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Dec. 22nd, 2024 09:50 pmThe tape that Amazon had promised to deliver finally showed up. Unfortunately, it was the wrong tape. It has now been returned and I went to Home Depot and bought a different brand of tape which I used to mount the mirror today. I had to get help from Gretchen and K, because I could not get the protective plastic to peel off the other side of the double-sticky mounting tape, but once they did, the mirror was finally reaffixed to the medicine cabinet.
When I went to Home Depot, I picked up some quick furniture refinishing product. Today, I used that on the coffee table in the living room, which was substantially the worse for wear. Before I could do that, I first had to get the rest of the caked on slime off of the table. It has been some years since Julie was playing with slime and Gretchen had managed to remove some, but not all of it. Windex and elbow grease took the last of it off. Having stained and waxed the top surface of the coffee table, it by no means looks new, but it looks a heckuva lot better than it did.
In the "Looking a Heckuva Lot Better Department", Gretchen spent several hours this afternoon with the kids in the dining room, dispatching various things to places where they better belonged. Julie, unfortunately, has the same grasp of leaving paths in the basement that some people have for the entrances / exits to filk circles, so the tubs that went to the basement have completely blocked the path to the gift wrap. Something will be done about this, but not by me, and not today.
The dining room now looks a heckuva lot better. I have swept most of the loose debris up, so it is now possible to think about mopping the floor, although it may first be better to spend some time getting the acrylic kid paint off the floor. We will figure that out too.
But not today.
When I went to Home Depot, I picked up some quick furniture refinishing product. Today, I used that on the coffee table in the living room, which was substantially the worse for wear. Before I could do that, I first had to get the rest of the caked on slime off of the table. It has been some years since Julie was playing with slime and Gretchen had managed to remove some, but not all of it. Windex and elbow grease took the last of it off. Having stained and waxed the top surface of the coffee table, it by no means looks new, but it looks a heckuva lot better than it did.
In the "Looking a Heckuva Lot Better Department", Gretchen spent several hours this afternoon with the kids in the dining room, dispatching various things to places where they better belonged. Julie, unfortunately, has the same grasp of leaving paths in the basement that some people have for the entrances / exits to filk circles, so the tubs that went to the basement have completely blocked the path to the gift wrap. Something will be done about this, but not by me, and not today.
The dining room now looks a heckuva lot better. I have swept most of the loose debris up, so it is now possible to think about mopping the floor, although it may first be better to spend some time getting the acrylic kid paint off the floor. We will figure that out too.
But not today.