OMG I am so happy to see that. Dashed out to mom's car to close the windows. Hopefully this will help our drought some. I love the rain.

The Pizza Hut we usually order from is closed at 9:30pm. What the FUCK people. Not happy at all...

I have so many bruises, most of which I have no idea when/how I got them.

My fibromyalgia has come back with a vengeance. Mainly in my hips, but also in my shoulders. I can't seem to find a comfortable position to sleep in because everything's so tender.

My wrist, while seeming to have healed from the sprain - in other words, it doesn't hurt when I move it that certain way that caused it to hurt before - hurts in other weird places. It seems that using a hammer to jam a flathead screwdriver under nailed down wood is a BAD IDEA if you want to not hurt. Mind you, I did this for the entire room... 44 feet of tack strip, with a nail approximately every 6 inches. You do the math on how much I hammered. It was a lot. Then, there was all the edge painting...

I used a LOT of paint to do the touch ups. There were significant gaps between some of the plywood boards - like 1/2 an inch in places. Whoever built this house, and specifically this room, did a really really shitty job. I ended up having to pour paint into those cracks and then brush them ever so gently - they were filled with sawdust that we couldn't get out with the vacuum. NIGHTMARE.

However, today the room looks really good. The paint color is nice. I just wish the floor looked better. We were expecting that the plywood would be in a lot better shape. There are places where someone used a circular saw to cut other pieces DIRECTLY ON THE PLYWOOD subfloor. IDIOTS.

Hopefully, once we work up enough energy to get the carpet down, it'll look much better and cover most of the crappy wood.

Naturally, though, the threshold thingies that mom bought to seal the transition from carpet to floor are FUCKING HARD TO INSTALL. The first one sat there fine, but it was hell trying to nail it in - the nails kept bending on me. I was able to get three in, which I figured was enough for a threshold to the closet. You are then supposed to snag the carpet on the hooks and use a rubber mallet to flatten the cover part and hold the carpet in place. This did not work at all. The mallet didn't make the thing move even a smidge. And the one for the door to the hallway was cut about 1/8" too long, meaning Mom will have to spend more time using our little keyhole saw to shave the end off. Why is all this so complicated???

I really want to take my right arm off for a while. It's just one big mess of pain from fingers to shoulder. There are muscles that are constantly yelling at me: "WHAT IN GOD'S NAME DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING??? WE DON'T DO THAT KIND OF WORK ANYMORE!!!"

One last one: The website I ordered my books from say they have shipped, but since they go through the regular mail, there's no way to track them... I have no idea when they'll arrive, but I'm hoping that it'll be in the next week... I'll finish the one I'm on by then.

In happy news, though: WE GOT RAIN!!!! REALLY REAL RAIN!! It woke me up this morning, and I thought, "what is that noise?" It took me about 2 minutes to figure out that I was hearing rain. How sad is that? Anyway, I knew Mom's been leaving her sunroof and windows cracked because of the heat, so I dashed downstairs and out the front door to make sure her car was closed. Thankfully, it was and all was well. We got about 1/3"!! YAY! Maybe the roaches will stay outside now.

Another happy story: Now that the little cats are ensconced in my bathroom upstairs, everytime I go to the bathroom, I get attention and love from three cats. Abby, in particular, gets really lovey - which is weird for her, since she's usually bitching. Hopefully, once I recover from this last DIY project, Mom and I can get the materials for the porch and we can put that together fast so the littles can move out there. Until then, I have them next door to me, which freaks me out sometimes, as they like to open the cabinets and make them close with a bang. They also play in the tub which is on the other side of the wall.