What a crazy weekend we had. I've been thinking about how to document how the Eislebens do home improvement, and decided just to create a timeline. Hopefully your imaginations will do the rest.
RENOVATING THE MASTER BATHROOM
9:00 a.m. - Joel talks to Phil about how to pour a concrete shower basin. Phil suggested practicing by building a box out of plywood and 2 x 4's. I suggested he not put the box in the middle of the yard. Joel says, "If I get real good at pouring concrete, I can fix our driveway curb."
10:15 a.m. - I suggest putting a pedestal sink in the hall bath and moving the hall bath small vanity into our master bath. Bad move. I should've suggested in my head and not out loud.
10:25 a.m. - Joel gathers his tools and disappears upstairs.
10:45 a.m. - The master bath sink/vanity is sitting in our bedroom. Yay! That thing is U-G-L-Y.
(At this point, I'm swooning because of Joel's above-mentioned spontaneity and passion)
10:50 a.m. - "Before you move that upstairs, I say, I want to wash the floor." "Already did it," Joel said. Yessssss. More points.
11:00ish a.m. - Downstairs hall bath vanity/sink disconnected, moved upstairs, installed. Wow! This is going well!
3:30 p.m. - Load up kids, head out to find a pedestal sink. As soon as I stepped into the Lowe's parking lot, I realized I still had on my black sweat pants with paint stains all over them. Great. I hope I don't see someone I know.
4:00 p.m. - Comparing pedestals with vanity combos, we realize they have our dream vanity. Back to the pedestal. Stare a while. Back to the vanity. Stare a while more. Check out the P-Trap Kits (cause of course, there's a leak we didn't know about until the disconnection process). Back to the pedestals. I say, "Whatever you want, I'm ok with." He says, "It's only a $_____ difference, right?" "Right," I say, trying to remain neutral. (Really, I'm just praying we find something because there's a vanity sitting in my bedroom and no sink in the hall bath)
4:30 p.m. - We decide to get the dream vanity. They have 2 in stock! Yay! Wait, no they don't. Their system says they do, but they don't.
5:00 p.m. - On to Home Depot. Maybe they have it in stock. They don't. They actually have next to nothing.
"Mooooooommmm! I'm hungry!" Oh yeah, it's dinner time. And I'm still in my sweats.
5:15 p.m. - On to Menard's. (Sitting in the parking lot, we're trying to remember the jingle...oh yeah..."save big money at Menard's). Here's hoping. Walking down aisle #2, Joel says the best line of the day, "Save big money at Menard's my **." Seriously. Horrible decision to go there.
5:30 p.m. - Home we go. No vanity. Still in sweats. Hungry kids. Vanity in my bedroom. Joel starts disassembling the hall bath he moved from downstairs to upstairs, moved it back downstairs, reinstalled it. I did my part and moved our toothbrushes to the girls' bathroom, took a shower, and put on a clean pair of sweats.
5:40 p.m. - Quick trip to HyVee for dinner materials. On sale: "Lint-Free Cheese Cloth." Cause other cheese cloths unfortunately have lint, thus resulting in linty cheese. Really?!
Sunday morning, 10:45 a.m. - Head to Lowe's to actually buy the P-Trap Kit to fix the leak and order the dream vanity. "Oh, the system says we have 2 in stock." Blah blah blah. We've been through this. They look for it, tell me something must be wrong with the system because they've been looking for it for 3 weeks in the store (it must be hiding...it's a small item, you know...), and order it with an ETD 7-10 days. Fine. No need to clean the bathroom, or the bedroom for that matter, for a couple weeks.
Monday morning, 9:30 a.m. - Make arrangements for someone to come pick up the ugly vanity sitting in my bedroom and give me $50. Only 5 more hours until we see if it's too good to be true.
Who's tired?!
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