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Happy February 29th! Yay for Leap Year!
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Today is cool. I’ve always liked leap years. For all of us who always wish for an extra day to get things done, well, here it is. An extra 24 hours packed in the middle of an otherwise busy year.
What are you doing with your extra day?
Since Kevin works four 10 hour shifts per week, he gets a 3 day weekend with Friday being his normal day off when there is no overtime available. We’re sitting at home today enjoying the laziness of this extra 24 hour leap day.
This morning started off great too. I snoozed until about 10 am (my energy levels have been zero so I try to get as much sleep as possible when I can, especially now that I’ve been waking up during the night for emergency potty breaks) and then my chow, Gabby, jumped in the bed with me to snuggle. She had puppies nearly 3 weeks ago and all 5 of them are inside this 3 x 5 cardboard box we turned sideways in the corner of our bedroom. It makes for a neat little hut, but Gabby is starting to get a little stifled having to stay in the house with them 98% of her day. She’d much rather be roaming out in the back yard with our other dog Pup Pup. She’s a great little mother though, I must say. After a few minutes of snuggling with Gabby, Kevin walks in and we all 3 have a nice family snuggle. He then gets the puppies and puts them on the bed with us (after all, they were born on there!) and the puppies start to feed on Gabby. It takes them about 30 minutes to fully eat their fill - and they are sooo stinkin’ cute when they eat, with their heads bobbing back and forth, making little gutteral squeaks as they hungrily munch their mommy supplied breakfast.
After eating, Kevin comes back in a puts the puppies back in their box and we play with Gabby for a few more minutes (she loves being the center of attention). Then I get up, get dressed in a warm sweater and jeans and head to our (freeeeeeezing) living room - and that’s where I am now. It’s a little past Noon - we watched a bit of the Maury show (one of those silly paternity episodes) and now Kevin is playing a bit of his new WWF boxing game on PS2 (It’s the first game I’ve seen that I want to play too, but I haven’t yet) and waiting on me to finish up on the computer.
We’re about to head off to the bank and then to the “Floor It Now” store. We’ve been wanting to redo our home flooring since we moved in 2 years ago and finally saved up enough money to do it. A few months after moving in we had the not-s0-bright idea of putting in a hardwood floor by ourselves. That was before we discovered that we were NOT the do-it-yourself types. The carpet in our hallway is ripped up, with subflooring exposed and tiny nails across all the door frames where the old carpet use to be pinned down (we tried to get them all out but our feet find them every now and then). We do have some scrap carpet and padding tossed over the plywood, but it’s ugly. Completely ugly. The rest of our carpet in the living room is pretty terrible looking too. It’s a very light, almost-white grey berber, which is NOT good when you have 2 inside dogs, a ferret, and are very hard on your carpets yourself. We just want something nice before the baby (and all the visitors) arrive in May. I’d also love to have more people over and do entertaining, but that’s just not doable the way our carpet is. We haven’t decided if we’re going to just get more carpet installed or if we’re going to go for professionally installed hardwood (or maybe just laminate). No matter what we get, I’m very excited about it. It’ll feel good to be able to walk down our hallway once more without walking on torn up flooring!
After we finish up window shopping at the Floor It Now, we’ll probably get something to eat and drop by my parent’s house. I’d also like to get some yard work done today, or maybe find a strawberry window planter for the kitchen window. 
So anyway. That’s what we’re doing with our “extra day”.
Happy Leap Year!
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February 29th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I am a huge fan of laminate flooring. It’s practically indestructible and so easy to clean! People rave about hardwood, but personally I do not like it. It scratches pretty easily. Even high heeled shoes can mess it up and I think it shows animal hair worse than laminate.
But that’s just my two cents.
Hope you had a nice time shopping! New stuff for the house is always so fun and this is the time to get it done!