I really have to stand up and applaud the nurse practitioner that saw me yesterday. Not since the great Bambino, Babe Ruth himself, pointing with his bat indicating where his homerun was headed, have I seen such bravado and self confidence in one person. I went in, again, only because my throat/neck is hurting but I was diagnosed with a sprained/strained muscle. That was fine until I took in Javalina and he tested positive for strep throat. Instead of just saying, well, you're a loving family, I am sure you have hugged and/or kissed your son in the last few days and I understand strep is very contagious, here I will give you a prescription too. No!, we can't do that, come back tomorrow so I can see you as a patient. (You understand why I loose my shit sometimes. Life should be easier and flexible, come on!!!)
I shrug and say sure, I'll come in. Better yet, she says, I will put you in the system for 8:40am, you will be my first person after my morning meeting. Great! I will be here by 8:30am. There was no other mention of what to do, we hung out for another hour while my son got his meds, then we left. I went to work all night, show up in the morning and although my name is first, I have no way to change my presence, the computer says I am not there. I try logging in, but I don't have the code which she should have given me. She comes out at 9:00am from her meeting and goes to skip me. I said, "no, no, no! You entered me as the first person, it is not my fault I didn't have the code." She says "you were supposed to log in." I said "yeah, but then I would have been below these other three people, you told me I would be first." All she can muster is a lame "well, she has been fasting, she will be quick." Twenty minutes later, she opens the door and I am a foot away from her, she just gave in, come on in, I'll move stuff around on the computer. The dummy then says "the computer and that code was the reason for the meeting, people complain of exactly what you are going through." If that isn't dumb shit, I don't know what is. If I was one of those quiet pussies, I would still be sitting there waiting to be called on. It only got worse from there.
How is it going? she asked. I said ok, other than I have been up since yesterday around 4:00pm. "Oh, well, no worries, I'll have you on your way in a moment." she said confidently. Then the problems started. She put that little oxygen measuring device on my pinkie on the right hand. It was reading in the 80s, she declared it must be broken. She pulled out another one. This time she put it on my left hand and I got a reading of 97, cool, she almost moved on, but then she came back and started playing with her two devices, placing them on my two hands and reversing them. She started worrying. I told her "yeah, for about the last 3-4 years, I have had a problem with that oxygen reading always reading low. Apparently, the little device also reads your heart rhythm, reads your astrological sign and if you concentrate really hard, grants you one wish. Based on the little bumps on the bottom she starts with the "I am not liking these readings my friend, this could be serious." I still say "ehh, I am fine, I just need sleep right now." I say, nonchalantly. So now she adds fatigued to the list. I say I'm not really fatigued, although I do feel sleepy throughout the day when I shouldn't.
Friday, December 6, 2019
Thursday, December 5, 2019
12/5/19 Minute Clinic, Round Two?
Like my dad says (in Spanish), "a veces chingas y a veces te chingan." Loosely "sometimes you fuck and sometimes you get fucked.) I mean he said it about selling us the VW bug with so many little problems, but still. I can laugh now. I like that saying and I can say it fit in that I went in on Monday, not really wanting to but I went around 1:00pm. There was nobody there, I waited about a minute before going in to see the nurse practitioner. The thing is, he wasn't very thorough, he just came to the conclusion that it was in the muscle itself. According to him, I had sprained it somehow and the best course for remedy is to alternate between ibuprofen and acetaminophen.
That sounded fair and correct, except Javalina started complaining that his throat hurt. I ignored it the first day, but the pain was even more pronounced Tuesday morning to the point of him calling me and asking if he could go to the doctor. He doesn't try to miss school, so I didn't think he was trying to get out of going, but then he goes and texts me "if I feel bad, I'll text you to come get me." I find this to be worse than just missing because then I have to be some sort of aware if and when he calls me. I tried to keep an ear on the phone, but if I am asleep I can't promise anything. Some days are restless and I wake every 1-2 hours to pee and toss and turn but this week with my own pains in the neck, I have been sleeping deep and with little disturbances. Yesterday, I only woke at noon and then right at 3:50pm, which is when I saw his message from 2:30pm to go and get him. School gets out at 4:30, so I figured I would go and get him as quickly as possible to the 4:30pm time, but it is just horrible with almost 2,000 kids letting out at once.
