i need a job so we can pee without puking

yesterday, a dude came over @ 8am (yeah, pretending i'm a real grownup) to give a first estimate of the cost of redoing our bathroom. keeping in mind that this bathroom is all of about 10'x8' big (and i'm being generous), you may understand my horror when he quoted me $11,334 (and that was after i said that to cut cost we'd stick with a shower curtain instead of the glass door to enclose the clawfoot tub this house came with, that we trying desperately to work with).
after my initial shock wore off, i remembered that somebody else told me on the phone previously (before informing me that they weren't licensed to work in dc anyway, just va) that it'd cost $10-$20,000 (calmly, as if that price range weren't big enough for our new car to fall into) so it seems the estimate may not be that far off the mark.
i have somebody else estimating today and another tomorrow, and i really hope somebody can rid us of the diagonal-striped pastel vinyl flooring and aqua-seafoam shame that is our bathroom, for less than $100/square-foot.
so anybody who needs something written (or said with a cool caribbean accent) and can pay a little for it, anybody who needs a stage manager, anybody who needs a short, black, dreadlocked+tattooed (ink easily covered when necessary) actress, anybody who needs a taster/smeller (not for poison, just to tell you if you should have some)- i am your whore. because i need my favourite husband to be able to shower without hunching over, and we need to bathe together again, after 3-and-change years of marriage.
if you haven't seen our bathroom, believe me when i say it's almost as ugly as the pizza-thief from my last fff entry.

in other peeing news, we spent a great 2 days in delaware with friends last week, and since mike's a brewer @ the dogfish head brewery, we got a private tour.
now i don't generally like beer- the only thing i drink from that realm is royal extra "the lion" stout, or mackeson or guinness (royal's best, but not available everywhere, neither is 2nd best mackeson)- but i'm an information junkie, and mike is a good pusherman.
he told us everything about everything, and the brewery was so cool! i especially liked the whirlpool thing that separates the fermented liquid from the hops and whatnot (and i learned that i really really like hops a lot- they smell good). and we got to taste stuff in various stages of fermenting and hopping and shit, straight outta the big tanks in the brewery. but the best thing was that i actually found beer i like! of course, i liked the shit that costs $32 for a 4-pack, but what else should i have expected, right...
dogfish head makes a "raison d'etre" with raisins in the recipe and it was ok but still beer to me, but then we tried their "raison d'extra" (much deeper tasting version, 18% alcohol) and it was superb! a sipping beer, if such a thing exists. you have to take it easy or you get trashed without realising until you try to stand up because it's 'just beer'. it was also very cool to know that they've only brewed 1 batch of "raison d'extra" so far, so we drank of the only stash that exists.
the other one i like was much lighter than i thought i could get into (the reason i like certain stouts and not any other beers is that beer always tasted like watery piss to me- and i've tried a lot because people keep saying "if you like stout, you should try this") but it was delightful. it's "the midas touch" and i think the novel ingredients do the taste right for me- they analysed the contents of a goblet found in a tomb believed to be king midas', and used what was found in it as the base recipe for this beer. it has saffron in it. it's brilliant. and expensive, like "raison d'extra". but i like 2 new beers, the tour and drink was damn good, and i can get more because dogfish head's opening breweries and/or brewpubs in the dc/md area soon (we also had lunch @ their brewpub in delaware which makes its own rum as the only legal distillery in the state, and it was the only truly good brewpub food i've ever had- great pizzas, amazing desserts, of and course, beer i like, finally).

alright, i'm all typed out and gotta go find a way to pay for our bathroom.
walk good. and that means you, chrissy.