I skipped work, but I still worked

Last Wednesday, I had breakfast with my friend Brianna at the Original Pancake House. I don't think I've ever had better pancakes besides my father's Mickey Mouse pancakes. I've been wanting to go back ever since, but it's in Sugarhouse and I'm in West Valley (20 minutes apart).

This morning, I tried to recreate what I ate last Wednesday: Pancakes topped with strawberries, whipped cream, and powdered sugar. Brian and I did a pretty good job, though the sausages he made were old and so he had to throw them away.

After breakfast, we went to my Aunt Wendy's house because I offered last week to help her with her painting. Unfortunately, she didn't need that kind of help and instead had us help her with her gardening. I mowed her lawn and Brian helped her plant flowers and weed.

We left Wendy's at about noon and went to a kitchen showroom to pick out cabinets for our kitchen. My uncle Craig can get us nice quality cabinets at 60% off because he sells them. We looked around, took some notes, and went back home to start the real work.

The texture on the walls of our guestroom is horrible! It looks like someone just took a paintbrush and flicked it toward the wall. It's uneven, ugly, and.... well, really ugly. We spent the rest of the day with a belt sander and a wall sander trying to get the nastiness off.

One of the biggest lessons I learned from today is that the dust from sanding gets EVERYWHERE! Being stupid and novices at this, we didn't put up a plastic sheet on the door to keep the dust particles in the room. When we walked out of the room, white dust had settled on everything in our house. The kitchen, our bedroom, our office... it was everwhere, even in places that were far away from the room. We immediately put up a shower curtain to stop any further particles from settling on something. Even Titus had dust in his nose!

At about 6pm, Brian and I showered at went over to my Uncle Charles' house to hook up some of his A/V stuff for him. As we worked, he ate a whole bag of barbecue potato chips. It totally grossed me out and I hope I never can do that because it's so unhealthy.

When we were done there, Brian and I went to Megan's house to discuss some campaign stuff.