Two Showers, Two Weeks

Yes you heard me correctly. Two showers in two weeks. That is what I have 'enjoyed' thanks to my husbands absolute NEEEEEEEED for a do it yourself showcase tile shower! It is the hazard of being married to a person who is in the homes of the rich and nearly famous every single day. Unfortunately he has not realized that the rich and nearly famous are not do it yourselfers - they can afford to hire the professionals!!

So, after two days of enjoying our beautiful - if slightly flawed - shower, we are again without one and will be tearing out the floor and rebuilding it. Ta DAH!

Back to trudging down two flights of stairs to the cold (but thankfully dry) basement to hunch over a utility sink to wash my hair while trying to stand upright enough to keep my hair from touching the green paint that is peeling up from the bottom of said sink. I was thinking of cutting my hair for just this reason when the shower materialized. Now I think I will cut it after all.

Then I get to stand on the bath mat on the cold concrete floor near the drain and do my best to wash the rest of me without the benefit of being able to have water cascading from my head on .....down.

Don't worry. The shower curtain installed wall to wall at the base of the basement stairs lets people know not to come down because the basement is currently functioning as a very large very cold shower. At least I have privacy.

Poor H is devastated. He, as usual, relied on the advice of friends completely discounting any input from me because, well, I'm just a dumb girl. Now he must pay the price. I say he because it will be HE doing the work. Do we have any money left for new tile, new concrete, new grout, new thinset, etc.? Nope.

Should we, instead of demolishing a perfectly functional tub/shower, have invested those thousands into replacing the barely functional kitchen???? Hmmmmmmm....uh.....YES!!! I have a short counter between stove and sink, then another 3 or so feet of counter. Plenty you think? Maybe, IF the fridge wasn't in such a position that you'd have to be a snake in order to slither into the gap between the side of the fridge and that 3 or so feet of counter. Would have made much more sense.

Who was it that suggested that??? Let me think..... OH YEAH! That was me - the dumb girl.

When will I be heard?