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14.6.04

m says i get all fixity sometimes.

this happens, i have to admit.

but we're thisclose to done with the bathroom - at least the parts we can do ourselves and don't have to pay someone else for - so i'm excited. we may already have a working sink. (have to wait overnite for the grout and stuff to dry before running water over it.) we have four walls, with baseboard, and a ceiling, and a floor. we have a bathmat and towels and washcloths. we have a translucent purple wastebasket. we have a vanity with a sink on top of it.

all that's left is the medicine cabinet/light fixture (which we can do ourselves, probably), the toilet (which we can't), and the towel bars and toilet-paper-holder and junk (which we can do, quite frankly, in our sleep). Maybe a little more grout along the sink.

Assuming the fixture doesn't leak.

but so i was excited so i fixed the broken tile in the other bathroom. and then i was going to do something else - i don't remember what - but m stopped me and gave me a cup of tea. as soon as the bathroom is Actually Done i can redo the stuff around the bathtub in the other one - it's all mildewy and gross, but it's hard to spend a day without a shower in summer in texas.

ooo - and it's a nice sink - i found where those fucking giant bastard roaches are coming into my house: the fucking side-drain of the other sink in the hall bath. Bastards. and sure, we've only had four so far this year, which is pretty fucking good, but two of them were last week, and the first one was in the hall bath in the sink, and the other was actually poking his little fucking antennae out of the side-drain. ballsy son of a bitch. so the nice new sink doesn't have a stupid side-drain. maybe i'm just not absent-minded enough, but i don't think it's entirely neccessary. especially since it lets those bastard roaches in.

eew.
eew.
eew.
eew.

if by not having a side-drain i can avoid three-and-a-half-inch bugs i'm all about it.

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scrawled @ 14:24