I always underestimate how long it will take to complete a do-it-yourself type of project. J's bathroom has been halfway finished since summer when we finally pulled out her old cracked bathtub and replaced it with a shiny new white one. Since then, I've meant to tile around the edges of the new tub to cover the seam, find some way to finish the seam between the edge of the tub and floor (which currently shows a half inch gap of plywood), find some other way to finish the edge between the stucco part of the ceiling and the smooth part of the ceiling (also currently a gap that shows insulation peeking out from the attic above), and to repaint the walls, window sill, and ceiling. The bathroom, in its current condition, is completely useable but rather unattractive.
She has been gone for the past nine days, visiting my parents in Winter Prairieland, and I am due to pick her up at the airport in three hours. During this time, in addition to drinking a lot wine, I had imagined myself completing all these tasks with time to spare. Cheerfully.
With only three hours left before J's return it is appearing increasingly unlikely the bathroom will be done by the time she gets here. I did manage to paint the walls, and buy a new shower rod and curtain which is currently lying on the floor looking excited about being hung. I might put it up.
I also didn't come close to drinking as much wine as I would have liked.
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Sorry about the undrunk wine. As for the bathroom repairs, they'll still be there whenever you get to them. Like death and taxes, only slightly less odious. Maybe you and J could do the project together...
Hah! Well I managed to wrangle Shawn and he helped do the edging with only a modicum of complaining. Tomorrow he gets to help me lay tiles.
I figure that one should calculate how long it would take to complete any household repair project, multiply three times, and cross your fingers.
That sounds like the right formula for this one. There are other variables here too, like lack of motivation at work. I'm not sure how to factor those in, but they certainly increase the length of time to completion.
And then there is the extra time needed for climbing in bath and drinking wine and looking at the gaps and drinking the wine and wondering what it would be like to fill the bath with all your clothes still on and drinking wine and wondering whether the unattractiveness is in fact attractive in a funny sort of way and drinking more wine and laugh at the lounging shower rod and wonder why he is called Rod and drinking more wine...
Or is that just me?
P xxx
Wine in the bath! I once tried to drink wine in a hot tub and it made me feel terribly dizzy, so maybe I'll sit on the edge of tub and drink mine there. :) xx
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