the plight of the do-it-yourselfer

sooooo...of course i didn't buy enough cement boards so i headed for the hardware store at 6pm wearing a shirt and shoes. and of course they ran out of cement boards since i need them by tomorrow. so i drove all the way to home depot and bought 4 more cement boards. then, in my infinite wisdom, i stacked all 200 lbs of cement on one side of the cart and it started leaning like il Torre di Pisa...and toppled over before i could yell a dozen expletives. 2 hours, three cities, and a plethora of side streets and stop signs later, here i am, thawing by the radiation from my preeeeeeccioussss...my computer. all in good time to peel my socks off my feet, not wash my hands, throw on my pretty blue apron, bust out me whittle, and whip up some delicious steak curry up for the parents. stay tuned for more.

remodeling the bathroom by myself...seemed like a good idea at the time

made some measurements and did some planning...

made a shopping list...

window guy finally came and took the window out...

...and put an aluminum frame window in.

i did a lot of demolition after he left...

bought a hepa filter cause my boogies turned white from all the dry wall dust...

finished demolition next day and hauled 250 lbs of 3' x 5' cement boards back in my lovely camry...

barely managed to carry them in...

spent half an hour scoring and cutting a single piece of cement board using this dinky utility knife...

put up my first piece of cement board...

and left it this way since.

Gary Jules - Mad World

Kiwi!