Have you missed me?

I have been remiss in updating my "journal" and giving you all the pleasure of knowing what I've been doing from day to day. 

Well, a blank page about says it all.  I have been so busy, I've been getting nothing done.  Like I've been trying to find flooring, and someone to install it, that doesn't cost a small fortunate and require that I get another mortgage just to cover the installation. 

I'm at a stage in my life, and so is my husband, that we are physically not able to lay flooring, either wood or ceramic.

My bathroom is in desperate need to a floor lift.  (that's a facelift for the floor of my bathroom).  When we moved in, I had really nice flooring put in the master bathroom.  Little did I know that if I cleaned it with bleach it would stain -- it would stain the color of day-old urine.  And so there's a wonderful blotch around my toilet where I poured the bleach to (1) get rid of the odor, and (2) clean up the dribbles and drips -- you ladies know what I mean -- and whammo!  My beautiful floor was damaged beyond repair.  The only thing that would fix it was a new floor.  That was 8 years ago.  Now, I'm getting a new floor that will be guaranteed NOT to discolor for my lifetime (it supposedly has a lifetime guarantee, which I'm sure means nothing, but it sounds good). 

And we decided to put flooring in the dining room because of drips and dribbles from the grandchildren and others, the carpet needs to be taken up and replaced.  I want hardwood floor in there, and so it's a nice flow, have that hardwood go into the kitchen.  Well, since we have cement board under our flooring (that's how the place was made) I can only have a certainly kind of wood flooring -- the expensive kind.  That's okay.  I can afford the flooring.  It's the installation that has me FLOORED.  (pun intended). 

So Alan and I are trying to decide whether we're just going to keep the spotted carpet, and call it a design, or whether we're going to bite the bullet and get a new floor. 

We have some other expenses right now, and having the floor cost $1k more than we thought might cause us to drop the project.  I'll let you all know, because I know you really want to know whether I get a new floor or not, right?

Health wise we've been okay, mostly.  Yesterday I had a fibromyalgia flare-up -- a really, really bad one.  No getting away from the pain at all.  I couldn't sit or lay down either.  It was a bad one.  But it's gone today, praise the Lord.  I just had two really bad nights, so I'm tired.

Alan is playing with his new laptop.  Yes, playing.  I think it's going to be his own personal game machine.  That's not why we got it, and I'll see if he uses it as his main computer, so he can sit in his recliner and ease the pain in his back by not sitting at his desk, which is extremely painful for him. 

It's Saturday afternoon.  The last of our beautiful weather, I'm afraid.  It has been one beautiful week, weather-wise.  Cool nights, warm, but not hot, days, and starting tomorrow we are to have rain, rain, rain.  We need it -- the rain, that is.  I notice that our unwatered grass is turning brown. 

The trees are getting more colorful everyday.  Soon there will be no leaves on the trees.   And yes, I've noticed how dark it gets so early at night. 

I do wish that congress would just do away with daylight savings time, since we change in November, then change back in early March.  Why have the change for just four months.  Remember when it changed in late September, then didn't change back until the last weekend in April?  Now, that's daylight savings time.  I don't even both changing the clocks during those few months.  I just always late -- or is it early?

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