We got over to the CVS as quickly as possible, but of course, this would be one of those times when I was about out of gas, so we stopped to get about $30, because payday is the next day and I had a few bills that if they went in we might be down to a very few bucks without moving money around. Anyways, we get to the clinic and there is a 1.5hr wait, which we take as a cue to go eat at the nearby Whataburger. We get back and still waited about an hour. Then we had to wait for the amoxicillin, then I had to rush home, by then it was 8:00pm and I was running late to work. BTW, the nurse practitioner that saw him quickly decided to do a strep test and yes, he was positive, which leads me to think it is what I have. So, as a bonus prize, I get to go back a third time today, because even though I was there, she couldn't see me nor give me the same medicine my son was getting.
The reference to a veces chingas…. is that when I went in there Monday, there was no one else there and I was in and out in half an hour, probably. Yesterday, we got there before 5:00pm and didn't get the prescription from the pharmacist until after 8:00pm. It was just a shit show with all these people and their sick kids, plus costing me 3 hours of time when they call themselves Minute Clinic.
That sounded fair and correct, except Javalina started complaining that his throat hurt. I ignored it the first day, but the pain was even more pronounced Tuesday morning to the point of him calling me and asking if he could go to the doctor. He doesn't try to miss school, so I didn't think he was trying to get out of going, but then he goes and texts me "if I feel bad, I'll text you to come get me." I find this to be worse than just missing because then I have to be some sort of aware if and when he calls me. I tried to keep an ear on the phone, but if I am asleep I can't promise anything. Some days are restless and I wake every 1-2 hours to pee and toss and turn but this week with my own pains in the neck, I have been sleeping deep and with little disturbances. Yesterday, I only woke at noon and then right at 3:50pm, which is when I saw his message from 2:30pm to go and get him. School gets out at 4:30, so I figured I would go and get him as quickly as possible to the 4:30pm time, but it is just horrible with almost 2,000 kids letting out at once.
We got over to the CVS as quickly as possible, but of course, this would be one of those times when I was about out of gas, so we stopped to get about $30, because payday is the next day and I had a few bills that if they went in we might be down to a very few bucks without moving money around. Anyways, we get to the clinic and there is a 1.5hr wait, which we take as a cue to go eat at the nearby Whataburger. We get back and still waited about an hour. Then we had to wait for the amoxicillin, then I had to rush home, by then it was 8:00pm and I was running late to work. BTW, the nurse practitioner that saw him quickly decided to do a strep test and yes, he was positive, which leads me to think it is what I have. So, as a bonus prize, I get to go back a third time today, because even though I was there, she couldn't see me nor give me the same medicine my son was getting.
The reference to a veces chingas…. is that when I went in there Monday, there was no one else there and I was in and out in half an hour, probably. Yesterday, we got there before 5:00pm and didn't get the prescription from the pharmacist until after 8:00pm. It was just a shit show with all these people and their sick kids, plus costing me 3 hours of time when they call themselves Minute Clinic.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
12/4/19 Starting To Feel Empty, Maybe?
I like the idea of a big house and then filling it with loved ones. As a result, I pushed and I pushed a lot way past Wife's comfort level, to get us in this house. It was touch and go for awhile. At one point, I thought we might even lose the house in 2008, when I went through a period of furlough, but in the end, so far, it has always worked out well enough.
We have had all sorts of people staying with us, and it has been mostly good times, from the friend of Boy back in high school, to his other friends who just always seemed to be here every weekend. Then we've had my brother, Girlie, Dirty Dog, and now even Sweetie seems to be living here at least half of the week, even if it is on the downlow. I would prefer they do it right and get married first, but I also don't want them rushing off and doing something stupid like getting married before they get their respective degrees. Boy is even doing that backwards, so who knows? As I mentioned, the place where he has been interning has offered him a salary even though he still needs another class or two. He will be making a salary that sounds crazy a couple years ago for a brand new graduate, but he says most of his friends with similar degrees are making even more, so I guess his pay is just ok.
