I’m exhausted today. I can’t remember the last day that I didn’t push myself physically, either at the convenience store or working on the renos. I’m behind in the required hours for my contract, so I decided that today was going to be a multiple cups of coffee, sitting in front of the computer in my jammies, cat(s) on my lap, heavy production day.
Of course, the internet had other plans. It always does. Internet is sentient, I am now 100% sure of that. There is no other reason why it works fine when I have better things to do and doesn’t work when I need it. I’m sure inquiring minds want to know how I’m posting this; I’m in the living room of the house; at least wi-fi is working there again today (earlier it wasn’t).
The only work I did on the rig today was finish pulling up the wood flooring in the kitchen and start to chip away at the edges. I need to finish working on the edges and then figure out what I’m going to do in the entrance stairwell. The sides and bottom are metal covered by wood, so I can just pull up the wood and install the Allure over top the metal, but the back is an access panel. I might simply install the vinyl over the boards. Then, I need to take that dinette bench apart. I keep procrastinating on doing so because it’s my way up into the loft. Soon as I do away with it I’ll have to start focusing on making a new way to climb up. I might as well put this off as long as I can and just focus on getting the wood flooring out of the way.
My heart just wasn’t into it today, so I quit early and went to get pizza and beer for dinner. There’s a liquor store located two doors down from the pizza place in the Willowpoint stripmall, which is highly convenient. 🙂 I was asked for ID for the first time in my life! According to the cashier and the manager I don’t look a day over 18. I am going to be thirty-one next month. I don’t know if I should be flattered or horrified! I also seem to be aging backwards; when I was backpacking around Scotland at nineteen and going to pubs with people ten to twenty years older than me, they always got pinned as being younger than me. Very, very, very odd!
How about that left over laminate for the stairwell?
It’d made no sense to replace the wood with the laminate, which isn’t that much more moisture-proof. There’s nothing wrong with that access panel, so it’d probably just be easier to cover it with the vinyl and be done with it. I need to start simplifying my projects! 😀
I have an idea of how I’m going to use that laminate; it’ll just depend on whether the hardware for what I want to do exists. It just happens to have the exact dimensions for a project that’s been needing to be done since day one.
I gotta share, linking to your id incident. You know I crossed to 40 this fall. I was picking up a case of beer at Walmart, and the guy at the till carded me!! I confess, I nearly cried, and it made my day! LMHO
Any day we look 18 is a good day!
Donna, you just don’t seem to be over that hill yet. You have the sass of someone half your age!
Croft, I remember you getting ID’d recently. I guess this is an easy way to flatter someone!
I ID people regularly at the gas station and sometimes they are miffed but more often I make their day.