Adam's pet fish are named Two-fish and Blue-fish. One is black and one is white with an orange head. Silly me, I thought the bi-colored one was Two-fish, but I'm mistaken. You see, that one has only one eye. On the left side, where the eye should be, there's just an empty socket. I've never seen anything like it, but apparently it doesn't stop the fish from eating or anything. I mentioned to Adam how Two-fish had only one eye, but Adam corrected me: "Mama, Boofish, un eye." So what do I know?
I got a Charley Horse in my leg Friday morning (or was it Saturday?). The pain was so bad, and I was panicked because I hadn't even gotten oriented yet (it woke me up), so I banged on the wall to get Mike to come down. He massaged it enough for me to be able to bend my leg again and un-point my foot. But I've had some pain in it ever since. I did a tiny bit of reading on the causes, and apparently dehydration is one of them, so I'm drink-drink-drinking even more. I tried stretching it, rubbing it, putting it in warm bath, walking, resting - nothing helps. Luckily, my first appointment for physical therapy is (very early) tomorrow morning, so maybe they can do something about it.
I've come to a conclusion. I'm really *not* Superwoman. I keep trying to get things "done", and it's doing more harm than good. If I wash more than one load of dishes in a day, my back starts twinging and I have to spend the rest of the evening in the tub, or on a heating pad. Part of this is a recurrence of an old injury, and part of it is just that I plain can't do as much pregnant as unpregnant. But it's bugging me, because it means I'm not really able to exercise or walk to try to get in some kind of shape to eventually deliver this baby. That worries me, so I called the doctor and I'm going to start some kind of therapy at the hospital. I missed a call today from the girl who schedules therapy, so I don't know any more than that right now.
The reason I missed the call is that Mike, Adam and I all took a long trip to Lewiston, Idaho today. We went to go pick up a back seat for the truck (have to fit another carseat in there somehow!), but once we got there we found out that the seat hadn't come in yet. They're supposedly going to take it over to Colfax when it gets there, so we might not have to make another trip out to Lewiston. We'll see. On the way out, we stopped and had lunch at Denny's in Pullman. The food was about what you'd expect. After the fruitless trip to Lewiston, we came back to Moscow and went to the Wal-Mart to get a few things, then went over to the Pets Are People Too store in Moscow to get Adam some fish. We had planned on buying the fish from Wal-Mart, too, but their service sucked. It's just as well; Wal-Mart takes such crappy care of its fish I'm not sure they would have made the drive home!
Last were the usual stops in Colfax: eggs, grange, grocery store. By then I was pooped, so when we got home I mostly vegged in front of the TV and watched season endings of Will and Grace, ER, and Friends. Friends was the best season ending I've ever seen for a comedy. I can't wait til next season.
I've decided (see the first paragraph of this entry) that the trim for the floor I put in can wait until after Kayla is born, unless a friend shows up and volunteers to do it. I need to put in one 40" strip of rubber stripping across the exposed seam I didn't seal (between the two rooms), but that's it. I wouldn't be doing that, but the seam isn't even and Mike says he keeps stubbing at it with his boots, and thinks it may eventually come lose. We meant to get the parts for that while we were out today, but The Uterus said we did enough running around for one day.
Now for pictures of the finished kitchen floor!
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DONE! |
The animals approve. |
Off to update the baby page now with some new stuff.
The floor is DONE!! OK, technically, I still need to apply a sealant to two of the seams (I ended up with three, but plan on covering one of them with stripping or something). And I need to apply baseboards or molding or something around the bottom, in the joints between the floor and the walls. I don't have pictures to upload yet, but I will. The sealant will get done tomorrow, but the baseboards/molding may take some time. I just don't feel the same sense of urgency with that as I did with the floor. Besides, I'll have to cut like eight million mitered corners to do it right (and after all the effort it took to get the floor in, I don't want to half-ass the finishing). I have swept the floors three times already, whenever I see a pileup of dirt, and it's just so NICE to be able to do that!
Now I can get back to what I REALLY want to be doing: quilting. I'm doing some hand-embroidery on a quilt for my grandmother. It's nearing completion, but I want to get it finished and off to her before the baby comes. Then I have a few other projects in mind to finish. Speaking of the baby, we had another OB visit today. More about that on the baby page. After that, we all drove over to Pullman. Mike had to do some work (including repairing something on the database I created) for ATVP. While he was doing that, Adam and I went to McDonald's so he could play in the balls. He was fun with a few other children, but when the PS I Love You brigade showed up, he decided there were too many big kids and we bailed. We went back to get Mike, drove into Colfax to do our usual chores, then came home and all had naps (not all at the same time).
I continue to make a lot of progress on the floor, though it's not finished yet. I'd hoped to get it done this weekend, but it rained yesterday so I had to put off doing the kitchen. The dining room, however, is DONE. I think it looks great, though I was very doubtful of my ability to pull it off the whole time I was working on it. The kitchen will be a bit harder, since I have to not only match an odd-shaped room (the dining room's mostly rectangular, with only one "cutout" in the corner for a closet) but have to match the pattern in the flooring between the two rooms. I'm also a little nervous as to whether I have enough adhesive, so I'm going to have to buy another tub of it to be on the safe side. As it is, I got stuck on the far corner of the dining room with only one tub, and literally scraping the bottom, sides, lid, and even the more generously-glued areas of the floor that I could reach just to get enough to finish it off.
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The dining room floor with all of the subfloor gone |
The new dining room floor! |
Close-up of the pattern on the floor |
I have finished scraping up all of the subfloor in the kitchen. In fact, all that remains is the lay the floor in the kitchen, then put up the molding/baseboards (I'm not sure which I'm going to use yet). With that in mind, here is a chronology of the progress in the kitchen so far:
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A "before" picture of the kitchen |
More before |
Progress on taking up the subfloor; about half-done |
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A view of the kitchen, sans subfloor. In the foreground, you can see where I patched the joint between the two rooms. |