This is a photo of my house before re-paint.
In the past few days while my wife is away to Hong Kong. I decided to pick up the phone and call the painters. My wife and I have thought about to re-paint our 10 years old house for almost a year. We are unable to decide the colors for our house. My lazy ass told me that I should have my wife to make decision on the colors, so she won’t have excuses to complaints.
So I am the man now. We are not the first few houses in my community to re-paint the house. However, we are the last few houses to re-paint the house. I decide to give it my best shot and pick the colors that we both like. At the end, it turns out very good. You can see the following photo for my newly painted house. Now, we can live with that nice color for another 10 years before be the man again. 
The funny things are that my house has the darkest based color, which turns out very good. It looks like the newest house in the whole community. The other house using lighter base color looks old and faded out. I bet my wife will love the new colors.
This is the photo of my house after re-paint. Isn’t that looking good?
It’s a good to work from home. So I get to watch them painting my house. I am very happy about their well done job. Very detail and almost perfect. I still remembered how badly the financial situation we were having when we bought the house. We only have $300 left in our bank account after we put down the down-payment. I was still a mater degree student at that time. My wife worked all the way to save the down-payment for the house. I really appreciate that.
As you can see, I have a dead palm. Personally, I have been trying very hard to keep my yard in control. The deal palm was very well grown until recently. It’s hard to keep it green without water. However, too much water and too less water will both kill the palm. To be honest, doing all the house work was fun, but it’s not as easy as I thought. I designed my yard landscape, plant the trees and put down the pipes myself. I fix my roof with my neighbor’s help. I was having some hard time to get my roof leaking fixed. At the end, everything is working fine.
This reminds me that every occupation require some talents, skills and knowledge. Why am I hiring someone to paint my house? I don’t think I can do any better job than they do even I have all the tools. It’s the same think for my business. I should do whatever I can do the best.
So what do I project myself for the next 10 years? Will there be another house or houses?
I have nice cars, a nice warm house. Material wise, I don’t need anything else. In the past 10 years, we have saved enough with our hard working. In the next 10 years, it’s time to invest more. Let the money do the work for us.
What do you project yourself for the next 10 years?
Satori and Nirvana?
My apologies Terence, I did not comment on the repaint job! I got carried away with thoughts of the future! It is truly fantastic and I hope that your wife likes it too when she returns. Congratulations.
Hey Terence – House looks GREAT! I hope the wife likes it when she gets back.
looks good Terence. I guess you are getting up and doing stuff. Is this and end to procrastination?
Thank you all!
I think my wife will like it. At least, it looks much better than the old look.
I stood out side of my house for hours and look around my communities. My house looks like the best!
Wish you all a great weekend!
That’s gorgeous! Congratulations on the re-paint. You’d be surprised what a simple fresh can of paint can do to the value (and looks) of your house. I feel like, despite poor housing markets, anything you do to enhance the value of your house is going to pay off in the long run.
Terence
The house does look good, and that’s great you are happy with what you have achieved materially. These days so many people are always focused on the more that they lose sight of all that they have.
My next 10 years are all about more travel, raising my son and becoming a best selling author. I want to be able to live 6-9 months in Australia and the rest of the time somewhere hot and Spanish speaking like Mexico. That’s the other thing I want – to become fluent in Spanish. uch a beautiful language.
Kelly
@Jim:
Thanks! Re-paint house will definitely increase the value of the house. We also feel good to see our new OLD house every day.
@Kelly:
Thank you too. Did you actually went to Span? You should definitely visit Cancun, Mexico. The most romantic beach in the world. However, all their hotels are in American style. You can find what I have said about Cancun at Dream to be a millionaire? Go to Cancun, Mexico!
You will definitely enjoy it!
Hi Terence,
The paint job looks great! You did a good job picking out the colors!
@DCR:
Thank you! My wife actually are very happy with the color. You are getting really good in 3D animation. Keep it up!