Early Depression and Bathroom Update

Well, Newcastle had their second pre-season friendly this weekend and I must say, I'm not too surprised to already see a shocking loss posted on the board. We traveled to newly promoted Championship side Doncaster with basically a second-string squad. Some sad news saw my man Obafemi Martins travel back to Africa for the funeral of his mother, who tragically died in a fire. She was an enormous impact on his life, and his brother had said he was the closest to her in the whole family. Michael Owen was fighting a case of the mumps apparently, a bunch of others have "knocks" and, h yeah - Joey Barton is still in jail. With all of our strikers out, we had to start with Ameobi and Smith up front and the proved just how inept they are, missing chance after chance. They had plenty of chances to be fair, and still couldn't get one past a side who's last match was played in League fricking One.

Good news was, though, Guthrie played well again, And SebastienBassong, the U-21 French International trialist had a great run-out and looked a nice backup to our thin defensive line. Hopefully we will tie this kid up in the coming days and have a bit of depth for the future.

So, with our team so so thin, hopefully this will shock Mike Ashley into action to sign some new, quality players - not just shock buys like we're so used to. We certainly got the structure in place to do it - we just need our owner to foot the bill. Come on Mike.

And back to the ongoing saga of the bathroom reno! Well, we've once again changed the design. The more we started thinking about our place, our life, and our future, we still think there may be a chance that we'll move out somewhere, maybe to the Gold Coast area, maybe to Lincoln Park, maybe to Evanston, who knows. We love it here for now, but only time will tell where our heads will be in 2030. So we decided to let go of the Japanese bath sticking out into the bedroom with a large open window idea. Instead we're just going to make a giant bath/shower so we can really fill that sucker up and have a nice soak if wanted. And we're going to use the space which was once designed for a bath as EXTRA STORAGE. We've decided to implement a walk-through closet(same as before) but now, behind both sides of hanging clothes, we'll have a full height cubby wall, holding any longer-term storage we'll ever need - like off-season clothes, athletic equipment, old clothes, books, anything. In a place as small as this, extra storage will be incredibly useful, and if I dare say, we'll probably be able to up the resale value on this bad boy if we advertise STORAGE! STORAGE! STORAGE!!!

So while we'll be losing a little bit of luxury in our bathroom plans, it'll be 90% the same, and we'll be able to really make a killing if we choose to sell the place in the future. But it does mean that we'll have to take two steps back in the drawings........