Evan Agee: Live from Richmond Indiana

I’m trying to be more aware of my obsessive behaviors. Today I noticed that it truly bothers me to see a number next to my Spam folder in Gmail. At first I didn’t think much of it, I’d just click on the spam folder and delete all of the messages, then later do the same. Now things have gotten out of hand.

Let’s say I look at the folder and it has 100 messages in it. I’ll delete all of those and a few minutes later happen to look and notice that there is now 1 new message in there. I can’t help it, I feel like I MUST delete that new message. It’s driving me crazy!!! Why can’t I just let those messages pile up in there and forget them? Why am I so obsessed with keeping that folder cleaned out?

AHHHHHHH!!!!! Help!

For us it does…

Monday we worked on the demolition phase of the bathroom remodeling project. We got all of the walls torn down to the studs, all of the tile ripped down from around the shower, removed the vanity/sink, removed the tank from the toilet and generally prepped the room for all of the finishing touches that would be applied over the next week.

Once we had the tile removed and could see the wall behind the shower the extent of the damage was clear. The cement board, the insulation and the outer wall were all completely saturated and dark with rot. As expected, Rick told is that a section of the wall should be replaced. The only decision to be made was what we were going to do to finish the hole once it had been plugged back up, would we put vinyl siding on the front of the house? Find a creative way to put siding over the the hole? Eventually we decided that if the siding came off cleanly and Rick thought it would be possible to put the same siding back up, we’d do that. We’re quite fond of the cedar shaker town shingles that are on the house now and, despite the comments made by folks at the lumber yards, have needed little to no maintenance.

All day yesterday Rick worked on cutting the five foot square hole in the house and trying to get the new tub in place while we had the space we needed. We ran into a few problems with the plumbing kit we purchased for the new bathtub and decided to call it a day at around 8:30. It was a long day for Rick, he worked so hard.

Today the plan is to get the tub installed and get the hole in the house closed. Hopefully that will get us back on schedule so we’re ready for the plumber to come tomorrow and finish the plumbing for the shower. Overall things have gone pretty well considering the problems we’ve run into. Hopefully by the end of this week our new bathroom will start to come into focus.