All sorts of productive!

I was productive today.

The day started with my attempts to do touch up work on yesterday's paint job in the 2nd bedroom. After about 45 minutes of that, I decided it would take less time to simply put a second coat of paint on all of the walls than to scour them at close range with loaded brush in hand. I needed more paint (among other things), so I made a trip out to Home Depot and swung by Carl's Jr. for a quick lunch.

Upon my return, I helped Gladys move some stuff into the house, ate my lunch and painted the 2nd bedroom for the 2nd time. 2.5 hours later, the room looked much less splotchy. When I first started painting, I thought I'd made a huge mistake choosing the color I did ("water spout" by Behr), but now that it's done, it looks ok. Maybe a little strange and I'll probably want to paint it another color in a couple years, but it's not too bad. Even if it does suck, it's going to be Gladys' room anyway :)

The walls still needed to dry before I could install some lighting, so I went out and put my final coat of high-gloss ultra bright white on the baseboards. They're now ready to be cut and nailed in.

After the baseboard painting was done, I reworked and installed the track lighting that is being used as a vanity light (I chose the track lighting b/c the power was coming out of a GAPING hole on the far right side of the wall. The hole has been made much smaller and now the connector supplying power to the tracks and the connector's decorative housing covers the hole.

Next came installing the new faucet and drain assembly in the sink in my bedroom. That took a little time b/c I'd never done it before and had to sift through directions that were a little out of date (they replaced a couple of the parts listed in the directions with parts that combined functions of multiple bits/pieces). The new faucet and drain seem to be working fine. I did some testing and it appears to be leak free . . . for now.

I then took my old faucet, which is still in very good shape, but is sadly unsuitable for my morning routine and cleaned all the lime/calcium deposits off of it. It's now installed it in the 2nd bedroom sink.

I did some dishes, grabbed a quick fast-food dinner and am now prepped for bed.

Next up: installing the mirror and medicine cabinet, painting the door frame and BASEBOARDS!

I'm hoping everything will be done by the Turkey-Day weekend.

I'll try to get some pictures up in the near future.