The bathroom project was supposed to be a nice quick upgrade for the house. I originally planned on having everything completed within a two week window. Since Christi was back home for exactly two weeks, I figured this would be perfect. However, I started a week late, so I was only about seven days into the renovation when she came home. Not blaming her or anything, but when she came home, she just wanted us both to relax, so I took a few nights off of working on stuff. A few nights turned into a few weekends which turned into a few weeks.

In the meantime, since Christi more or less made me (once again, not blaming her here) buy the tile cutter, others found out that I knew how to tile. This was one of the first times in life when I really found out how contagious knowledge was. Pacino just bought a 3 family house and wanted to rip up the vinyl flooring in his kitchen and lay down some tile. So I spent pretty much one entire weekend helping him out. I'm glad I did because his kitchen looks amazing, but in terms of our house, it was time away from the bathroom. However, being that it's our second bath, I figured helping Pacino get his place into shape was a little higher on the priority chart.

I've been working on and off lazily over the past few weeks or so, but really kicked it back into gear about a few days ago. Everything was done. I was satisfied, but not entirely happy with everything. There was one final touch that was missing: a floating shelf on the wall. On one of our shopping trips at Target, I saw some there and picked one up to complete everything.

We left to go meet up for dinner with some friends and when we came back, the Humpty Dumpty effect came into place. Yes, all of the king's soldiers and all of the king's men couldn't put my floating shelf back together again.

The picture rundown:

• The support where the floating shelf was supposed to go.
• One of the decorative glass pieces broke on the tile when it hit the ground.
• The shelf was chipped and cracked everywhere and completely useless.