Sunny Saturday #2

It's been a busy weekend working in the small bathroom and great progress has been made.

Painting the ceramic tiles has been a new adventure for us and one that we are not likely to repeat. The instructions tell you to remove caulk and clean the tile thoroughly. Ed did that before we even painted the first coat, so we thought. Unfortunately it wasn't good enough. Along the shower doors and in the corners where there was silicone and caulk the paint bubbled up and peeled away. So, Ed scraped all the paint off in those areas and cleaned again. He spent quite a bit of time cleaning off the tiles, scraping and sanding them down.



Even with all of that careful cleaning, we still had spots that bubbled up and peeled off when we repainted. The whole shower now has three coats on it and the corners will definately need more paint. That will get done another day!

The new floor is in. I don't have a good shot of that yet, since there were still tools covering it. The new medicine cabinet is up. YEAH!! The faux stained glass cabinet is gone.



The new sink is in and functional, and the toilet is functional again. I can't tell you how much I missed having a bathroom on the main floor!



I baked some cookies today, some for tomorrow and some for Courtney to take back to school. She says these sugar cookies are great with ice cold Vanilla Coke.



Other happenings this week:
* We loaned out our van to a friend to transport some beds in and the brakes went out on him. He was so upset, but we were actually thrilled! Not thrilled that it happened to him, but thrilled that it didn't happen to Courtney as she was hauling stuff home from college or to Ed as he was towing the car home from Arizona.

* I have lost a total of 6.6 lbs to date. If I would get busy and get to the YMCA to exercise, I would be doing so much better.

* I completed my CPR recertification, and just in the nick of time. My certification expires this month, which means without it, I can't work.

* Ed and I are taking Dave Ramsey's course, Financial Peace University. Our budget is now set up. The sticking to it will be the hard part!

Off to finish getting things together for lunch tomorrow.