Back in March, James and I purchased paint to redecorate the guest bedroom and bathroom. The guest bedroom was finished within a few days, but removing the wallpaper in the guest bathroom was a never ending process. It’s something we’ve taken our time one, working at it for only 30 min – 1 hour every few days. Well, since James took the entire week off for vacation, and we returned from the beach Wednesday night, he spent the remaining two days finishing the wallpaper removal and yesterday painting. He had to touch up a few sections today, but it’s finally finished! I helped a little but bathrooms are hard to paint due to the tub, toilet, sink, mirror, and light fixture being in the way and the fact that it’s a small room, so I decided just to stay out of the way. Here’s the before and after shots!

The bathroom is done for now…We still want to get a new sinktop and new vinyl or tile for the floor.

I think I figured out why I haven’t been blogging much. With school out of the summer and my days being consuming by working, eating, sleeping, and swimming every now and then, I don’t have anything at all going on! No upcoming vacations to prepare for, my birthday has passed…I’m pretty much in a boring rut until August. However, I cannot complain, as I’m having a nice summer break earning money, sitting at the house, and relaxing by my nanny’s pool.

When school starts again, I’m sure I’ll have plenty to blog about…at that point, it will be about trying to find the time. I will be going back to a full time class load…something I haven’t done since 2004. 5 classes plus homework and writing on the weekends is going to be pretty time consuming. I’m sure I’ll be able to squeeze in at least one post a week though.

This weekend has been a rather lazy one until about 3 hours ago. Yesterday was spent lounging around the house until my mom and sister called at about 4pm and invited us to dinner. We went up there and had spaghetti and salad with them, then played Phase 10. That game is SO addicting!

Today was kinda a lounging repeat of the first part of yesterday, though a few hours ago I got into a cleaning mood. When I get into this mode, I go from one end of the house to the other until everything is cleaned. I have been wanting to clean up and organize our closet for months, but it wasn’t a pressing issue so it’s been on the back burner. Today, however, we got in there and went through our respective sides of the closet and filled a box that will be donated to the Salvation Army. We also took everything out of the floor and vacuumed and reorganized the luggage, shoes, and other misc. items in there.

We then moved into the bathroom, and James was so kind to offer to do the tub. I will scrub the toilet before I will clean the tub. I don’t why I hate to do it so much. After I finished the rest of the bathroom, I went into the bedroom and straightened it up. This room is the first to get dirty, but usually the last to get cleaned. We organized everything in there and threw out a lot of magazines and mail that has accumulated.

Before I was finished, I also picked up, dusted, and vacuumed the living room and cleaned the kitchen down well. Luckily, the other 3 rooms in the house didn’t need to be cleaned, so those got skipped except for vacuuming the two bedrooms. With every room getting vacuumed, I think we have enough hair in the vacuum cleaner for 4 puppies…though we only have 1!

All in all, it has been a very productive day on the cleaning front. Now I’m just lounging on the couch with my laptop, which is what I plan to do for the rest of the night.

James and I finished painting the guest bedroom tonight. We decided it needed a 2nd coat to touch up some spots…well a lot of spots. It looks SO different in there now! We moved the futon in, and right now it’s holding some other junk. We will get the desks moved in there eventually. Probably not before I get pregnant again though. My mom called earlier to ask if I wanted help with the bathroom. She’s off tomorrow, so I gladly accepted her help. We decided not to paint over any wallpaper…we are afraid it will end up seaping though, so we’ll be stripping the rest tomorrow.

I promise I’ll find other things to blog about than our home projects, but until then, here’s the new bedroom! Click to make it bigger.