Of Merlot and Polyurethane November 27, 2006
Posted by spacemom in : Kids, Home wreckers, In A Family Way , trackbackA few updates first: Mom is home. I tried to call today, but they were doing her discharge paperwork. This is good news. Apparently the hardest thing has been her arm (what you say?) Yes, when they did a blood gas test on her, the phlebologist accidentally went all of the way through the blood vessel. She has blood leaking out of the other side, but it should heal in a week or two.
Soleil is a nutcase, but she’s MY nut case. We discovered that one of the playgrounds we had frequented, but stopped due to the wood decaying, had been replaced. The new playground has a "rock outcropping" complete with fossils. Soleil discovered the trilobite fossils and immediately told everyone she could find. I had one mother roll her eyes and then snark at no-one in general, "I’ve never heard of a four year old who knows trilobites" I looked right at her and said, "yeah, she discovered them at the NE aquarium during the jellies display. They listed some of the animals that were living and became extinct during the time that the jellies have been around. The woman shut up. I swear, what, do I flash card the girl? NO!
Okay—-
I enjoyed a nice glass of merlot tonight as I was polyurethane some doors. Yes, I am back at it. I am terribly envious of people like Mrs. Figby and Chicagomom, who can do retail therapy AND look good doing it. Me? I need to change something in my house. And I have to do it myself. Screw contractors, I have to do it. Jay threatened me this morning with writing "It’s my wife’s fault" in the saw dust on his hood this morning.
Our house was build c1960. The main bath has the original vanity. Flat doors, boring handles, etc. We replaced the handles early on, removed the wallpaper (that had foil!! FOIL PEOPLE!) and replaced the death star globes with mini pendants. But, the vanity… I couldn’t take it any more. I took off a door and SANDED it. The stain that was half worn off came off with ease. I restained it, cherry and polyurethaned it. Jay said,"Why not do the whole thing?" So I took the other 3 doors off. Tonight I polyurethaned them. I had sanded the doors last night and stained them also.
During the girls’ TV time, I started sanding down the main of the vanity. I had quite of a bit of work to do, and I had to stop when I needed an extension cord. I’ll finish the sanding tomorrow and then stain once the girls are asleep. Then I might actually finish this by the weekend. It was not my plan, but hey, what can I say other than I need a new hobby…
I need more merlot to deal with the girls. We spent yesterday dealing with the defiance factor and today was much better, but I still give SAHM tons of credit. I would have hung myself years ago if I didn’t work.
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Glad to hear that your mom is home, what a relief!
Phew, Mom is home. Rock on for putting the trilo-bitch in her place!
That playground sounds cool, up for a playdate next Spring?