piecing and renovating... similarities

[treesa2]

Doing bathroom renovations is a lot like piecing a marriage together ya know?
It's a helluva alot of work. Lots or patching and ripping out of old stuff before you can put up the new stuff.. and a whole whack of crap (well not REAL crap) has to be pitched!

Today, H and I went out to lunch... at his invitation. First time since before pre bomb that we went out alone together. For about 15 panicky seconds I thought I was gonna hear... "ya know... this just isn't working" pulling the ole tell the bad news in the restaurant scenario... but... I got over that one really quickly and pulled up some PMA.

Had a nice quick lunch- just too hot at home to cook even with the A/C running full tilt - flirted a bit... smiled and even though there were a few awkward moments in my opinion, we had a nice time. I thanked him, he came home and promptly started snoring on the coach rather than lay down the new floor! sigh... so damn hard to get good help these days!

Old me would have been fuming about this. I figure it will get done when it gets done... and I will just have to live a little longer with baseboards, door frames, paint, trays etc etc in the middle of my living and dining room! This too shall soon pass... when H psychs himself up to get it done.

I am considering having a bathroom open house and serving cold drinks in the new fibreglass tub upstairs, and having folks test out the new loos and rating the comfort levels and colours of the new rooms.

Let me find ALL the links to my story.. it's only been 17 months on this forum and 20 since the bomb!

Piece by piece... slowlee slowlee.... there is hope and faith and love... somewhere in this mess!

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