My worry is that he may think he is all grown up now and try to head on out and make it on his own. He occasionally goes and sleeps at Sweetie's family's house and that alone makes the house feel a lot emptier. Add in the fact that Girlie and the BF along with Moro (their dog) are moving out tomorrow and our big almost 4000 sq ft house will be for only Javalina and I during the week. This is why I never minded Girlie moving in, we have 2 empty guest rooms and if Boy decides to forge his own way, we will essentially have 3 empty bedrooms.
My sister and brother have both whined that they would not come and visit until my tenants moved out and now that they are about to, they are whining to my mom that she better not come visit us during the Christmas break. So why should I worry about emptying the house of other people I have relationships with, if my own family still won't come and visit?
Wife said the daughter of one of her coworkers wanted to move to Austin with a girlfriend, and Wife was toying with me and the idea of a couple of brand new legal teens (+18) moving in. Like Joe Walsh sings "Life's Been Good To Me..." I doubt this will come to pass, but oh man, isn't the thought of brand new young un's running around the house just give the whole manor a new vibe. As Patrice O'Neal described, I'm too old to do anything about it but sit back and enjoy watching them trying on tennis shoes and what not. This crazy life just goes round and round and just when you think it's gonna suck, life takes an unexpected twist, so I'll just hang on for awhile.
We have had all sorts of people staying with us, and it has been mostly good times, from the friend of Boy back in high school, to his other friends who just always seemed to be here every weekend. Then we've had my brother, Girlie, Dirty Dog, and now even Sweetie seems to be living here at least half of the week, even if it is on the downlow. I would prefer they do it right and get married first, but I also don't want them rushing off and doing something stupid like getting married before they get their respective degrees. Boy is even doing that backwards, so who knows? As I mentioned, the place where he has been interning has offered him a salary even though he still needs another class or two. He will be making a salary that sounds crazy a couple years ago for a brand new graduate, but he says most of his friends with similar degrees are making even more, so I guess his pay is just ok.
My worry is that he may think he is all grown up now and try to head on out and make it on his own. He occasionally goes and sleeps at Sweetie's family's house and that alone makes the house feel a lot emptier. Add in the fact that Girlie and the BF along with Moro (their dog) are moving out tomorrow and our big almost 4000 sq ft house will be for only Javalina and I during the week. This is why I never minded Girlie moving in, we have 2 empty guest rooms and if Boy decides to forge his own way, we will essentially have 3 empty bedrooms.
My sister and brother have both whined that they would not come and visit until my tenants moved out and now that they are about to, they are whining to my mom that she better not come visit us during the Christmas break. So why should I worry about emptying the house of other people I have relationships with, if my own family still won't come and visit?
Wife said the daughter of one of her coworkers wanted to move to Austin with a girlfriend, and Wife was toying with me and the idea of a couple of brand new legal teens (+18) moving in. Like Joe Walsh sings "Life's Been Good To Me..." I doubt this will come to pass, but oh man, isn't the thought of brand new young un's running around the house just give the whole manor a new vibe. As Patrice O'Neal described, I'm too old to do anything about it but sit back and enjoy watching them trying on tennis shoes and what not. This crazy life just goes round and round and just when you think it's gonna suck, life takes an unexpected twist, so I'll just hang on for awhile.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
12/3/19 Aspirin and Ibuprofen Shouldn't Be This Good?
Yesterday I mentioned my neck pain and going to the Minute Clinic at CVS. The nurse practitioner said it wasn't an ear infection or anything in my throat, like strep. He said it was probably the left muscle on the front of my neck that I hurt some way or other. More than likely, it was all the sleeping I did. I about slept in every room of the house, from the kitchen table to the living room, to the toilet, if I'm going to be honest. I think I have been catching up with my rest, but this pain was not helping.
