A busy day

Hello.

Not a lot in the cleaning department today. Thank God. But we had some 'tilin' to do'! I was trying to install the shield around the new shower handle and low and behold...the screws were too long. Damn... if I had a dime for every time I heard that! Oops..sorry. Anyway...the screws they give you in the box mean nothing around here. Everything is recessed into the wall...gotta build a better mousetrap...you know what I mean. So we went to the hardware store and got longer ones. Guess what...they didn't work. I couldn't get them to twist in properly to the brass fittings and didn't want to f**k it up. Soooo...rather than force it (like I would normally do...) we'll just go get some different ones tomorrow. I have no idea why they wouldn't fit correctly. And I personally don't care. I did tile around the 'hole' and only have to screw the shield on tomorrow and put the handle on. I am tiling around the base of the shower, too, just to make it look better in there. And then we will do the same thing to the adjoining room.

The closet was messed up where Stan the Plumber had to beat out the concrete around the old shower manifold. We really don't like cleaning up someone else's mess...but we need the rooms back on line.

If we had the tile and the time, I would redo the kitchen counter and back splash. But, alas! We have neither.

I am nursing a Coke that is accompanying my Excedrin Migraine medication. It's preventative medicine. The mildew smells and dust from those rooms today is making some head pain. Better to be safe than sorry.

Mmmmmm...there was an ad on TV for Maxwell House coffee! It looked very, very good. I haven't had coffee in quite a while and that was very appealing.

I need to eat something and will hopefully be back later. Something more than oatmeal tonight but not sure what yet. Later.........

b