Yesterday was
one of the least favorite days of my life. Not this day particularly
but this type of day. And by that I mean the kind where I spend a lot
of money. That's not completely true of course but I am frugal by
nature and even as a kid I tended to save my allowance instead of
spend it and living hand to mouth for most of my adult life has
reinforced my natural tendency so when I do spend money it tends to
be in large sums. If I'm going to do something I'm going to want
something nice. With an eye to the expense vs pleasure ratio, I don't
throw caution to the wind but I don't pare it down to the bare
minimum either. This is one of the reasons it normally takes me a lot
of time to decide on things, like tile and flooring and paint color
and vanities. Will the idea that appeals to me today appeal to me
tomorrow or next week? Because I'll be living with the results of my
decisions. So I feel a bit under pressure since I have to commit now!
And commit I did yesterday.
I
bought the light fixture, the glass shades, light bulbs, the
baseboard trim, the 1” x 4”s for the window trim (couldn't decide
on the door trim), 1/4 round for the baseboard at Lowe's then it was
off to Floor and Decor to get the tile for the shower, the pencil
tiles (which involved the difference between polished and unpolished
and the price difference), the blue glass accent tiles, the marble
flower accent tiles, grout for one and grout for another, spacers,
special adhesive for the glass tiles (holy crap!), and sealer for the
stone.
I
had to get someone to help with the pencil tiles and the flower tiles
as there weren't any on the shelf so I found the woman who had helped
me on my first visit. She did find me what I wanted, having to go to
the back and root around, but she and I had a different perspective
on what would look good. She thought my design was 'outdated', I
don't care I told her. And she didn't like my idea of using a darker
grout in the flower border tile, you won't like it she said, I've
done it before and it looked fine, I told her. She thought I needed
five boxes of tiles for the shower when I thought four would be more
than enough (I had already figured up my square footage). I can
always buy one or two extra if need be but at four boxes, I think I
will be returning some.
Anyway,
it was nearly four before I got home with all that material loaded in
my truck cleverly disguised as a car and we got everything unloaded ,
it doesn't look
like much for the amount of money it represents
I fed the dog and took her outside, then sat down at my computer and
realized I should have left 10 minutes ago to go get my sister for
the yoga class that night and rushed my way out and we barely made it
in time. It was a large class last night and thankfully it was a
gentle, restorative class (they alternate on Thursday evening between
gentle and active).
I
was a few minutes late to watercolor class Wednesday because Rocky
showed up just as I was leaving and we had to have our morning
confab. The last project that we will work on the the last three days
of the class (she added an extra day) is a water scene with a water
lily. We transferred the waterlily to our paper but we had to draw
the rest ourselves and I took far too much time on my composition (you may not be able to see the faint pencil lines in this pic) and
consequently got the least amount of painting done of anyone in the
class. Here's mine...
group
shot...
you
can see how little progress I made compared to everyone else so it's
a good thing I have two more days to work on it.
Well,
Rocky might start tiling the shower today or he might install the
light fixture first. We'll see when he shows up.