Like magic, I took acetaminophen, aspirin, which I don't put much faith in, and within an hour most of my pain was numbed down and feeling like I could live with it. When the "doc" asked me where my pain was at the clinic I told him it was probably at around a 6-7. I wasn't dying, but it was enough to get me to go to the clinic. After a round of both aspirin and ibuprofen I was able to be at work and not really think about my neck, most of the night.
I've been trying to keep it up, like we have told the boys, stay ahead of the pain and just take the pills before anything starts hurting. I took some before I came into work, then as I was fixing to drive home for lunch, I had a bottle of each and I popped another 3 aspirin before lunch and 4 ibuprofens before coming back to work. This was around 3:00am and as soon as I finish writing this, I am headed to my Excursion and taking another round of aspirin.
I know that both will take care of a headache, but this pain seemed much more serious, yet the combo seems potent enough. I am taking 4 ibuprofen because at 200mg, I need a little more because of my size. I know aspirin can cause other problems, so I am not trying to abuse it, which is why I am only taking three of those at a time. I also know I need to wait at least an hour or two between taking the different meds. I'll keep posting on this, while the pain continues, later.
Like magic, I took acetaminophen, aspirin, which I don't put much faith in, and within an hour most of my pain was numbed down and feeling like I could live with it. When the "doc" asked me where my pain was at the clinic I told him it was probably at around a 6-7. I wasn't dying, but it was enough to get me to go to the clinic. After a round of both aspirin and ibuprofen I was able to be at work and not really think about my neck, most of the night.
I've been trying to keep it up, like we have told the boys, stay ahead of the pain and just take the pills before anything starts hurting. I took some before I came into work, then as I was fixing to drive home for lunch, I had a bottle of each and I popped another 3 aspirin before lunch and 4 ibuprofens before coming back to work. This was around 3:00am and as soon as I finish writing this, I am headed to my Excursion and taking another round of aspirin.
I know that both will take care of a headache, but this pain seemed much more serious, yet the combo seems potent enough. I am taking 4 ibuprofen because at 200mg, I need a little more because of my size. I know aspirin can cause other problems, so I am not trying to abuse it, which is why I am only taking three of those at a time. I also know I need to wait at least an hour or two between taking the different meds. I'll keep posting on this, while the pain continues, later.
Monday, December 2, 2019
12/2/19 Downtime Should Not Equal Sicktime?
I freaking hate taking time off and getting sick, it just sucks. This past week was in the process of being one of the most relaxing yet productive times off ever. Then my neck decided to be an asshole. I hadn't been off for a full week since 4th of July week, so I was really looking forward to getting away from the same old repetitive crap. I was out one night before they were asking for help for the coming week. I offered my services to do a night of OT, IF they didn't bamboozle me by trying to convert one of my vacation days into a work day. In other words, I want to see my check get fatter, I didn't come up with the idea of this unlimited PTO, I just have to live with it.
So, by the end of the week (which I was supposed to be off), I had 36 hours PTO, 16 hours holiday time and 12 hours and 9 hours OT. If I am paid correctly, it'll be my biggest check in a couple years, plus I worked Sunday night too, and that time (another 9 hours) starts my next paycheck nice and healthy.
The problem here is my neck that all of a sudden felt like I had hurt it somehow. My initial guess was that I slept wrong, and that is quite possible since it is about all I did on the days I was not working. I'd get up, eat with Wife a lunch and then back to napping while she watched some of her lame shows. I am most energetic at night, so about the time she would come to bed (around 3:00am), is when I would feel like I should be getting up and then I would stay up until around 10:00am. This went on all week, even on Thanksgiving, when I stayed awake while we ate, then slept all afternoon at my in-laws, until almost 8:00pm, when we started getting ready to come back.
