New Flooring

In case you were wondering where I've been, I'll tell you. The tile laying guy has been here since last Wednesday putting in a real floor. In the twelve years we've lived here we've done some remodeling which resulted in the desk area and coat closet just having a cement floor. At the same time the rest of the room had stick on tiles that we're guessing were about 35 years old. The bathroom/laundry room also had a cement floor which we've painted three times. So our three attempts plus the previous paint were all peeling off in different stages leaving the floor looking well, ugly. Now the entire floor is one continuous real tile floor. Some of the grout still needs to be scoured off and the white residue from the grout sealer needs to weather a bit, but it looks and feels wonderful. And it's amazing how easy it is to clean a room with basically nothing in your way. But by tomorrow the room will be cluttered with the rest of the furniture, garbage cans, coats, shoe basket, stray shoes, laundry detergents, laundry baskets, and plain old stuff in general. The kind of stuff that gets left behind in a house filled with seven people.

That doesn't tell you why I've been away from the computer though. See, the internet service and router are all hooked up in the desk area and the tile guy assured me that they had to be unplugged and hung in a bag up high, out of his way. After he left last night and the sealer dried I went straight out there to plug everything in. And he had a good laugh today when he came back for the finishing touches. "Just couldn't live without it any longer, could ya?"