scratches & bruises

sometimes old-house renovation is hard. sometimes it results in scratches & bruises. sometimes these happen to your vehicle. so while trying to do some good to the house, some damage happened to chad's truck. this all happened a few months back, around thanksgiving actually.

basically chad was transporting 3/4" plywood sheets for our attic project in the back of his ford ranger. okay, okay - the sheets were larger than the bed of the truck and so...they came tumbling out at an intersection despite us doing similar stunts in the past and getting away with it. luckily some nice passers-by stopped to help him reload but there was some considerable damage done to the tailgate - as shown in the pictures above.

after months of searching craigslist, chad finally found a similar replacement for about $30.

quote of the week

"Home wasn't built in a day."

Jane Ace, The Fine Art of Hypochondria

{this picture from the attic in 2006 is proof. this was the beginning of the end for our "finished" attic, and the beginning of our electrical re-wiring project. neither of which are completely finished - but who's counting? i'm going to remember and recite this quote every time one of our family members gives us crap about the status of our house.}

bathroom tile dilemma

so we started thinking about our bathroom remodel months ago. at that time we were hoping to have started and completed the darn thing already. we haven't even started. part of it is we've been distracted by fabulous weather ... thus the landscaping and time spent outside. the other part is my utter disgust with the dust issue ... thus the attic project. the landscaping is probably finished for now (more to come next year) and we will finish our part of the attic project over the 4th weekend.

so here we are back to our bathroom dilemma. the third reason for our procrastination (always must have good excuses, er, reasons for NOT finishing projects) is the tile. omg. i thought picking out items was supposed to be the easy part. the tile is becoming such a burden. we were originally going to order our tile from Mission Tile West. but we have had so much trouble with them that i think that is off the table. i'm going to save my ranting & raving post for later, just in case we need to actually order from them but all i'll say is this: for the amount of money we were going to spend on this tile their customer service is crap. terrible. i highly would recommend not even bothering beginning a conversation with these people.

i'm pushing for us to make a decision on our tile so this weekend we're going to go to a store locally called Architectural Brick & Tile. we're going to check out the Meredith Art Tile line. online this line looks like what we've been thinking about doing. i'm crazy about this color which is way different than the pink we were thinking about buying. it's called 'seaglass'. we're still going to do the 3x6 field tiles but not sure about the rest. i'll update after we look this weekend. yeah!