Full Moon

Did you see this blue moon? I felt it for a couple of days.
This full moon was beautiful, but it messes with we humans and the canine at our house.

We were all messed up. Neither Rick or I could get it together yesterday. We were out of sorts and Izzy was off the charts nutso all weekend.  Hopefully, things will be back to normal today.
I swear I was a walking zombie yesterday. I couldn't get anything together. I was scattered and tired.  When I said something to Rick about us being out of sorts he reminded me that there was a full moon.
Ah! That does it every time.

We spent too much time in the car Saturday driving to places like Springfield and Woodbridge to places everyone said we must go for this trim and for tile. A bust. A big pain in the ass travel bust! The drivers were nuts Saturday, twice almost being hit. It was a full day of running around for nothing. Oh well. Somes days are just like that aren't they?

I did not get my master bedroom painted, but I think I found the paint. It's been a real hunt to find the color I want. I received an Ethan Allen catalog in the mail. At first I was just going to toss it into my recycle bin because I didn't even know why I was getting this and I don't need to see pretty furniture I don't need.
But as I was walking to the recycle bin I noticed the color of this dresser on the cover. 
That is the color I've been looking for. So needless to say that didn't get tossed just yet.

I happen to really like Sherwin Williams paint and I have their paint deck. It was not in there. So I drove over to SW on Saturday and showed the woman there what I was looking for from this catalog. 
She immediately grabbed a swatch and said this is the color only it's too dark. Let me try to lighten it 50% and you can have a sample. She only charged me $5 for the sample.  We put the color on the catalog and let it drive. You couldn't see where we put this. BINGO.  I got it home and painted a big square on all walls to see it in all various times of the day and the various light coming into the room.

Sunday morning after it was dried we stood there hemming and hawing. I think I want it a touch lighter.
So hopefully tonight after work I'll get a sample of it just a shade lighter.
Then I will choose from one of these two because I am tired of looking.
And honestly we have got to get this done.

You see the master bath is being done at the same time. We began tearing up the flooring. That should be completed this week or weekend. We have been looking for a new vanity for a year or more now. The vanity needs to fit in a space of 69 inches. Do you know how hard that is? Everything is either 72 inches for a 2 bowl vanity or it's 60 inches. Neither will work. Thankfully I am sleeping with the guy doing my vanity top so I can get that done pretty quickly and to my liking. :-)

I found a bedroom dresser that is perfect in every way to use as a vanity. It is 63 inches. We can do spacers on the end of that without an issue. But this dresser was just too expensive so I gave up. Then it went on sale and then on sale again. YIPEE. I purchased it and it will be delivered Thursday. We have nowhere to put this now except in the hall on the 2nd floor. So having to walk around this thing will certainly put a fire under our asses. This will be a major pain in the ass for Rick so I know he'll work faster. Gee, maybe I should have thought about this a while ago huh?  

We are doing the vanity ourselves. Lights, paint, and fixtures. We are taking down the mirror there so patching will be done and painting of that area. New mirrors will go up as well as the lights.  
Then the new vanity can go in. The flooring will be done by us as well. This can all be done in a weekend.
Mr.Big Guy will make the vanity top and all that goes with that. That should take only 2 days as well.
So the only thing left will be tile around the tub deck and the shower stall walls and floor, which we are not doing. The rest of the tile work is being done by someone we hire.. 
Rick's quote was, "I know my limitations"
If I were to live here forever I would rip out this huge jacuzzi tub in our bathroom. Wasted space to me.
I would make it a big ass shower with seat.  Rick wanted this stupid tub and he never uses this stupid tub. I hate baths. To me you are sitting in your own crud, I prefer showers. But for resale everyone (realtors) says we should keep it. So we are keeping it there. Cheaper too of course but I just hate this huge thing that just collects dust.

In the mean time, I'm counting down my days until vacation. Well, semi-vacation. Still answering phones but at least I'll be at the lake right? I have 20 more days. 
Did you have a summer vacation?  Mike, I know you didn't, your life is a vacation.