Makeover!!

When Buddy and I returned home from helping my dad move, I started into some renovation projects of our own to find me something to do and get rid of things that were really not aesthetically pleasing. Buddy's bathroom had mismatched wood coloring for his cabinets.  The bathroom walls were painted white with  miscellaneous stains that I don't even want to think about where those came from, and his vanity had the ugliest beige tiles you could imagine! When I was talking about redoing the bathroom with Buddy, he asked me if I could redo his bathroom with a "pirate" theme. His wish is my command (also, how cute is that boy at 16 still wanting a theme! Since I'm not rich, and I was coming off of a successful renovation at my dad's, I started researching some do-it-yourself fixes for the bathroom vanity. Best solution I found was concrete...I decided on not coloring the concrete for a more "rustic" vibe for his pirate vibe, it was relatively easy...although I did freak myself out with the first apply because I could just imagine the destruction I might be causing. It took a few layers and a heck of a lot of sanding....and I have never been so careful with taping off in my life-but it looks way better than that tile ever did (well, maybe the tile looked better in the 80's. 

He's had this for a month and it's held up really well, and he loves it, which is a bonus. I repainted all of the walls a crisp white and painted all of the mismatched wood white and added on leftover handles from my kitchen renovation. We installed a cool pump style faucet that Buddy totally loves, and added some accessories to fit the theme. I found these octopuses (or is it octopii?) online....

Instead of buying new light fixtures, I just spray painted our old ones black and added a copper top layer to match...

 

I found this porthole mirror to jazz up the empty space behind the toilet...

We actually have this mirror that was left from another house that we lived in, so we took it when we moved, it fits right in, and I gave it the same black/copper top spray.

I'm still waiting on the pirate battle poster that I'm going to frame and put in the bathroom to tie it all together, and I'm planning on having the bathtub replaced since whoever installed it the first time did a crappy job so we've never been able to use it. So that's what we have so far...not bad, but I wish I had before pictures so you could actually be impressed, instead it looks like a 6th grader's art project...which is okay, I was a good 6th grader. In other news, Buddy finally got his license... 

He has yet to ask for the keys to drive himself somewhere, but he really likes us, so I guess he doesn't think he needs to go anywhere! So all in all a super fantastic....trying to renovate on a budget, day!

Teenage Angst!

Buddy really likes his home.....like he really, really, really likes it and never wants to leave. I finally convinced him to go to the beach with me (it was the beach or mow the lawn, weird how the beach won on that one). Luckily, Shane was getting off of work right when we showed up so he could join us!

Tomorrow Buddy has hid driver's license test....hopefully, they actually let us in through the front door this time. I have a full container of wipes, washed the car AND vacuumed just so they wouldn't have a thing to complain about....until they complain about something else so they don't have to do it. I guess I'll write an update tomorrow about why the DMV is wackadoodle....

So all in all a super fantastic, thank goodness for the beach, day! 

 

Mother's Day....

Sunday was my first Mother's Day without my mom.....it's been tough and rarely has a day gone by that I haven't cried missing her. Every time something happens, someone ticks me off or I am having a hard time deciding on something, I want to call her and it hits me like a gut punch all over again. Since I've been married so long, I knew that if I wanted Shane to succeed in his Mother's Day offerings I needed to let him know, that this year would be tough and he really needed to up his game (which usually consists of whatever flowers are left at the grocery store around 5 pm on Mother's Day...his bar is very, very low). This year, I gave him a list of things I wanted (yes, I'm shallow, but I did have a very long surgery on my lady bits for my one living child.....so I think I deserve a little something!). The boys went above and beyond to make this year. Buddy made me breakfast in bed at the butt crack of dawn and then told me to get dressed because he was taking me somewhere.....

Pretty certain you can figure out where he drove me to!! During our tour, he interjected some really interesting Hawaiian tidbits to the group....so much so that the other family commented on the fine tour that he gave them. In return of the compliment, we told them all the really awesome places to go that only the locals know about. Afterwards, we met up with some friends at the beach and I finally went swimming in the ocean....It feels like it has been forever!

Monday Buddy got his second vaccine, which means that today the boy lucked out and didn't have to do any school because I know how crummy I felt after the second dose, so I thought he might too.

He told me he had a headache and didn't feel well....but I'm thinking that's a standard answer when your mom is asking if you need to skip school for the day! I really miss my mom, nothing really makes sense without her....honestly, I don't know how younger people do it. I had my mom 48 years and that doesn't seem like nearly enough time!

So all in all a not so super, or fantastic, but hoping to get there someday, day!

 

On a roll.....

Not too much going on today in our neck of the woods....We ended up going to the pool today with a couple that were in our rental on and off during the state COVID mandated travel shutdown and then brought them over for dinner and seeing some old friends that came over for dessert. Buddy was more than happy to show the kids his best video games.....I'm so proud! I forgot to take any pictures, so I'll post that I found while clearing out my phone. Here is from this Easter with dad and Krissy on Easter day. Why yes, I did pack a bunny suit just so I could be a bunny on Easter.....I'd be silly not too....

Speaking of silly.....

Isn't this backpack to take the cats for hikes kinda silly? Mittens actually loves it, but probably because he's the laziest cat in the universe!!!

While looking through pictures, I found this one that Buddy took when he was 4 years old.....which may explain our faces....

Thank goodness for Buddy and his camera stealing. The world can always use more pictures of me and mom....but that's just my opinion...but it's a pretty great opinion! In other news, one of my friends sent me a care package for Mother's Day since this year it's probably going to suck a lot more than it ever has before. Human's can be pretty awesome sometimes! So all in all a super fantastic, now to make sure Buddy always has a camera on him....oh wait, he does but doesn't use it, day!

 

Restart

Buddy and I went out to Utah for a month to help my dad move and sell his house, and get settled into his new digs. Buddy and I got to do a whole lot of painting, tile ripping and playing with plumbing! It turned out pretty alright. On our way back we took a detour and stopped in Seattle to help out some family, while we were there we got to do an awesome hike on "Poo Poo Trail"....which surprisingly (or maybe not surprisingly) had an odd amount of dog poo bags along the trail.

Buddy and I got back home about two weeks ago and I'd like to say he's been playing major catch-up with school work, but he's instead playing major catch-up with the video games that he's been missing. Today we finally left our house.....of course that was only after I found the spear for spearfishing. I told them I didn't want to see them until they caught dinner.

2 hours later and one 4 inch fish, we are all starving! Just kidding, I stopped at the store to buy real fish (well, actually it was imitation crab) so Buddy could make us sushi, and the 4 inch fish was fed to the cats-they didn't want it either!

In other news, I went on a run and these guys decided to walk right on up to me to check out what I was doing. Maybe they thought I was a goose too....I do run pretty funny.
 

Hopefully, we'll leave the house tomorrow too....what a concept! So all in all a super fantastic, trying to get our acts together once again, day.