I promise I will stop posting just memories soon. I am still overwhelmed by the bathroom project. We started ordering and purchasing a year ago and I had such a vision. And, as with most home improvement projects, there have been challenges. I also have an OCD/ADHD brain so the distribution of the project to every room in my house, the boxes and tools and stuff, the proliferation of people all over the place, and a problem at every turn is making my brain hurt.
The bathroom is fine. I am obsessing on details. It is not going to be exactly as I pictured. There are going to be things I wanted to be slightly different. It is a bathroom. It is not a palace. It is a bathroom. I just need to take a deep breath.
Yesterday I was supposed to go to a luncheon at the Board of Elections. I didn't.
Today, to get my mind off the project, I was joining a group of senior resistors in holding up banners from a bridge over a highway near my house. I do have a shower but I can't use it because they are working on a sink cabinet. It's cold, I get dizzy with heights (is that enough excuses?). I texted I couldn't make it and they told me that they had to move the location due to some rules or law or something. Whew.
Tomorrow I AM leaving the house. My former glass class members are doing the road trip to Trader Joe's and I AM going.
Meanwhile.
Wishing my parents an early Happy 70th Wedding Anniversary in heaven. They were married on November 24, 1955 (which was Thanksgiving morning) at St Paul Catholic Church and a breakfast reception at the country club followed. Thanksgiving was a compromise because my grandfather did not want to close his jewelry store on a Saturday so close to Christmas. Forever my dad thought his anniversary was Thanksgiving day regardless of the date.
Sorry for the brain pain. Hopefully your project will heal your visions and hot water would certainly help when it's done. When my hubs and I remodeled a house, there was so much out of place and dusty I swore we were going to have sawdust gravy when we worked in the kitchen. That's a beautiful wedding dress your Mom wore. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteOh. Miss Merry. Home remodeling =not for the faint of heart.♥️ Hang in there, it will be so nice when things are done. What a great photo!!…the lady in the foreground, waiting to snap a memory, so dear…your mother’s dress flying up, so sweet! And your dad and his ‘wedding anniversary dates’…just adorable! Thanks for sharing those memories, Virginia
ReplyDeleteMemories are good. I like the photo!
ReplyDeleteNov 24, 1960 was also Thanksgiving Day - it happens to be the day I was born. :)
You sure keep yourself busy! Miss Merry, I wish you wouldn't apologize for sharing memories, yours are always good ones and this wedding photo of your folks is no exception--it's wonderful. This looks like something Norman Rockwell would paint. Your mom--wow!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely old photo! Hope the bathroom is finished soon!!
ReplyDeleteMemories are good things to have, so go ahead, I love them!
ReplyDeleteDizzy with heights is a fine excuse. Have a wonderful weekend and trip to Trader Joes.
Trips down memory lane can be helpful when we are stressed. Your parents look so happy.
ReplyDeleteLife does indeed get crazy when you're remodeling. I hope things get situated very soon for you and you can use the bathroom like you want to. (Maybe by Thanksgiving?)
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Betsy
Chaos is the worst thing for our ADHD brains!!
ReplyDeleteIt isn't the heights that we fear....it is the consequent downs that we envisage 😳
I still don't see how you do everything you do and remodeling only makes it more complicated. Hang in there!
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