ATF: Tile be Seeing You

Tub Surround tile in Progress 2
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My new userpic was made from gift art sent to me by onionhead1! She sent it with a story about how she'd been having neighbor trouble and felt really intimidated by them. Then she thought of my sledgehammer pic and asked herself "What Would Lea Do?"
And now there is a new userpic. Feel free to take one for yourself and remember to namecheck onionhead1/Melissa.

Today was pretty something. I got a call from King that Boy needed picking up from school. Boy was weepy, feverish and had a nose like a science experiment.
I'd only slept five hours.

Getting ready took forever, as I had to take a meeting in the square office or risk consequences of sneezing and coughing.
I finally got Boy, got Boy lunch, and sat and sat outside the house, waiting for contractors to reappear. We go to the drugstore and come back to find we are missing a crucial piece of tub surround tile: the mud cap, that piece that makes a short right-hand turn at the edge of a surround.
My tile does not have a mud cap.
I could have been told before the day the tile was being put up. I announced with skywriting and infomercials my intent to use Rialto White--in November 2006.
I went to Lowe's, kids in tow, nearly in tears the whole time, trying to figure out what to use instead of mud cap. I had settled on the option of buying 1/2" x 6" trim pieces and butting them with bullnose (the tile that curves a bit at one edge, used for baseboards). This would add $200. to the whole cost.
Then I realized it'd be easier and better-looking to cut trim pieces from tiles we already had. (Like, 45 cents a running foot as opposed to $3.26).
Solution!
I marveled out loud to the nice Lowe's lady that I was not crying (but I was so close). I'd already tolld her what had led me in there. She told me, "There's a lady who's building her dream house on Prue (a local street), and she's in here every day, and she is always crying."

I wanted to have tea with this lady.

The window sills and trim are all painted except in one room (I forget which.) The floors go starting Thursday or Friday. Cabinets this coming weekend.

Million little details to be swatted.

Boy spent almost seven solid hours in the car today. Poor baby.