Weekend Warrior

I always get so jealous when I watch some of those home improvement shows on HGTV. You know, the ones where they build a whole room addition in one weekend. My weekend projects tend to average at least a month. I always blame it on only have one weekend day (Saturday) rather than two, or not getting up at the crack of dawn to start my weekend project, like they do on HGTV. But last weekend I actually started and finished (almost) my weekend project. Perhaps it was because it was a three day weekend so I actually had two days to finish my task.


The job was to tear out the closet shelving in Trevor's room (aka "the office") and put in a "real closet." My goal was to go Lowe's to buy the closet stuff, tear out the shelving, patch the holes, paint the closet, put in some wood flooring we happened to have left over from our kitchen, and then put in the new closet. Sounded like a feasible weekend project to me.

With Chris's help we were able to actually get it down over the weekend--and that even included an extra trip to Lowe's again to return the closet unit we had bought and buy a different one. It's not competely done--still needs some moulding, a few shelves, and closet doors--but it is soooo close to be done all in one weekend! I even was able to take a quick shower and make it to my fantasy football draft at 6:00 pm. I'm even thinking of keeping the closet doors off for a while, because I think the closet might stay cleaner that way.


We even got Trevor a bed over the weekend so he no longer has to sleep on an air mattress, although he is so tired from seminary he really doesn't care where he sleeps right now. The plan for Trevor's room this week is....painting the bedroom walls.