Day 5, Picture 5

Me and my lazy Lacey-Dog, lounging on the couch watching the 16 & Pregnant finale! :]

This morning I took my cousin to breakfast instead of us going to yoga for her birthday, it was so delicious! After we left breakfast I went to Home Depot to get some turpentine to wipe down my chest with before I put the stain on. Boy does that stuff stink! I should have bought one of those masks to cover my nose and mouth but I didn't. Oh well, maybe I'll remember next time!

That process really wasn't bad. Rubbing it down with the turpentine took like maybe 15 or 20 minutes and then I started watching last night's episode of What Not To Wear while I was waiting for it to dry completely. Half way through the episode I decided to go put the first coat of stain on. I got this color called "Jacobean"

because it was kind of dark, but not too dark. When I showed it to my dad the other day he mentioned it was dark and thought something with more red would have looked nice, but I didn't listen! Now I think its a little too dark. I only applied ONE coat of stain and I don't think I'm going put more than that. It doesn't look bad:

But I think it would have looked nicer if it was a little lighter and had more of a reddish tint. Also, in those pictures the stain is still wet so it might get a little lighter. It's taking FOREVER to dry! I finished staining it at like 12:30 and here it is...3 hours later and it's still wet in some spots! I had this box fan we have blowing on it but then I realized that it was blowing some animal hair onto it and I didn't want that interfering with anything so I turned it off. Whatever though. I mean, it still looks WAY better than it did when I got it yesterday! I'm also still a little bummed that the top isn't completely the same color. On the left where the water damage was is still darker than the right, which is just the regular wood. Oh wellz!

I've been trying to decide all day if i want to put a clear varnish on it to make it shiny. At first I thought I did but when I called my dad he was like "are you sure you want it shiny?" And from then on I've been second guessing! I'm going to sleep on it, for sure. I want to see what it looks like when its completely dry before I make any more decisions. I just wish it wasn't taking so long to dry!

Aside from the chest, tonight we're going to my cousin's parents house to have a birthday dinner for her which will be nice! Her parents are my most favorite aunt and uncle, and they're making a salmon for dinner so I can't wait for that! YUM!

V called me a little while ago to tell me that his work needs to send him to South Carolina next week for some training so he's going to be gone from Tuesday to Friday. I guess I could go with him because the hotel is paid for, I would just be sitting there by myself all day until like 5 or 6, so IDK! We'll have to talk about that tonight. We also have to talk about me getting a job tonight because my mom called me to tell me that there's some kind of accounting position open at her work and she wanted to know if I wanted it or not. Then a couple hours later, a lady from my old work called me to tell me that a law firm that a friend of hers works at is looking for a receptionist to hire like immediately. I'm not really sure if I want to go back to work or just go to school like as much as possible so I can get done with it sooner and start teaching! Because I know if I had a full time job I would probably only be able to take like a MAXIMUM of 4 classes each semester, maybe 3 if the job was like, for realz (lol. I laugh because my last job I was technically a "receptionist" but I didn't do SHIT. No joke. Like I would do all my school work at my job so I wouldn't have to worry about it at home in the evenings or on the weekends. And when I didn't have any school work to do, I would watch TV. It.Was.Amazing.). But that means it would take me longer to finish at VCC and it would be that much longer before I got started at UCF. When on the other hand, if I just went to school and kept babysitting like once a week or so, I would take 4 maybe 5 classes and be done at VCC by like the end of the spring semester of 2012. And THAT would be awesome!

So I don't really know. That's why I need to talk to V. He helps me make decisions because I am very indecisive. And that is why I love him so much. Among many, MANY other reasons, of course :D

Happy Hump Day!