The shingles virus is already inside you!

Hah!

I don't know why but that commercial always cracks me up, and it's all I could think about as I glued each individual shingle onto this damn house.

This was not fun. Like, avoid this part at all costs. I had to trim a ton of shingles down with a sort of but not really 45 degree angle. Did this with an Xacto knife. It sucked. It would have been nice if they pre-cut them, but I can understand why they didn't. It did make them a bit more fragile.


Also, I wish I had read the directions for this part because then I would have read to put the angled shingles on first and go outward from there... but I didn't, so mine doesn't look as nice. Oh well, I think it still looks good, but deep down I know it could look better.

Putting the shingles on is extremely time-consuming. I only got about halfway up the roof before I stopped.

Oh!

And on top of having to cut a bunch at a weird angle, I also had to cut a bunch of them in half... but not a normal half, because remember I didn't follow the directions so my shingles aren't really lined up the way they "should" be, so some of mine are a little off. But whatever.

Anyway, this is what is done so far (please don't look at the mess in the background):

Alright, so just keep in mind this is just the front. The back isn't shingled and neither is the top of the porch. Ugh.

There goes the next five weeks /s