In which I make tools, like a chimp!

Last night at work I made a little shopping list, because I am tired of trying to think of something to make whilst standing in front of the refridgerator looking hopefully for something appealing. I just got back from shopping with RA, and I've got groceries now.


When I got home from the store, Kim was home from having a Sisters Bonding Lunch with Rachel. I told her that I bought something for her, and if she unpacked the groceries she would find it, so she went right to work, putting things away. It's like a treasure hunt!



So Kim was putting things away, and I was watching, and then something laying on the counter caught my eye. It was the sign Becky sent me! Still laying on the counter, waiting to be hung displayed!


I told Rich a week or two ago that I wanted the sign to be hung in a spot on the kitchen wall where there used to be a wall phone (back in the days before cordless!), and then we both went blithely on with our lives, hoping that someone would hang the sign, but no one did.

So I looked at the phone hardware, still attached to the wall, and I thought to myself, "What would Becky do? She's a single woman who lives in a house, and if she wants something hung on the wall, she just does it herself! I need to be more like Becky!" With that brave thought, I got myself some tools:
and went to work. I unscrewed about 185 screws using the edge of the big butcher knife, until I remembered that I had seen the small screwdriver in a cup full of pencils so I rooted around until I found it. Using the small screwdriver, I removed the last couple of screws and took this hardware off of the wall!

Which left me this :I was too afraid to try trimming the wires - I could get electrocuted! Then, using the handle of the butcher knife as a hammer, I pounded this hanger into the back of the sign:

And hung it on the wall, covering the wires:

How about that! I'm amazed amazing!

Oh, and the thing I bought for Kim? It was a DVD of The Haunting that was in the sale bin near the checkout at the store. It's the original, about ghost hunters who go to investigate a reportedly haunted house! I thought she and Sando would like it, since they spend every Friday night eating pizza and watching Ghost Hunters on TV. I hope it's not too scary for them!