I finally had another day where I felt very productive about the progress on the bathroom. I finally got to the point where I laid some tile and hopefully when I get home from work, everything will be set and there won't be any problems. With Christi out of town, I did have a little extra support at the house. Scott and Anne came over because they both Anne was extremely excited to learn how to tile. Luckily I was able to show them the process by laying a few down before we needed to cut around the pipes and toilet. I had not put together my new tile cutter (image on right) before they came over, so they were nice enough to spend some time in the garage with me helping me put it together. I told them that for the installation costs, Christi and I would come over and help them tile whatever they wanted as soon as their house hunting is over.

Why buy an expensive tile cutter when doing a bathroom the size of a closet? Well, your wife demands that you get one. I'm pretty sure this is a set up so that I have to tile every other project that she has in mind. We actually bought the tile through Lowe's, and they have free tile cutting there, but it's about a 15 minute drive each way and if I screwed something up, it would take me forever to keep running back and forth. Plus, with the gas and how I just buy everything in sight inside of a home improvement store (yes, you'll be able to see some receipts when the project is finished), I'm sure paying for it straight up was better than making all the trips.

Tiling takes a little bit of time, so in terms of pictures, there's not too much to see:

• Seeing how noisy the tile cutter was, I was able to get most of the tile down before it got too late. There's just a few pieces to go.
• All of the main cuts around the toilet and pipe are done.
• The daunting task of tiling around and behind the radiator are still ahead ...