The End of Spring Break

This past Monday I wrote about how wonderful it was that Spring Break was beginning, and I made a list of all of the wonderful things I planned to accomplish, and I imagined that at the end of Spring Break I'd bemoan that I didn't get done half of what I imagined.

Well, here it is, the day before the end of my Spring Break, and I can say without a doubt that I got even less done than I imagined I would. I listed eight items:

1. Paint the basement
2. Finish the bathroom project
3. Clean the area in the back of our yard that the former home owner used as a compost pile
4. Go to lunch with a friend I haven't seen in a few months
5. Paint my bedroom
6. Plant grass in the barren areas of our yard
7. Paint the foundation of the house
8. Spend some quality time with my wife

I managed to do items 2, 4, and 8. The problem was that finishing the bathroom project turned out to be a much larger job than I had anitcipated. There were only a couple of little loose ends to tie up, but as it turns out, those little loose ends weren't so little after all.

Let me give you an example. Lisa had purchased a cabinet to go over the toilet. I got up yesterday with the idea that I could put it up in an hour. As it turned out, it took me FIVE HOURS, and Lisa was there helping the whole time, too.

I had planned to write a long, comic blog here about my experience, but doing some research on the Internet Lisa found an article that pretty much summed up our experience, and no doubt does a better job of it than I could do. So read this article and you'll get an idea of how most of my day went yesterday.