Well, my neck did not get better after being in pain Saturday and Sunday, I went to the Minute Clinic, hoping they would tell me I had an ear infection or even a little strep, but nothing. Ususally, when my folks come visit, they bring a little bug of some kind from my nephews, they seem to be a sickly bunch, but so far, not this time. The nurse practitioner agreed that it was just a sore neck muscle and suggested I apply heat and cold and keep taking ibuprofen and acetaminophen. He said this could take up to 6 weeks to go away, which sounds horrible because sometimes it really hurts. The pain does fluctuate from nothing to full on trying to make me cry mode.
So, by the end of the week (which I was supposed to be off), I had 36 hours PTO, 16 hours holiday time and 12 hours and 9 hours OT. If I am paid correctly, it'll be my biggest check in a couple years, plus I worked Sunday night too, and that time (another 9 hours) starts my next paycheck nice and healthy.
The problem here is my neck that all of a sudden felt like I had hurt it somehow. My initial guess was that I slept wrong, and that is quite possible since it is about all I did on the days I was not working. I'd get up, eat with Wife a lunch and then back to napping while she watched some of her lame shows. I am most energetic at night, so about the time she would come to bed (around 3:00am), is when I would feel like I should be getting up and then I would stay up until around 10:00am. This went on all week, even on Thanksgiving, when I stayed awake while we ate, then slept all afternoon at my in-laws, until almost 8:00pm, when we started getting ready to come back.
Well, my neck did not get better after being in pain Saturday and Sunday, I went to the Minute Clinic, hoping they would tell me I had an ear infection or even a little strep, but nothing. Ususally, when my folks come visit, they bring a little bug of some kind from my nephews, they seem to be a sickly bunch, but so far, not this time. The nurse practitioner agreed that it was just a sore neck muscle and suggested I apply heat and cold and keep taking ibuprofen and acetaminophen. He said this could take up to 6 weeks to go away, which sounds horrible because sometimes it really hurts. The pain does fluctuate from nothing to full on trying to make me cry mode.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
12/1/19 Roku Rocks?
We just bought our third Roku and they are turning out to be a great little $50 investment. We are finding programming we didn't know existed and unlike cable television, it is not loaded with stupid commercials and infomercials. I can't imagine cable television will be around in another five years.
Conservatives wanted to control the FCC and made it wrong for the free showing of a boob or a vagina, much less a dangling penis, well, what do they got now? I hope they are happy with the world they have created for themselves. I am finding myself floating to the right because the liberal agenda is lost, but this is one of those where I side with them. I don't want to hear that the government needs to oversee what we see and block all possibilities of nudity while because they fear the NRA, somebody getting shot up can still be considered normal viewing in the middle of the day.
Anyways, I don't feel like standing on a soapbox and supporting my views, I will just gladly enjoy watching most of what I watch on the Roku. For those who still don't have one, it is about the size of an old stick of gum and plugs directly into one of the HDMI ports on the television. It then also has a power supply wire that gets plugged into an outlet. It will take a few minutes to set-up. You need to have Wi-fi and know your current password, and then it goes and downloads the latest updates to say Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, and now the Disney channel. We are paying for all these, we have Netflix and Hulu, Boy has Prime Video through Amazon and the Disney channel, which he got free as a promotion from Verizon phone, I think. It probably does add up to own a bunch of these services, but cable by itself is probably costing us close to $120 a month. I am unsure, but our bundle for cable, internet and house phone has slowly rolled past $200, much like Time Warner cable did when we got rid of it and we never went back. It is simply nostalgia keeping us tied to cable. Tonight, we bought a new Roku because the one in our room never did work quite right and I got tired of messing with it. The new one seemed to download new channels, some are free and one of them, seemed like regular cable with a schedule showing what was playing but by title, like comedy, drama, scary, and so on. I thought it was cable programming for awhile.
