Remodeling

Finally picked up our custom cut 16 x 22 oval mirror for the small bathroom this afternoon. It is only 6 days late from when it was originally promised. I was going to hang it first thing when we got home, but I couldn’t find the clear mirror hangers I had taken down off the original mirror. I took them off and put them somewhere, but just can’t remember where. We did buy some more tonight on our trip to Lowes, to get the white electrical stuff we couldn’t get at Home Depot yesterday, so I’ll probably find the originals now.

We then walked next door to Hobby Lobby and bought another 16 x 20 frame like the first two, so we could hang two pictures on one of the bedroom walls and still have a matching frame covering the medicine cabinet. The final detail for the small bathroom is a new shower curtain. We’ve got a plain tan one in there now, but we are waiting until we get the bedding for the adjoining room, so we can coordinate. We are fairly sure that we are getting this set – Chaps Nantucket Garden Plaid Comforter Set. We want to go back to the Kohl’s in Augusta on Friday and take one last look though.

Most of the Economic Stimulus check is going to something sensible, making a big payment to the credit card we used to finance the bathrooms remodeling, but the CFO has authorized a small stipend for each family member for a frivolous purchase. Right now I am captivated by these Blue Sun Travel Posters. I can’t afford to frame them and I have no place to put them, but then again if I could and did, it wouldn’t be frivolous would it?

We have taken next week off from work and unlike the past few years we are not flying or driving off to the opposing corners of the lower 48 states — we are staying home. When asked where we are going, I have been half kiddingly telling everyone at work that we are going nowhere because we spent all our money on remodeling the bathrooms.

The truth is we are going nowhere, we’re staying home, but it won’t be all pina coladas by the pool for me, mainly because we don’t have a pool, but because I have rooms to paint, the two “new” bathrooms, two bedrooms and the hallway between them.

Plus the outside of the house needs a spring cleaning. I need to blow all the oak pollen clusters off the roof and the siding needs to be pressure washed. I’ve got a bottom-of-the-line pressure washer that I’ve used the last couple of years on the deck and when I mentioned I might even do my driveway, buddy Mark volunteered to lend me his gas powered 4.5 HP Troy Built pressure washer so as to speed up the process. He gave me 2 pieces of advice for using his washer compared to my wimpy unit; 1} don’t spray anywhere near your window screens because you’ll cut right through them like a hot knife though butter (don’t ask him how he knows) and 2} if you have no shoes on and see a spider, poisonous or not, walking across your foot, do not try to spray him off with the washer, trust him, the spider bite would be immensely less painful.