DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

For some reason, I've been on a painting kick - house painting that is. It seems that I always forget how tiring and tedious it can be even though the results are usually worth it. Kind of like childbirth pains but those results are always worth it!!
Anyway, last week I painted our bedroom which was far easier than what I started yesterday. The flyaway corners of some wallpaper in the bathroom sucked me in and there I was last night (or this morning) at 3 am finally finishing up priming the walls and cleaning up the mess I'd made. My DH is out of town so I got real brave (translated as foolish). The whole project almost came to a screeching halt though when I realized that in order to paint behind the toilet I would have to take the tank off - something I'd never done and didn't know how to do. I thought of calling a couple neighbors who are general contractors but then I remembered that we owned a book called Home Improvement 1-2-3 produced by the Home Depot. Now this definitely is not a plug for that store. I don't think it's a bad place but I just prefer going to someplace smaller like the Ace Hardware across the street which is less busy and less intimidating. Anyway, I looked up in that book how to remove a toilet and guess what?? I DID IT!!!!! It really wasn't that hard. I would recommend this book. The instructions were very straightforward and the color pictures helped too. Today I have to paint the color and clean up and reinstall everything before DH comes home.

By the way, another thing I did for the first time a couple weeks ago was change a flat tire. Boy, did I feel She Woman after that! Hoo - ra!! (Marine exclamation).