During the week, when Wife is in La Pryor working, we don't even turn on the cable box or the TVs, I spend any free time on YouTube on my laptop. The boys have "smart TVs" and download Netflix and Hulu and stuff, they removed the cable boxes from their rooms a couple years ago. We keep getting the offer to switch to Google fiber which is supposed to be faster than the internet we have, this might be the year we let it happen. I was holding on to my house number because it is still the first and only number I have had for our home, and I got it in 1991, but we haven't had a phone plugged into any wall outlets in like two years, we got tired of solicitors, and the freaking state troopers asking for money all the time. You get one chance on my cell phone, first I don't pick up from other states and if I do and you ask for shit, you get blocked.
It was funny, on that random channel we watched a movie we have seen before, but it was free, so there were commercials every now and then. We noticed the commercials were different, like Trojan condoms was every other commercial, and the commercials seemed more aggressively pointed at the consumer, like "buy it so you can be the BEST!!" They just seemed a little different.
Conservatives wanted to control the FCC and made it wrong for the free showing of a boob or a vagina, much less a dangling penis, well, what do they got now? I hope they are happy with the world they have created for themselves. I am finding myself floating to the right because the liberal agenda is lost, but this is one of those where I side with them. I don't want to hear that the government needs to oversee what we see and block all possibilities of nudity while because they fear the NRA, somebody getting shot up can still be considered normal viewing in the middle of the day.
Anyways, I don't feel like standing on a soapbox and supporting my views, I will just gladly enjoy watching most of what I watch on the Roku. For those who still don't have one, it is about the size of an old stick of gum and plugs directly into one of the HDMI ports on the television. It then also has a power supply wire that gets plugged into an outlet. It will take a few minutes to set-up. You need to have Wi-fi and know your current password, and then it goes and downloads the latest updates to say Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, and now the Disney channel. We are paying for all these, we have Netflix and Hulu, Boy has Prime Video through Amazon and the Disney channel, which he got free as a promotion from Verizon phone, I think. It probably does add up to own a bunch of these services, but cable by itself is probably costing us close to $120 a month. I am unsure, but our bundle for cable, internet and house phone has slowly rolled past $200, much like Time Warner cable did when we got rid of it and we never went back. It is simply nostalgia keeping us tied to cable. Tonight, we bought a new Roku because the one in our room never did work quite right and I got tired of messing with it. The new one seemed to download new channels, some are free and one of them, seemed like regular cable with a schedule showing what was playing but by title, like comedy, drama, scary, and so on. I thought it was cable programming for awhile.
During the week, when Wife is in La Pryor working, we don't even turn on the cable box or the TVs, I spend any free time on YouTube on my laptop. The boys have "smart TVs" and download Netflix and Hulu and stuff, they removed the cable boxes from their rooms a couple years ago. We keep getting the offer to switch to Google fiber which is supposed to be faster than the internet we have, this might be the year we let it happen. I was holding on to my house number because it is still the first and only number I have had for our home, and I got it in 1991, but we haven't had a phone plugged into any wall outlets in like two years, we got tired of solicitors, and the freaking state troopers asking for money all the time. You get one chance on my cell phone, first I don't pick up from other states and if I do and you ask for shit, you get blocked.
It was funny, on that random channel we watched a movie we have seen before, but it was free, so there were commercials every now and then. We noticed the commercials were different, like Trojan condoms was every other commercial, and the commercials seemed more aggressively pointed at the consumer, like "buy it so you can be the BEST!!" They just seemed a little different.
11/30/19 Flooring Getting Closer To Reality?
After being lazy most of the day (this was written Tuesday), Wife included, we got up and attempted to leave the house late in the day. I told Wife I was simply going to Home Depot for more AA batteries and she was welcomed to join me. We had eaten her breakfast, watched 2 of the 3 Star Wars: Mandalorian episodes, then napped until 5:00pm. I just get antsy if we don't do anything. Still, coming down and having to wait for everybody, we invited Javalina and he has to make a big production of getting dressed, I dove onto the mattress in the living room and fell asleep for another 20 minutes (that bed is so perfect, I get it why nobody puts mattresses in their living rooms as furniture).
