I was really having trouble coping

…coping the inside joints for Kelly’s crown molding, that is, but oddly it spilled over into not coping with all of my own life. Weird.

For baseboard molding, and even some chair rail moldings, you can just do a 45-degree cut on the pieces for an inside corner so they fit together like a picture frame. But if you are working with the curvy crown molding, you have to do this ridiculous thing called coping where you cut the molding with a little hacksaw until it is “just so” and then you put the pieces together. It’s hard to explain without visuals and it’s really pretty boring anyway. Whew. Now, they have these corner blocks you can get, and you just butt the molding up to them, so that’s way easier, no coping involved, just straight cuts. And for some reason (stupid, stubborn, who knows?) that just didn’t seem good enough for me to do for my friend Kelly. So I spent (wasted) a lot of time at her place last week trying to figure that out while everyone else was actually getting things done. And I never did figure out how to cut those little effers.

I decided to go down to the basement last night and just dink around until I got it and I finally did. So now I am hoping I can finish hanging Kelly’s molding sometime soon and then her bathroom will be all pretty and finished, except for the light fixture that I was too afraid to install because the box had a LOT of extra wires running in to it, and I don’t want to end up being the person who wired the light that caused a short that set a fire that caused the house to burn to the ground. You know.

By the bye, we got a goodly amount of work done at Kelly’s place. Her extra bedroom-turned-rec room got painted (green!) and we moved all the furniture back in but now she has to do the constant rearranging that goes with any room re-do. I caulked her tub and shower surround, hung the paper holder, and most importantly – hung the medicine cabinet. The next thing is when we will have Hanging Day – not that kind of hanging, but we are going to hang all of her cool window treatments from – where else? – IKEA, and also one really cool one from CB2. I will get pics of that to show because Kelly has amazing taste in picking out all these cool and funky artsy things. I want to hire her to be my personal shopper. She is really good at it!