A few days ago Rona asked if there was anything we could do with little investment of time and/or money to make the bathroom look new. As a result of this simple, innocent question, the bathroom is currently stripped of bathroomy stuff, the floor is covered with paper, and all the parts that shouldn’t change color are taped up or otherwise covered. My shoulder hurts and I’ve got paint all over myself, but the bathroom already looks better, with one coat of shiny, bright white paint adorning the walls. While at Home Depot for fixit parts I picked up white versions of our standard chrome towelbar and in-the-wall toilet paper holder, which will look amazingly better despite being basically the same thing. Rona has had a new bathroom mirror for about five years, but has never gotten around to putting it up. We’ll be hanging that after the paint dries. We have a new shower head that will complete our modernization project, and will be out less than a hundred bucks. Crazier homeowners would have ripped the room down to the studs and slapped up actual sheetrock once the lead paint chips and plaster dust settled. Hopefully the bright shiny treatment will be illusion enough for future home shoppers.
Today was the last day of swim class at Mounger Pool. The new skill for today was the “dolphin dive,” whereby you hold your kidlet under the arms facing you, and swoop her under the water and back up to see your happy face giving her praise for being so cool. Little Z mostly just spluttered and coughed up chlorine water, but she had fun just the same. We practiced her kicking and paddling skills that we learned last time, and she did great despite the absence of the cool floaty toy she was chasing before.
The most fun was had on the Big Slide. If you visit the Mounger Pool site you can just make out the slide in the little photo. It dumps into the left side of the lap pool at the top. We all vacated the nice, warm kiddie pool and dripped on over to climb the stairs to the Big Slide. I held on to Zoey and we slid down the slide and into the pool with a splash! I did put on the brakes a bit near the bottom of the slide so that we wouldn’t go in too fast, but if we can talk her into it next summer ("You did this when you were just 7 months old, Sweetie!") I think we’ll be able to go full tilt.
The coolest thing of the day (outside of Swim Class) was that Zoey is figuring out her crawl stroke without any water being present. I managed to catch some video of her learning to crawl, chasing her red squishy d6 (that’s a six-sided die to you non-gamers) across the living room. She still likes to switch to rolling in mid-crawl, as that gives her lateral motion along with pinpoint accuracy. We are so in trouble…
I’ve been hanging out with Zoey during the day while Rona ramps up her teaching. The latest twist for her is that a call to her friend Debbie in the North Shore (Kenmore) School District snagged her a part time job coaching brass players at Kenmore Junior High. She will be an hourly employee of the school district (once she reports to the police station to get finger-printed!) and she can hand out her cards to the kids and parents to pick up more private students. Sweet!
And while we’re on the topic of work, I’m happy to report that I’m going to be working fulltime for Green Ronin again, splitting my time between the Web sites and editing books for Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play 2nd Edition. Also sweet!
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