I can't believe it's almost done. After weeks of thinking we would never have two full bathrooms again, we are thisclose to being done.

The wainscoting is in place, waiting to be painted.

The toilet is in!

Except there's no bathroom door, so I have yet to use it [the toilet]. 

All the grouting is done (Hallelujah! Even though I only grouted about half a wall - hehe - I don't like that stuff. At all).

And the shower is all hooked up - all that's missing is the shower curtain.

I can't wait to take a long shower with this lovely shower head providing the water:)

(I was supposed to take a picture of "the beautiful plumbing job". I'm not sure what and "ugly plumbing job" looks like, but I obliged and took a picture. It's kind of growing on me.)

I came home yesterday from my mini 'trip' and found ALL the plumbing material and tools gone from my room (the plumbing for the shower is in my room, behind a little door). My room looked 20 times cleaner!
The landing looks almost empty without all the equipment filling it too. I had grown so used to it all I didn't realize it could actually be clean! :)

The only things that are left are painting/whitewashing (we haven't quite made up our minds) the wainscoting and putting in the sink. Our handyman friend that is helping us had surgery on his knee yesterday, so he obviously couldn't do anything, but as soon as he's recovered he'll put in the sink.

It's come a long way from this!

I am one happy girl (it's kind of sad that I'm so excited about a bathroom of all things, but I'm beyond excited that no one has to fight over the shower anymore! :)).

-carlotta

Update: Now, approximately three hours after the below photo was taken, the snow is almost burying the flowers. And it's still. coming. down.

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Do you see this?

SNOW. 

This is not cool. At all. And on the first day of spring. 

Snow on the first day of spring does not make me happy. I thought we were over winter...yesterday it got up to 78. It is now 30. And they're predicting up to 10 inches.

Thankfully, it'll be back up to 62 on Tuesday...

Grrrr.

-carlotta

I apologize for being MIA this week...I was at a three-night sleepover. Hehe.
My friend Reagan and I feel even more like sisters now.

A quick story before I sign off tonight.

Reagan and I were walking to go shopping, and we heard someone playing the bongos (bongo?). As we got closer, we saw that there were two guys (and by guys I mean mid twenties to early 30s) on the front porch - one was playing the bongos and the other was sitting next to him. As Reagan and I passed by the house, both guys just started chanting (presumably at us) - Native American style. When they saw that we weren't looking at them (we were too busy trying to hold in our laughter) they stopped. Talk about weird. :)

-carlotta

Until I have more time to post, here is a collage of some of my favorite pictures...

(Click on it to see it bigger)

-carlotta