Loooooooooooooooooongest Day

So, we had a lot of stuff to do today.  And we accomplished a good amount.  My BFF is coming to visit on Saturday, and some of her friends are coming over Saturday evening, so it's a double amount of preparation.  Not only do we have to clean the house, we have to make food for Saturday.  Which is all good stuff, but, even without working, I feel like there still is never enough time.

Anyway, it's kind of late.  I'm kind of tired.  And I have a job interview tomorrow.  I really have to get a job at this point.  So I'm hoping they don't offer me part time work at really low pay.  Because I may have  to take it.

But, let's just bask in the glory of my little project that I knocked out tonight.

Our second bathroom needed a lot of work.  It is all white tile with a glass walk in shower, and a cheap ugly vanity with leaky plumbing.  We fixed the leak after many pains in the ass.  We got an over the toilet space saver.  And we got these fish bathtub decals that we put on the shower glass.

And tonight, I made this:

What the fuck is that, you may ask?  It is a towel and toilet paper holder, duh.  So, the whole wall is tile, so I can't just hang a towel bar so easily.  So, being newly obsessed with Pinterest, I found a picture of a basket that someone hung on the wall to use to hold towels.  That's when I realized, I could screw something into the ceiling and have it hang down the wall.  So, I got wood.  I got it at Home Depot, and I had them cut it.  Then I got some hooks, picture hanging wire, and some cheap curtain rods.  So, I just screwed the pieces of wood together, screw in the curtain rod brackets, tightened the part that holds the rods, and put them on.  Then I hung the hooks and hung the frame from the hooks with the wire.  I realized though, that the rods were very flimsy and that one towel was too heavy for it.  So I took some more wire and hung it from the top of the frame and attached it to the middle rod that is the towel bar.  Voila!  It's reinforced.  Okay, so it's unfinished, it's raw and amateurish looking, but it's that the fad now?  Do you think I could sell it on Etsy or fab.com?!

Ssup Pussy

So, we finally got a storage box for some of our outdoor shit today.  Actually, I ordered it from the Wal-mart site to store deal, and it came like a week early.  So we went out to the dreaded Wal-Mart in Hallandale this morning and picked it up.  We went early, and it was so cold, so luckily there weren't many people out or about yet.  The customer service guy wheeled it out of the stockroom on one of those forklift dolly things.  So, the FP went to pull the car around, and there the guy appeared and helped load it in our car and took the dolly back.  That was nice of him.

So, we took it back and put it together.  It was pretty easy because it was just a resin snap on job.  It was one of the cheaper boxes, so if you were looking to put it outside with no fence and store valuable stuff in it... I wouldn't recommend it.  But for keeping stuff dry and packed away in the lanai, it's fine.

It's just kinda big.  I mean, I wanted the biggest deck box I could find, and I got it.  I just didn't realize how big it would be.  I was hoping we could use it for a bench, but it's high and the lid is kind of convex, so it wouldn't be good for sitting.  It wouldn't really be good for a table, either.  But, maybe we could somehow get a tabletop and stabilize it on top of the thing if we ever happened to have a party.

Anyway, so, after we were done assembling it, we had this big huge box.  So, rather than break it down and try to cram it into the recycling can, I thought I would make a scratchy box for the cats like I had been wanting to do.

Let me tell you.  I'm kind of not a perfectionist with tasks like this.  And I get tired and frustrated with stuff like this.  And I didn't have a good blade for cutting boxes with.  I also did not have a proper work surface to work on.  I used the tile floor.  Luckily, it's pretty indestructable, and my blade on my exacto knife kept popping out before it could damage the floor.

We went and got lunch at one point.  I had a light pork belly sandwich.  So obviously, when I came back and started working on the box, I got tired.  Very tired.  So, I had to take a nap.  I just kind of laid down on the couch and fell asleep for what I think was maybe 30 minutes.  Then I woke up and slowly started working on the cat scratcher again.  It took several hours.  If I had been more precise and careful and rolled the thing tight enough, it would have taken twice as long.  If I were working, I'm not sure this is something I would have ever tried to start.  And of course, the cats looked at it and were like, "What is this shit, mom?  It'll all ghetto and shit like you made it out of an old box!"  But I just put a whole bunch of catnip leaves on it.  Hopefully they will grow to like it and it will have been worth the effort.

If you want to make one better than mine, here's a tip.  Roll the damn cardboard strip out before trying to roll them around into a spiral.  That way, they will be more circular than hexagonal like mine turned out.   Also, make sure you use lots of tape to attach each new piece to the old piece.  It probably wouldn't hurt either to use some non toxic glue too.

Anyway, this is what I did most of the day.