Weekend Round Up

Weekend Round Up - The quickest version of my weekend (including Friday).

Friday

• -Carpet was installed by a little person.
• -I was really tired.
• -Ran into (ouch) James, Liz & Andy at Perkins and we joined them to see the movie Blades Of Glory. Good movie, very funny.

Saturday

• -Corey brought over some wood, wood floors that is.
• -I moved the computer desk back upstairs with my super human strength.
• -Aimee and I went to Ikea. This place is stupid nutz on the weekends.
• -Aimee and I went through all of our crap to decide if it was going to go into the garage sale, storage or garbage pile.

Sunday

• -I got pulled over by the cops at 12:04 am on our way back from Wal-Mart. Cop said my bumper was past the legal max height of 25". I thought in my head, "fuck you" and on we went (no ticket or warning).
• -Hauled away old carpet thanks to Jason.
• -Put all of the garage sale items in the (drum roll please) garage.
• -Everything is finally in it's place again.
• -Watched the Ox-Bow Incident.
• -Laid on carpet.
• -Looked in the fridge for the millionth time to discover the same thing over and over again, we have no food.

-MikeyB

The Install Part 2

It took Brian, the installer, 5 hrs to install all of the carpet upstairs. I was vacuuming the rooms for over an hour because of all of the little pieces laying on top from the install. I love the new carpet and the new carpet smell. I could just lay down and fall asleep on the new stuff. Here are some before and after install pictures.

The Install

After three nights every last little thing has been moved from upstairs down in to our dining room. Every inch of carpet and every little staple that held the grungy old carpet pad in place has been removed. Aimee and I slept downstairs on the couch last night. Not the most comfortable but it was just for one night. The carpet installer arrived at 7:20 am this morning. I was expecting 2-3 guys not knowing what's involved with installing carpet. Arriving was one carpet installer 5 feet tall. I'm totally serious, he can't be more than 5 feet tall. Right now he's stapling the new pad to the floor. Once we get everything back to normal here I'll post some before and after pictures.

BTW Thanks neighbor whom ever you are that I'm stealing bandwidth from.

-MikeyB

Home Away From Home

I just purchased our new tent. Yes I know, another tent. I'm a bit of a tent whore. I love our Kelty Quartz 4 but that's just not going to be big enough for us and Zoey. I had so much success with Kelty for our last tent that I decided to go with them again. This time around I have selected the Pavilion 4. The large sqft, height and screened in vestibule were a plus. This tent will be used for family style camping so I wanted to make sure it was as comfortable as possible.

BTW the new carpet will be installed on Friday. If you need a chunk of the old stuff (garage, basement) let me know and I can cut a piece out for you..

-MikeyB

Antz

I figured out the ant problem we have on the main level. Looks like I have some concrete gaps to fill once we pull the carpet.

Observations This Week

٭٭The new Nature Valley Oat's 'N Honey cereal is the bomb diggity. I can't get enough of this stuff. Breakfast, lunch, dinner who cares! It's good for every meal.

٭٭We will never know the truth behind Dick Enrico's advertising agenda nor will we know what he uses for hair products, a true life enigma.

٭٭No matter how many Diet Mountain Dews I buy I will never win that Subaru Empreza WRX by entering in my alphanumeric code under each bottle cap. Why? I'm just not that lucky.

٭٭I drove over a screw and now it has taken up residency in my rear driver side tire. I should have evicted this tenant about a week ago but I'm just too lazy. I'm not loosing any air in the tire but to be on the safe side I should fix it this weekend but who knows, like I said I'm lazy.

٭٭Purchasing new carpet is easier than I thought other than the cost factor. Plus if you have it installed you do not get charged Minnesota's 6.5% sales tax. I'm not sure why but that saves me 165 Washington's or a Franklin, Grant, Hamilton, Lincoln & Washington.

٭٭I have two more payments left on the Jeep and then it's all mine. ALL MINE I SAY!! Take that! On another note James still has another million payments (over exaggerated). WTG James! FYI James doesn't believe in reading Blogs so the next time you see him please remind how many payments he has left on his shiny new red Jeep. Once he tells you just yell out "SUCKA!".

٭٭The snow has melted and the sky is blue.

And those are my observations this week.
-MikeyB