sooo close, I can almost taste it....

and I can definitely SMELL it!  I found a Rustoleum product that is a 2 part epoxy paint to help rescue the FAIL that has been our attempt at bathroom remodeling...I guess there is a reason we were renters for so long...
The fake "cocoa" colored cultured marble is now white and STINKS!!!!  It totally has that trailer park feel that is so much a part of my life (i.e. - it has some bumps and what I do believe is hummingbird poop imbedded in the final product)  Oh well, it ain't pretty, but it's mine and now we will be able to get a buzz while we are taking care of nature's basic needs.  It can't be exposed to water for three days (and you are supposed to use this to refinish a bathtub...duh-winning!) so we can't start putting the sucker back together until Monday afternoon...I think I will start the process and glue the vanity top down, so that even if the hubby hates it - he'll be kind of stuck with it ; )

Depending on what the outlook is and whether or not I can get a picture off without actually being in it - I might post one or two of the finished...we'll see, it will probably take us a year to get it finished...but my mom will be here in three weeks, so I am sure that will light a fire up under my man's undercarraige!

Time to re-up the Prozac Rx

Maybe I am in the middle of some mid-life crisis or maybe it's just that too many "big" things are happening so close together or maybe I have too much of a tough outer shell and no one realizes that I am mushy on the inside...and why is it when I show any kind of weakness (a.k.a - natural human responses to juju-like stimuli) the wheels start to fall off everyone else's bus?! 

This is why I act so tough and self-sufficient (sp?) all the time!  I flippin have to!!!!!  I get to the end of my rope...tell people that I am at the end of my rope and they just go on their merry way...then when the shit hits the fan and I hit the Prozac AND the Marlboro Menthol Light 100's and run around in tears - they get grumpy?!  I'm sorry, did I miss something here?! 

I try to keep my problems and girlie feelings to myself (I know this is wrong), but I don't want to add to anyone else's problem (again, I know - wrong) and now that I don't really trust too many people in my extended family, I have lost some of the folks I used to be able to vent to...

Thank you cyberspace for the outlet for bitchin and whining you have given me and thanks to those who stop by to check on me/listen to me/drive slowly by my curent wreck...

Ugh!  Gonna head downstairs and build/paint/repurpose something, because those blogs are much mo better than these ones lately.

No more bitchin' and whining for today (tomorrow? maybe) and figuring out what I need and how to get it so I can feel better and get "me" back.

And the hits keep coming

Just when I think my mother in law is finished being a total biatch...she steps it up a notch...

Apparently there was a lovely gathering this weekend at her home with all six of her children and their significant others...oh wait, Ms Iz wasn't there because she just had a baby a bit ago...and oh yeah - we weren't invited...

WHATEVER!!!!!

I don't really care what she thinks about me, really I don't - I couldn't possibly make everyone happy all the time and I refuse to change who I am to fit into anyone's plans...if I'm not going to change who I am for my husband, why the hell should I change for her?!

What do I care about?  The way she ignores my husband and that my kids are missing out being with their cousins as a group.  We have always hung out with everyone on our own, but they are missing the drama dogpile that is family BBQ with everyone...
Also, the hubby didn't even do anything...and I do mean ANYTHING!  She yelled at me and stopped talking to him...doesn't even make eye contact with him at church...that's right you heard me AT CHURCH....no wonder so many people out there in the world think that Christians are hypocratic losers - yikes!  Not saying that I am the poster child for Christianity, but I can turn the other cheek when needed, I don't preach at others (at all, really) and just try to treat others the way I want to be treated. 
So much of who I am boils down to respect...respect who I am and what I am doing (whether you agree with it or not) and I will do the same for you.  Disrepect me and "Bye - bye".  Life is too short and way too complicated these days for me to deal with people that can't even follow the most basic of Kindergarten rules.
Whew, I may not feel any better really, but it nice to take an emotional dump out here in cyberspace...

Welcome to sunny, southern California?!

One of the very best things about living just outside San Diego is the wonderful different weather experiences you can have...in one day!  You can literally drive to the beach and swim (you will freeze your a$$ off this time of year) then jump in the family truckster and head up to the mountains and play in the snow (actual deep stuff) and on the way home, come down the other side of the mountains and hit the desert.

Every once and a while we have to go do one of these things to remind us why we put up with the insane taxes, restrictions and basic B.S. that comes with living in the Golden State...guess where we went today?

Bring on the Lysol and the hand sanitizer...

Last month - brochitis for the other three members of my family...
This week...stuffy nose that turned into a double ear infection for the 5 year old, massive cold for the 11 year old who woke up this morning with pinkeye and now the hubby has a sore throat and is hacking up green stuff...what do you think my chances are of taking care of the three of them, locked up in the house this weekend with a major storm headed this way and me not getting sick?!  oh, and did I mention that the hubby will be possibly be traveling to tropical places for work next week.  Yeah, next week when the kids will be feeling better, the ground will be dry and I will feel like doggie doo...he will be gone...
So, heading to the library today to pick up some more books that I ordered, getting a 2 liter bottle of Dr. Pepper and updating the Netflix que for the monkeys...pray for us...

Narnia here I come

Yep, I'm going into my not quite walk-in-able, walk in closet...I would post pictures, but someone might think that the rest of my house looks like this (some areas, it's a close call...like my craft closet) and the next thing you know the production crew from "Hoarders" will be showing up at my door.

I have such dreams and aspirations to lead more of a Pottery Barn/Restoration Hardware catalog kind of life...but alas, the trailer park budget (and my own style quirkiness) says a big, resounding NO WAY!  It just isn't going to happen.  So, off I go into the quagmire with empty grocery bags in hand for donation and trash collection...if I don't make it out - someone please feed my kids...

Take 2 ,or is it 3...

Smallest room in the house...biggest pain in the ass!!!!!

All we wanted was a new sink, one without a hole rusting thru it...and a new vanity, one that wasn't swirled cocoa cultured marble...and we have...

nada

So, I decided we should try to paint the cultured marble with a Rustoleum product that can't be bought in stores and has to be purchased online

of course I haven't received the email stating it has shipped

They are probably out of stock

: (

Also making it's contribution to my little party is the fact that the sink with the almost hole in it is round, hence the hole that it needs to fit...also round...most of the sinks availalbe for carry out...

oval

: (

I'm afraid to buy one online because they all give different kinds of info regarding their dimensions,

with my luck I'll buy on, get it and the effin thing won't fit...

ARGH!!!!!!

I just want to be able to wash my hands after I pee, in the same room that I pee'd in!!!!

Today I am going to go to Home Depot and Lowe's, look pathetic and hope that one of their folks with come over and help me.

If I act pitiful enough, I may get them to load it in my car.

Worked with the doors I bought

: )