Cringing as I hit “publish”…

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