Back to the Projects Weekend Recap

Howdy.  I hope you all got to have some fun and relaxation this weekend.  Friday night I stained the wood bun feet I got eons ago for the fireplace hearth we made for the bedroom fireplace.  Even when sitting up in bed we can't really see the flames despite the hearth so this solution has been a long time in the works.  I used ECOS dark walnut stain and general finish dead flat poly so they were ready to roll when we were.  There was some spackling that needed done that was, of course, more labor intensive than it should have been but that's the law in this house.  Maybe our land is cursed?  Speaking of cursed, that wench vein doctor sent her bill which the Mr was apparently expecting but I wasn't.  You can imagine kissing over $1600 goodbye I wasn't planning on parting with made me want to immediately cancel my birthday plans which come out to about that.  

We did get out for a little bit and grabbed lunch then got in about four geocaches in the area after visiting his Aunt Marie.  I wish we would've spent more time with her when she was here but sadly we don't seem to appreciate people until they're gone.  We had several nano caches again which are irritating but I understand why they need them.  I worked on a Thanksgiving and Halloween design that truly drained me.  Hopefully when I release the Thanksgiving ones, you'll find them as funny as I do.  

I think I'm laying off of the scale for a while.  The only thing I've succeeded at doing is somehow gaining two pounds this month despite exercising 6 days a week and going the wrong way since adding strength training.  My brain just cannot continue to take the weekly disappointment with everything else going on and the next 2-3 weeks I will be swollen from the vein procedure which means more upward motion.  I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and somehow figure out how to undo 49 years of crap sleep which I think is a big part of why I have never been able to consistently lose for a long time.  (As I type this on my phone at 1:12am)

Sunday the Mr took care of grocery pickup and I made a light breakfast.  We got the feet installed on the hearth and the fireplace back in place and tested it out and it'll be perfect for cozy time.  We got to talking about the long put off baluster project from last year and the part that brought him the most anxiety to install the new ones.  A piece of wood needed to be fit in there and yesterday was the time to do it.  He worked on that and checked that off the list.  We talked about getting the old wood ones off so I could scrape the top rail.

(Regret loading in 3...2...1)

It took a little while to get those popped off while I was working on them and 23 seconds when the Mr went at it.  The Mr started wiggling the unscrewed balusters (which were also nailed in and painted on) and on the second one...boom.  Power outage.  It was like God saying "no.  Don't do that."  We got the power station hooked up to the fridge since we'd just gotten groceries.  It's usually only out about 45 minutes and it was lasting longer.  In between the Mr kept pulling down more balusters

Since the fridge had been off for 25 minutes due to the drained power station, we knew we couldn't afford to open the doors to keep it cool for the next hour we had so we had to grab pizza for dinner.  While he ran to get dinner, I continued scraping the stringer above and of course, 3 minutes before he got home, the lights came back on.  I wasn't much in the mood for cooking but just felt like the universe's comic strip timing making me feel like crap about our dinner decision.  😔

Then it was pretty much chilling the rest of the night because my shoulders were feeling it.  Thanks so much to my honey for all of his hard work this weekend.  We had to get it in now since I don't know if I'll feel like doing much on the home project front the rest of the week with my vein ablated leg all uber wrapped and such.  Today we both have a chiro appointment to take care of any issues that may linger from yesterday.

How was your weekend?

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