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I’m halfway through refinishing the kitchen cabinets. It turns out the finish was tinted, versus the wood being stained, so it pretty much wipes off to bare wood with the proper chemicals. I have only four doors left to do, then it’ll be time to do the frames, given the relatively small surface area I think it’ll go quite quickly. I’ll need to stash the cat downstairs and mom needs to get her own respirator, but it should go well.

I really like the router bits I’d bought a while back, I used them to make mouldings for the aquarium stand. It is done, btw, well… except it needs to be sanded, stained, and a finish needs to be applied. I keep procrastinating on finishing it, but I’m not in a tremendous hurry. Once it’s done, it’ll still be quite a good while before I can afford all the other things that sit either on top of the stand, or go inside of it. I’m also fairly certain that I want to put down a laminate floor in the office, which will need to be done first anyway.

Lack of gobs of money is really a pain, of course anybody could tell you that… there’s just so much I’d like to do, so much that is dependent on other things to come before it. I suppose this is the problem with being interested in so many different things. I’d really like to get some more tools, in fact I have a drill press picked out and I’m almost ready to buy it, but I don’t know if that’s the best choice at the moment. There’s a certain level of convenience in that my brother is going up to where they’re sold, which would save me a long trip. I absolutely refuse to pay $70 shipping when I could drive up and get it myself. I’m not in dire need of a drill press, other things would take priority, it’s just… that convenience of someone already going up there. Bleh… I also really want an air compressor so I can power nail and paint guns… in a way that’s the most important thing, but it’s also one of the most expensive; as the compressor isn’t very useful without things to plug into it.

I think it’s more of a problem with making decisions and choosing priority. I also find it a little difficult to “decide to wait” for fear it is simply “waiting because I can’t make up my mind.” I think, ultimately, I should wait on the drill press. I can then get the compressor and finish nailer, get the laminate floor for the office, use the finish nailer to re-attach the baseboard, move the aquarium stand in, get the aquarium stuff, and by the time I’ve afforded to do all that, it’ll be this time again next year, haha. Sad thing is, the air compressor was on sale for the last month… I kept waiting trying to decide if it was the best thing to do… versus saving that money so I’m not totally broke all the time. I want to make a new candle thing, this time with router action, but drilling the holes is such a pain, I just won’t do it without a drill press. Same thing when it comes to finish nails… I bent about half of them while attaching the trim to the aquarium stand… argh, oak is hard! …if I can help it, I don’t want to ever hand nail one of those evil things again. Yes, I should have pre-drilled, but drilling for nails just isn’t something I can bring myself to do.

The triple cellphone bill this month certain doesn’t help matters… The new provider’s bill is doubled due to all the fun activation charges, and then of course there’s the final bill from the old provider. The triple visit to the dentist wasn’t very fun either… especially on the wallet. Oh, and lest we forget the getting paid difficulties… it varies, but pretty much every month there’s a problem there… I’m getting much more comfortable using the suspend function of WHM. All that combined really lends weight to the “don’t buy anything” mentality, doesn’t it?