When will it all be over?

Oh my freaking God, never knew or realised that having your own house would mean, you actually have to work on and in it.
It's been like four weeks now since I am working in my new house. Painting the walls, stripping a kitchen, sanding the stairs. The big chores are done now, but most of the little ones take too much time to get done. Hanging up lamps, creating almost a walk-in-closet-room. And yet I can't get help to get the feeling that I'm not doing anything at all. I don't see the progress, I just see unfinished rooms.

The living room for instance, all the lamps are hanging, the couch, diner table and some chairs are standing in it. But they are not in the right place, for the simple reason, the wooden floor needs work. It needs to be reshaped a little, sanded and oiled up. I hired, or contracted a professional, but in the two weeks I was having a working vacation, he didn't have time in his agenda to do our floor. So now we have to wait untill the second weekend of november before we can actually finish the living room. And I don't like to go to the next job without finishing the previous one. But that is all I'm doing now. I start with one thing untill I can't go further and go the a new one. It sucks big time for a orderly perfectionist like me. I like to do things in order, at my job or at home. This way I can keep chaos out of my life, I like structure and if I have found it, I like having it. My life doesn't have to be overorganised, but some structure and organisation helps me to think clearly at the tasks at hand. I do hope the floors get done in the three days, the professional said he would need.

It's the same with our bedroom, only that will take longer to finish. We have ordered some nice curtains, that needs to be made in the right length. The lady just called me last week telling me the curtains aren't in stock now and she hoped they would be ready at the beginning of december. I can't wait that long, but to cancel the order and go to another shop would propably mean that we would have to wait even longer to get them. So this means that we will have to sleep on the floor in the sparebedroom untill our own is finished. It's a good thing the new house has three bedrooms and we don't need them all as bedrooms. Like I said, one room is almost turned into a walk-in closet. The other room will be the computer / toy / cd collection room. But for now we have transformed it into our sleeping room.

The one thing I really dislike is the fact that our turtles have to be in their cleaning tank. Usually they are in their big aquarium, with lots of space to swim around, a medium sized board with a light above to sunbathe in and small stones on the bottom to chew on (at least one eats the stones too). When we have to clean this one, we put them in s small plastic box. It takes us usually an hour to clean it, so it doesn't mind that they are in a small box. But now, they are living in the small box for about a week now. They don't like it, we don't like it, but it's the only sollution we have untill the living room is completely done.

I will be glad when all this is over and I can relax at my couch which is standing in the right place, looking at my happy swimming turtles in their natural aquarium and when it's time to go to bed I can go to my bedroom and close the curtains for the night and lay myself down in my bed dreaming about all the work we have put in the house to make it our own.