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Happy Monday everyone. I hope you guys had a good weekend and are well rested for the new week. (And if so, please remind me what that feels like! 😜)
We were so close y'all. I thought this weekend was the one we were going to be "done-ish" with the bathroom to be able to hand off the final step of measurements to contractors for the sink install. (It's an undermount that has to be made into the countertop we order.) Well, that was the end goal if the painting of the door didn't crap the bed which obviously, it did. I know we should've sprayed it but I've seen about as many horror stories about clogging, splotched wasteful paint sprayers as I have about horribly rolled doors. I had to choose the one that didn't cost us more money. The Mr took the door up two flights only to see when you close the door, the interior door surface looked like little rolled paint shavings everywhere. We don't know how it happened. I don't know if when it was flipped over any remaining moisture in the paint made it chafe for lack of a better word as the other side got painted or what. Back down to the basement, uninstall the hinges then two sands, a wipe down, a blow off with canned air, and a repaint with the foam brush.
The medicine cabinet door that threw every friggin' obstacle it could both by circumstance and us, was finally hung.
It is one of those deals that I would never give a tutorial on because I would never want anyone to go through it and I stopped taking pics early on as it gave me issues. I threatened to burn that thing more times than I can count and the only reason I didn't was because 1) we didn't have the money to replace the canvas and 2) it can't remain open because you don't want to see all of your products out on display. It's so annoying. It doesn't even really work functionally because of the light we got. The light hangs down too close and doesn't let it open all of the way. We don't think it'll impede our ability to get what we need out of there but haven't tested it yet because we're too scared to. (Plus still need to be brushing teeth in the kitchen for now which is a treat...not.). If that's not enough, the bracket hangs just far enough on the bottom that it scrapes at the point we wouldn't be able to open it. Almost like a pre-danger zone warning we'll be close to the bulb so slow down partner. It's mind effingly comical. So remember all of that some year when we're finally able to do the reveal.
A project I thought I had to scrap was really making me angry about being forced into cutting it. It was to be the finishing piece of the whole project. Then I remembered stuff I already bought for some of it and it was like if I scrapped the project then that not cheap purchase would've been for nothing and we're past the return window thanks to the buffoon bathroom contractors. So I did a lot of internet searching for cheap ways to do this project and found one. I could do it for just over $100 which is about $400 less than most people spend for the real thing. I also know with certain changes that go into effect tomorrow, a lot of us are about to get some new sticker shock on items and I don't want the price to go up so I waited until Saturday to order all of the parts needed. Let me tell you I already know this project has 20 different ways it could crap itself. I know I'll be cursing it but the idea of cutting the main thing for circumstances out of our control pissed. me. off. I have birthday money I've been squirreling from my mom and his over the years so screw it.
If you read yesterday's post, you know of the overwhelm I've been dealing with and being stuck in functional freeze. I discussed still having the tree up. We've just been doing too much on the daily to block off time to make it a priority. I thought maybe I'd do it yesterday but it turned into the food prep day of hell. I made our actual lunch which was thrown together after discovering a bunch of crap Aldi was apparently out of that I didn't know about including our Brussels sprouts so chickpea mac and cheese with BBQ shredded chicken on top it is while I made a turkey meatloaf. Then made 6 burritos with brown rice, fat free refried beans and chicken in protein tortillas for lunch over the next 3 weeks. Six tomato basil protein+ penne with ground turkey bowls for the next 3 weeks. We usually have meatless meatballs with our Wednesday night pasta but those aren't on sale and not a whole lotta protein in the scheme of things so I made meatballs from 93/7 ground beef and I'll get twice as much out of that for a dollar more than I'd get from the Gardein meatballs. (I added an egg, 1/2 cup panko and some garlic powder and Italian seasoning.) I used the leftover bits to sauté the yellow pepper for the four steak and potato bowls I already have made for the next two weeks. I made four Asian pork bowls with a bag of Asian steamed veggies and a bag of cauli-rice with orange marmalade mixed in and the teriyaki pork tenderloin I had going in the crockpot with 1/2 cup of water to last the next two weeks. Three friggin' hours of cooking and I swear the kitchen looked like I was cooking for a summer camp. My back was killing me. While I was doing all of that the Mr was swapping out the other door knobs and the hinges and cutting the trim for our final project.
I cleaned up the kitchen by about 65% and made dinner and I was totally pooped. I stopped long enough to watch the "I Got Rhythm" number from An American in Paris and declared myself physically and mentally out for the night. We got some hot cocoa and went up to watch the first three episodes of Extracted before conking out.
How was your weekend?
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