Happy birthday, omnis!

askye, I'm sorry your day began in such a craptastic way. But I have to join the chorus of "please wear your seatbelt." Sox and I had a brilliant cousin who would still be here today had he been wearing one, and it makes me sad to think how she missed out on getting to know him as well as I did. Don't make me come down there and buckle you in!

I need to go back and look at d's pictures... How's your dad? Improving a little every day, I hope?

Cash, I am with you in the corner of new house, moving, who-the-hell-do-I-call-next-yness. We need a cappuccino machine in this corner.

Laura!

Happy Birthday, Omnis!

It must have been universal insomnia night. Even with Ambien, I was still hyper-awake enough to solve the question of world peace, if it hadn't been 3 a.m.

every time I turn around, something breaks.

That pretty much describes my homeowning experiences.

The mummy hand slipped down over my fingers last night and it's screwing with my typing. I get rewrapped ths afternoon.

We picked out some stuff for the little bathroom remodel! [link]

I definitly should have been wearing my seat belt andnormally I do. I was pulled over right near my house, I just hadn't put it on. I should really know better becuase I was in a car accident as a teenager and the car flipped (going at very low rate of speed) and having the seat belt on saved me from being thrown from the car.

GC - is this the bathroom by the kitchen/office?

Yep. The tiny, nasty bathroom. It's hard to imagine it being pretty.

I never felt it was nasty when I used it! But yay remodeling!

You are sweet. That bathroom has carpeting. That has probably been there since the 1970s. Eep.

Wearing my seat belt is so ingrained in me that if I'm, say, just moving a car in a parking lot, I get uncomfortable if I'm not wearing a seat belt. A few years ago I test drove a car that had no seat belts - it felt so freaky driving it knowing I was unbelted....

It must have been universal insomnia night.

Not me! Pulling carpet staples out of a hardwood floor for hours, 2 nights in a row, seems to be an effective soporific.

But holy crap, my right hand is awfully sore, as is my forearm. Pulling staples out of a hardwood floor is very satisfying, but quite a workout.

Ginger, your suggestion in my LJ* is probably what I'm going to attempt for the cleaning, because it's gnarly dirty, with a lot of built-up ick and fur. And sticky in spots. Not melted-sugar-sticky; just the kind of tacky-sticky that a dirty wood floor can be after being under carpet for 5+ years.

*(I posted in my LJ, wondering the best way to clean a very dirty hardwood floor that's been under carpet for 5+ years, in addition to wondering the best way -- *without refinishing,* because we don't have the time to do that right now -- to even out the light-colored stains on the floor.

This is how the dining room floor looked immediately after the carpet came up (pre-vaccuming, pre-sweeping, pre-cleaning of any sort). The very light-grey-ish patches were just dust/crud/powdered bits of the carpet pad that came up with sweeping. The big dark stain at the top of the picture bothers me way less than the many small very light stains.)