(More) Home Improvement

The men are coming tomorrow to thoroughly obliterate two bathrooms (as I have known them for 25 years). Should be interesting to see if everything comes together, or if I just sigh, bear the decorating error, and hope a future owner loves it. Doing everything piece meal at least gives me the feeling that I am making progress toward realizing the house finished before I retire or stop work.

I look back on the old days as a child that the bathroom in the rental house we lived in on Alameda street didn't have a window, so it would get all steamed up and my sister would peel the multiple layers of pink enamel paint off the wall. I hated to use the room after her because those were the days of sleeping on 2" round rigid curlers. My hair was baby fine, and no amount of Aqua Net could save me from the droop. As my Mother used to say that if you live with a group of women, the bathroom always smelled of farts and perfume.

Living with a house full of men I learned that it wasn't much different, just that the sweeter side was always under represented, and the bathroom always has this weird odor of onions, rank socks, and farts. Making their rooms safe havens for them was really a cop out on my part. It seems that after the sweet milky sleepy powdery baby smells left their bodies, the damp dog smells that come from busy little boys started.

I wonder what the two of them will think of "their" bathroom? It always seems to be the first place that they head when they hit the front door, normally to leave something (like a puppy still marking its territory). Will the change be a shock to their Pavlovian selves? Maybe I can turn this into a behavior experiment.

I ma guess that the tow little ones will be facinated with the colors and design, and will have lots of questions and comments.

Hope I don't break the mirror into a thousand pieces. The last two years has been bad enough, and another seven just might make me a woman who imbibes on a regular basis.
Hang on kidneys. You thought the "Stones" were fun...........