I’m never home. We come home to eat and sleep, and are here just long enough to make a huge mess before having to leave again. I tell you what, I’m getting tired of it.

I’m staying home this afternoon but the house is a disaster and I have out of town company coming in a few hours to spend the weekend, so I still have no time. BUT, I’ll tell you real quick that I went to the knitting night at the Mariners game on Tuesday with Hayden. We sat with Marian, Janell, Susan (CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!), and Diana, and I got to catch up with Katie.

Good times.

I didn’t take any knitting with me because aside from having my hands full with Clark, I don’t have any ready-to-go knitting projects. None. I haven’t had any for weeks. Since finishing the green socks, really. The cancer hat gone bad, which I haven’t had time to blog about, doesn’t count.

Also happening in our lives is another horrific bathroom project, except unlike our last one, this one was unexpected. And it’s not pretty. The term “worst cast scenario” has been brought up by professionals. More than once.

Now, you see that black hole on the left side of the picture?

Yeah, that one.

Through that hole is an unobstructed view of our downstairs laundry room. If I had more time, I’d have the girls go down, turn on the light, and wave to you through it, but I don’t. However, I’d imagine you will see many more pictures of my bathroom as time progresses. These are crappy representations of the rot and destruction, but it’s what I’ve got.

So yesterday, in our spare time (that’s sarcasm), Nate and I went out to look at replacement tile. If there’s one positive to the situation it’s that we really didn’t like the pink, textured 8×8 tile that is being ripped out. So at least we’re going to be improving something. But the problem we ran into is that EVERYTHING out there is neutral. Neutral! If you’ve been around here much, you should know without me saying so that we are NOT neutral people. Nate was looking for Granny Smith Apple green. My favorite was actual river rocks attached to mesh in interlocking 11 inch squares (for $20 a sheet, sheesh!).

No one should have to go through this more than once in a year.

We like the look of glass tile. (Which is more than $20 a sheet, or a comparable square foot). Surprisingly enough, after running all over yesterday looking at as much as we could, he seems to be drawn to mosaics. I never would have guessed. So after a very frustrating and disappointing outing, we stayed up late looking at this. Click the links and look around. It’s luscious. It’s not neutral. And it’s relatively inexpensive.

We also had fun looking here, but with very few exceptions, everything was extremely expensive. Some of it was pushing $200 per square foot. But it’s pretty.

The river rock remains my favorite, and ultimately, I’d love to combine the two (river rock floors and green or blue mosaic tub wrap, wall, and shower). The ceiling in our bathroom is glass, so when I shower, I’m showering in morning sunlight. The steam from the shower makes it look like early morning fog, and above me are large maple tree branches. It’s sublime. Can you imagine standing on actual river rock in that setting? Heaven on Earth. That’s all I can think to say.

So, there’s my week. And the funny thing is, you still don’t know most of it. But I’m out of time, and this is already a freak-long post.

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