Productive

Yesterday we had family over and all hands were on deck helping progress the upstairs bathroom remodel. We got the shower stall framed out and the copper piping in for the shower head. My father in law is AWESOME and my husband says he is learning a lot, enough so that we are going to attempt to finish the downstairs, master bathroom once Elida mosaic tiles, in pearl, come in on Thursday, on our own. 

Wall for the piping framed out. 

Shower base secured. I seriously cannot wait until that bathroom is done, it is going to be fantastic. Brand new everything!!! Master bathroom is going to look wonderful, too, which is a separate impromptu project that happened when the pipe fitting sprung a leak inside the wall and once again the father in law had to come to the rescue. While home ownership may really piss me off sometimes… I love being able to update my own house, continuously improve upon something. I can’t wait until the Spring when we finalize all of the irons we have in the fire out and can start the next project. 

Anyway, I got some time to myself today to do some shopping for new work tops that actually fit me. I scored some pretty awesome deals, as most people know, I am a big time bargain shopper, I don’t pay full price for anything that I can get for $3.00 at Goodwill, often times with the tags still on them, especially knowing what I know about Goodwill’s “purchased goods” versus what is donated to them. 

Scored a fantastic silk Banana Republic blouse. $3.00

Sequined Old Navy Tank Top: $3.00

Striped Old Navy Long Sleeve Tee: $3.00

Charlotte Rousse: $3.00 (gorgeous flowy blouse with blousson sleeves)

Old Navy perfect fit tank top: $3.00

Plus many others! It was definitely a great Goodwill hunting day!

 

Back to work tomorrow, two more weeks off of school then its back at it! I am going to enjoy it while I can. Utilize the time off to get some work done around the house!

 

Action packed!

Since I pulled a twelve hour work day to cover an event that I planned for the department graduates, I got to leave work at 11 on Friday and so my eight year old and I went to the zoo! We had a fun time! She and I rode the train and took lots of pictures, that I will pull off of my camera soon. It was a great day and we even got a little sun. Beautiful day for an outing!

This weekend, its balls to the wall – we have three bathrooms in this house. One is 100% non-functioning since we gutted it. As we speak, my husband and his Dad are at Home Depot getting plumbing stuff and stuff to lay the new tile flooring up there. I am hoping we make more progress soon because the MASTER bath off of our bedroom sprung a leak in the wall and the hubby had to break through the plastic shower wall to get to the leak and my father in law once again had to come to the rescue and help us fix the leak inside the wall. So NOW – the shower inside the master bath is covered with a big plastic sheet until the mosaic tiles we ordered for it come in on Thursday! UGH! Too much at once. The guest bath is functioning obviously, as a toilet since it is only a half bath. So ready to actually complete one whole project and move on to something else. So many irons in the fire right now. 

Grades are also in. 

All 4 A’s this semester. A, A, A-, A. Resulting in a 3.90 GPA for the semester and a 3.73 cumulative GPA. I have busted my tail this semester and its about to pay off.

Dean’s List award is coming to my mailbox in a week!

I am pretty proud of myself, I have worked very hard for this and next term, I will qualify for the honors society.

Now I need to get off of here and get to work on this house while the boys attack the bathroom. I’m READY to have a 100% new bathroom upstairs and an updated bathroom off the master!