Summer Projects...mostly.

I went home from college last summer to visit for a month and immediately was assigned my ration of home improvement projects. My biggest project was to attack the upstairs bathroom that had mold growing out of the walls. A word to the wise...don't have the door and the window closed when scrubbing walls with Clorox...it leaves you feeling like you swallowed an entire glass of pool water. In any case by the time I finished with the Clorox and the Kilz paint the bathroom was a sparkling white. That just left me with the challenge of removing part of the toilet, so I could paint behind it. Unfortunately, the screw holding it in place was completely rusted, so though my little little brother tried to come to my rescue and hold the screw in place, his little arms just couldn't do it. Daniel, my older brother, and I then tried to do it. Well, that resulted in me yelling at Andy, my big little brother, to help me the minute I heard him walk in the door with the result of him running up the stairs and finding me with my head and half of my body squished between the toilet and the wall. Yes, it was as unpleasant as it sounds. In the end, Daniel and Andy were able to remove it and dump all the parts in the tub.

Another word to the wise, when you drill hundred of tiny holes in a cupboard for seemingly no reason, you make the poor girl having to fill those holes with putty hate you. Just saying.

Anyways, I finally got to the point where I could start painting. Soon the walls were a beautiful shade of green with a tan trim. Then came the most exciting part...decorating. My mom and I decided to go with a beach theme. Mainly because that's what Fred Meyer had that matched the colors in the bathroom. (Dear Fred Meyer staff: putting perfume on EVERYTHING only gives customers a giant headache.)

Unfortunately, the bathroom didn't get finished that summer because a lot of the hardware still needed to be replaced, but six months later when I came home for Christmas, it was all finally done!