Tuesday, catching up on Monday....

As you can tell, I didn't blog yesterday. What a looonnnnggggg day!!

The floor installation team didn't arrive until 12:35 p.m.  They were supposed to be here at 11:00, but got stuck on a smaller job that took longer than expected.  So, they jumped right in. I had no idea that floor prep would take so long, but they really did an excellent job getting the carpet and pads up. Then they had to use a big sander, to take off the glue and prepare the cement to receive the new glue for the flooring.  Well, there was a dust cloud throughout the house, that it will take a week to clean up. I knew there would be dust, but had no idea it would be so bad.  These pictures show you the dust in the air....they are not bad pictures, that is a dust cloud hanging in the air, looking down the hallway, and at the piles of 'stuff' in the living room:

 This is what the guest room looked like, once the floor was prepped and ready for the new flooring:

 And here is the same view, with the new flooring installed!!

 And here is the 2nd guest room/Joe's office, with his new area rug under his desk (not in place yet).

And here is our room, with the bed set up and ready for sleeping (which I ended up not doing much of, last night).

This photo is a close-up of the vinyl flooring. I think it looks like real wood, and it has a texture like real wood, but it won't warp or fade or need sanding, and the guys told us it is the best product to have when you have pets, because it is easy to clean and is not absorbent.  I loved hearing that! They didn't finish until just after 9:00 p.m. Those two guys worked their butts off for us, and did a great job. I felt bad that it took so long, but they didn't take any shortcuts - did it right.

The cost was about the same for a medium grade carpet. It has a 10-year warranty, and we have a partial box of the planks left over. They told us if one does get damaged, we can use a hot blow dryer over the damaged plank, to loosen the glue, pull it up and put a new plank down immediately.  Sounds like a win-win to me. We are happy.

Now- if we can just get the house put back together!!  I went to bed by 10:30 last night, and even took a zzzQuil tablet to help me sleep. I laid awake, putting furniture back in the rooms and deciding how to hang art back on the walls....at 2:30, I still hadn't gone to sleep.  I called in for another vacation day. I thought we would have a few hours last night to work on getting our room back together, but that didn't happen.  So, I am home today and we will make some headway, hopefully.

I got both knees shot full of cortisone yesterday. Didn't lose as much weight as I had hoped (darn holidays and darn my absence of will power), but onward. I see him in three months, again (May). My knees are a little ouchy after the shots. Bothers me a bit, because the injections haven't hurt like that before (and I've had a lot of cortisone in my knees). The doctor did the injections, though, instead of his PA. She was good - he hurt me a little. I'm sure the work I do today will loosen them up some.

So, that's two day's worth of blogging!! I'll catch up with you all later today.  Thanks for checking in!! Peace, love & hugs.