Ok this is a story of how I turned my bathroom into a living room back into a bathroom. It all started when I got married to the most loving wife ever, or so I thought until I realized the she does not consider watching football every Sunday "time together". As I have always known she likes to go for walks in the park and eat Sunday brunch, you know the normal things that married couples do, while I would be more than happy to lie on the couch and watch football. Now I know what you are thinking and let me put that one to bed, I am not a fat lazy man in fact I work out 5 days and week and go for a run 3 days a week, I am in shape. I just enjoy watching my favorite football team play every Sunday. But to get back on point turning my bathroom into my living room and back again.

It began when my wife had to go out of town on a business trip for a week, I got the bright idea to turn my downstairs bathroom (we have two) into a make shift living room. I decided that I needed a plan in order to make my dream come true, so I headed to the local hardware store to draw up a game plan. As I am especially incompetent when it comes to home repair I also recruited the best friend, who I would later come to terms with is equally incompetent in home repair.

And so our journey into the craziest/dumbest weekend I have yet to experience in my life. My friend and I put together what seemed to be a genius, fool proof plan to not only upgrade the regular bathroom amenities but also install a fridge, flat screen TV and a lounge chair. In the following I will explain the disaster that followed.

It started off well we got the fridge installed in about one hour by cutting out a feeble at best shelf that the fridge would be put on, we used some nails that were about 5 inches to long for the studs we were trying to nail them into and when we finally got them in, they stuck out about 3 inches which my idiot friend caught and ruined two shirts later by getting caught on them. But never the less the fridge did manage to stay aloft the shelf and there you have it stage one of the plan was complete.

Stage two install a flat screen TV, for all of you out there that think this is an easy task think again! Not only was this almost impossible for us, we almost broke a $2,000 T.V. For starters the bracket that we bought for this TV I'm pretty sure doesn't fit. And to make the long story short I'll just say the TV ended up hanging by some duck tape and metal clothes hangers that were hung from the ceiling, a far cry from the bracket that we had bought. And last was to place my favorite lounge chair into the bathroom, which was the easiest task, placing a chair in a bathroom is not the hard, even for us.

And so with our "ultimate" bathroom complete we decided to celebrate by having some celebratory beers and bask in the craft that we had created. And then Friday rolled around and my wife walked in, asking what I was smiling about, as I showed her the master piece my friend and I made, she could do nothing but laugh, she must have laughed for an hour before she told me I was the dumbest person she had ever met. Not only did I feel bad she made me take down all the equipment that I placed in my master bathroom, and made me go out and have Sunday brunch that very week. All in all it was a terrible weekend that we all look back upon and laugh, because in the end that's all you can do is just laugh.

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