This has been quite a week or so. I am so glad I get the next ten days off from work, starting at 5 p.m. tonight. I am just about done in!
You could say it began two weeks ago. A pipe broke under the shower pan in the master bathroom. Three days later, half the carpet in the bedroom is gone, the shower stall is destroyed, and the leak is fixed. Now all that remains is arguing with the insurance company, choosing tile for the bathroom, ordering tile for the bathroom, ordering flooring for bathroom and back third of the house, painting the bathrooms and bedroom, and installing new vanities, possibly one or two new toilets, new mirrors, and new lighting in the bathrooms. Maybe it will be done by the end of April. The other half is going bonkers with all the estimates and people coming and going. Besides that, I had a 3-day painting workshop (yay!), a nasty cold and flu, and now Josh has the cold.
So, what is going to happen during the break? A few appointments. Lots of art if I am lucky. Lots of photography, too. Choices being made for tile and paint – the flooring is already chosen – and writing big checks for all this stuff. And researching what “contiguous” means in context of California insurance law – but that is another story!
And, of course, organizing all the bits and pieces of my life that have fallen apart over the last few weeks. I never realized how disorganization is like a perpetual motion machine – it is entropy at its worst!
Ink, Yarn & Beer 
Oh well, good excuse for a new bathroom suite! We are undergoing having a new kitchen, it’s come to a halt just as Easter kicks in and the men who should be here are not 😦 stress!!
Is that all? It rained recently; perhaps a shower in the back yard? We are planning on having our master bath renovated shortly. But at least we’ll be doing it without the leak! That did happen to us once. We needed mold remediation in the crawl space under the house. Ugh.
You got that right! We decided to do everything over so that we wouldn’t have to think about it later – hopefully ever later!
Fortunately, no mold. No asbestos, either. Other than torn up, we were pretty fortunate as no water damage in the walls or in the foundation, just a slow leak. Hopefully tiling will begin on 9th, and from there, all forward movement.