FANTASTIC FIND!

OK. so, I said I was going to be sanding today and I had every intention to.. Got out my little table to put the door on.. plugged in the sander I borrwed from Kent, had my scraper and water bottle out.. started sanding.. and was completely devistated that the doors were not in good condition.. the wood was splitting in areas, and the sanding was going to take FOREVER. I came to the conclusion that I need to get new doors for the house. I went to Home Depot to look at doors, countertops, cabinets and paint.. First of all- why is it that when you want help, no one is around, but when you don't want it 5 people ask you if you want help? Today I wanted help so of course no one was around. I was in the Countertop/kitchen cabinet area for about 15 min. Finally a guy shows up and asks if I need help. I told him I wanted an estimate on kitchen cabinets.. so after the guy works on the measurements I gave him he says it's going to be like $2000. You've got to be kidding! There's only about 30 sq feet of countertop space- and I wasn't even trying to get granite! So, no new countertops for me for a while.. another thing I'll have to save up for.. Then, after finding out that I needed 20 gallons of paint to repaint the house.. (at $100 per 5 gallon- because all paint is not the same as my brother seems to think.. Glidden is YUCKY- so no wonder it's only $60 per gallon.- dang it!) I checked out the utility cabinets and they're definitely not free. I got the paint- there's no way I'm waiting to do that.. I didn't even try to look at doors after finding out that I couldn't get anything else anyway.. Needless to say with no job yet, it was a very discouraging day. Projects that I wanted to do right away are going to have to wait for quite a while now. The day however did turn around. There's nothing funnier than to listen to what 10-12 year old girls talk about. But the best thing of the day was looking on Craigslist. I haven't been on in quite a while because, well, I have all the furniture that could possibly fit in my house already.. I was just checking out to see if someone had a great deal on wood floors. No such luck today, however, I did find some carpet for only $100. The description said it was new never used- enough to fill a house. I called on it and it's still available and the padding is included! How great is that?? So, it looks like I won't have to deal with 10 year old carpet after all! I am totally excited. The lady estimated she had 1000 sq ft. or more and since my house is only 1200 sq ft. it would be enough. Halelujah! I called my sister Myrna (the oldest girl) to see if she could take me out there since she's got a truck and Kent's is broken. So, we'll be heading out there to pick it up at 1:00 tomorrow. Here's the link to check it out.. http://phoenix.craigslist.org/mat/521788968.html So Myrna called me back after checking out the Materials section of Craigslist where I told her I found the carpet.. she'd never looked there before- I go all the time looking for cabinets.. anyway- she found some doors for $10 a piece! it's like a miracle!. I called the guy and left a message. hopefully he'll call back tomorrow. He had 4 bedroom doors w/6 panels- exactly how many I need in the right size. He also has a closet door that will fit in my hallway closet.. and a bedroom closet door- all the right sizes. So, hopefully he'll call me back and I'll get 6 doors for only $60. What a deal! So, anyway, the day turned out pretty great.