perhaps, maybe?

 A call from the Orthopedic office yesterday: they're resubmitting my request at the end of the month, so a possible August surgery!  I don't want an August surgery, because we have TWO camping trips planned, (we got such a good site for each, both beach sites, especially the Labor Day weekend site!). Plus, Sonja K. is having a baby around then!

But.  Sometimes you can plan and prefer, but then just have to accept that you aren't the boss of the whole wide world.  :)

Bathroom demo woes....oh, the sad sad saga of DIY-ing.  It's so satisfying when it's finished, but in the middle, not so much.  The door is reinstalled after having it set in the dining area on two stools for a few days, getting coats of trim enamel.  (It will have to come back off when we try to fit that vanity through the doorway to install it.). The pipes, oh dear...the way the drain pipe lines up with the middle drawer of the new vanity:  we will have to remove the drawer and attach the drawer front, so it won't really open.  We can't figure out any other way, other than move pipes around, and heck, our old vanity had three drawers too...the middle drawer lost it's bottom YEARS ago, so we only had two, and look at us, all alive and well!

I try to be so nice and kind to Paul about these things, trying to smooth over the fact that ha, he thought our bathroom was fine before.  He does it all for me, so I work on not being TOO demanding.  The other thing we figured out:  the vanity top is actually a half inch too wide for the space.  This means we make a groove in the wall and fit it in, and cover that with bead board.  Somehow.  

The girls have it all painted, so when they get home from work we are going to Lowe's to buy more bead board.  It's the waterproof vinyl stuff, safe for bathrooms.  We will need trim too, so it gets pricey, but at least our labor is free, right?  Here's how much it's cost so far:

One white one piece vanity top with sinks:  $100 on Marketplace.  This is where the whole can of worms was opened, the cookie we gave the mouse, the beginning of the cascade...because you can't put a new vanity top on an old vanity!

One white 60 inch vanity, from the Amazon return/overstock store:  $400 with tax (you can't put a new vanity in a bathroom without a fresh coat of paint!)

One quart of Sherwin Williams Symmetry paint in matte finish:  $35

One package new mini rollers:  $4

New paint brush:  $9

Shower curtain from Target:  $20. (You NEED a new shower curtain!)

Two boxes of luxury vinyl planking waterproof flooring:  $140. Why replace the vanity and the top with that old tile still in there?  Makes no sense.

Two Delta faucets:  $120. New faucets, of course!  One didn't work for a few years now, so we needed new ones at some point anyway!

Still to be purchased:  bead board, trim...and who knows?  

This whole ordeal makes one thing clear:  we should NOT start in on the kitchen countertops any time soon, as we want butcher block...and who knows what else?!

This fine morning, after the pool, I went to Costco with Kathryn and her small children.  There was a playhouse there all set up, Achilles went in and was delighted.  Miss Rhys and little Jamison were in the front of Kathryn's cart clamoring to go in that play house, so we helped get them out to go in and try out the playhouse.  I asked them if they would get back in nicely, afterwards, and of course they said they would.  When we let them play for a few minutes, I asked them if they wanted to get in my cart or their mama's, and they said, "Mama's!", so in they went, no problem.  :).   

I got croissants and a birthday gift for Sam, and a bag of Hershey's chocolate nuggets, and some Celsius, which the girls like to take to work.  I don't drink energy drinks, coffee is fine with me.  I also got a bag of Unreal coconut bars, they're like Mounds with less sugar.  They are SO good, pricey, but I try to hide them ha.  

So now I'm home, everything is put away, the kitchen is tidied up, and I'm relaxing, getting energized for my trip to Lowe's when the girls get home from work.  My afternoon coffee is almost gone, and it's nice and comfortable in here with the new AC unit humming away.  We had the windows open for most of the day, as I prefer fresh air and hearing the birds stinging, to the hum of this thing, but then it got really warm in here.

Sonja's baby shower is this coming Sunday, so exciting!   Never a dull moment...oh, and this is my very last day of being 59, I'm enjoying the heck right out of it!  Have a good afternoon!