Day two.
Picked out carpet. What I wanted I couldn’t have, because our rooms are 14 feet wide {and carpet is 12 feet wide} so we HAVE to have stuff that hides the inevitable seams and not the pretty stuff with the pattern in it that I had my heart set on. But I’m OK with what we picked. I just hope HGTV understands, you know, when they come with their film crew, that what we chose wasn’t THE most fabulous carpet there is. It was just ordinary carpet, like everybody else’s. 

Like everybody else’s. Sigh. I hate those words.

Pulled up old carpet, and lemme tell you… when the carpet is 40 year old, two-inch-thick shag, {literally. two inches.} there is some stuff underneath. Which ends up all over you, in your hair, and up your nose. Don’t ask me how I know about that last part…

Yeah. That’s dirt where the carpet used to be. Lots. And lots. Of dirt.

Bought a shop vac. After seeing what was under the carpet we knew we needed 1) a shop vac or 2) to burn this house down. It was a tough decision.
 
Toilets delivered. It was like Christmas. And at the rate we’re spending money on this house, the new toilets may very well be our only Christmas gifts. Our girls LOVE to get toilets as a gift anyway…
 
I have a plethora of decorating ideas about almost every room but the Master Bedroom. But what to do in the Master Bedroom? Searched “glamorous bedrooms” on Pinterest, and saw lots of mirrored headboards, and I don’t get it… 

I mean, is it just me, or does a mirrored headboard spell H-E-A-D I-N-J-U-R-Y? And I like to read in bed and I ain’t tryin’ to lean up against GLASS. Please. Or at least I used to like to read, and then I got an iPhone. But I don’t want to lean against glass to play Words With Friends either. Master bedroom decorating suggestions appreciated…

For the tenth time hubby asks where we are putting that freezer, that freezer left behind by the sellers? The answer is still the same… In your shop. It’s like maybe if he asks me enough times I’ll forget and say, oh baby, lets just keep that big monstrosity freezer in the house because we do NOT want to clutter up your sacred Man Cave with a freezer, of all things, where it would take up valuable TOOL space!

False. He’s getting the freezer. I let him win the couch thing, after all.

Update: The freezer is in the game room. I helped hubby put it there. DAGNABBIT! HE ALWAYS WINS, and not only WINS, tricks me somehow into helping him do it…  

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