It's fun to shower at the....

When Madison was a baby I started to work out. I mainly worked out so I was guaranteed a hot and uninterrupted shower because, as my ass continues to declare (loudly), "I really don't enjoy working out!"

At some point I realized I could go to the Y, even when I didn't want to work out. I could drop Maddie in the Child Watch, grab my book and read in the lounge. Then, when I was done reading I could take a shower. Did I really go all the way to the gym and then not even work out? How lazy can you be? Pretty lazy as it turns out.

This morning I woke up, went out to my office on the driveway and then drove to the YMCA to shower. I didn't work out, dear God no. I showered and came home.

I've never felt more homeless in my entire life. Well except for the fact that I didn't really feel homeless at all because I have a house and food and a lot more comforts than most of the population of the world. So, honestly, shame on me for even feeling homeless in the first place. (Shame makes the Internet Go Round you know.)

Things are going well in the bathroom. I thought for sure we'd start pulling things out and all sorts of horrible things would reveal themselves. Like roaches and rats behind the walls. But there's been nothing but the sweet, sweet relief of tearing out crap and prepping the area for lightness and good.

Good like this:

(Two funny things about this sink. First: My brother in law, who now loathes me, found it for us about 8 years ago. Second: We've kept this heavy sink in our crowded basement for 8 years and are finally finding a use for it. This is not good for my cause because Logan is a HUGE pack rat and I'm always telling him, "If you don't use it in a season, you don't need it." I'll be amending that rule to include, "...unless it's a sink.")

And this, tile! Which is like my sister in law's but with black! I wish you could see the smile I get when I put my bare foot on this tile. After 8 years of sloppily applied linoleum, you'd smile too:

The money we're spending on John Smith (handyman) is the perfect cross between doing it ourselves/saving our marriage/hiring out all the work. It's more affordable than marital counseling or a divorce, it's way more affordable than hiring out all the work and it's getting things done much faster than if Logan and I were standing in that small room staring at each other with sledgehammers in hand saying, "What do you want to do?" "I don't know, what do you want to do?"

Today when I left for playdate I had silly secret hopes that upon my return, 5 hours later, there would be tile and sinks and toilets which flush and loveliness waiting for me.

I'll admit what awaited me was lovely in it's own way, but this sort of loveliness still requires me to do my <fingers>office work</fingers> from the satellite office on the driveway. I find it difficult to do the normal tasks I do in the home office. If you know what I mean. At the satellite office, I'm finding my <fingers>ideas</finger> are getting stopped up a little and it's making things a little difficult.

Look, here I am peering into a hole which leads to the main drain to our house thinking, "I certainly wish I was looking at a toilet right now."

This new bathroom is going to help fix something in me I think.

Comments

[Rita Arens]

This reminds me of the time we ripped out our upstairs screened-in porch down to the floor joists and built it back again.

The first year we were married.

You are a smart lady.

[Meganann]

So for a girl with no bathroom, you sure look good in those jeans. Good job to manage that with no shower or toilet in your house.

[Rhi]

If your contractor shows up every day, on time, and doesn't smell like strippers when he does; I am totally flying him out here to do my bathroom. My toilet wiggles when I sit on it - and I know I haven't gained THAT much weight.

[HER]

That ass does not look like an ass that doesn't like to work out.

[Suebob Davis]

If I squint, I can already see the loveliness.

[napacat]

You look fabulously skinny. Maybe just walking into the Y makes you look like you work out all the time.

I covet your new tile.

[jenB]

prunes. and lots of water.

i can't wait to see your can when it is done!

and your ass looks awesome.

[Kim E]

I'd probably be a little gun shy if I was doing my business out in the driveway as well but it's going to be so worth it in the end.

Oh - and nice ass.

[mamaloo]

that's a fabulous sink. and tile. and ass. here's to your new bathroom of fabulousness.

[sweetney]

love the tile -- very 1940s chic.

[chris]

You have such great taste...
I just put the exact tile in my boys' bathroom.

http://static.flickr.com/74/223648258_df800d97e7_m.jpg

[Susan Wagner]

The paint on the wall behind the sink--what color is that? Who makes it? Where can I get it?

Please.

[Melissa B.]

The bathroom is going to be most amazing when it's done and you'll want to do your office work all the time! This ass of yours, looks like an ass that works out.

Susan, I can't speak for Melissa but we have a wall that looks exactly the same color, it's Eddie Bauer (Lowe's) called Coffe Bean. It's gorgeous and warm and delightful.

[ann]

you ass looks GREAT!!! buy more of those jeans! :)

[MelissaS]

Ours is from Martha's cheap line and it's called Goose Down. It's held up fine, but it's shitty paint.

[Beth]

I cannot tell you how much I'm enjoying your bathroom renovation stories.

And so, so jealous of the sink.

And the tile.

And those jeans.

[anne nahm]

Damn, cute jeans!

[Sumo]

You might want to plug the toilet drain with a garbage bag or something to keep sewer gases from smelling up the place until you're ready to, you know, stick a toilet on it.

[CrankMama]

You sound perfectly wise to me!!

[Dani]

Seriously - I created a typekey account just to tell you the jeans are awesome.

[Jujubee Jenny]

Honestly, you seem better already, something in the way you wrote this entry, you just seem...better, excited about something. Not to mention the ass in those jeans. Who needs the gym for actual sweating!

[Susan Wagner]

Argh. I've used that Martha Stewart paint, and all I can say is damn her and her nice nice colors and her cheap crappy paint that requires THREE coats on every wall.

But it is so pretty. As are your jeans.

And thank you!

[Amy]

It's funny how many people commented on your ass because that's the first thing I also thought of as I looked at that picture. It was something like "I wish *I* had jeans that looked that good on me."

And you can have pretty Martha Stewart colors matched in any brand, you know.

[Lori MacBlogger]

Back when I lived in a crappy NYC apartment with a crappy bathroom and crappy shower, I used to walk to the gym in the morning for the same thing. No need to work out, just shower.

And as others have pointed out, for an ass that hates the gym, it's enviably skinny.

[the happy homewrecker]

We used that same tile when we redid the bathroom in our previous house. I loved it. We moved less than two years later and I'm still bitter about leaving that tile for the crappy linoleum we have now.

[clickmom]

I must say, your ass looks great in that photo, and also, I recommend a dark grey grout to go with that tile. I used it in one of our bathrooms and the dark color never looks soiled or stained, which is great since I suck at housekeeping.

I had no hot water for 5 days during a renovation and had to shower at the Y. It almost pushed me over the edge.

God luck!

[Susie]

We put that same tile in the bathroom we renovated last year. We also used a sink we've been holding on to for years. Weird.