A Git 'R' Done Weekend....?

Okay, so another very stagnant week. I'm helping my sister with wedding planning - she and her fiancé decided a couple of weeks ago that they want to move their wedding date from late June 2013 to January 1^st, 2013! EEK! So, we are re-configuring a June garden wedding to a January "winter wonderland" wedding for 150-200 guests - And we only have 2 months to do it! 

Jordan and I are back on track for 10 hour work days, so we could work on the house, if it wasn't for the mild-panic wedding planning. I have spent 5 out of the past 7 evenings with Amy and/or vendors working on things for the wedding and shower. It’s totally fun, don’t get me wrong, but I’m afraid that our goal of having the house done by Christmas has gone up in flames… Sniff, sniff…

I still want to have the living room, dining room and bedroom done by Christmas, so we can enjoy Christmas morning in our real “first” house. And if we get lucky, I’d like to finish the master bath and guest bath (which is almost finished – yay!). So I am trying to pack every spare moment, not at work and not working on the wedding, with the house projects. 

I have very possessively guarded our weekend this week. I am dress shopping with Amy tonight, but as for the actual "weekend," we might be in luck... Aside from church Sunday morning and lunch with friends after, I think we may have protected our schedule enough to get something accomplished!

Stagnant Progress

Well, let me start this blog post off with this: Huuuuuh, sigh…. I desperately want to sign in and start typing about all of the wonderful projects we’ve gotten accomplished since my last post, but unfortunately, that isn’t going to happen. We have become victims of feeling sorry for ourselves… Absolutely packed 12+ hour work days, plus working on the weekends have somehow convinced us that we are completely justified to come home at the end of the day, change into PJs as quickly as possible and crash on the couch with take out and Netflix – not moving until time to brush our teeth and go to bed. I think this week all we managed to motivate ourselves to do was clean up after ourselves and take out the trash a couple of times. We’re pathetic…

On a lighter note, our three nieces are coming over tonight! We’re pretty excited about that. We used to spend tons of time with them, but with their cheerleading, dance and basketball schedules and our schedule with work and the renovation, we never see each other anymore. Planning a fun night to make up for it, though. Taking them out to dinner, then at our niece, Maddie’s, request, we are going to attempt to make cookie bowls for our DIY sundae bar. Our other niece, Anisa, is very 'crafty' and very into DIY. So, I’ve been trying to think of a project we could do on the house that would be unique – something I could show people when they came in and say, “Our girls did this.”

As far as the project ideas go, I’m drawing a blank… I thought about some of the vinyl wall graphics, but that isn’t particularly unique. I also thought about doing an outdoor project, but it’s raining. I could have them help me paint, but that sounds more like child labor than an exciting venture. I’m stumped. At least I have the next 10 hours to think of something... Hmmmm.... Pinterest, here I come!

1 Long Week + 2 Fast Food Loving Men + Only 1 Toilet (which is connected to my bedroom) = 1 Unhappy Christy

Well, as I've previously mentioned, long work hours for this family lately. Unfortunately, there isn't really a light at the end of the tunnel, so we are trying to persevere on house projects. Last weekend, Jordan started laying tile in our 10'x6'ish guest bathroom. We took the toilet out of the room and laid a few rows. But, with multiple interruptions (like a yummy lunch with the in-laws) we weren't able to get very far. Each night this week, with only an hour or so of time available to work, he continued to lay a handful of tile - Still without a toilet. 

I think I've also mentioned that my younger brother stays with us sometimes. For the most part he hangs out in his room on the other side of the house and we aren't home much anyway, so we often just see him in passing. Though we don't see much of Adam, one thing is unmistakable - there are two grown men living in this house who eat a lot of greasy food… Ahem, if you know what I mean… Up to this point in the renovation, we have had 2 of 4 bathrooms functioning: Adam &
 Jordan's "guy" bathroom - with a heavy duty exhaust fan;
and Christy's girly bathroom, where all my hair and beauty products live. With this especially delayed project, all bathroom activities are taking place in MY girly bathroom – which happens to be the master bath, meaning the door to the bathroom is literally like 6 feet from my nose when I go to bed! Sigh… Not to mention performing my getting-ready-for-bed routine in a restroom where I have been outnumbered by stinky boys all week. Try brushing your teeth in a room where someone has just “made a deposit” (as my accountant husband likes to say) after eating Chinese food, a bacon double cheeseburger or spicy chimichangas! Yikes!

I thought the nightmare was almost over, the plan was to finish up with the grout sealer tomorrow, invite my dad over so he and Jordan could reinstall the toilet and restore peace to the household once again. But…. (always a but) … Jordan has to work tomorrow – ick. Now, I might have to be the one to help Dad reinstall their icky boy toilet! (By the way, I checked it out yesterday – new rule: Each guy has to take a turn each week cleaning that toilet! No more “every man for himself” cleaning methods!).

Oh well, I guess - A quick stop for rubber gloves (maybe some pink ones!), a clothes pin and a ponytail holder and I’m on it – Apparently I’d do almost anything to get my bathroom back!