Fixing Up a House...my New Skills

So all of our bathrooms needed to be re-caulked. We started this project a few weeks ago and then abandoned it for other priority projects. So today I decided I can totally handle finishing all the bathrooms while L takes a nap. I mean I did the patio door and J was very impressed :-)

So I get the caulk gun (latex glove is still over the end from 2 weeks ago when I used it) and a little edge tool, rip up one of J's t-shirts (his obsessive collection of t-shirts has started dwindling quickly now with the new house) and head up to L's bath. Did the tub & spout - hot D*mn that looks good! latex glove on the tip...I wonder how do you get the stupid thing to quit kicking out more caulk - oh well I've got the glove on.

Head downstairs to the shower in the basement - this was in need of serious help. So I Clorox wiped the cracks so they're clean and get busy caulking the shower. I got two corners done and thought to myself this is way easy and I'm good! I'll have to Twitter my new skill.

I keep going, filling in the huge cracks on the bottom that really needed it, then I had to stop and do the edging. I used so much caulk there was excess that needed to be wiped off, so i grabbed a spot on the t-shirt rag "shoot!" I grabbed a spot with caulk and got it all over my hands, then tried wiping off the edger and the shirt touches the shower wall...caulk on the shower. Wipe that & smear more elsewhere on the shower. I look down - crap! Caulk on my nice jeans (there was no time to change to dirty clothes L is napping remember?!) trying to scrub that out I look down WHOA! the caulk gun has oozed a whole pile on the shower floor - am I in a nightmare?!

I get out of the shower, and manage to get the latex glove on the tip. Stop, clean myself and the shower up. Wow guess I shouldn't twitter my new skill. Okay now the outside of the shower. LOTS of caulk again for the big cracks, edger got dirty again, tried to wipe it up and again it gets messy this time the t-shirt rag hits the toilet - are you kidding me?! Whatever, I'll just keep going, so I manage to edge everything, caulk is all over the floor.

Okay, latex glove back on the gun, wipe everything up - and head up. L's up from her nap & I'm leaving the caulking to J.
Whew!