Home fixing: Day 2

I spent a couple hours at the house tonight working in the kitchen. After consulting Ted, Brad, and the peeps at Lowes, I came up with a plan of attack for the plaster chasm. I put a hole patch in the middle and then used a mesh tape to cover the entire hole. Then I put a layer of spackle on it to hold it all in place. Hopefully 24 hours will be long enough for it to dry, as I'm planning on going back up tomorrow night to work on it some more. I toop a picture of the patch job with my phone, so the quality is lacking.

I'm discovering that I'm way too anal for this house. While in the kitchen tonight, I saw a few gaps between the cabinets and the wall and had to address them. Then I saw another crack in the ceiling and had to get that. I cleaned up my mess and was about to leave when I noticed another crack, so I opened everything up again and fixed that.

I see one of two things happening with this house.

1. I'm going to continue being a perfectionist in a 50 year old house to the point where any project is going to take forever to complete.
2. I'm going to stop caring about the little details and do quick jobs on everything.

I hope the latter of the two isn't the case. I try to take pride in my work, but I'm also dealing with tasks of which I have zero experience. So either my house is going to look phenominal in a couple years, or it's going to be a patched together crap heap. I'm leaning toward to former as of right now, though.