Bathroom Madness!!!
Well, my obsessive tendencies showed their ugly head again the other day. Looking back through those blurry neurological highways of memory, I suppose my life has been a series of obsessions. When I was on my 8th lap around that star we call the Sun, my GI Joe collection had swelled to the size of a small army (sorry for the bad pun). Is was about this time that it was only natural I buy out all my friends collections and make them promise never to buy another GI Joe again. My older Brother was an easy target in my hostile take-over, giving up his modest collection for a couple of Transformers he'd had his eye on and a few Canadian bucks I'd hoarded from picking raspberries. One by one, I bought my friends out of the hobby, until I had over 200 of the little plastic bastards. My next obsession seemed to have even more velocity. Hockey cards were the primary preoccupation of my life for nearly 4 years, until the entire market was so slimy with cheaply and massively produced cards that I decided to fold my cards (another terrible pun!). Several obsessions followed over the years, including by not limited to: bikes, knives, girls of course, guitar equipment, CD's, DVD's, computer crap, etc. As I said before(and when I say 'said', I mean 'typed'), it was just the other day that a new obsession smoothly crept into my life; home maintenance and repair. I noticed the main bathroom of our recently purchased first home was in a state of disrepair. The dingy wallpaper and musty smell encouraged me to start what I figured would be a half hour project. First I began to peel back some of that dinginess to reveal a white coat of paint. A few moments into the project, I figured it was best to tear out the entire sink. If I was going to address this wallpaper situation appropriately, I may as well temporarily take down the medicine cabinet as well, and of course if one is to remove a medicine cabinet, it's only best if the bathroom closet is torn apart too. A sink, a mirror, a closet, a floor of linoleum, the molding, two panels of drywall, some insulation, three shelves, and a significant portion of the subfloor later, it struck me that this 'little project' had become a monster. I felt like one of those Hollywood types who shaved just a little too much flesh off their face and don't have much left to work with. The general appearance of the bathroom had gone down the drain!! (Last pun I promise!!) It just so happened that an old friend/web-client of mine was in contact with another old friend and now carpenter, who had just the talent to remedy the situation. After $41.36 worth of supplies at Home Depot, and $96 in the generous pocket of my carpenter friend, we have a new bathroom floor!!! Sure the wall's missing, there's no sink, no mirror, no closet, and patches of dingy wallpaper, but the musty smell is gone and we have a fresh canvas to work with!!
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