Homeownership Kind of Sucks

So back in September, I mentioned that my Weekend Warrior project of attempting to paint our guest bedroom turned into a water-heater-leaking nightmare. We are still in the process of that aftermath. Here's a rundown of what's been going on:

1. The leaky water heater was replaced
2. We tore up the bedroom baseboard, carpet, padding, tack strips, and some drywall
3. We went carpet shopping at Home Depot and were overwhelmed by the quantity of their selection, but underwhelmed by the quality of it
4. We bought enough plywood to replace the entire subfloor, since most of it had mold and water stains on it
5. We attempted to replace the subfloor ourselves, but after cutting a decent sized hole in the floor, realized we were in way over our heads
6. A contractor was hired to fix the subfloor and drywall, plus pull up all the peel-and-stick tile in the utility room that got water under it, and replace that tile
7. The contractor didn't show up
8. We went carpet shopping at Yonan Carpet One based on cheesy television commercials I'd seen and they turned out to have really great carpet, but I was about to go out of town so we didn't want to make any commitments in which my husband would have been the only person home to look at color samples and make the final selection when they came to our house to measure the room. And considering that our bedroom was in no shape for new carpet at that moment anyway, it didn't really matter to put off the purchase
9. Our furnace broke
10. The contractor said he was going to wait to do our repairs until the furnace was replaced, since the footprint of the new furnace would be different and therefore, make a difference in the new tile layout
11. A few furnace guys came over to give a quote and we hired one
12. The furnace guy showed up a week later on a Saturday at 11am. He wasn't finished until 9pm.
13. We woke up the next morning to a freezing cold house. The furnace wasn't working
14. My father-in-law thought the problem might have been the breaker, so he came out to look at it, but realized this would be better off in the hands of a professional
15. An electrician came out the next day, but said the breaker was fine. The problem seemed to be the new furnace after all
16. The furnace guy came back later that night and was able to fix it
17. The contractor finally showed up and made all our repairs
18. I went back to the carpet store to make the purchase, but our salesman wasn't in that day. I left my number for him to call me 4 days later when he'd be back at work, to set up a measure/color sample appointment
19. The carpet guy came over with samples and a tape measure and we placed our order
20. I could finally paint the bedroom now that the floor and walls had been fixed, which had been my original intention 3 months earlier. I painted one wall a green accent color and the rest of the walls, a light grey
21. The carpet was installed
22. My father-in-law began installing our new baseboard
23. I decided I didn't like the grey paint color I'd chosen, but I did like the green enough to paint all the walls that color. I just didn't have enough paint
24. I painstakingly taped a plastic drop cloth around the room to protect the new carpet and baseboards
25. I went back to Ace Hardware to get more of that same exact green mixed up. It looked okay when he put a dab on the top of the can, but when I got it home and started painting, it looked significantly more red
26. I was too frustrated and lazy to go back to Ace for another try at mixing the color correctly. My husband and I agreed that the more-red version of the green wasn't terrible, so I continued with it
27. The baseboard installation was finished
28. It took forever to remove all the painters tape, which doesn't come off nearly as easily as the commercials indicate that it should
29. We finally started moving furniture back in yesterday, but were so exhausted from dealing with the rest of this mess that we didn't get very far with the furniture, so we are still living amongst piles of crap everywhere...hopefully for just a few more days

We are planning to be done with everything by the end of this coming weekend, but the way things have been going so far, I wouldn't be surprised if something else goes wrong first.