The past year of my life has been consumed with DIY projects and improvements on our home. It has been rewarding and also eye opening. I never would have guessed that I would want to spend so much money on a home, making it my own. This morning as I was making coffee in my bathroom for the 10th day in a row, the tune to “Ice Ice Baby” was jamming in my head. The lyrics were a bit different. Check them out.
“DIY-Y-Baby”
Yo, Home Reno, let’s kick it!
DIY-Y-Baby, DIY-Y-Baby
All right stop, put down that hammer and listen
DIY is back with a brand new addition
Projects, grab a hold of me tightly
Working like a dog, daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know
Turn on the lights, damn there’s no glow!
To the extreme I rock a tool belt like a mad-man
Picking paint colors and formulating a sweet plan
Sandpaper, go slow go with the grain
I’m dropping knowledge on you with my home-reno super brain
Deadly, watch the saw blades carefully
Do it yourself and you’ll save on carpentry
Love it or list it, that show don’t play
I get sweet ideas, but my husbands gotta pay
If there was a problem, yo I’ll solve it
Check out this book, its got a ton of cool projects
DIY-Y-Baby, DIY-Y-Baby
DIY-Y-Baby, DIY-Y-Baby
Now that this project is jumping
Got my coffee brewing, pumpin in the bathroom
Want toast? Plug it in, in the living-room
Kitchen’s closed fool, off limits please don’t assume
Check your paint cans, I detect some bad fumes
I go crazy when I hear the power tools
And a nail gun, with a souped up big boom
I’m on a roll, it’s time to go to Home Depot
Rollin’ in my minivan
With the trunk propped, so the lumber don’t jam
The cashier on standby, waving “Do you need a tie?”
Did I stop? No, I just drove by
Cautiously, super slow to the next stop
I busted a left still need oil for the butcherblock
Sadly, Bed Bath and Beyond was closed
So I continued to 41, snowbird avenue
DIY-Y-Baby, Projects making me crazy
DIY-Y-Baby, Projects making me crazy
If there was a problem, yo I’ll solve it
Check out this book, its got a ton of cool projects
So if you love DIY and are brave enough to try, God bless and good luck. I am just about at the end of my rope. My only saving grace was this tune in my head this morning as I brewed a pot of bathroom coffee, know around here as “A cup of John.”
