Home improvements

My itch to retile the bathroom is getting severe. (For viewers just now tuning in, the one public bathroom in my house has a tub-surround tiled in Mary Kay Pink. No, a little darker: Pepto-Bismol Pink.)

Etiology: Trying to take a weekend day off work results in me being inside my house.
Symptoms: I re-read the tiling book and the bathroom remodel book.
Prognosis: Those books are very effective and I am well on my way to being cured of this outbreak. Removing me from the house would speed recovery.

Open letter to people who think they know better

No snideness until you've walked a mile in my moccasins.

soak in hot water, then in cold water, repeat

For alternating hot and cold soaks, of course I'd use the hot tub, right?

This led to me balancing half-clothed on the slippery edge of a hot tub and swinging my legs around to stick my toes in a pan of ice water. Yikes it was cold.

Important Safety Tip: this causes full-body flinching! Being mentally prepared for the shock didn't seem to matter. Fortunately, every time I did this I managed to just save myself from pitching over backwards into the water. This is especially lucky because the smallest timer I could carry out there was my laptop.

Given the way my luck's been going the rest of the day, I'd say I'm about even now. Fortunately the laptop is now safely indoors.