The War Between the Floors
Fun fact: A “war of attrition” is defined as a military strategy in which a belligerent side attempts to win a war by wearing down its enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in...
View ArticleHump Day
Our house has a hump in the middle of the first floor. A stair hump. One side of the hump leads into the kitchen. These four stairs are the last thing standing between me and a finished kitchen....
View ArticleHump Day: Part Deux
I think I got an idea. An idea for a blog post. A blog post about nothing. You’ll say, “What’s it about?” And I’ll say, “Nothing.” I think I may have something here. I hope you enjoyed that clip....
View ArticleStairway to Heaven
If by “heaven” you mean “finished kitchen,” then yes, I guess, technically, this could be the stairway to heaven. I guess I always imagined something a little…taller. And more golden. But this will...
View ArticleT-minus 79 Days
Damn, that doesn’t sound very long, does it? Luckily I’ve made remarkable progress on the nursery over the past two weeks. To be specific: It is REMARKABLE how LITTLE progress I have made, given the...
View ArticleFloor Refinishing: Lesson 1
You know, I almost didn’t write this post. Because the floor’s not done yet. And I thought about slacking and just not posting anything until the floor was done and I had a completed project to tell...
View ArticleThe Art of Misdirection
Six weeks. That’s how long it took me to refinish the floors. If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s procrastinating. I’m particularly proud of this example, in which it took me 6 weeks to complete a...
View ArticleSide Blitz!
August 18th-20th, 2017 Let’s REFINISH SOME FLOORS!! Why, you ask? Why stop in the middle of a bathroom renovation to rip up some carpet and strip some floors? noun Sudden uncontrollable fear or...
View ArticleThe Comeback?
The other day, I found myself blissfully alone in the house. No husband. No kids. No noise. No responsibility. So I did what any stressed-out, sleep-deprived, hormonally-imbalanced mother of two small...
View ArticleThe end of an era.
Welp. That escalated quickly. We sold the house. About two years ago, I remember talking to my bestest bud Lindsay about selling the house. (You might remember Lindsay from such episodes as Bookshelf...
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