It Always Comes Back to Money, Doesn’t it?

Well, winter appears to be here, reminding me that I need winter boots, new mitts/gloves and ski pants. I hate shopping, yet I am able to spend so much money every month. I blame the grocery stores where you can buy everything in one go. Although, it saves me from having to lug from store to store just to get Christmas gifts, new sheets, decent knives, etc. Now whether I would bother to lug myself around in the first place is part of the whole thing.

So where have I been for the past seventeen days? Why, laying laminate in my basement. I wasn’t a huge laminate fan and only gave in as it really is the only way we will ever be able to cover the vast floor downstairs, but I must say that it looks quite good. My dad came up and taught me some tricks for tough angles and cuts and I must say that I did a pretty good job. (I didn’t do ALL of it by myself, but I did do quite a bit.) Now all we need is to get some baseboard and the place will be looking pretty spiffy. The problem is that with some of the rooms being so big, we had to leave expansion gaps at the walls for the laminate which means that the baseboard that we have upstairs will not work down there as it won’t cover the gap when you go up over the doorways as it is a tapered baseboard. So, we have to try something different. And cheap, like MDF. Although the laminate is on ‘don’t pay for thirteen months’, they are still going to want their mullah in thirteen months. Money, money, money.

My daughter is pretty pumped to have a play area downstairs. We started arranging things today and it is amazing how quickly you can fill up an area, even when you have ‘nothing’.

Did you know that there are very few direct flights to Vegas from around here? I didn’t know that either. It is crazy, really.

It all comes back to money.