After realizing we were just going to Lowe's and we were planning on picking up some pizzas on the way back, Javalina and Boy both decided not to join us. This was fine since they just tend to get bored and then they want to rush me. We got there and I wanted to go look at the flooring options, I am a bit OCD once I get my mind on something it is all I focus on. Wife wanted to walk like a happy couple through the Christmas stuff, and I reluctantly rolled my eyes, but figured we had plenty of time to just walk at a slow pace. We both discussed and liked the idea of replacing the tile in the showers, tile is horrible the way the edges get all gooky and dark, we are just not good at cleaning them. There are some products out there we will consider after we lay down some flooring.
Eventually, we got to the flooring and we did the same dance where Wife wants some cheap shit and I want something from the real hardwood or at least I'll settle on the engineered stuff if the real material is thick enough. We ended up in the Pergo section and I was pointing out styles I liked. I really like the acacia style, but I will take a hickory or other different wood, not oak, it seems to be too the standard for everyone and is a little "boring" for me. One if the choices I apparently liked was .88 cents a square foot while the ones around it were all $3.79 a square foot. Wife noticed that and said let's take that one right now, I will run home and get the Excursion while you get it down and go pay for it. Suddenly, it got real and I didn't want it because it was too cheap but that is not a good reason alone. She called a guy and he said it was cheaper because they were doing away with it. I was kind of glad they were out of it. He said the store in Kyle had a bunch of boxes of it, but it was not on sale. Knowing it would have been a steal made me want it, but it still seemed wrong and way too cheap.
It gave me an idea though. Lumber Liquidaters has a section of wall where they display all the small leftover batches they sell at discounted prices and if Wife is game, we might be able to pick up enough to do the two rooms up front at heavily discounted prices. We might get lucky, one of the plusses of living in a big city, I guess. We really do have to get up earlier though. Before the guy could tell us if they had the flooring in stock, they were already announcing that the store would be closing in ten minutes. I didn't even get a chance to walk through the tools and throw something in the basket, just because.
After realizing we were just going to Lowe's and we were planning on picking up some pizzas on the way back, Javalina and Boy both decided not to join us. This was fine since they just tend to get bored and then they want to rush me. We got there and I wanted to go look at the flooring options, I am a bit OCD once I get my mind on something it is all I focus on. Wife wanted to walk like a happy couple through the Christmas stuff, and I reluctantly rolled my eyes, but figured we had plenty of time to just walk at a slow pace. We both discussed and liked the idea of replacing the tile in the showers, tile is horrible the way the edges get all gooky and dark, we are just not good at cleaning them. There are some products out there we will consider after we lay down some flooring.
Eventually, we got to the flooring and we did the same dance where Wife wants some cheap shit and I want something from the real hardwood or at least I'll settle on the engineered stuff if the real material is thick enough. We ended up in the Pergo section and I was pointing out styles I liked. I really like the acacia style, but I will take a hickory or other different wood, not oak, it seems to be too the standard for everyone and is a little "boring" for me. One if the choices I apparently liked was .88 cents a square foot while the ones around it were all $3.79 a square foot. Wife noticed that and said let's take that one right now, I will run home and get the Excursion while you get it down and go pay for it. Suddenly, it got real and I didn't want it because it was too cheap but that is not a good reason alone. She called a guy and he said it was cheaper because they were doing away with it. I was kind of glad they were out of it. He said the store in Kyle had a bunch of boxes of it, but it was not on sale. Knowing it would have been a steal made me want it, but it still seemed wrong and way too cheap.
It gave me an idea though. Lumber Liquidaters has a section of wall where they display all the small leftover batches they sell at discounted prices and if Wife is game, we might be able to pick up enough to do the two rooms up front at heavily discounted prices. We might get lucky, one of the plusses of living in a big city, I guess. We really do have to get up earlier though. Before the guy could tell us if they had the flooring in stock, they were already announcing that the store would be closing in ten minutes. I didn't even get a chance to walk through the tools and throw something in the basket, just because.
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