The Never Ending Story ...

OH ... that bathroom will be the end of me!!!

Day # (... I lost count) all I know it's been too long without a shower and a complete bathroom and I am starting to slowly but surely LOOSE it!

All went great until we started grouting the tile yesterday Morning.
I can say with 100% certainty that I most definitely and completely, absolutely and deep-heartedly HATE grouting tile!

HATE IT - HATE IT - HATE IT - HATE IT - HATE IT - HATE IT - HATE IT - HATE IT ...

Man ... this thing is kicking the crap out of us! And it all started so fun yesterday morning ...

Ha-Ha - world ... look, we are having so much fun!

Cleaning the grout for grouting ... aw ... remodeling bliss!!!

Everybody is STILL smiling ...

Dork ... just being a DORK

But then it got ugly ...
Yesterday afternoon I threw the spatula and the super-sticky sponge, after hours of frustrating work and stomped out of the bathroom, leaving Pat to fight the grouting war by himself.

Instead I used the entire 5 gallon travel shower to scrub off that sticky-icky stuff and then sat on my backdoor step and let my head hang LOW in defeat.

Pat finished the grouting by himself.
It took him 6 hours for just that little piece of wall.
The YouTube guy said we could do it all in 40 minutes ...

Lesson #1 of the day:
NEVER trust YouTube instructions .... they LIE! They tell you 40 minutes and 6 hours later ...

We had to use a specific grout type for tubs to avoid mold building and such and that stuff hardened within seconds and cleaning the grout line after you filled it turned into a complete disaster.
But at 7:00 PM he was done ... we started at 9:00 AM that morning!!!

Luckily we have Super Aunty Julia in the house!!!


While we grim-faced slaved our way through the bathroom agony, the Ls and Julia took off to have some much needed aunty-niece-fun

The day before she had taken them  ...

MOVIES

4D na-course!

and made cake with them ...

Thank God my mom popped out this "little" girl some 20+ years ago because she sure is a saving grace ... like she has been so many times before!

After he was done grouting, Pat got his "second wind" and decided to lay most of the floor tile (until midnight).
This way I could sand and paint today, we could finish the floor and then move in the toilet, sink and cabinets tomorrow and actually be able to use the bathroom again.
YEAHHHH ... just one more day, two at the most!

So we THOUGHT BUT ... NOOOOOOO ...

It shall not be that easy! Where would be the fun in that?

NOOOOOO!

Lesson #2 of the day: Thick-setting mortar does NOT dry within 24 hours as the thin setting does.
NOOOO, the thick setting mortar only takes 3 DAYS to dry!!!

Threeeeeeeee F^$^&$*^%$*^$ Dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyys!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Awesome, by Thursday evening we should be able to walk on the tile, paint, grout and then maybe by next Sunday or so we should be able to use the bathroom again.

BUT that's just an estimation at this point ...
I am sure we can delay that day a few more times, if we just try hard enough.

I fear I have lost to see the humor in all of this about two days ago.

Now you just see me walking around with a grim face, looking evil-eyed at all the freshly showered and groomed parents dropping off their clean showered, prim & proper kids at school.
Grrrrrrrrrr ...... grrrrrrrrr ..... hizzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!

waeaeaeaeaheheahaehaeh .... When-oh-when will it ever END????? waeaehaehaehaheaeh ....